Author: evencio.alvarez14@gmail.com
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Activism, Financials and Why IPOs Suck
We hope you had a better weather weekend than we did in MD. Rain, rain and more rain. I can’t complain, though. I finished one of my newest favorite books: Amarillo Slim in a World Full of Fat People.If you haven’t read it, buy a copy. Brad Hathaway (you can find his podcast here) turned…
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Synthesizers Win
“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”- Edward O. WilsonIt is mind-blowing to think about how much information is available now versus 20 years…
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Monday Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] #14
You cannot trade the market. Instead, you can only trade your beliefs about the market. However, you can only do that successfully if you understand the fundamental concepts behind low-risk ideas, expectancy, and position sizing. ~ Van Tharp In this week’s Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] we look at a record high in the DIX index,…
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The Narrative Pendulum
via GIPHY Fractalized sine waves are encoded into the very fabric of our reality. Like the Golden Ratio and the second law of thermodynamics, they appear throughout the universe on nearly every level of scale and function. It’s no surprise then that they underlie the structure of our market. This makes intuitive sense because a…
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Episode 30: Finding Your Competitive Edge (& Lessons From Pro Volleyball) w/ Ryan Doherty
This episode is brought to you by TIKR. Join the free beta today at TIKR.com/hive.Our 30th episode was one of the most esoteric conversations yet. This week, I had the pleasure of chatting with Ryan Doherty. Ryan was a former professional baseball pitcher (and at one point, the tallest professional player ever) turned professional volleyball player.Ryan…
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Investor Intelligence Bull/Bear Ratio: Mastering Technical Hierarchy
The hierarchy of market technicals looks something like this: Price: The tape is the first and final arbiter of truth Trend: Newton’s first law reigns. A trend in motion tends to stay in motion and a tape at rest, stays at rest Breadth: A measure of the strength and durability of the price and trend…
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Ackman’s SPAC, Intangible Assets, Insurance IPOs and Mauboussin’s Whitepaper
Hope you had a great weekend and a good start to your week. Isn’t it funny how a ~8% drop in the S&P feels like nothing after March? Just another day in the markets.There’s people saying we’re in a recession/depression. There’s people saying we’re in the early stages of a bull market. Whichever side you’re…
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Monday Dirty Dozen [CHART PACK] #13
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of ‘history’ it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never…
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Episode 29: Spin-off Extravaganza (OTIS, MSGE, IAC/MTCH) w/ Richard Howe, StockSpinOffInvesting.com
This episode is brought to you by TIKR. Join the free beta today at TIKR.com/hive.Richard Howe joins the Hive for the second time! It’s our first guest with a second appearance and we’re stoked to bring you this conversation.This episode is IDEA HEAVY and features 5-6 new spin-off ideas for you to research, study and add…
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Emerging Markets, Stock Based Compensation & DIY S&P Valuation
Markets don’t make sense. The Druck is as confused as the rest of us. Nobody knows why companies with $0 in revenue trade at $20B valuations. And like that, the S&P is back to where it was before the COVID-19 sell-off.Just as everyone predicted. If there’s anything we know about markets it’s that we can’t…