What You Missed This Week.
Morning.
The article of the week released Thursday is here.
You can listen on Spotify here.
AST Portfolio Alerts
I explained a bit in the show the returns and market calls we made the last 2-months for the Report & the AST Swing Alerts we send out. Now, I would listen to the show, but let me highlight some wins and a few things I said here.
We closed big gains on:
XHB 0.00%↑ long
The report also had other metals flagged from the start of July like WPM 0.00%↑ GOLD 0.00%↑ SLV 0.00%↑
My thoughts on investors:
I said on the show a few things….I’ve been around thousands of investors in my career, both at the institutional level and retail side and if you cannot tell from my research I tend to pay attention closely to people and markets. One of the things I’ve noticed is that most investors will do the exact opposite of what you tell them. You can lay out a guide (and research like we have in the report) and people will literally just not follow it - that or they email me casually telling me I had a spelling error on a blog post or email in some random stock idea that is not covered in the report asking about it.
Like I said, it’s a fascinating thing to witness and it makes me question if people actually pay attention at all.
I’ve had people take ideas from certain parts of the report, not read it, and put the trade on. I’ve had others just entirely not use it, put their own trades on and lose money. It’s a fascinating thing to witness and if that’s you stand in solace knowing many over the years have done this.
Why? I honestly have not come to the conclusion just yet but I have two ideas that I am working through - a) They want the self gratification of their “own idea” working or b) They just really don’t like money until it’s too late and they really need it.
I’m serious on both of those.
That AST Alerts Portfolio usually gives out 2-5 ideas a month, lately, it’s been more.
But that portfolio is intended to put cash to work in a dampened volatility approach with small losses, fixed costs, less capital allocation and less screen time.
I eat my own cooking too, so we’re all clear. Meaning, if I am putting it out there I usually put them in my personal accounts.
That XHB 0.00%↑ trade was +27% in 2 months on the equity more on the DITM (and some OTM Jan calls).
The idea is to get the money moving and not in the degenerates way of making $5K on weekly calls, giving $3K back, then making $2K etc. - but to get it moving in a dampened volatility way.
One last story and I’ll end this Saturday post….I had a friend 6 months ago ask me what to do with some cash he had and I told him about the AST Portfolio - like most people they brush it off. A few months later he started to use it and now waits each Sunday for this report so he can put ideas to work.
So here is what I am saying to you if you’re reading this and not making money; stop f*cking around trying to be an analyst, you’re not - it’s time to make some money so let us do what we do best and give you the ideas and research and you’ll find that what I speak about each week actually carries water.
Enjoy you Saturday,
Dan
P.S.
For those wanting to become analysts the FOPT can help (but expect 6-12 months of doing this to get good - at a min). Click this, read the syllabus and reach out if that is what you really want to do: be an analyst.
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