Archive Category: 10X Stocks Archive

The Iran war is escalating sharply following an Israeli strike on key gas fields. This development, combined with a surprise hawkish turn by the Federal Reserve, took the wind out of the market’s sails.

We’re six days in, and the war in Iran is raging on… Iran has threatened to escalate the conflict further after the U.S. sank one of its warships in the Indian Ocean… and has reportedly struck a U.S. oil tanker in retaliation. I can’t tell you when the fighting stops… or what the world will look like once it does.

If you’ve been reading my work for any time, you know I would never buy a stock based on something I heard in a State of the Union address… and I largely keep politics out of my decision making. I build systems, look for durable mega trends and do everything humanly possible to eliminate the biases that stem from our human emotions. That’s how I find stocks that can potentially make us 10X our money or more.

Let’s start this week with some good news! Dynavax Technologies Corporation (DVAX) completed its merger with French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi (SNY) a little over a week ago. Sanofi paid $15.50 per share in cash. So if you owned Dynavax, you should have already received the cash in your brokerage account. We’re walking away with a gain of a little over 39%.

It’s been a wild ride in precious metals this year. After steadily climbing higher for years, gold prices went parabolic to start 2026. The precious metal jumped from $4,350 per ounce to just over $5,600 before immediately crashing by about 20% at the end of January. Since then, gold has slowly clawed its way back above $5,000 per ounce.