The Unlikely Alliance Threatening the AI Status Quo The recent news that Google sells TPU to Meta signals a fundamental shift in the AI hardware market. For years, the AI hardware market has been defined by two simple truths: NVIDIA is the undisputed king of silicon, and Google’s Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) were a strictly […]
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IntroductionYou want a portfolio that works for you every week, every month, and in every market climate. As a sophisticated investor, you understand that traditional strategies rely on price appreciation, which can vanish the moment markets turn against you. The income factory takes a different path. Rather than hoping your assets rise in value, you
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It has been difficult to share my working watchlist with my readers. I maintain it in Stock Rover but there is no possible way of sharing a link to my watchlist page. I could create a page on the website and add the watchlist table there. Periodically, I can update this table as needed. Seems
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It’s easy to let a portfolio drift. Stocks rise, bonds fall, and before you know it, your carefully planned allocation quietly morphs into something riskier than you ever intended. Most investors don’t notice until the next bear market hits.This is where William Bernstein’s 5/25 Rule steps in. it is a remarkably simple framework designed to
I was asked recently if we should move to cash to protect from the volatility. Perhaps you have wondered this too. My answer is no. Volatility is a feature of the market. And when you invest in small caps, you do not only learn to live with volatility, but you need to embrace it. Volatility
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Growth is all the rage today and the markets are quite frothy. Never mind the extraordinary risk presented to us due to the government economic data blackout during the shutdown. One wonders how the market will react when the government reopens and the data starts flowing again. The was to handle this risk is to
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Gold has done the unthinkable. In early October 2025, it broke through $4,000 per ounce for the first time in history, a level that even bullish forecasts a year ago failed to anticipate. The metal has now outperformed the S&P 500, bonds, and even Bitcoin year-to-date, surging more than 50% since January according to Reuters
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You’ve heard it before: “cut your losses and let your winners run.” But most investors can’t explain why that rule works. Beneath it lies a deeper logic, born from probability theory and refined by gamblers, traders, and long-term value investors alike. In this article I talk about two competing philosophies, Martingale and Anti-Martingale, and then
My edge lies in the Small Cap Value segment. This is where significant investor wealth is traditionally built, and I am pretty darn good at this. Over the years I have improved my processes to include a mathematically optimal Kelly Criterion based portfolio allocation system. This implementation has been battle tested through periods of volatility
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Margin of Safety is a core concept in value investing. This essentially tells you how much the stock price is discounted from the intrinsic (or fair) value. Margin of Safety serves two separate purposes. Given the importance of margin of safety in managing risk and estimating the target sell price, it is clear why stocks
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