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What would a 3-year old invest in?

3/25/2018

 
Me: "Hey, you little man, who do you want to be when you grow up?"
Him: "A truck driver!"
Me: "A truck driver? But, when you grow up there won't be any truck drivers! The trucks will drive all by themselves!"
Him: "Oh, Okay! so, I just sit in the truck and let the robots move?"
Me: "Yep! That's what you will be doing, you lucky man."

This was my 3-year old nephew and I spending an afternoon together. While I was chatting with him, I was wondering how lucky the kids are. They will grow up to experience life the way we can only imagine now. For a moment I thought how much I wanted to be 3 years old, instead of being in my thirties. But, there is another way for me to experience the life of future. By investing in the companies that are shaping the future of humanity I can get to be a part of the future as I can imagine. This week I'm sharing with you three stocks that I've been watching and investing in my nephew's portfolio.
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There are several private and public companies that are focusing on the future of transportation, ranging from Ford and GM to Mercedez Benz and many others who are working hard to have a say in the shaping of the future. Investing in many of such companies will be a speculative bet. No one can predict when such futuristic vision may get materialized in our day to day life. For us - the intelligent investors - it is only wise to pick the companies that, if their autonomous aspiration does not pan out, are still well-operated and benefit from a growing market. As a wise man once said, even the best of investors need to leave room for safety in their investment decisions. 
Checkout Alphabet's Stock Card!
Checkout Intel's Stock Card!
Checkout Nvidia's Stock Card!
  • Nvidia: Nvidia is building the semiconductors and chips that power the brains of the autonomous cars of the future.
  • Alphabet: Through its Waymo division, Alphabet is leading the change to bring autonomous cars to the mass public.
  • Intel: Through the acquisition of Mobileye, Intel now owns the technology that makes your car see and sense its environment better.
Having that in mind, these companies are a few trailblazers that are shaping the future of transportation, the way my nephew is imagining it and are still well-operated companies that can be trusted with our money even if the autonomous cars do not roll-out anytime soon. By the time, my nephew comes to an age that he can legally take over his portfolio, these trailblazers will be harvesting the results of their today's aggressive push to shape the future.
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Invest In The Future of Sports!

3/18/2018

 
The arena is jam-packed. The crowd is rumbling. Millions are watching on screens with different sizes around the world, and oh boy, oh boy, the players are superstar college kids ... Sounds familiar? 

Wait a minute! Look closer. The players are barely moving! As a matter of fact, they are sitting at a table. They barely look at their counterparts... They are all focused on these screens... What kind of a sorcery is this?

It's called eSports. It's the opposite of the "offline" sport. It's the NFL, NHL, NBA, and MLB of the future. Believe it or not, the Future of Sport is here, and it's here to stay. As we speak, Activision Blizzard is building an eSports arena in Los Angeles. Several different universities and colleges are giving scholarships to the players of their eSports team. There even was a session at this week's SXSW conference talking about how the offline sport is being replaced by eSports.

Inspired by the coverage of SXSW conference by a few of our favorite podcasts during this week, we decided to bring to you a stock that is shaping the future of sports.
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Say hello to Take-Two Interactive. The video game company is already a titan in the industry. It is also a cornerstone of the emerging $5 Billion eSports industry, along with Activision Blizzards and Electronic Arts. Take-Two Interactive recently partnered with the NBA to roll-out the NBA 2K eSports league. And, it is going head-to-head with Electronic Arts FIFA tournaments with its own version of the Major League Soccer tournament, leading up to the World Cup in 2018. Come along and check out our futuristic investment theme, and get to know why we picked up this amazingly well-run company for our real-money portfolio.
Checkout Activision Blizzard's Stock Card
Checkout EA's Stock Card
Checkout Take Two Interactive's Stock Card
A Few Of Other Stocks On Our Radar:
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Invest In The Future of Health!

3/11/2018

 
There is something magical and extremely satisfying about investing in companies that are shaping the future of humanity. It is also extremely satisfying when a dollar invested in those companies grows faster than the overall market. Isn't it?

On Friday, I picked three new stocks for the Future of Health portfolio. These companies came to me thanks to @asaph who submitted a few Stock Card requests. And, I'm glad he did.

A few innovations in the recent history are as impressive as the emergence of gene therapy and gene-editing technologies. Scientists have found a way to take human cells out of our body, edit them at the gene level, and put them back where they belong. They also found a way to go into our cells and modify/silence them from manifesting themselves. It's too futuristic, you can easily imagine it is a page out of a Sci-Fi novel. But, it is true and it is happening and a few pharmaceutical companies are doing the work to apply such technologies to treat deadly diseases such as cancer and blindness among many others. Fascinating!
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These new generation of pharmaceutical companies are fascinating to watch. However, they have one more common characteristic. They often have no revenue. No revenue, no profit, and no free cash flow! How does one evaluate such companies? How does an intelligent investor pick an investment when there is no revenue to go by? 

While these companies have no revenue, the good ones are smart enough not to pick any debt, and establish tight research or distribution partnerships with bigger industry players. This week I picked Editas Medicine Inc, CRISPR Therapeutics AG, and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc for the Future of Health portfolio. All three are at the forefront of the surreal gene therapy and editing technology and have the cash and relationships required to commercialize their drugs. They are also well-advanced into their drug development process, which means there is a high likelihood that their drugs get the required approval and go into the market. ​
Checkout CRISPR Therapeutics' Stock Card
Editas Medicine's Stock Card!
Checkout Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' Stock Card!
These are the types of investment that can bring big smiles to our faces in a few years from now. We are talking about 2X, 3X,... higher return than the overall market (Similar to 288% return that Juno Therapeutics generated for the Future of Health theme). However, they can break our hearts into pieces too. Knowing that there is no revenue should tell you how risky these investments are. Lack of revenue and dependency on the success of their clinical trials means extreme volatility in the short-term.

​If you decided to invest in them alongside me, first read the following sentences loudly: "I'm okay with taking risks, as long as it is informed by unbiased facts. I understand I may lose all of the money I'm investing in these companies. If that happens, I am clear as to why!" If you nodded as you read the sentences loudly, you are my kinda crowd. Come along, and let's get to know these mighty companies better.​
A Few Of Other Stocks On Our Radar:
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The magical power of a watchlist!

3/4/2018

 
Hey folks, I always wonder how many of you keep a watchlist! And, if you do keep one, how many stocks are on your watchlist?

Most people I've spoken to assume that investors keep a variety of stocks on their watchlist to gradually invest in them. While a watchlist can be used the same way you use a grocery shopping list to avoid forgetting the items you need, there are two magical ways to use a watchlist. One watchlist for the time when the market is going up and then another one for when it goes south.
When the market goes up:
When the market is growing, the most challenging task is to eliminate faux-winners. A faux-winner is a company operating in an organically growing market but doesn't have a strong operational foundation. A watchlist is like an internship for your portfolio. You add a stock to your watchlist to give it a chance to prove it is more than just a company with growing sales and to earn a spot in your portfolio.

This week, I added the following few stocks to my portfolio internship (ahem... watchlist):
Checkout Intuit's Stock Card!
Checkout Service Now's Stock Card!
Checkout Real Page's Stock Card!
Checkout the Wing Stop's Stock Card!
When the market goes down: 
When the stock market crashes, a watchlist keeps the emotions in line. While most people panic in such times, the majority of the more experienced investors get excited. Maybe too excited and start buying anything and everything in the hope to buy things low and sell them high later. But not all companies will survive a market crash. Only a small portion of investors who have put together a watchlist of well-operated companies will get out of a market crash prosperously. By keeping a watchlist of well-operated companies, the investors will be able to seize the opportunity of a crash and pick only strong companies at much lower prices. A robust watchlist is where master investors set their path aside from the newcomers. 
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You can create a watchlist on StockCard.io's MyPortfolio tab to feel the power of having a watchlist at good times and bad! Check it out!
A Few Of Other Stocks On Our Radar:
Checkout Go Pro's Stock Card!
Checkout HubSpot's Stock Card
Checkout Lululemon Athletica's Stock Card
Checkout Lyondellbasell's Stock Card!
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Thanks, Alex Bush, Gloria Cox, Manson See, Michael Dickson, Jeffrey Leichenger, Anand Dandekar, and the members of our intelligent investors' community for this week's Stock Card requests. Join these intelligent investors, and request a Stock Card sometime next week and submit a request.
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