If you’re making decisions based on the past five days of market activity, you’re going to need more than luck. Trading on such a short-term time frame is not only difficult — it’s almost impossible to do consistently. In my decades on Wall Street, I haven’t met anyone who consistently made money trading on weekly trends. Here’s what you should be doing instead to maximize returns…
Buffett’s first investors were family and friends in his hometown in Omaha, Nebraska. If you were fortunate enough to invest $10,000 with him, it would now be worth over $370 million! That’s the reason Buffett is called the “Oracle of Omaha.” Both Berkshire A and B shares made an all-time high on Buffett’s birthday. Perhaps it was Mr. Market’s birthday present to Warren. The A shares closed at $715,000. Imagine just buying three shares back in the late 1980s when they traded for less than $1,800?
Most of us tend to THINK inside the box. It’s human nature. We limit our careers. We limit our physical abilities. We even limit our relationships. All of these things can improve dramatically when we remove those artificial limits — “the box.” That’s why we’re encouraged to think OUTSIDE the box. People do the same thing — even more literally — with investing. They invest inside the box. And that limits your potential profits. But if we INVEST outside the box?
It’s time to be bullish on America.
In 1998, the dot-com bubble led to historic gains… but is it about to happen again? You know the old saying… history doesn’t repeat itself — but it does rhyme. With the Fed set to cut rates in September, will this be the catalyst for the next rally? It could be the scenario is set for another bubble.
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