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3 Cinches – Nikola, QuantumScape, And The SPAC ETF
If you own NKLA, QS, or SPAK, sell them. Take the money and run.
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Tesla Killer Lucid’s SPAC Up 76%
$2 billion and change ($70 million is change at this scale) Churchill IV (CCIVU) is my biggest and best SPAC position and my second biggest overall position. Here’s why.
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Bitcoin – Time To Split?
The Grayscale Bitcoin Investment Trust (OTC:GBTC) is up over 8% today after announcing a 91 for 1 split. What should bitcoin investors do?
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A Happy New Year For NXP
With NXPI shares trading around $119 today, the chances of a sale at $110 are around zero.
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Crypto Is An Emerging Market
Today, crypto is still an emerging market. Outages take sites offline. There are chaotic squabbles between factions. Gangsters lurk in the shadows. But just a little twitch here and there towards normalcy can offer opportunity.
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A Good Bank Investment For 2017
The bank trades with a market cap of $86.52m at current prices, while my estimate for acquisition value is $158m.
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STOCKS I FOLLOW

AABA Altaba Inc.
AAPL Apple Inc.
AAUKY ANGLO AM PLC ADR
ABBV AbbVie Inc.
ABT Abbott Laboratories
AET Aetna Inc.
AGN Allergan Inc.
AIG American International Group Inc
AKRX Akorn, Inc.
ALJJ ALJ REGIONAL HLDGS
AMZN Amazon.com Inc.
ANTM Anthem, Inc.
APOL Apollo Education Group Inc. (Private)
ARNC Arconic Inc. Common Stock
ATK Alliant Techsystems Inc.
ATML Atmel Corporation
AUXL Auxilium Pharmaceuticals Inc.
AVGO Broadcom Ltd
AVOL Avolon Holdings Limited
AXLL Axiall Corporation
AZN AstraZeneca Group plc
BABA Alibaba
BAC Bank of America Corporation
BASFY BASF SE ADS
BAYZF BAYER AG ORD
BBT BB&T Corporation
BLC Belo Corp.
BNCC BNCCORP INC
BUD Anheuser-Busch Inbev SA/NV
C Citigroup Inc.
CBS CBS Corporation
CEO CNOOC Limited
CHD Church & Dwight Co Inc.
CHTR Charter Communications Inc.
CI CIGNA Corporation
CKEC Carmike Cinemas Inc.
CMCO Columbus McKinnon Corporation
CMCSA Comcast Corp. Class A Common Stock
CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc.
CMSB CMS Bancorp Inc.
CNL Cleco Corporation
COF Capital One Financial Corporation
COIN CoinBase
COST Costco Wholesale Corporation
CP Canadian Pacific Railway Limited
CRM salesforce.com inc.
CSCO Cisco Systems Inc.
CSD Guggenheim Spin-Off ETF
CTB Cooper Tire & Rubber Co.
CUBA The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund Inc.
CVS CVS Health Corporation
CVT Cvent, Inc.
CXW CoreCivic, Inc.
CYT Cytec Industries Inc.
DEPO Depomed Inc.
DF Dean Foods Company
DFRG DEL FRISCO'S RESTAURANT GROUP
DGTC DGT HOLDINGS CORP
DHR Danaher Corporation
DIA SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average
DIS The Walt Disney Company
DLR Digital Realty Trust Inc.
DNUT Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc.
DRAD Digirad Corporation
DRC Dresser-Rand Group Inc.
DRII Diamond Resorts International, Inc.
DRYS DryShips Inc.
DVMT Dell Technologies Inc.
DWDP DowDupont
DYAX Dyax Corp.
EBAY eBay Inc.
EEM iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index
EFX Equifax Inc.
EQC Equity Commonwealth
EROC Eagle Rock Energy Partners, L.P.
EXPE Expedia Inc.
F Ford Motor Company
FAV First Trust Active Dividend Income Fund
FCAU Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV
FDX FedEx Corporation
FNFG First Niagara Financial Group Inc.
FOXA Fox Corporation
FUR Winthrop Realty Trust
FWONA The Liberty Media Group
FXI iShares China Large-Cap
GAS AGL Resources Inc.
GBTC Bitcoin Investment Trust
GCI Gannett Co. Inc.
GCVRZ Sanofi
GDL The GDL Fund
GE General Electric Company
GGFHF GAGFAH SA
GLD SPDR Gold Trust ETF
GM General Motors Company
GOOG Alphabet Inc. (Google)
GOOGL Google (A shares)
GPRO GoPro, Inc.
GPT Gramercy Property Trust Inc.
GRR The Asia Tigers Fund Inc.
GS Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
GTU Central GoldTrust
HAL Halliburton Company
HE Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.
HLF Herbalife Nutrition Ltd.
HLT Hilton Worldwide
HON Honeywell International Inc.
HPQ HP Inc.
HRG Harbinger Group Inc.
HSY The Hershey Company
HUM Humana Inc.
IBM International Business Machines Corporation
ICE IntercontinentalExchange Inc.
IEP Icahn Enterprises L.P.
IFN India Fund Inc.
IGTE iGATE Corporation
IMOS ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES (Bermuda) LTD.
INAP Internap Network Services Corporation
INFA Informatica Corporation
INTC Intel Corporation
IOC InterOil Corporation
IPO Renaissance IPO ETF
ISSI Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc.
JASO JA Solar Holdings, Co., Ltd.
JNJ Johnson & Johnson
JNS Janus Capital Group Inc.
JPM JPMorgan Chase & Co.
KCLI Kansas City Life Insurance Company
KHC Kraft Heinz Company, The
KKR KKR & Co. L.P.
KMI Kinder Morgan Inc.
KO The Coca-Cola Company
KR Kroger Co.
KRE SPDR KBW REGIONAL BNKNG
KTF DWS Municipal Income Trust
LB L Brands, Inc.
LBTYK Liberty Global Inc. Class C Shares
LF LeapFrog Enterprises Inc.
LO Lorillard Inc.
LORL Loral Space and Communications, Inc.
LQDT Liquidity Services, Inc.
LRE LRR Energy L.P.
LULU lululemon athletica inc.
M Macy's Inc.
MAR Marriott International Inc.
MAV Pioneer Municipal High Income Advantage Trust
MBLY Mobileye NOW INTC OWNED
MCD McDonald's Corporation
MDLZ Mondelez International, Inc.
MDVN Medivation Inc.
MEG Media General
META Meta Platforms, Inc. (Formerly Facebook, Now META))
MMM 3M Company
MO Altria Group Inc.
MON Monsanto Company
MSFT Microsoft Corporation
MSG The Madison Square Garden Company
MSO Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc.
MU Micron Technology Inc.
MYL Mylan Inc.
N NetSuite Inc.
NERO NeuroMama, Ltd.
NFLX Netflix Inc.
NKA Niska Gas Storage Partners LLC
NOK Nokia Corporation
NPSNY NASPERS LTD #
NRO Neuberger Berman Real Estate Securities Income Fund Inc
NXRT NexPoint Residential Trust, Inc.
NYRT New York REIT
OA Orbital ATK
OBAF OBA Financial Services Inc
ON ON Semiconductor Corp.
OPK OPKO Health Inc.
ORB Orbital Sciences Corporation
ORCL Oracle Corporation
OSHC Ocean Shore Holding Co.
OUTD Outdoor Channel Holdings Inc.
OVTI OmniVision Technologies Inc.
OWW Orbitz Worldwide Inc.
P Pandora Media Inc.
PEP PepsiCo Inc.
PFE Pfizer Inc.
PFLT PennantPark Floating Rate Capital Ltd
PG Procter & Gamble Co.
PLCM Polycom Inc.
PMCS PMC - Sierra Inc.
PNK Pinnacle Entertainment Inc.
POM Pepco Holdings Inc.
POZN Pozen Inc.
PPG PPG Industries Inc.
PPO Polypore International Inc.
PRE Prenetics Global Limited
PRGO Perrigo Company
PRXI Premier Exhibitions Inc.
PSCF PowerShares S&P SmallCap Financials Portfolio
PSHZF PERSHING SQUARE HLDGS LTD
PYPL PayPal Holdings, Inc.
QABA First Trust NASDAQ ABA Community Bank Index Fund
QCOM QUALCOMM Incorporated
QLTI QLT Inc.
QQQ PowerShares QQQ Trust Series 1
RACE Ferrari N.V.
RAD Rite Aid Corporation
RAI Reynolds American Inc.
RDI Reading International Inc - Class A Non
RHDGF RETAIL HOLDINGS N.V.
RKUS Ruckus Wireless, Inc.
RLYP Relypsa, Inc.
RNF Rentech Nitrogen Partners L.P.
RUE Rue21 Inc
RUSS Direxion Daily Russia Bear 3x Shares
RVP Retractable Technologies, Inc
SAEX SAExploration Holdings, Inc.
SCO ProShares UltraShort DJ-AIG Crude Oil
SHLD Sears Holdings Corporation
SHPG Shire PLC
SHW Sherwin Williams Co.
SIRI Sirius XM Holdings Inc.
SLH Solera Holdings Inc.
SLIM The Obesity ETF
SLXP Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd.
SNAP Snap Inc.
SNE Sony Corporation
SNY Sanofi
SODA SodaStream International Ltd.
SPLS Staples Inc.
SPY SPDR S&P 500
STJ St. Jude Medical Inc.
STRZA Starz
SUNEQ SunEdison, Inc.
SWY Safeway Inc.
SXRZF URANIUM ONE INC
SYT Syngenta AG
T AT&T Inc.
TE TECO Energy Inc.
TEG Integrys Energy Group Inc.
TEX Terex Corporation
TFCVX Third Avenue Focused Credit Fund - Investor Cl
TGT Target Corporation
TIME Time Inc.
TMF Direxion Daily 30Y T
TMUS T-Mobile US, Inc.
TRNC tronc, Inc.
TSLA Tesla Motors Inc.
TWC Time Warner Cable Inc.
TWTR Twitter Inc
TWX Time Warner Inc.
TYC TYCO International Ltd.
UAA Under Armour Inc.
UBAAF URBANA CORP
UL Unilever Plc
UN Unilever N.V.
UNH UnitedHealth Group Inc.
V Visa Inc.
VA Virgin America Inc
VAL The Valspar Corporation
VDIGX Vanguard Dividend Growth Fd
VIA Viacom Inc.
VIAB Viacom Inc.
VNQ Vanguard REIT ETF
VRX Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc.
VTSMX Vanguard Index Trust Total Stock Mkt Index Fund
VXX iPath S&P 500 VIX Short-Term FuturesTM ETN
VZ Verizon Communications
WDC Western Digital Corporation
WFC Wells Fargo & Co.
WISKF WEISS KOREA OPTY FUND GBP-ACC
WMB Williams Companies Inc
WMT Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
WPZ Williams Partners L.P.
WTW Weight Watchers International Inc.
WWE World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.
WX WuXi PharmaTech Inc.
WY Weyerhaeuser Co.
XIV(Retired) Retired Feb.; 2018-VELOCITYSHARES DAILY INVERSE
XOM Exxon Mobil Corporation
XRT SPDR S&P RETAIL ETF
YINN Direxion Daily China 3x Bear
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The #1 Stock In The World
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06/08/2015

4x the S&P 500 returns since inception.

Durably exploits a non-economic affinity for low volatility.

This has been my #1 favorite stock in the world for almost 5 years.