Nicholas Vardy
Betting on an Insurance Giant — and Booking Another Triple-Digit Option Gain
With Hurricane Harvey wreaking havoc in the southern United States, one might think that insurance companies are a sector for investors to avoid right now. Yet that is not the case with this week’s Momentum Trader Alert recommendation, which traces its history back to the earliest years of the American Republic. In fact, I can’t […]
Back into a Top Technology Momentum Play — and Locking in a 176% Option Gain
This week’s Alpha Algorithm revisits NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA), the emerging tech giant at the forefront of the virtual reality boom. You’ve already booked double-digit-percentage gains in this stock on two different occasions over the past 12 months. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) is a visual computing company. It offers processors for PC […]
Buffett Disciple’s Automaker Bet Continues to Surge
With the dog days of summer upon us, the U.S. stock market ended the week pretty much where it started. The S&P 500 fell 0.24% and the Dow Jones dropped 0.05%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq pulled back 0.16%, while the MSCI Emerging Markets Index managed to eke out a 0.83% gain. Your most recent Smart Money […]
VIP Alliance Weekly Update
I. Conservative Recommendation UnitedHealth Group (UNH) UnitedHealth Group is a current recommendation in my weekly trading service, Alpha Algorithm. The company announced the acquisition of Advisory Board Co.’s health care analytics, research and consulting operations for $1.3 billion. On the one hand, this is small beans for UnitedHealth, which has a market cap of $190 billion. On […]
My Favorite Way to Play the ‘Small-Cap’ Effect
International investment expert Nicholas Vardy shares his method of taking advantage the ‘Small Cap’ effect.
A Lithium Momentum Play and Booking a Pair of Triple-Digit-Percentage Option Gains
An increasing number of momentum plays that pop up on my screens are coming from emerging markets. This week’s Momentum Trader Alert recommendation is a stock that dominates the Chilean stock market. So far, Chile is the ninth-best-performing global stock market in 2017. By way of comparison, the U.S. stock market ranks 41st on that […]