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In today’s video Marcello talks about dividend investing. One topic he hasn’t talked much about before since he had had to adapt his way of trading to his way of living. Traveling constantly and not being able to have a good internet connection or any internet connection at all made Marcello develop his own style of trading. Marcello has been swing trading for the last years in order to have all the trading centers running. Remember that Marcello is not a trading […]
Today we’re gonna be talking about real estate investing vs trading. It’s important to be able to talk about this because what happens is everybody talks about the money that you can make when things are great but nobody talks about what happens when things are not great. That’s one of the most important reasons why we choose trading. Both, real estate and trading, are industries where you can make a lot of money, but if you don’t do the right thing, […]
In the recap of this week, we found that U.S. stocks end higher, as investors calculate the U.S. government $2.2 trillion rescue package will help businesses keep employees. Also as it seems the major global oil producers will agree to reduce output in the coming months. This agreement is important because oversupply is further undoing the oil market’s structure, & there may be more trouble to come as the world quickly runs out of storage capacity. The collapse in demand has shut […]
The recap of this week was marked by the coronavirus and its consequences in the global economy. After one entire week of work, The US House on Friday passed the expected historic $2T coronavirus relief package. Last week there were 238,000 claims for unemployment in the US, this week the number spiked to 3.28 million when the estimate was for around 1 million. Indicates there are far more people losing their jobs than originally thought. U.S. stocks end lower Friday, after exiting […]
Today we are going to talk about why trading is still the best job in the world. Just look at the times that we’re in right now, a time where you had a job but you couldn’t get paid for it, a time where your business is not giving you money, a time where you’re stuck in your house because of a pandemic, a time where you have lost your freedom and your lifestyle. It is precisely at times like this that […]
This week we experienced the worst stock crash in history, U.S. stock index futures plunged lower early Monday morning, in the face of the rapidly spreading corona-virus & the Federal Reserve Bank announcement of an interest rate cut down to “0”, both events panicking some investors. Dow plunged over 1,000 points. Bitcoin was at $5,868.00 last Friday evening, then moves lower again early Monday morning to 4,894.97, on 03/16/2020, for a weekend market loss of -19.87%. The gains for the year are […]
In this week’s recap, markets are living the most chaotic week in history. U.S. stocks plunged on Wednesday, with the Dow confirming a bear market for the 1st time since the financial crisis, after the World Health Organization called the corona-virus outbreak a pandemic. The S&P 500 is also approaching a 20% loss, as the domestic & global economy takes a hit. European stocks had their worst day in history Thursday with Germany’s DAX & France’s CAC 40 both plunged over 12%. […]
In the recap of this week, coronavirus is again the main topic. U.S. stocks rebounding somewhat on Monday morning, reducing losses from last week’s coronavirus-linked hit. Markets coming off their worst week since the financial crisis. The Dow recorded its worst 1-day point drop in history. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread globally & the death toll mounts, it is now being stated that the majority of corona-virus deaths being reported are outside of China, for 1st time since the outbreak […]
Today I wanted to share a presentation that we did in the seminar that we had a few weeks ago. This was the saturday before the gigantic crash in the markets and I wanted to share this with you because I think in this industry most people only share all the winners and all the money that they supposedly make, and this is actually a situation where I have two very big loses, it’s $47,555 dollars in losses. I wanted to share […]
In the recap of this week, the Coronavirus is the main topic. The pandemic fears have wiped out $3.4 trillion from the U.S. S&P 500, in just 6 trading days going from record highs to a correction as of yesterday. And more losses are coming today. U.S. stocks are having their worst week since the 2008 financial crisis. That’s the fastest such movement in over 70 years. U.S. Treasury Yields hitting new record lows Friday as investors look for safety. Panic grows […]