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Makarios Aristotle Varner Jr.— Multimillionaire Stock Market Trader
Makarios Aristotle Varner Jr. is a self-made entrepreneur from Atlanta, GA. He owns a multimillion dollar option trading group chat (Aristotle Signals and Learning LLC), a popular online trading university (AMUU LLC), and the author of a best selling book (Aristotle’s Investing Guide).
By Jason James 6 years ago in Trader
HOW MUCH WILL THE TESLA STOCK BUBBLE INFLATE?
Tesla stock soared past $1,400 a share today, and talk about whether it’s in a bubble has been reignited. Several analysts have weighed in on the EV maker today, and even some bears are starting to say that the shares could keep rising.
By Jacob Wolinsky6 years ago in Trader
TESLA STOCK PREDICTIONS BAKE IN EXTRAORDINARY EXPECTATIONS
When Tesla stock hit $1,400 a share this week, analysts began to rapidly update their predictions. The shares fell back below $1,400 on Wednesday, but they’re holding on to $1,300, which many analysts find astonishing.
By Jacob Wolinsky6 years ago in Trader
GRUPO TELEVISA SAB: GROWTH AND VALUE ALL IN ONE
Grupo Televisa SAB ADR (NYSE:TV) is a stock that many U.S. investors may be oblivious to, even though the company is a significant stakeholder in the North American Univision television network. Nonetheless, investors seeking international exposure at a bargain price are advised to keep an eye on this one.
By Jacob Wolinsky6 years ago in Trader
WHAT ARE TAIL RISK FUNDS? AN INTRODUCTION TO A NICHE
Tail risk funds represent a small niche of the hedge fund industry, and there are a few different types. They essentially serve as insurance for your portfolio. They lose money most of the time, but when there is a tail risk event, they rise quite a bit when the rest of the market crashes down hard and fast.
By Jacob Wolinsky6 years ago in Trader
GREENSILL, SOFTBANK AND COOKING THE BOOKS
This month’s blog is a little different — it’s co-written with my friend Marc Rubinstein. Marc is a highly talented analyst, ex Lansdowne Partners anmd writes a terrific blog on banks and financials which you should definitely subscribe to. Marc also is the tutor on our Banks Sector Course. In this blog, where he did all the hard work and write some more elegant prose than is customary in tehse pages, we take a look at Greensill, on paper one of the most valuable fintechs in Europe. What a story! It’s got it all: a Softbank angle, a BaFin angle (remember Wirecard last week?), a human interest angle (farmer turns billionaire) an element of financial engineering, and of course an accounting red flag issue.
By Jacob Wolinsky6 years ago in Trader
SPECULATIVE EARNINGS AND RECENT STOCK PRICE MOVEMENTS
In a clever and useful analysis, Ronen Israel, Kristoffer Laursen, and Scott Richardson of AQR use the residual income approach to break down how the value of a company’s stock depends on three components: its book value, the value of its predictable earnings, and the value of its speculative earnings. The first component, the book value, can be read off the balance sheet. The second component, the value of predictable earnings, is based on the assumption that the company meets analyst forecasts for the current year and the following year. In all future years beyond year two, the earnings are assumed to be equal to year two earnings. The final component, the speculative value, equals everything else. The speculative value is calculated by starting with the stock price and subtracting the book value and the value of predictable earnings. The speculative value incorporates all the growth in earnings that the market expects beyond the first two years. To summarize,
By Jacob Wolinsky6 years ago in Trader
ASSET MANAGERS GOT SBA PPP LOANS, BUT DID THEY NEED THEM?
The Small Business Association’s (SBA)’s Payroll Protection Program (PPP) handed out loans to small businesses, but it isn’t just small businesses getting the loans. Criticism of the program continues as officials released details on hundreds of thousands of businesses that received PPP loans from the SBA, many of which will be forgivable.
By Jacob Wolinsky6 years ago in Trader
TOP SHORTS IN THE LAST EIGHT YEARS THAT PAID OFF BIG TIME
It’s incredibly difficult to make big money shorting stocks. You need a strong conviction in your bets. You need to have a firm belief that something is cooking in the company that most people overlook or choose to ignore. Those shorting stocks during the COVID-19 pandemic have made more than $50 billion in profits.
By Jacob Wolinsky6 years ago in Trader
Seizing the Economy
Many economists have created theories to understand the movement and volume of the economy. The economy is the nervous system of the government. There are so many factors that determine its consistency such as the job market, housing market, educational training, and governmental assistance. Jobs market determines the number of people that are employed, employment means to increase revenue and longevity for the economy creating a continual cycle. The housing market determines the rate that properties are invested and is the greatest taxation for the government creating higher and stable yield overtime. Educational training is the state of our educational system filled with successes of paying loans and students receiving qualified jobs that they work long-term. Our economy is multi-dimensional. And there is no better time than to learn the influences on the economy to make educated life choices.
By Distinguished Honorary Alumni Dr. Matthew Primous6 years ago in Trader
