QQQ isn’t the Nasdaq
| Nasdaq up. QQQ down? | Most people assume that QQQ is the Nasdaq. It isn’t. Nasdaq: the stock exchange Nasdaq Composite: almost every stock listed on that exchange (3,000+ companies) Nasdaq 100: the largest non-financial companies QQQ: an ETF that tracks the Nasdaq-100 Nasdaq Composite V Nasdaq 100 The Nasdaq Composite has over 3,000 […]
The AI Effect
The Elephant in the Room AI dominates. Everywhere you look someone is telling you which AI stock to buy. You can’t avoid it. But almost nobody is asking a much more interesting question. https://youtu.be/aRs68Avw_Fc What happens when millions of investors start making decisions with the help of the same AI? Technology always advances. And every […]
Which Country Wins?
| The World’s Best Stock Market? | I was listening to a friend complaining that his shares never seemed to do anything. He was expecting sympathy, but didn’t get it. I stopped feeling sorry for Australian investors years ago. https://youtu.be/2g-iZGjRDsI Why? Rather than explain – yet again – I simply showed him this chart: There […]
Smoke & Mirrors
| What did your money actually earn? | Everyone who has read my books or blog knows I have always been skeptical of financial advisors and stock picking services. They publish spectacular returns and people eagerly sign up expecting they’ll soon be able to give up their day job. But all is not as it […]
The SpaceX IPO
Great Company. Good Investment? | SpaceX has transformed the launch industry, built the world’s largest satellite network, and achieved things that would have seemed impossible a decade ago. The excitement is understandable. Video https://youtu.be/zl81d6TDsH8 It has now completed the largest IPO ever on a U.S exchange, raising US$75 billion—more than three times the previous largest […]
0DTE Illusion
| Why 90% Winners Lose Money | We’ve been looking at fashionable options strategies, and discovering their limitations: Covered Calls → “selling your upside” The Wheel → “small premiums, big risk” The Options Zoo → “different animals, same calls and puts” Video https://youtu.be/SgLKvY-0h74 This week we’ll look at perhaps the most fashionable strategy of all: […]