Archive Category: 10X Stocks (Alerts)

With one move, Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) created a sea change in the way social media platforms make money. I’m talking about Apple’s privacy features, which let iPhone users opt out of data collection by digital advertising agencies. The move came in April 2021 … though it took some time for investors to fully understand its impact on social media’s once profitable, ad-driven business model. And it’ll take even longer for the largest and least-nimble companies to thrive with the new model.

I recommended adding a long-volatility “hedge” position earlier this month. Today, I recommend selling it. Action to Take: Sell your shares of the ProShares VIX Short-Term ETF (NYSE: VIXY) at the market. We’ll suffer only a very minor loss on this trade. As I explained in my November 3 trade alert, we must keep this hedge trade on a “short leash.”

While I am, by nature and experience, a “cautious optimist” who prefers to find market-beating opportunities on the bullish side of markets… And while the blueprint, strategy and tactics I’ve designed for this 10X Fortunes service are bullish… I want to repeat that the base-case scenario I’m on guard against is that the 2022 bear market goes “longer and lower” than most people expect.

Babcock Ranch, Florida, calls itself “America’s first solar-powered town.” Make no mistake, this “town” isn’t a cobbled-together co-op of a few dozen neighbors who banded together and slapped solar panels on the roofs of their houses. Babcock Ranch is a master-planned community of thousands of homes, powered by a 700,000-panel solar array operated by Florida Power & Light … Florida’s largest electric utility … and a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Inc. (NYSE: NEE), the largest publicly traded utility conglomerate in the United States.

The last attempted assassination of a U.S. president was in March of 1981, when John W. Hinckley Jr. injured Ronald Reagan with a .22 caliber revolver. Whether it was causation or correlation, the S&P 500 topped out that week and fell into a minus 28% high-to-low bear market over the following 16 months. Geopolitical instability is, of course, an oft-cited risk to global financial markets. Many such events are true “black swans” — events that are both impossible to predict and highly impactful. Donald Rumsfeld popularized another label for these highly unpredictable and highly impactful risks, calling them “unknown unknowns.”