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AMAZON CEO SAYS HIS COMPANY “WILL GO BANKRUPT”
December, 1st 2020
Jeff Bezos just shocked Amazon investors to the core with this bold prediction:
“I predict one day, Amazon will fail.”
In a recent interview, Bezos explained that he believes “Amazon will be disrupted one day” and eventually “will go bankrupt.”
What might be even more alarming is that Bezos has been dumping roughly $1 billion worth of Amazon stock every year…
But Bezos isn’t just cashing out, he’s reinvesting his money into a fast-emerging technology that he believes will “improve every business.”
What most people don’t know… is that there is a tiny component powering this tech revolution… a component that Amazon doesn’t produce in-house.
That’s because another company (less than 1/6th the size of Amazon)…is producing a component so powerful that it is absolutely annihilating the competition.
He’s not alone in seeing it this way…
A Shark Tank billionaire says it will create the world’s first
trillionaire
Elon Musk is contributing to a $1 billion investment in this technology
Even super-investor Warren Buffett says that it’s “
enormously disruptive
” and will have a "hugely beneficial social effect”
So what is it about this technology that has some of the most successful investors in the world pouring fortunes into it?
They see it as a massive investing opportunity – much bigger than Amazon, Tesla, and Berkshire Hathaway combined.
You see, even though these billionaires have been openly talking about this technology to anyone who will listen, most ordinary Americans still don’t know about this remarkable opportunity!
Namely, some market researchers believe this technology could potentially be worth up to $19 TRILLION!
With numbers like that, and with so many of the richest investors and entrepreneurs in the world racing to get in on this new technology… you can see why paying attention could really pay off.
But we believe the biggest returns are yet to come.
Which is why I don’t feel like I’m very far out on a limb with this “bold” prediction:
Five years from now, you’ll probably wish you’d bought this stock.
And the good news is that you can find out all about this company and this incredible technology today.
What I’ve told you so far is just the tip of the iceberg...
So, to help regular Americans like you understand how to take advantage of this emerging trend, The Motley Fool’s team of investment analysts has laid out the full story on this incredible tech trend in a brand-new, FREE report.
And trust me… you are going to want to see this report before you invest $1 on any tech company.
You see, we’ve laid out the full story on this “powerful trend” in an exclusive report – but you’ll need to act quickly…
Because according to our analysts, this next-gen tech revolution looks like it’s about to take off, and I think you’ll want to get in on this before that happens.
This technology could hit the mainstream at any time. Do you know which stock we're talking about?
BEGINNERS GUIDE
November, 28th 2020
Online Stock Trading 101: A Beginner’s GuideLearn the Basics of Online Trading
Before you get started with any type of investment, it is always important to educate yourself. We hope to help you with some of the basics of investing. Such as how to choose the best trading apps, understanding the types of stock trades you can start with, how to select the right investment opportunities for you, uncovering hidden costs, and more.
1. How to Choose the Best Stock App
There are many stock apps to choose from online, and each offer something a bit different. When making your decision, it’s important to consider any underlying fees, trading platforms, account types, investment opportunities, and customer service. If you haven’t already landed on your ideal app, you can find our online trading apps review above. This will be your first step to finding the right share trading app.
2. Avoid Expenses That Can Cut Profits
The key to successful online stock trading is minimizing your expenses. Hidden expenses can typically be found in the form of commissions and fees. You’ll definitely want to accustom yourself to the average investment and brokerage fees in order to steer clear of excessive costs. And while the best stock trading app isn’t always free, you may find it more than worth the investment – if you budget accordingly.
3. Understanding the types of Stock Trade
When you start with trading online, know that there are thirteen different types of trades available. They include market orders, limit order, day orders, stop-loss orders, trailing stops, and more. For more information on the types of stock trading and to find our educational guides visit our education center. But don’t worry: most investment trading apps will help steer you through the different trades you can make.
4. Trading Stock Strategy Guide
Now that you’ve touched on the basics of stock trading, you can get into more specific and distinct ways you can make money. This Financial Markets Trading Guide is an excellent source for all levels of traders. You’ll learn financial terms every investor should know, gain access to our webinars, a calendar of upcoming financial events, plus access to our FREE trading guide eBooks
ROBINHOOD GROWTH STOCKS THAT'LL MAKE YOU RICHER IN 2021
January, 23rd 2021
Young investors have every right to be excited about these fast-growing companies. Sean Williams (TMFUltraLong)Jan 23, 2021 at 5:51AMAuthor Bio
Last year, numerous stock market records were broken. Investors navigated the sharpest bear market downturn in history and reveled in the quickest bounce-back rally to new highs of all time.
It was also a period that saw millennial investors flood into the market. Online investing app Robinhood, which is known for its commission-free trades and gifting of free shares of stock to new users, gained approximately 3 million new users in 2020. Since the average age of Robinhood's user base is only 31, many of these new users are likely millennial or novice investors.
If there's one thing young investors love, it's growth stocks. Robinhood's leaderboard of the 100 most held stocks on the platform is packed with growth stocks from a variety of sectors and industries.
However, not all fast-growing companies are built the same. If you're looking to get richer in 2021, the following four Robinhood growth stocks can help you achieve your goal.
BITCOIN HITS $1 TRILLION IN MARKET VALUE AS CRYPTOCURRENCY SURGE CONTINUES
February 19th, 2021
The price of bitcoin crossed another major milestone Friday, as the cryptocurrency's market value surpassed $1 trillion, according to Coindesk.
The digital currency was trading at just under $54,000 per coin Friday as it hit the new level, and rose above $55,000 later in the session for a daily gain of more than 6%, according to Coin Metrics. The price of bitcoin has now gained about 360% over the past six months. Before the recent surge, the digital asset has never traded above $20,000.
The move has been fueled in part by increased adoption of bitcoin by major investors and companies. The oldest bank in the United States, the Bank of New York Mellon, announced earlier this month that it was moving into the space. Elon Musk's Tesla converted some of its balance sheet cash into bitcoin earlier this year and said it would start accepting the digital tokens as payment.
Bitcoin "has started to get so big that it arguably creates its own demand as companies and institutions begin to make forays into a field they wouldn't have touched a few months previously," Deutsche Bank research strategist Jim Reid said in a note. "Ironically it is turning itself into a credible asset class to many by rallying so much of late and also by getting increasing institutional buy-in."
Market value is calculated by multiplying the price of bitcoin by the number created. While not a perfect comparison, the $1 trillion market value would make bitcoin's value greater than all but a handful of the world's stocks. Tesla, for instance, has a market cap of around $700 billion, while Apple is valued at more than $2 trillion.
Pro-bitcoin investors and entrepreneurs celebrated the milestone on social media.
"From white paper to $1 Trillion. #Bitcoin is eating gold alive," Gemini's Cameron Winklevoss said on Twitter...
BITCOIN CORPORATE BALANCE SHEET WATCH MONTHLY UPDATE: FEBRUARY
January 15, 2025
Throughout February, corporations announced massive bitcoin buys in a series of increasingly bullish speculative attacks on the dollar. What started out as a slow trickle of institutional investment pouring into the bitcoin market is developing into a steady stream that will, in time, turn into an all out flood. Let the game theory commence!
Prior to 2020, institutional and corporate interest in bitcoin was rather inconsequential. Though it started as a grassroots phenomenon, led mostly by “retail'' for the first 11 years of its history, the rubicon was definitely crossed for bitcoin in 2020 with the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic recession brought about record levels of monetary expansion globally. As a result, institutional and corporate interest in bitcoin as a monetary asset has exploded. While investors like Paul Tudor Jones, Stanley Druckenmiller and others have come out as bullish on bitcoin, publicly-traded companies that have turned to BTC will be the focus of this article.
THE FIRST DOMINO: THE SAYLOR EFFECT
On August 11, 2020, Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, fired a shot heard across the Bitcoin industry and the legacy financial system. He announced that his company had shifted its treasury reserve strategy to a Bitcoin standard (you can find the original press release here).
“We just had the awful realization that we were sitting on top of a $500 million ice cube that’s melting. This is not a speculation, nor is it a hedge” said Saylor. “This was a deliberate corporate strategy to adopt a bitcoin standard.” Following the move in August, Saylor spent the following months seemingly taking up nearly every interview and podcast invite that was thrown his way to describe his company’s decision. In January 2021, Saylor announced that MicroStrategy was conducting an online seminar open for all to attend, “Bitcoin for Corporations,” during which his team open-sourced its thesis and playbook so that other corporations could follow in its footsteps.
The result: An explosion in the price and interest in bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset. Bitcoin opened 2021 at a price of $29,150, and, at the time of this writing, it is trading at $47,900.
Here are the other institutional bitcoin adoption highlights from February:
This move by Tesla and CEO Elon Musk was massive for the acceptance of bitcoin as a hedge against fiat debasement, and indirectly gave every S&P 500 investor partial bitcoin exposure — a mark in the sand for bitcoin in public markets with an endorsement by the world's largest automaker by market cap, led by (at the time) the world's richest man.
Saylor continued to show his cards to the rest of the world by executing another speculative attack on the dollar at 0 percent interest.
February 23: Square (SQ) Purchases 3,318 BTC For $170 Million Of Bitcoin, Putting Its Stack At A Total Of 8,027 BTC.
Outspoken Bitcoin proponent and Square CEO Jack Dorsey doubled down on his BTC bet, upping Square’s stake to about 5 percent of its liquid cash.
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