Joseph Hargett
Joseph HargettEditor, Great Stuff
Joseph Hargett is the editor of Great Stuff, a daily Banyan Hill e-zine that keeps you informed on the hottest trends on Wall Street, provides you with the key information to make you filthy rich (*your results may vary) and inspires the best in dinner-table conversation. Great Stuff is finance with an edge.
Joseph joined the Banyan Hill team in 2016. Hailing from the Greater Cincinnati, Ohio, area, Joseph has spent more than a decade specializing in stock market analysis and stock and options trading strategies. Prior to joining Banyan Hill, Joseph cut his teeth in the research department of a well-respected options-based newsletter and was a regular contributor at both Forbes and InvestorPlace. He has worked as an analyst for the small-cap and biotech sectors at Cabot Heritage Corp. in Boston, Massachusetts. Joseph has been regularly quoted in a plethora of media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Money Show Digest, Reuters, USA Today, MarketWatch and Sentiment Magazine.
Joseph Hargett,
Editor, Great Stuff
Joseph's Articles
Streets Apart; Nikola’s Electric Garbage Orchestra; Kodak Cracks August 10, 2020 Great Stuff
- Grasping at Straws I absolutely love watching the mainstream financial media attempt to explain the market’s daily rise and fall. Sites like MarketWatch, CNBC and Bloomberg all have readers scrambling to know why the market is doing what it’s doing right now. They can’t simply have every headline say “Stocks Fall on China-U.S. Tensions” or […]
Economic Kickstart; Rocket Man IPO; Uber Eaten August 7, 2020 Great Stuff
- Friday Four Play: The “Shout at Wall Street” Edition When I get gains, I trade Robinhood free. Market investing is a drug for me. My heart, my heart. Kickstart my economic heart. But we’ve already had one kickstart this year with the CARES Act. So, what about a second kickstart? Looks like we’ll have to […]
Roku Go Boom; A Sticky Wix It; Reader Feedback August 6, 2020 Great Stuff
- An Online State of Mind Welcome to Reader Feedback day here at Great Stuff! You guys sure were talkative this week … some more so than others. But we’ll get to your emails in a bit. First, let’s look at the market today. Initial weekly jobless claims hit 1.19 million in the U.S. last week, […]
No Nikola News Is Good News? August 5, 2020 Great Stuff
- Great Stuff Picks: Electrifying Update Regular Great Stuff readers — aka the Great Ones — know that we run this little side business called Great Stuff Picks. OK, it’s not a “side business.” It’s a key feature that you get for FREE alongside stock market commentary, rants, song lyrics and market memes. Since Great Stuff […]
Trump’s TikTok Tipoff; Take-Two Takes Off August 4, 2020 Great Stuff
- Usurping Power of the Purse We’re getting a little political today, but I assure you it’s investing related. So, bear with me… Let’s talk about TikTok. Great Stuff has mentioned this social media app before. My daughters absolutely love this app, but how popular is TikTok, really? The company has more than 800 million users […]
Facebook Votes; TikTok on the Clock; Musk Gets Mouthy August 3, 2020 Great Stuff
- Voting Fun With Facebook Today, I read one of the most terrifying headlines ever: “Facebook will prepare users for mail-in voting for 2020 election amid pandemic.” That was CNBC’s headline as of this morning. CNBC has a habit of updating these things throughout the day, so your results may vary. The social media giant has […]
Tech Earnings Bonanza: Apple Cooks Brunch, Amazon Steals Lunch July 31, 2020 Great Stuff
- Friday Four Play: The “Go FAAA” Edition Come in here, dear boy, have a cigar. You’re gonna go FAAA! Big Tech is gonna fly high — it’s never gonna die. You can invest in it if you try. They’re gonna love you… FAAA? What’s this FAAA you speak of, Mr. Great Stuff? Well, aside from […]
Trashing the Economy; Croc’s Idea of Beauty July 30, 2020 Great Stuff
- “It’s the Economy, Stupid.” Welcome to Reader Feedback day here at Great Stuff! We’ll get to your emails in a moment — You, you you … always about you isn’t it? — but first, let’s address that big-lettered quote up there, shall we? As some of you may remember, that quote comes from former U.S. […]
Congress’ Trust Issues; Trump’s Kodak Moment; Micro on the Mic July 29, 2020 Great Stuff
- You Spin Me Round My head is spinning today, dear reader. There’s so much going on — so much you need to know — that it’s hard to keep up. After weeks of the same ol’, same ol’, 2020 dumped a veritable ton of information all in one day. And we’re not just talking the […]
All Bets Are On; Taiwan Inside; Hasbro’s Has-Been Hotel July 27, 2020 Great Stuff
- The Boys of Summer Nobody on the road. Nobody on the beach. We can feel it in the air. COVID-19 has put the summer out of reach. Or so we thought… The boys of summer aren’t gone. They’re just a little late to the pandemic party. Yes, dear reader, baseball is back … social distancing […]
