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Investing Daily Printable PDF The legendary Chinese military general and philosopher Sun Tzu wrote: “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” Whether on the field of battle, facing a corporate competitor, or trying to beat the broader stock market, victory in all these endeavors has not come from the size of the army, company or portfolio. The deciding factor has been strategy. Your investment strategy should include...

Investing Daily Printable PDF Before and immediately after World War II, marijuana was associated with black musicians who were “hopped up” and then it was associated with anti-war protestors, hippies and civil rights activists. For decades, people viewed marijuana through the lens of government propaganda. The War on Drugs launched by Richard Nixon in 1971 was Nixon’s deliberate strategy to demonize his perceived enemies. He couldn’t outlaw political opposition, but he could use a ...

Investing Daily ome Fly With Me . Airlines are increasingly targeting consumers with aggressive advertising and special deals to entice them to book vacations . Suffering from cabin fever and armed with stimulus checks, consumers are heeding the call. Airfares are surging in demand and accordingly in price, boosting the bottom lines of pandemic-battered air carriers. The airline industry is an economic bellwether and its recovery bodes well for the overall economy and stock market. Airlines Rep...

Investing Daily Printable PDF Many people don’t realize that The Beatles’ 1966 song Got to Get You Into My Life isn’t about an infatuation with a girl. Instead, it’s about the Fab Four’s love affair with marijuana. After trying marijuana for the first time, the Liverpudlians were immediately smitten with the substance. Hence their love song to Mary Jane. Fast forward to 2021 and the vast majority of Americans increasingly feel the same way. Today is an appropriate time to gauge m...

Investing Daily Printable PDF It’s no secret that I make heavy use of stock screening tools and algorithms to identify promising companies. In some cases, these screens are available to anyone with a brokerage account, although you have to select your own criteria. On December 15, 2020 I discussed the results of one such screen: These Two Sectors Are Set To Outperform In 2021. Just to recap, at the time the screen showed an abundance of companies from the Financials and Real Estate secto...

Last week's suspension of a COVID-19 vaccine triggered a ripple effect that caused call option premiums to spike for other vaccine producers.

Robert Rapier Member since: 2018 Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer who works in the energy industry. Robert has over 20 years of international engineering experience in the chemicals, oil and gas, and renewable energy industries, and holds several patents related to his work. He has worked in the areas of oil refining, natural gas production, synthetic fuels, ethanol production, butanol production, and various biomass to energy projec...

26 views I often remind people that a U.S. president’s policies generally have limited impact on the energy markets in the short term. This topic often comes up when gasoline prices are rising or falling. However, over the longer term a president’s policies can make a big impact. One of the examples I often use is President Nixon. The Nixon Administration passed a number of policies that had a significant and long-lasting impact on the oil markets, but those impacts weren’t felt until he ...

Investing Daily Printable PDF To borrow a peace slogan from the Vietnam War era, suppose they gave a war and nobody came? Ira Glasser, who ran the American Civil Liberties Union from 1978 to 2001, recently summed up the significance of marijuana legalization on American politics: “Without marijuana prohibition, the government can’t sustain the drug war. Without marijuana, the use of drugs is negligible, and you can’t justify the law-enforcement and prison spending on the other drugs. ...

Investing Daily Printable PDF Wall Street is full of jargon. Long, short, buy side, sell side, short interest, short squeeze, etc. The list goes on and on. Some of those terms are intuitive. You don’t need to have years of investing experience to know what they mean. You may even be able to accurately guess what they mean the first time you hear the term. Today I will discuss two common terms used by investing professionals: alpha and beta. Unlike other Wall Street jargon, the terms the...