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Unlocking Big Venture Capital Profits Started with This One Lesson

By , VC Advisor, Money Morning - • Print | Email

David Weisburd, a serial entrepreneur, Co-Head of venture capital at 10X Capital, and the newest member of the Angels & Entrepreneurs advisory board has been an angel investor for 12 years, a venture capitalist for five, and has reviewed more than 2,000 startups throughout his career.

Through all those years and all of those deals, he's learned a multitude of lessons – many of which we'll be talking about in the next few days and weeks.

But today, he wants to cover the single most important lesson he wishes he knew when he first started investing.

In fact, if he had known this piece of information back in 2008, he would've avoided many restless nights and missed opportunities.

By sharing it here with you today, David's goal is to make sure that you do not miss any opportunities, either.

And not missing out on a single great opportunity is the key to finding the next Facebook or Google.

Let's get started...

Marijuana Industry

You Stand at the Forefront of the Single Biggest Market to Emerge in Decades

By , Director of Cannabis Investing Research, Money Morning - • Print | Email

Take a hard look at the cannabis market.

Look closely, and you'll see the single biggest market to hit the global economy in decades.

It's bigger than the global PC market. It's bigger than gaming. In fact, consumers spend more money on cannabis each year than what hits the top lines of social media companies like Facebook and online marketplaces like Amazon combined.

It's almost as big as one of the most predominant, innovative, and disruptive sectors of the 20th century.

Now, I expect everyone reading this would happily hop in a time machine and buy shares in Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon for a second chance to get in early on those unexpected but remarkably high growth industries.

Imagine the wealth you could have built.

But with cannabis now on the scene, you don't need a time machine.

You just need to appreciate the massive size of the cannabis market today and how much bigger it will get as legalization inevitably spreads.

Because once it does, cannabis will overtake some of the most significant industries to emerge in the 21st century… Full Story

Because once it does, cannabis will overtake some of the most significant industries to emerge in the 21st century... Full Story...

Trading Strategies

The Long and the Short of It: The Recession Is Handing Us Rare Profit Potential

By , Executive Producer, Money Morning - • Print | Email

We're already in the middle of a deep very recession.

The market's Thursday selloff, fueled by concerns about reopening the economy and a resurgence of COVID-19 infections, simply brings stocks more in line with an unpleasant economic reality.

The resurgence of fear and uncertainty will push investors to the sidelines again.

This will create new opportunities for "smart money" – investors who know how to play the long- and short-term impacts to maximize gains.

Today, we're going to look at a little-understood industry positioned to reap massive gains because of the Coronavirus Recession...

ETFs

This One Company Is Like Your Own Personal Tech ETF

By , Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI - • Print | Email

When you own the semiconductor stock I'm going to tell you about in a moment, you own cash inflows from not just one but three booming sectors, where money grows like weeds.

The chip shares are at the center of what I call the "Convergence Economy."

It's a tech-driven phenomenon I've identified where chips, sensors, cloud computing, software, artificial intelligence (AI), mobile computing, and communications are all converging, every hour of every day, to change the world – and the lives of everyone in it – and generate, at a minimum, $13 trillion in new wealth.

Most investors who might track chips, or sensors, or AI on their own, aren't even aware of this convergence.

But then again, we're not "most investors." They haven't spotted this stock or identified the three catalysts that will drive it to double from here.

And let me be clear: No market plunge or recession or even resurgence of COVID-19 can stop what's coming as these trends converge. They'll barely even slow it down… Full Story

And let me be clear: No market plunge or recession or even resurgence of COVID-19 can stop what's coming as these trends converge. They'll barely even slow it down...

Oil

The Oil Sector Is Getting Ahead of Itself - Here's How to Profit

By , Quantitative Specialist, Money Morning - • Print | Email

It feels like 10 years ago, but it's really only been about seven weeks since that fateful April 20, when a COVID-19-driven collapse in demand pummeled West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures. Prices hit the floor, fell through it, and landed in negative territory at -$37.63 a barrel.

In those seven weeks, WTI has rocketed almost 200%. The S&P Oil & Gas Exploration and Production Select Industry Index has risen nearly 70%, though it's still down more than 24% for the year.

Over the past few days, though, oil benchmarks have been creeping 2% and 3% lower, which in my experience is a big, neon sign saying "Selling Ahead." And several marquee energy stocks like Occidental Petroleum Corp. and Halliburton Co. are also flashing sell-off warnings.

This reminds me of the old Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote Looney Tunes cartoons – remember them? One of the (many) cheesy running gags had Wile chasing Road Runner only to overshoot him at a cliff. Wile would hang there in midair for a second, have a "Maalox moment," and then drop.

That's not all that different than what's happening in crude right now. Both the commodity and most of its associated stocks entered what market technicians like me call "overbought" territory. Now they're dropping like rocks. Investors are starting to figure out if they're in over their heads.

How do I know? The answer is worth exploring because it can make you a sharper trader. There's one simple, small number you can look at in any stock chart that can tell you instantly how to play it.

I'll get into that briefly and then I'll tell you how to play the oil patch's precarious "Wile E. Coyote" situation… Full Story

I'll get into that briefly and then I'll tell you how to play the oil patch's precarious "Wile E. Coyote" situation... Full Story

Technology

One Firm Is Taking the Hassle Out of Digital Payments - and Handing You a Piece of an $11 Trillion Opportunity

By , Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI - • Print | Email

Like many of us, I'm a huge believer in the convenience of mobile commerce, often referred to simply as m-commerce. I use Apple Pay from Apple Inc. on my phone regularly when shopping.

There's just one problem – maybe something you've dealt with, too. My iPhone can't recognize me and approve my identity with facial recognition. At least, not when I am wearing my COVID-19 safety mask.

That's where the new field of "touchless commerce" comes into play. It's a process in which you simply tap the store's reader with an enabled credit card.

And it's quickly gaining share in m-commerce, a field worth $284 billion.

Even without COVID-19, this was a field to pay attention to. The world is barreling toward the most convenient "hands-free" options in everything from buying to driving to texting.

That's why it's a great time to invest in the firm that's pioneering touchless commerce. With the initiatives this payments innovator is managing, I see its stock doubling in three years or less… Full Story

That's why it's a great time to invest in the firm that's pioneering touchless commerce. With the initiatives this payments innovator is managing, I see its stock doubling in three years or less...

Trading Strategies

This Patent-Pending Market Predictor Shows You What June Has in Store

By , America's No. 1 Pattern Trader, Money Morning • @powerproftrades - • Print | Email

It's kind of hard to believe, but we've already entered the month of June, so I wanted to spend time today to walk you through some possible payday situations I'm looking at this month using my proprietary tool, the Money Calendar.

The Money Calendar is the most accurate market predictor I've ever used. As the old adage says, "The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior."

And that's exactly what the Money Calendar does – it analyzes the market's behavior over the last 10 years in order to predict where it will go next.

You see, the Money Calendar takes millions of bits of data and puts them across a minimum of 10 years to find the best patterns up and down in the world's most popular stocks.

And you might think you know where June will go. Businesses are reopening, profits are going back up…

But as I'm about to show you, it's not enough to look at the surface… Full Story

But as I'm about to show you, it's not enough to look at the surface...

Stocks

The 3 Best Coronavirus Stocks You Can Buy with Just $1,000

By , Executive Producer, Money Morning - • Print | Email

The coronavirus pandemic and the economic chaos it unleashed has created new opportunities left and right for savvy investors.

We're not talking about investing in vaccine stocks either.

The world will be fundamentally changed even after the recovery.

Today, we'll show you how to capitalize on these changes by building a portfolio of coronavirus stocks that will come out on the winning end.

And you can build this portfolio for just $1,000.

Read more...

Biotechnology

This "Orphan Drug" Biotech Could Double in Less Than Three Years

By , Defense + Tech Specialist, Money Morning • @Robinson_STI - • Print | Email

The three biggest Big Pharma "blockbuster" medicines of all time target high cholesterol (Lipitor), inflammatory diseases (Humira), and digestive afflictions (Nexium) and have pulled in a combined $350 billion – and counting.

But what about people suffering from rare diseases like cystic fibrosis, pancreatic cancer, and so on?

Here in America, Washington understands the need for these "orphan drugs" targeting rare diseases, which is why the "Orphan Drug Act of 1983" offers a seven-year window of tax reductions and the exclusive right to market a drug for a particular rare disease.

To date, more than 600 orphan drugs have been approved by the FDA.

And the global market for orphan drugs targeting rare diseases is growing at double the rate of the non-orphan market.

But more needs to be done. And that "more" will create a massive investment portal – provided you pick the best-positioned companies.

That's why today, our Michael Robinson going to show you a revved-up leader in the specialty-drugs market whose shares could double in under three years...

Marijuana Industry

Ending Cannabis Prohibition Could Create $130 Billion in Revenue, 1.6 Million Jobs, and Unprecedented Wealth

By , Money Morning - • Print | Email

Nearly a century ago, in 1929, the Great Depression hit the United States – shuttering businesses, devastating families, and changing the U.S. economy forever.

Meanwhile, alcohol prohibition in the United States – which began in 1920 – was in full swing.

And so was the black market it created.

But public opinion about prohibition began to change dramatically during this time.

Folks started to realize that all those tax dollars legal alcohol sales had been bringing in before prohibition were now being lost – an estimated $11 billion that could have flowed into the U.S. economy when it needed it most.

And they also realized that the hundreds of thousands of jobs the legal alcohol industry had previously created could help get people back to work.

Fortunately, the federal government came to its senses, and its repeal of alcohol prohibition in 1933 ended up being a major catalyst for bringing this country out of the Great Depression.

Fast-forward just a bit, and the U.S. beer industry was responsible for creating 2.19 million jobs that paid more than $101 billion in wages and benefits in 2018.

As we speak, the United States is grappling with an eerily similar scenario.

It's a scenario that, as we've seen with the beer industry, could generate billions and put people back to work.

It's also a scenario that will be incredibly lucrative for you… Full Story

It's also a scenario that will be incredibly lucrative for you... Full Story