4-1 Pod - You won't believe the list of stocks that returned 1000% since Covid or 10,000% since 2000. It's NOT tech.

Happy Birthday/Gotcha Day for Daisy

It’s not an April fools gag. I did adopt Daisy 10 years ago today. She was dumped in a dumpster after having puppies (most likely from a breeder) and then put in a kill shelter before being rescued and I found her on the webpage below. She’s a happy pup today with her sister Penny (who annoys TF out of all of us) who enjoys car rides, walks and playing with her ball. There’s nothing better than saving an animal so click the photo below and get yourself a dog or a cat.

I’m not sure why the page is still up there, but it is and I have it bookmarked. I look back on it and see how scared she was and am happy she has a good home today.

My Take

Honestly - it just feels like the market is on stilts. Any upward movement you see in the market could be taken out tomorrow. I don’t think the market is pricing in huge tariffs and if that happens, look for some tax loss harvesting opportunities that you can buy back in 30 days. I am not hopeful any CEO is going to make bold upward guidance predications in the upcoming earnings season based on the uncertainty in the market. This is a buying opportunity in some stocks, but it doesn’t mean they can’t go lower. Be strategic in your decisions now and make sure if you’re buying it’s either very short term profit taking or you’re looking at longer term returns.

In this market you need tools - mine are Trendspider, Seeking Alpha and Alpha Picks. SAVE MONEY ON THEM ALL BELOW

I will include a stock to trade today on the 1 hour strategy - import the strategy to Trendspider below the chart and performance graphics.

TODAY’S TRADE - Fortinet ( FTNT 0.00%↑ ) with an entry in this algorithm. The back tested performance is copied below as well.

$FTNT chart for the 1 hour algorithm - import it below and trade this name

$FTNT back tested results over the last 61 days using the STOCK BATTLE algorithm below. There’s a new entry today.

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Pod Notes

Tuesday

First off - NO JOKE - it’s Daisy’s gotcha day and since she was a rescue dog - it’s her birthday - see above - she’s the BEST

9 April Facts you should know about things I’ve always said

Let’s start with some hard facts today because I feel like people need to wake up to reality.

1. If you didn’t have $cvs as the top stock in your portfolio, you probably just don’t know what you’re doing in the market.

2. When Michael Burry says to short the market for the 100th time - you absolutely should listen.

3. The market is your friend but only if you work really hard at it - you are guaranteed success. There is nobody who has worked hard and failed.

4. Only the people who have doubts fail in the markets. If you are sure that a trade will win, there’s absolutely no reason it won’t win.

5. Jim Cramer knows pretty much everything and everyone so his ability to be incredibly insightful on the direction of the market has been spot on over the years and you should absolutely join the investment club because nobody else beats his returns.

6. Probably the greatest investor of all time is Sam bankman fried who is innocent of all charges and should be pardoned. It was all just bad timing.

7. Trevor Milton who famously rolled a truck down the road absolutely deserves to be exonerated and this had nothing to do with insider politics or his donation to the Trump campaign.

8. And being so close to tax time, understand that paying your taxes is voluntary. There are tons of videos on YouTube about it and you can absolutely trust every person who tells you to do things on the internet. If you’re worried about it, you’re just one of the sheep.

9. And finally - tariffs are not inflationary. Just because we sell mostly services at a 90% margin to Europe and they sell mostly cars to the us with an average of 5% margin, we should absolutely want to manufacture those low margin products for a higher price in this country. There will be no inflation and any Pulitzer Prize winning economist saying that is obviously lying.

FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early)

Let’s start with a FIRE tip to try and see is $2M at 23 years old enough to last a lifetime? PROBABLY NOT! This is why making sure you keep money flowing in and growing is important. The $2M invested is VERY likely to sustain you for life but investing it in bonds (which is the safest) most likely won’t be enough

Markets in Q1, March and looking at April

Yesterday we rallied back during the day - it was clearly oversold and kept the key support levels - but I still don’t think the market has a tariff war priced in to it.

And the shock may still be looming around the corner with earnings - forward guidance may be taken down as companies panic and say they can’t accurately predict so they go conservative

March and Q1 are over - $SPY was down 4.70% in the month - worst month since Dec 2023

Q1 winners and losers in the S&P

But seasonally you may want to look at some odds here

That’s the good news - the bad news? The rest of the year typically is down

Stock Opportunities to look at

And Stephanie link is a fundamental investor who I completely respect

Maybe you just want to look for bullish stocks like daily hammer candles - TRENDSPIDER let’s you do that - IMPORT IT here

And Buffett is playing chess while we all are playing checkers

2 things in this clip

1 - big companies don’t go to $0

2- nobody gets rich through diversification - you stay rich with diversification so now is the time to take some risk

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There was an IPO yesterday - Newsman - NMAX

Halted multiple times - up another 100% today. This is just hype.

Contrast that to $CRWV which was down 7% to $37 - I still don’t like the debt and business overall though

Here’s a scan in Trendspider for Bullish Engulfing Candles - IMPORT IT

Apple ( AAPL 0.00%↑ )

A new health app focused on an ever growing health device and foreign based iPhone sales - I’m fine holding this

$AAPL in the 4 hour algorithm showing the $228 has been a line where you can buy under there since last June (WWDC) where they announced Apple Intelligence. The stock hasn’t done much since then.

Google ( GOOG 0.00%↑ )

Remember - you’re getting this at 2021 prices right now when Mr. Beast had 10 Million followers and there was no YouTube TV

$GOOG showing clear buying zones - the bottom at $151 is the price it traded to at the high of 2021 before pulling back in 2022.

Amazon ( AMZN 0.00%↑ ) is just too cheap

$AMZN - you are getting this one at the price of 2021 whereas AWS has grown significantly.

More Stocks

A very large list of stocks that are immune to tariffs from Morgan Stanley

Is $v a turn around stock?

Historic Stocks that have gained HUGE

Russell 1000 10 baggers since covid lows

And 100 baggers since the dot bomb of 2000s

How many tech stocks would you think??

$MLGO is still going crazy - you can trade this one. You can use the 65 min algo to make 114% over the last 8 months including the current run and an 85% gain just last week.

$MLGO in the 65 min algorithm - you get this when you sign up for an annual plan on Trendspider. It just got you out with an 80% gain. Don’t buy and hope - use a back tested strategy to better your odds of winning trades.