Month: December 2020

Billionaires 2020 Christmas Gift List

Reprinted courtesy of of BillionairesLife.com

You have a few days left to do your gift shopping. Here is a list of gifts for the billionaire who has everything. Buy them now before they are gone.

Submarine Sports Car

How would you like to drive a zero emissions vehicle that you can drive on land or underwater, offered by Hammacher Schlemmer.

Price: $2,000,000

Hammacher Schlemmer

007 Aston Martin DBS Superleggera Designed by Daniel Craig

This blue Aston Martin automobile has a powerful twin-turbo 5.2-liter V12 engine, and is being offered by Neiman Marcus. The famous 007, Daniel Craig, custom designed the car. Oh yeah; they will throw in an Omega limited edition platinum watch as part of the deal.

Price: $700,007

 

Neiman Marcus

 

A Home for Half a Billion Dollars

If you are looking to move up to a larger house, The One should make the perfect home. This 100,000 square foot home in Bel Air, California has four swimming pools, a bowling alley, and a nightclub. For more info about this one of a kind property, contact The Society Group.

Price: $500,000,000
 

Amoro 18k White Gold Colombian Emerald and Diamond Ring 

For the special woman in your life, a perfect gift would be an Amoro 18k White Gold Colombian Emerald and Diamond Ring which includes a Colombian Emerald weighing approximately 4.08 carats, and two baguette cut genuine diamonds weighing approximately 1.01 carats.

Price: $110,000

Diamond Chess Set

For the Chess Player Who Has Everything: A Diamond Chess Set at a very, very expensive price.

Estimated price: $500,000

Ultimate Scooby Do Cell Set of 9 Rare Cells


A great gift for a Scooby Do fan. Some are signed by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera.
Price: $40,000
Set of 10 Paris France Piefort Gold Coins

For the billionaire coin collectors, this gold coin collection might be the best gift. Graded by NGC.

Price: $31,590

Most Stolen Library Book

You can’t do without the most expensive investment book ever (and the most stolen library book), Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor by Seth Klarman, which is currently available for around a thousand dollars.


Babe Ruth Signed Baseball

A great gift for a baseball fan. A Babe Ruth Autographed Baseball, graded MINT 8, PSA/DNA Certified.

Price: $120,266.09

Trillion Dollar Bill

Finally, for the billionaire who wants to become a trillionaire, you can get a genuine $100 trillion dollar bill.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, and Happy Holidays!!!

 

 

 

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Stocks Going Ex Dividend in January 2021

The following is a short list of some of the many stocks going ex dividend during the next month.

Many traders and investors use the stock trading technique called ‘Buying Dividends,’ also commonly referred to as ‘Dividend Capture.’ This is the strategy of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend.

TOP DIVIDEND STOCKS

This technique generally works in bull markets and flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the strategy during bear markets. In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can’t sell the stock until after the ex date.

The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and some with yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, the periodic dividend amount.

Dollar General Corporation (DG) 1/4/2021 0.36 0.68%
Comcast Corporation (CMCSA) 1/5/2021 0.23 1.81%
Mastercard Incorporated (MA) 1/7/2021 0.44 0.52%
WD-40 Company (WDFC) 1/14/2021 0.67 1.01%
Caterpillar, Inc. (CAT) 1/19/2021 1.03 2.28%
Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (LOW) 1/19/2021 0.60 1.47%
Clorox Company (CLX) 1/26/2021 1.11 2.19%
Scholastic Corporation (SCHL) 1/28/2021 0.15 2.47%
Bank Of Montreal (BMO) 1/29/2021 0.815 4.33%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found HERE . (If you have been to the page before, and the latest link doesn’t show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists at WSTNN.com HERE .

Dividend definitions:

Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Record date: the day when you must be on the company’s books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

TOP DIVIDEND STOCKS

Don’t forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written; affiliate links.

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Top Investment & Business Book Gifts

by Fred Fuld III

There are only several more days until Christmas, and you are probably looking for that last minute gift for a relative or a friend. Why not give a present of an investment or business book?

Here are some examples that you may want to consider, broken down by category.

Stock Trading & Investing Books

These books are all about either day trading, swing trading, or investing in stocks.

Beat The Crowd: How You Can Out-Invest The Herd By Thinking Differently
by Ken Fisher

Investment Guide
by Gary Charles Palmer

Unleash Your Investments
by John Hagensen

Stock Traders Almanac
by Jeffrey A. Hirsch
(every stock trader should have this book)

Day Trading Journal
Wall Street News Network

Stock Trading Journal
Wall Street News Network

How to Day Trade for a Living: A Beginners Guide to Trading Tools and Tactics, Money Management
by Andrew Aziz

How to Make Money in Stocks: A Winning System in Good Times and Bad
by William J. O’Neil

Stock Trading: THE BIBLE This Book Includes: The beginners Guide + The Crash Course + The Best Techniques + Tips and Tricks + The Advanced Guide  Immediate Cash With Stock Trading
by Samuel Rees

A Beginner’s Guide To Day Trading Online 2nd Edition
by Toni Turner

The 1 Hour Trade: Make Money With One Simple Strategy, One Hour Daily 
by Brian P Anderson

Investment Trivia
by Fred Fuld III

Trade Like Warren Buffett
by James Altucher
Most people don’t realize that not only is Warren Buffett an investor, but he is also a trader, and a successful one at that.

High-Probability Trade Setups: A Chartists Guide to Real-Time Trading
by Timothy Knight
How to use technical approaches to find the best stock trade setups.

Think & Trade Like a Champion: The Secrets, Rules & Blunt Truths of a Stock Market Wizard
by Mark Minervini
The book covers personal trading rules and the secret techniques that made the author one of America’s most successful stock traders.

Trading in the Zone: Master the Market with Confidence, Discipline, and a Winning Attitude
by Mark Douglas
Learn the reasons for lack of consistency and how to overcome the ingrained mental habits that cost money.

Wall Street News Network Day Trading Journal: Notebook Diary Log for your Stock, ETF, and Option Trades
by Wall Street News Network
A journal with over 100 pages of specially designed fill-in-the-blank pages to track all your stock, ETF, and option trades, whether they are long or short trades. Fields include: Date, Symbol, Company, Transaction Recommended By, Why decision was made to do this transaction, Buy or Short, # of Shares, Price/share, Commission, Subtotal of opening transactions, Total opening transaction, and much more.

Wall Street News Network Stock Trading Journal: Notebook Diary Log for tracking your stocks, options, and ETFs trades
by Wall Street News Network
A logbook for tracking your stock trades and investments, priced at less than $7.

Option Volatility and Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques, 2nd Edition
by Sheldon Natenberg
An extensive guide to trading stock options.

Swing Trading with Options: How to Trade Big Trends for Big Profits
by Ivaylo Ivanov
Using stock momentum to generate profits on options over a three to six month time period.

Penny Stock Trading Journal: Notebook Diary Tracker of Your Penny Stock Transactions
by Borsa Valori
A five star rated book designed for you to keep track of your penny stock trades and transactions.

Warren Buffett Books

Here are his recommended books about himself.

Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values

 

Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders

 

50 Years of Berkshire Hathaway Wall Print
This is actually a wall print poster.

 

Buffet: The Making of an American Capitalist

 

Buffett’s Bites: The Essential Investor’s Guide to Warren Buffett’s Shareholder Letters

Historical Books About Wall Street

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator – first published in 1923
by Edwin Lefevre
This is the classic book on investing, trading, market timing, and crowd psychology, just as true today as it was almost a century ago. It is based on the life of top notorious trader, Jesse Livermore.

My Adventures with Your Money – first published in 1911
by George Graham Rice
About a conman who make money off the early gold mining stock boom.

The PLUNGERS and the PEACOCKS. 150 years of Wall Street – published in 1967
by Dana L. Thomas
Written during the bull market of the 1960s, it provides an entertaining history of the stock market.

Den of Thieves – published in 1991
by James B. Stewart
The “newest” of these old books, it covers the insider trading scandals involving Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, and other Wall Street financiers  during the 1980s.

Storming The Magic Kingdom – published in 1987
by John Taylor
A must read book about the fight for control of one of America’s most famous companies.

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841) by Charles Mackay included as part of Stock Market Trivia Volume 2 (2014)
The Extraordinary Popular Delusions book was written in the mid-1800s. It has many chapters, but most are unrelated to investing, such as alchemy, witches, haunted houses, etc. However, three of the chapters have extensive and entertaining information about three of the largest investment bubbles in history: the Mississippi Scheme, the South Sea Bubble, and the Tulip Mania. These three chapters are included as the last half of the  Stock Market  Trivia Volume 2 book. (In interest of full disclosure, I wrote the Stock Market Trivia 2 book.) In addition, the trivia book includes such things as the chocolate chip cookie/stock market correlation, celebrity stock indices, weird stock certificates, and more.

Books About Investment Scams

Wolf of Wall Street Books

The Wolf of Wall Street
by Jordan Belfort
This is the autobiographical story about the guy who made hundreds of millions of dollars by pumping and dumping low priced and penny stocks. The book is filled with sex and drugs and every other kind of decadence.  A Martin Scorsese movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio was made from this story. Be forewarned: the chapter that took place in the hospital gave me nightmares for a couple weeks.

Catching the Wolf of Wall Street: More Incredible True Stories of Fortunes, Schemes, Parties, and Prison
by Jordan Belfort
This is the followup to the previous book. What happens when Belfort is arrested, how a case was built against him, and what happens after prison.

Bernie Madoff Books

No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller
by Harry Markopolos
A New York Times bestseller about how Markopolos uncovered Madoff’s scam.

The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust
by Diana B. Henriques
All about how Madoff pulled off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history. Over 130 five star ratings on Amazon.

The End of Normal: A Wife’s Anguish, A Widow’s New Life
by Stephanie Madoff Mack
An inside look at the Madoff family written by the widow of Mark Madoff and the daughter-in-law of Bernard Madoff.Over 200 five star ratings.

Betrayal: The Life and Lies of Bernie Madoff
by Andrew Kirtzman
An in-depth look at Madoff and his victims.

Elizabeth Holmes & Theranos Books

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by John Carreyrou
Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, The New York Times Book Review, Time, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. An in-depth look at Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes. Over 2,600 five star ratings.

Billion Dollar Facade: The Rise And Fall Of Theranos And Elizabeth Holmes
by Phil C. Senior
Short 140 page summary of the Theranos scam.

Other Books about Scams

Scam Me If You Can: Simple Strategies to Outsmart Today’s Rip-off Artists
by Frank W. Abagnale
Abagnale was the guy who wrote the book on scamming, Catch Me If You Can, which was made into a major motion picture.

How to Smell a Rat: The Five Signs of Financial Fraud
by Ken Fisher
How investment fraudsters operate and how to avoid them. Written my billionaire money manager and former long time Forbes columnist Ken Fisher.

Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
by Tom Wright & Bradley Hope
Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, it is about the man who swindles $5 billion with the help of Goldman Sachs.

Real Estate Investing

The following are some recent top selling books on real estate investing, shown by category.

Rental Property Investing
by Charles Pennyfeather

Real Estate Investment
by Lee Strong

Preparing for a Property Upturn: Trends and Pitfalls in Real Estate Investments
by Ku Swee Yong

Keep Claiming It!: A Guide To Property Depreciation
by Tyron Hyde

Real Estate Investment 101: Learn The Passive Income That Everyone Is Talking About
by Meir Zaslavskiy

Real Estate Investing UNCENSORED: Real Answers From The Flipping Coach
by Delinda Harrelson

Success Secrets of Real Estate Investors
by Peter Crisp

How To Jump Into Property Investing: Without Being Eaten By Sharks
by Mike Harvey

Real Estate Trivia
by Fred Fuld III

Business Books

Strategize to Win
By Carla A. Harris
A Wall Street veteran offers proven strategies for success.

The Pocket Small Business Owner’s Guide to Building Your Business
By Kevin Devine
Each step of the entrepreneur’s journey.

Boost Your Career
By Sander Flaum and Mechele Flaum
How to climb the corporate ladder.

The Serving Mindset
By Farnoosh Brock
Practical guide to making sales pitches.

The 7 Principles of Public Speaking
By Richard Zeoli
Improve your communication skills.

10-Minute Focus
By Daniel Walter
Guide to maintaining your focus and maximizing productivity.

Chasing the High
By Michael G. Dash
How to manage the highs and lows of business.

Getting to Yes
By Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton
Master the art of win-win agreements.

Your Living Trust & Estate Plan
By Harvey J. Platt
Tips on creating a living trust, will, and estate plan.

Happy Reading! Merry Christmas! Happy Hanukkah! Happy Holidays! Happy New Year!

Disclosure: A few of the above books were written by me.

 

 

 

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Top Six Long Term Earnings Growth Stocks

by Fred Fuld III

It seems that some stocks, especially IPOs and former SPACs, have been trading at nosebleed levels with no earnings whatsoever. At some point, investors will start to concentrate on the fundamentals.

One area that long term investors look at is the earnings per share growth over the last five years. Often, the estimated earnings per share over the next five years is examined.

Surprisingly, there are actually over 50 stock with both historical and projected earnings growth rates over five years of 25%. If we narrow it down to just the stocks with a price to earnings ratio of less than 20, we come up with six companies in a diverse group of industries.

BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN) is a biotechnology company with a P/E ratio of 19.65.

Meritor (MTOR) is in the commercial vehicle parts business and trades at 8.93 times earnings.

Parke Bancorp (PKBK) is a regional bank that sports a P/E ratio of 6.98.

Supernous Pharmaceuticals (SUPN) is a drug developer and manufacturer, trading at 9.01 times earnings.

Tronox Holdings (TROX), in the chemical and titanium mining industry, has a very low P/E of 2.09.

United States Cellular (USM) trades at 11.38.

All of the above have market caps over $1 billion, except Parke Bancorp, which has a market cap of $197 million.

Disclosure: Author didn’t own any of the above at the time the article was written.

Longevity Stocks

by Fred Fuld III

We are getting close to a new year, a time when any people establish a resolution to improve their health. Who doesn’t want to live longer and healthier? The wealthy are certainly on board. Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft (MSFT) created the Allen Institute for Cell Science to develop treatments for diseases related to aging. Peter Thiel, PayPal (PYPL) co-founder, has donated money to the SENS Research Foundation, a longevity organization. Adam Neumann, the CEO of WeWork, has invested in the anti-aging company Life Biosciences.

There are several companies working on helping you achieve a greater longevity, which are involved in targeting human aging and degenerative diseases. Here are several that are close to longevity pure plays.

Lineage Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (LCTX) develops and markets therapies for the treatment of Various degenerative diseases including age-related macular degeneration, acute spinal cord injuries, non-small cell lung cancer, and various other diseases and disorders. The stock has a market cap of $262 million and has been generating negative earnings. It has $30.7 million in total cash and $3.9 million in long term debt.

Unity Biotechnology, Inc. (UBX), is a biotechnology company involved in the research and development of therapeutics to extend human life and health. The company’s lead drug candidates include treatments for musculoskeletal/ osteoarthritis disease, moderate-to-severe osteoarthritis of the knee, diabetic macular edema, and ophthalmologic diseases. The stock has a market cap of $327 million and has been generating negative earnings. It has $1277 million in total cash and $13 million in long term deferred liabilities.

Cohbar (CWBR) is a clinical stage biotechnology company which concentrates  on the research and development of mitochondria based therapeutics, an emerging class of drugs for the treatment of chronic and age-related diseases. CohBars therapeutics offer the potential to treat a broad range of diseases, including nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, obesity, fibrotic diseases, cancer, acute respiratory distress syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. The company is even in a pre-clinical program for COVID-19 associated ARDS. This  Menlo Park, California based company was founded in 2007. The stock has a market cap of $74 million and has been generating negative earnings. It has $12 million in total cash and long term debt of $3 million.

AgeX Therapeutics, Inc. (AGE) is an Alameda, California based biotechnology company founded in 2017, with a great stock ticker symbol.The company develops and commercializes novel therapeutics targeting human aging. The company’s two major proprietary technologies are PureStem® and induced Tissue Regeneration (iTR™). PureStem® can generate pluripotent stem cell-derived young cells of any type for potential application in a range of degenerative diseases of aging with a high unmet medical need. iTR™ is the company’s longevity platform with a goal of unlocking cellular immortality and regenerative capacity to reverse age-related changes in the body. The stock has a market cap of $64 million and has been generating negative earnings. It has $2 million in total cash and $1.5 million in long term debt.

Adicet Bio, Inc. (ACET), has merged with resTORbio, Inc., a Boston, Massachusetts based company founded in 2016, which is involved in developing innovative medicines that target aging to prevent or treat aging-related diseases. The company’s lead clinical program is selectively targeting TORC1, an evolutionarily conserved pathway that contributes to the age-related decline in function of multiple organ systems, including neurologic function. Adicet Bio develops allogeneic gamma delta T cell therapies for cancer and other diseases. The stock has a market cap of $247 million and has been generating negative earnings. It has $5.49 cash per share and no long term debt.

If you are looking for a more diversified way of investing in this arena, there is the Global X Longevity Thematic ETF (LNGR), an exchange traded fund with investments in companies that facilitate the trend of longer average life spans and the aging of the population.

There is also the ARK Genomic Revolution ETF (ARKG), which invests in companies involved in genomics.

Please be aware that the mentioned stocks are extremely low cap stocks and should be considered very speculative.

Disclosure: Author didn’t own any of the above at the time the article was written.

 

From the Foster House to the White House – Book Review

by Fred Fuld III

What do you think eventually happens to a child who is born to a mother addicted to crack, no father around, shuffled to numerous foster homes, beaten, abused, and starved? Does he end up in jail? In a gang? Dead?

Wrong! He ends up becoming an extremely successful entrepreneur, comedian, and Internet star, with over three million Facebook followers, over one million Twitter followers, and more than half a million Instagram followers.

Terrence K. Williams is that example of success. His autobiography, From the Foster House to the White House, is the story about how he persevered through all the roadblocks that the average person couldn’t even imagine.

He turned his challenges into lessons and inspirations to succeed. He became an independent thinker, developing his own thoughts, and speaking his own mind.

This is an inspirational book that shows you that the American Dream is possible, no matter how bad your obstacles were growing up. I highly recommend that you read From the Foster House to the White House and give it as a gift to someone who needs inspiration.

 

 

 

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Is It Time for Gold Stocks to Move Up?

by Fred Fuld III

Over the last three months, stocks have been going up, bitcoin has been going up, but gold and gold mining stocks have been dropping in price.

This is in spite of the fact that gold is considered a safe haven, interest rates are very low, the dollar is weak, and the economy will experience eventual increasing inflation.

Not only that, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A) (BRK-B) bought Barrick Gold (GOLD) earlier this year.

So it it time for gold and the gold mining stocks to start moving up?

The following is a group of gold stocks that are down over 10% for the latest quarter, have a trailing price to earnings ratio of less than 20, and a forward P/E ratio of less than 20.

AngloGold (AU)

Caledonia Mining (CMCL)

Galiano Gold (GAU)

Barrick Gold (GOLD)

Disclosure: Author didn’t own any of the above at the time the article was written.

Looking for a Last Minute Gift? Get The Maxim’s of Wall Street

by Fred Fuld III

How would you like to give your friends and relatives some great investment advice as a gift? The advice would come from such famous investment professionals as:

  • Warren Buffett
  • Peter Lynch
  • Bill Gates
  • Sir John Templeton
  • Sir Harry Schultz
  • J.P. Morgan
  • Benjamin Graham

Well now you can. The book, The Maxims of Wall Street, is packed with great quotations about investing, business, the stock market, and the economy. The book was compiled by Dr. Mark Skousen, publisher of the very popular Forecasts & Strategies investment newsletter. (On a side note, I have been a subscriber for many, many years.)

Although the book can be found on Amazon, it is an older version and may be sold out.

However, you can order The Maxims of Wall Street directly from Skousen Books and get the new 10th Anniversary Edition by going to the following site.

https://skousenbooks.com

If you don’t have this book on your bookshelf, then you may also want to get this as a gift for yourself.

Happy investing!

 

 

 

 

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