Sturgeon’s law states “Ninety percent of everything is crap.” The saying came from the science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon. Sturgeon came to the conclusion that even though science fiction was criticized at the time (1951) for its low quality it was true for all fields. The majority of work in all professions were also low […]
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What is a covered call ETF? A covered call ETF is actively-managed to buy a stock index or individual stocks to use to write out-of-the-money call options on. They systematically use the covered call-option writing process to create returns through both capital gains on the held assets along with option premium from short call options.
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The Golden Butterfly portfolio is constructed to perform at or above the same high return level of the stock market as a whole with less volatility over the long term. The Golden Butterfly combines the best dynamics of other equity and bond asset allocations into a steady and safe investment strategy for both capital preservation
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The $NYMO ticker is the McClellan Oscillator that is ratio adjusted for the end of the day. The McClellan Oscillator ($NYMO) is a technical market breadth indicator that is calculated based on the variance between the number of advancing and declining stocks on the New York Stock Exchange. This technical indicator is used to show
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Two popular and highly liquid Vanguard ETFs are ticker symbol VOO (S&P 500) and VTI (Total stock market). These are both stock market index exchange traded funds but perform differently. VOO invests in stocks that make up the S&P 500 Index. It holds around 500 of the largest U.S. companies. Its goal is to track
The current Cathie Wood net worth in 2021 is approximately $400 million. Cathie Wood founded the ARK Investment Management, LLC which focuses solely on disruptive innovation and offers investment solutions to investors seeking long-term growth in the publicly traded markets. Wood created ARK in 2014 with the idea to package active stock portfolios in an
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The current Michael Burry net worth in 2021 is estimated to be approximately $300 million. Dr. Michael Burry is the legendary investor that runs the Scion Asset Management hedge fund that manages over $2 billion for 5 clients. He became famous through his inclusion in the best selling book “The Big Short” by author Michael
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Bill Ackman is ranked #1111 in 2021 on the Forbes Billionaire’s list with a $3.1 billion net worth. He was #391 on the Forbes 400 wealthiest list in 2020. Bill Ackman became a billionaire through operating the Pershing Square Capital Management hedge fund that he founded in 2004. He became famous in the financial world
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Melvin Capital Management is a hedge fund with seven clients and over $24.56 billion dollars in assets under management. Melvin Capital became famous in the trading world in early January 2021 as their GameStop short position combined with other short sellers resulted in more than 139% of Gamestop (GME) shares to be short at one
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Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975. He grew it into one of the world’s largest hedge funds by 2005. As of 2021 his hedge fund has over $223 billion in total assets under management. Ray Dalio is the 88th richest person in the world according to Forbes with a net worth of approximately $20.3
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Here is the current Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation portfolio holdings in 2021. Below are the positions from his charity’s capital under management reported in the 13F filings as of the second quarter in June 30, 2021. Ranking/Company/% of Portfolio BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC 50.87% WASTE MGMT INC 10.94% CATERPILLAR INC 9.26% CANADIAN NATL RY CO
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Cathie Wood runs the ARK Investment Management hedge fund that is located in New York. It has 282 clients and assets under management (AUM) of $55,094,588,754 as of 6-30-2021. The last Q1 2021 13F filing showed the fund’s top 10 holdings were 35.8% of the portfolio. Here are the top 25 holdings in her portfolio
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Jeremy Grantham is the co-founder and chief investment strategist of the asset management firm Grantham, Mayo, & van Otterloo (GMO). GMO had more than $19.99 billion in assets under management as of June 2021. He has been a vocal critic of various governmental responses to the Global Financial Crisis from 2007 to 2021. Grantham started
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The current Warren Buffett portfolio for 2021 has been updated with his 6/30/21 Q2 filing. Here are the Berkshire-Hathaway portfolio holdings managed by Warren Buffett that were reported in the 13F filing to the SEC for the 2nd quarter of 2021 at the end of June this year. Warren Buffett continues to oversee and manage the
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Michael Burry’s hedge fund Scion Asset Management is based in Saratoga, California and manages capital for 5 clients. Scion has $2,081,933,000 in total assets under management (AUM). The following positions are based on the last Q1 2021 13F filing as of 3-31-2021, with his top 10 holdings making up 92.93% of his portfolio. Position/Portfolio% TSLA(PUTS) 35.11%
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Below is a list of the top 20 current most shorted stocks with the highest short interest across all major U.S. stock exchanges as of the last update. These are the companies that have the highest percentage of their share float borrowed to sell short. These short positions reveal built in future buying pressure as
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Arbitrage is the ability to profit by both buying and selling the same asset in two different markets at the same time to profit from any difference in the price in two different places. Arbitrage takes advantage of any variations in prices of the same or similar financial assets listed in different exchanges or in
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I began putting capital into the stock market in 1992 as an investor. After the volatility of 1998 I stopped investing and started trading price action in and out in 1999 during the wild parabolic tech bull market and into the year 2000. I picked up many lessons over the years and here are some
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The most expensive stock per share every publicly traded of all time is the Berkshire Hathaway A shares (BRK. A) that traded for $445,000 a share on May 7, 2021 on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). This is the New England textile company that Warren Buffett starting buying at $7.60 in 1962. The Buffett
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The Neuralink Corporation is one of the first neurotechnology companies that are developing implantable brain–machine interfaces (BMIs). It was founded by Elon Musk in 2016 with $100 million along with $58 million in other funding. Neuralink is headquartered in San Francisco and has a staff of 90 employees including high-level neuroscientists from various universities. Neuralink