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Here’s a pop quiz for you: In what year did Tesla shoot up nearly 4X, as shown in this chart? Q3 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more I know, it looks like Covid’s meteoric rally, but the correct answer is 2013. A year after Tesla rolled out its first electric sedan, Tesla S, its stock […]

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I don’t believe in edge. I think it’s a fairy tale. The world is too competitive. Going back to AI, investing is where chess was in 1996, when there was an enormous race between human grandmasters and algorithms, and Deep Blue started to beat Garry Kasparov by using brute compute force. Q3 2020 hedge fund […]

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Whitney Tilson’s email to investors discussing individual-investor boom reshapes U.S. stock market; Hertz’s unwarranted rise; Robinhood users say accounts were looted, no one to call; no, Robinhood traders aren’t affecting the stock market; coolest things I learned in 2019. Q3 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Individual-Investor Boom Reshapes U.S. Stock Market 1) I […]

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COVID-19’s exposure of the limitations of current credit and default models is not news to many. Forecasters continue to struggle with developing methodologies to link a new economic paradigm with existing models that cannot easily be trained on double-digital unemployment rates and more than four million mortgage loans in forbearance. Traditional models are no longer […]

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Commenting on Pelosi announcing a 48-hour deadline to reach a stimulus deal and today’s trading Gorilla Trades strategist Ken Berman said: Q3 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more Nancy Pelosi Announces A 48-Hour Deadline To Reach A Deal The major indices are all trading slightly lower at midday despite a bullish start to the […]

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Just like the legend of a bow-and-arrow toting, Sherwood Forest-dwelling vigilante, Menlo Park, Calif.-based Robinhood set out to bring that sentiment to the retail investing set with a brokerage app. Q3 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more The company was founded in April 2013 by Vladimir Tenev and Baiju Bhatt, who had previously built […]

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With an increase in development in technology, communication, and financial information, money is moving around the world faster than ever. This is why the task of combating money-laundering is more urgent now than ever before. A number of developments in the international financial system in recent decades have made the three F’s (Finding, Freezing, and […]

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Most stock valuation chatter on the internet focuses on companies with great growth opportunities like Zoom, Wayfair and Peloton or well known companies whose stocks have outperformed like Apple and Amazon. Here we take a look at the other side of the coin and present a valuation of Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM). Needless to say, […]

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My friend who’s a novice investor asked for advice recently. He was “bargain hunting” for cheap stocks, and trying to decide between buying Kohl’s (KSS) or ExxonMobil (XOM). Q3 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more I cringed. “Listen,” I told him. “You’re thinking about this all wrong.” I get where my friend is coming from. From childhood […]

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