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What is the Piotroski Score? It is a method of ranking the financial strength of a company
Using 9 questions, you can quickly determine the financial strength of Google or many others. Source: The Investing for Beginners Podcast
“Often times, the ones that are successful loved what they did so they could persevere when it got really tough”
- Steve Jobs
The biggest success of ETF launches in history?
iShares Spot Bitcoin ETF $IBIT ended up with 414 reported holders in its first 13F season, which is mind boggling, blows away record. Even having 20 holders as a newborn is highly rare. Here's a look at how the BTC ETFs compare to other ETFs launched in Jan (aka the Class of 2024) in this metric. Source: Eric Balchunas, Bloomberg Intelligence Who must file Form 13F? (sec.org) A: Institutional investment managers that use the United States mail (or other means or instrumentality of interstate commerce) in the course of their business and that exercise investment discretion over $100 million or more in Section 13(f) securities must file Form 13F
Michael Burry is back! This time he’s loading up on $10 million worth of physical gold $PHYS
Source: Barchart, CNBC
BREAKING: The S&P 500 has just hit its 23rd all time high this year and is now up 29% since October 2023
This means that the S&P 500 has officially added $10 TRILLION in market cap since its October 2023 low. The index is now up 11.5% in 2024 even as a total of four interest rate cuts have been priced-out since January. We are on track to see the most all time highs in a year since 2021. Over the last 12 years, the S&P 500 has hit 370 all-time highs, which is more than any 12-year period in history. $SPX Source: Charlie Bilello, The Kobeissi Letter
A new study by the University of Arkansas pitted 151 humans against ChatGPT-4 in three tests designed to measure divergent thinking, which is considered to be an indicator of creative thought
Not a single human won. Source: Jeremiah Owyang
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