Percentage of Americans That Own Stock: Why Most Don’t Get Rich From It Sept 10, 2026 The percentage of Americans who own stocks has risen dramatically over the past several decades, but a crucial distinction is often lost in the headline numbers: owning stocks is not the same as owning enough stocks to build substantial … Read more
Panic Selling Is Also Known as Hitting Rock Bottom Sept 10, 2026 Few forces in financial markets are as destructive, predictable, and exploitable as panic selling. It begins with uncertainty, accelerates through fear, and can eventually become a stampede in which investors sell not because their original investment thesis has changed, but because they can … Read more
Black Swan 1987: The Wise Won While the Reckless Lost Everything Sept. 10, 2026 The Crash That Became a Fortune-Making Opportunity October 19, 1987, became known as Black Monday, and for good reason. The Dow Jones Industrial Average collapsed 22.6% in a single trading session, the largest one-day percentage decline in its history, while panic … Read more
How the Roaring Twenties and Events Leading Up to 1939 Changed America Forever: Insights from Contrarian Investing Sept 10, 2026 The Roaring Twenties were a remarkable period in American history, defined by economic expansion, technological innovation, cultural transformation, and a stock market that appeared capable of producing effortless wealth. Jazz filled the cities, automobiles and … Read more
Buying Puts Explained: How Traders Profit When Stocks Fall Sept. 10, 2026 Buying Puts: Understanding the Strategy Behind the Trade Buying puts gives an investor the right, but not the obligation, to sell an underlying stock or ETF at a predetermined strike price before expiration. Unlike owning shares, where rising prices generally create profits, a … Read more
Which Factors Offset Each Other in Stock Market Valuation? Sept 9, 2026 Stock market valuation is often presented as a mathematical exercise involving earnings, growth, cash flow, interest rates, and risk. Yet anyone who has watched markets for long enough knows that price can move dramatically without a corresponding change in intrinsic value, because valuation … Read more
The SPY 200-Day Moving Average: More Than a Line on a Chart Sept 10, 2026 The SPY 200-day moving average is one of the most widely followed indicators in financial markets because it provides a simple framework for identifying the market’s longer-term directional bias. When SPY trades above a rising 200-day MA, investors generally interpret … Read more
Market Crashes: Panic for Some, Profit for the Prepared Sept 10, 2026 Introduction: When Panic Becomes Opportunity What happens when financial markets suddenly lose their sense of stability and prices begin falling faster than investors can process the information? A market crash is not merely an economic event because the most important transformation occurs inside … Read more
George Gammon: Market Truth Teller or High-Voltage Illusionist? “In a world drowning in noise, the loudest voices often claim the clearest vision, but volume alone has never guaranteed truth.” Sept 9, 2026 Sharp Insight or Fear-Fed Fantasy? In the modern financial information economy, attention has become a form of currency, and few understand that equation … Read more
Cool Copper Stocks: Jump In or Out? Sept. 9, 2026 Copper Has Changed: From Cyclical Metal to Strategic Asset Copper has always been known as Dr. Copper because its widespread use in construction, manufacturing, transportation, electrical equipment, and infrastructure makes its price unusually sensitive to the health of the global economy. But the copper story … Read more
