Mentorship accelerates growth in both directions. Seek guidance from those further along the path and offer support to those just beginning. Knowledge multiplies when shared freely and generously.🔒
Strength includes the ability to ask for help. Independence is valuable, but isolation is not. Knowing when to lean on others is wisdom, not weakness. Build a support system and use it. Interdependence is a higher form of strength.🥩
Warren Buffett, the greatest investor ever, once dropped this wisdom:
"Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful."
He built one of the biggest funds out there and raked in over $145 billion.
We should really learn from this guy!!
Stock market was wild today. Here’s the rundown:
1. Semis fell 2.5% on China supply-chain news and AI financing worries. China’s making its own DUV lithography machines, while Nvidia backed OpenAI’s $250B data center— adding to AI circularity concerns.
2. Palantir’s C
Micron $MU has been the top stock in the NASDAQ 100 over the past 5 years.
If you put $10K into Micron 5 years ago and held on, you'd have
$121.3K now 🟢
Carry trades are having their strongest year in decades:
An emerging-market carry strategy, borrowing in euros to invest in higher-yielding currencies such as the Brazilian real, Colombian peso, and Turkish lira, is up +18% year-to-date, its strongest start to a year since 20
Before I jump into a new trade, I always run through this total return checklist real quick. Keeps my head straight and my losses small. 📋✅ Don't skip the boring prep work.
Most investors obsess over picking the right stocks, but the real priority is boosting their income to invest more. 💸 Focus on earning, not just choosing.
Top S&P 500 winners from the last 10 years:
Nvidia +16,602% 🟢
AMD +10,113%
Micron +7,704%
Comfort Systems +5,263%
Lam Research +4,135%
Arista Networks +3,921%
Seagate +3,313%
KLA Corp +3,149%
Lumentum +2,980%
Quanta Systems +2,784%
Tesla +2,626%
Marvell +2,474%
Big news: The Strategic Petroleum Reserve dropped another 5.5 million barrels last week to just 326 million—lowest since May 1983.
That's 13 weeks in a row of decline, the longest stretch since 2021-2023.
Overall, the SPR has lost 89 million barrels. That's over half of