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As many of you know, I spent the early part of this week in Toronto attending our Portfolio Accelerator event. It's two days of roundtable discussions where all the All Star Charts analysts as well as invited guests are given the floor to share their...

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Sometimes the best presentations happen when you throw away the presentation.

I was supposed to give a talk at our Portfolio Accelerator event in Toronto yesterday. Had my rough outline ready, even cobbled together what I generously called a...

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The metals sector continues to shine. And it should be no stretch of the imagination to imagine that the soaring value of gold could have downstream effects.

Might pawnshops benefit? 

Today's trade is in an a pawn shop purveyor that...

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Hello again, Spirit Animals...

Sometimes the market rewards you for being stubborn. Other times, it rewards you for being flexible.

This $NBIS trade? It rewarded me for being both.

Let me walk you through what turned into one of...

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Hello again, Spirit Animals...

Picture this: You're holding long options that are so far underwater they might as well be fossils. The market has written them off. You've probably written them off too. They're the trading equivalent of being...

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Today's trade is in a metals & miner that I'd never heard of, but apparently is one of the world's largest -- based in Brazil.That speaks more to my ignorance than anything else, but when JC surfaced this name in his recent Monthly Strategy...

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I love this setup:

On the verge of new multi-year highs, with all-time highs in sight. 

And options premiums plunging.

And a big round number up above to act as a magnet.

And the right sector.

And a bull market.

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Maybe I'm a skeptic, but sometimes I think of brokerages as dealers at the blackjack table.They are in business to get you to bring your money to their "platform." They aim to get you to feel comfortable, they teach you the rules of the game, they...

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Labor Day weekend is in the rearview mirror, which means one thing: summer trading season is officially over.

Whether summer trading was good or bad for you, it's time to put away the beach reads and dust off...

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There's a stock that has been consolidating just below all-time highs since the beginning of August, and it feels poised to pop.

And options players, as evidenced by this implied volatility chart, are falling to sleep:

 

This means I...

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I say it a lot... volatility mean-reverts lower far more predictably than it mean-reverts higher.

In other words, low volatility does not necessarily presage volatility spikes.

But, when volatility is low and I have a hunch that a big move...

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Today I put on a trade in a company whose services I don’t agree with.

The company is in the sports gambling business—one of the biggest brands out there.

As the father of a sports-crazed eleven-year-old, what this...

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I've made it no secret that I harbor ill-will towards the hyper-promotion of sport gambling. As a father of an 11 year-old sports fan, I find it distasteful that he can't watch any sporting events without getting pounded over the head to get involved...

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Today's trade is in a stock that had a beautiful breakout BEFORE the Powell news that ripped the broader markets higher.And it's in a company that many of use just about every day to spend money on our daily expenses. Maybe we should get rewarded for...

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Today's trade is in the metals space in a stock that is breaking out of a multi-year base.It has the potential to go on a monster, long-term run. But I'm going to play for the initial thrust which offers us the possibility of 7x-ing our money (or more...

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I almost permanently blinded myself—maybe even killed myself—once during band rehearsal in college.

For two years, I played lead guitar and backing vocals in a rock band with one of my best friends and two other great dudes. We used to rehearse...

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