GameStop – What to Do as a Rational Self-Directed Investor?

GameStop - What to Do as a Rational Self- Directed Investor?

Here at the Trade Exchange, last week’s events confirmed both our mission to support self-directed investors and the way we are doing it. We all know self-directed investing is here to stay. Major online brokerages – Robinhood as well as TD Ameritrade, E*Trade, Schwab and Interactive Brokers have been adding hundreds of thousands of accounts, month after month.

All self-directed investors are looking for ideas. As of this morning, the subreddit r/wallstreetbets is up to 8 million members! But within such a community, who should you follow? What’s their track record? When they recommend “the next hot company,” at what price should you buy? When should you get out?

Trade Exchange demystifies all of this. We are harnessing technology to connect self-directed investors with expert stock pickers. Download our app in the App Store or Google Play below:

What can you do with the Trade Exchange that you cannot elsewhere?

  • Follow a wide range of investment experts: we have sector experts, technical, fundamental and macroeconomic analysts, swing traders, contrarians and more. Follow professionals with unique domain expertise or choose others that share your investment philosophy. Build your own all-star team!
  • Verify performance: every one of our experts’ trades – what they bought, the entry and exit prices, and how much – are tracked in our systems as they happen. See everything they’ve recommended in the past – winners and losers! No detail is left out.
  • Real-time notification: when an expert generates an idea, you receive a text notification on your phone immediately. You are notified the moment an expert adjusts a price target, so you can follow their recommendation. In this market, speed matters.
  • Execute trades immediately: once you unveil the idea, you can execute the trade in your linked brokerage account without leaving our app. The order ticket is prefilled with the ticker and recommended limit order price. Just specify the number of shares to enter the trade and receive the alerts on exactly when to exit.
  • We only win when you win: you pay $29 for most ideas. If the idea is closed at a loss, you receive a free idea credit.

Compare the Trade Exchange experience to investment ideas on social media or on investment newsletters/blogs:

Social Media

  • People you don't know
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  • No performance tracking
  • You need to find updates
  • Cannot follow trade in real time
  • Log in separately to trade

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  • Follow trade in real time
  • Trade in linked brokerage acct

Newsletters/Blogs

  • One / few experts
  • Monthly or annual subscription
  • No subscription refund if you lose $
  • Some trade detail
  • Self-verified performance
  • Cannot follow trade in real time
  • Log in separately to trade

With all of today’s market turbulence, don’t we all want some expert perspective?

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Top Trades – Late December

Top Trade Update - Late December

Our experts have booked many more top trades over the past few weeks. Here are a few more examples, by different experts and across a range of industries. You can follow each of them, as well as others, all here on the Trade Exchange! Every trade from each of our partners is tracked and verifiable using our patented analytics.

To each of you – early adopters of the Trade Exchange app and stock experts already publishing ideas on the Trade Exchange – THANK YOU! And have a wonderful, restful holiday season and a safe and prosperous 2021!

MARA: +68% in 2.5 weeks – Turbo Trading

Bob Knight of Turbo Trading is a master of finding buying opportunities in hot sectors. “MARA is in a strong rising crypto sector. Cryptocurrencies are on everyone’s lips, as the hype has started. Longer term, it may be vulnerable to a pullback. But when Bitcoin runs, look for MARA to ride along.”

HBM: +66% in 3 months – Cara Biotech & Metals

Bill Cara has been trading mining stocks for over 50 years, spending hundreds of hours with mining executives in visiting dozens of mines in person. He has followed Hudbay (HBM) for decades, is intimately familiar with the company’s financials and knows that the executive team consists of hardworking, conservative businesspeople. As a Canadian mining company operating primarily in Tier 1 jurisdictions, Bill was confident HBM presented an early opportunity for him to pursue cyclical price increases in the mining sector. Having bought in September at $4.34, Bill chose to book profits recently. He’s keeping his eyes open for opportunities to re-enter trades in HBM and other mining names, so stay tuned!

APPS: +40% in 2.5 weeks – Alpha Insights

Digital Turbine (APPS) hit a new all-time high in November and showed up in Jeffrey Huge’s screens. One of Jeffrey’s mentors used to say – “in price, there is knowledge” – informed buyers are acting on underlying business fundamentals to drive prices upward. APPS’s new all-time and monthly closing highs enabled Jeffrey to anticipate a measured price increase. He entered the trade to capitalize on that initial upside potential. Once APPS’s price entered the target zone in less than 3 weeks, he tightened his stop-loss provision and closed the position.

LMND: +39% in 5 days – LaDuc Trading

LaDuc Trading’s ‘Dolphin Plays’ and ‘Whale of a Trend’ strategies identify sustainable medium to long-term trends using institutional sponsorship, price behavior, market option structure and pattern recognition to support pre-determined entry and exit points. Samantha LaDuc noticed that Softbank was buying LMND, even when they were cutting exposure in names like AMZN, GOOG, TSLA. She then stalked for a low-risk entry, which emerged on December 2 when LMND tagged two levels of support near $62 (trendline and 100 day moving average) but closed strong. She was able to been a 39% profit just 5 days later! She looks forward to helping her followers capitalize on similar opportunities when the next “fat pitches” appear.

DISCLAIMER: While these ideas (dates, times and purchase/sale prices for entry and exits) have been documented within Trade Exchange’s system, these are examples of past performance and not an indicator or promise of future performance. Individuals who follow experts featured on the Trade Exchange assume all risks and take full responsibility for unveiling and following ideas, whether they execute trades in their linked brokerage account through the Trade Exchange app or in their brokerage accounts that are not linked via the Trade Exchange app. Trade Exchange strongly encourages everyone to review all the trades posted by a partner, as many lose money. All results –  including entry and exit prices – are available for review.

Trade Exchange Partner Series – Rick’s Picks

Rick Ackerman – Founder and CEO of Rick’s Picks LLC, joins us for Episode 5 of the Trade Exchange Partner Series with Layah Heilpern. Rick talks about how he delivers immediately actionable ideas on the Trade Exchange platform, allowing even the busiest of investors to follow his stock picks.

Top Trades Update – December

Top Trade Update - mid-December

There have been a number of great trades on the Trade Exchange platform recently. Thanks to our expert partners sharing their trading ideas and congratulations to everyone who followed these trades! The specifics – what to buy, at what price, how much, when to get out – of every idea are tracked and verifiable using our patented analytics. Reading through these, you will realize that experts on Trade Exchange have vastly different approaches and experience bases. It is only on the Trade Exchange that you can follow all of them and benefit from their wealth of knowledge. Here are just a few top trades:

ALTM: +117% in 2 weeks – Bull & Bear Trading

It’s relatively easy to spot activity, but experience and research are critical to determine the appropriate action. Terry Donahue, Bull & Bear: “Full time traders like me spend hours daily on the lookout for trading opportunities. In one of my trade room subscriptions, several traders were having difficulty with an ALTM short sale – it had run from $10 to $17. The less-experienced traders had not done their due diligence and were just rolling the dice on shorting stocks that were up a lot that day. My research indicated that with a $6 cash dividend, ALTM was actually still a long trade with considerable profit potential! It rocketed from $18 to $30 within 4 hours, and within two weeks I took profits at $38.70.”

CVAC: +109% in 2 months – Bill Cara Biotech & Metals

Successful investing requires both homework to identify high-quality companies and waiting for the market to present opportunities. Bill Cara: “CureVac was the first company the US government approached to make a COVID-19 vaccine, offering $1 billion before any trials. But Germany declared the company a national security interest and gave them $300 million to start clinical trials. Rather than a chemical modification of RNA, CureVac’s non-chemically modified mRNA method is designed to address more variations of coronavirus, including the most prevalent D614G mutation of SARS-CoV-2. The company’s RNA Printer™ could produce several grams of LNP-formulated mRNA (enough to produce more than 100,000 doses), within just a few weeks at various sites like hospital pharmacies, vastly improving logistics.”

VERI: +79% in 3 days – Turbo Trading

In times of market instability companies demonstrating price resilience in growing sectors can offer profit potential. Veritone is a leading provider of machine learning tools that transform audio, video and other data sources into actionable intelligence. Bob Knight, Turbo Trading: “The stock is at break out level with a strong rising trend.  The AI technology sector is strong and the next leg of the bull market is underway.  Stocks like VERI that stay strong in market pullbacks can make impressive moves.“

KODK: +67% in 3 days – Rick’s Picks

Experienced traders are on the lookout for proven patterns that can emerge, even with long-established names. Rick Ackerman of Rick’s Picks has developed and mastered what he calls the Hidden Pivot method, a visual approach to identifying ‘jiggles and jaggles’ in stock movements. He identified this pattern on December 3, when he wrote: “Eastman Kodak’s powerful thrust through $7.66 all but assures that the target at $8.33 will be reached. A potential likely pullback first to $7.25, would trigger an opportune Rick’s Pick: a ‘mechanical’ buy.”

DISCLAIMER: While these ideas (dates, times and purchase/sale prices for entry and exits) have been documented within Trade Exchange’s system, these are examples of past performance and not an indicator or promise of future performance. Individuals who follow experts featured on the Trade Exchange assume all risks and take full responsibility for unveiling and following ideas, whether they execute trades in their linked brokerage account through the Trade Exchange app or in their brokerage accounts that are not linked via the Trade Exchange app. Trade Exchange strongly encourages everyone to review all the trades posted by a partner, as many lose money. All results –  including entry and exit prices – are available for review.

Trade Exchange Partner Series – Bull & Bear Trading

Trade Exchange Partner Series, Episode 4: Terry Donahue, Bull & Bear Trading

Terry Donahue – Founder of Bull & Bear Trading, joins us for Episode 4 of the Trade Exchange Partner Series with Layah Heilpern. Terry talks about his career, the importance of innovation in trading and why he feels the Trade Exchange is delivering revolutionary capabilities to investors.

Trade Exchange Webinar Series – Altos Trading

Trade Exchange Webinar Series – Altos Trading

Check out a fantastic Episode 5 of the Trade Exchange Webinar Series, featuring Jeff Tompkins – founder and Chief Investment Strategist of Altos Trading and Michael Anton – founder and CEO of the Trade Exchange. Jeff provides insight into his approach and trading philosophy and how he delivers profitable trading ideas to his followers on the Trade Exchange. 

Top Trades Update – November

Top Trade Update - November

Wondering what have been the best trades on the Trade Exchange platform this month? We’ve been booking highly profitable trades from our expert partners through November. Congratulations to the those who followed these trades! Every trade from each of our partners is tracked and verifiable using our patented analytics. Here are just a few.

RIOT: +71% in 3 weeks – Bull & Bear Trading

The blockchain trend is unmistakable and our experts can help to find great ways to capitalize. Terry Donahue, Bull & Bear: “Riot Blockchain is an underfollowed play on Bitcoin, until 11/17 when it jumped 71%. This crypto miner exploded as the market recognized its exposure to the recent move up in Bitcoin. Actually, it was surprising that the market took so long to identify the opportunity. It was only a matter of time before the market recognized RIOT’s exposure to this crypto trade.”

MRNA: +41% in 2 weeks – Turbo Trading

The Covid-19 vaccine is another trend that offers promise, but it is highly volatile and timing matters. Bob Knight, Turbo Trading: “MRNA was trading on support on November 2 at $67 and as the leading candidate for the Covid vaccine, we thought it was a great entry opportunity. We booked profits on 11/16 upon news of their positive results. Even though this was a highly speculative trade, the risk/reward tradeoff was extremely attractive.”

KNDI: +51% in 3 days – viditrade

Finding laggards within the hot electric car sector ripe for rotation. Rod David, viditrade: “Trending down ahead of a secondary offering, KNDI met and held projected targets, causing it to lag behind other sector components that were surging. Price action was becoming distributive at targets, so I anticipated rotation into the sector’s laggards would force a slingshot effect that was immediate.”

DNKN: +26% in 3 weeks – Alpha Insights

Opportunities also lie with everyday brands you encounter in your neighborhood. Jeffrey Huge, Alpha Insights: “People sell for a lot of reasons, but they only buy for one. When a stock is making persistent new 52-week highs day after day, it’s informative. In the case of Dunkin’ Brands, it was knowledge of a potential buyout offer. Upon reading the news of a possible $105/share private equity bid just three weeks later, we saw an opportunity to exit the trade at what turned out to be 97.5% of the maximum upside potential, with 100% certainty of a very nice profit.”

DISCLAIMER: While these ideas (dates, times and purchase/sale prices for entry and exits) have been documented within Trade Exchange’s system, these are examples of past performance and not an indicator or promise of future performance. Individuals who follow experts featured on the Trade Exchange assume all risks and take full responsibility for unveiling and following ideas, whether they execute trades in their linked brokerage account through the Trade Exchange app or in their brokerage accounts that are not linked via the Trade Exchange app. Trade Exchange strongly encourages everyone to review all the trades posted by a partner, as many lose money. All results –  including entry and exit prices – are available for review.

Webinar Series – Dr. Keith Wade, Seasonal Trader Pro

Trade Exchange Webinar Series – Seasonal Trader Pro

Episode 4 in our Webinar Series features Dr. Keith Wade of Seasonal Trader Pro. Dr. Keith has a time-tested approach that combines seasonal trading patterns with technical analysis to determine optimal entry points for trades with a high probability of success. Our CEO Michael Anton shares how you can follow Keith on the Trade Exchange and execute directly in your online brokerage account!