by Charles Mizrahi | Dec 27, 2021 | 2022, Bitcoin, Crypto, Investing Strategy, Real Talk
An old Wall Street adage says that “speculators who die rich, die before their time.” And if you look at the Forbes 400 List, it’s filled with people who achieved great wealth by investing — not speculating. So, why would you ever want to speculate? Before I...
by Charles Mizrahi | Dec 9, 2021 | 2022, Investing Strategy, Real Talk
It wasn’t the great, powerful Wizard of Oz that got Dorothy back to Kansas… It was something much simpler: Three clicks of the heels of her ruby slippers. Voilà. Investing works the same way. It’s pretty simple. To make money in the stock market, you just need to know...
by Charles Mizrahi | Dec 8, 2021 | 2022, Investing Strategy, Real Talk
Back in the day, trading options as a professional floor trader was a license to print money. In 1983, I traded index futures and options on the New York Futures Exchange. Retail investors had no idea which options were mispriced and didn’t stand a chance. So, while...
by Charles Mizrahi | Aug 2, 2021 | American Investor Today, Autonomous Vehicles, Investing Strategy, Investment Opportunities, Technology
Today’s Take: In every industry, only a few companies dominate. “From many come just a few.” When an industry is born, it quickly becomes crowded with competitors. But after a short while, only the strongest survive. Just look at the U.S. auto industry… Almost 3,000...
by Charles Mizrahi | Jul 28, 2021 | American Investor Today, Education, Investing Strategy, Investment Opportunities, Trading Strategies
Today’s Take: Ignoring BS is a great way to make profits. Not a day passes by where I don’t think about his advice. It was given to me by Henry Meininger, one of my mentors when I just got to Wall Street. It was February 1985. I was a 22-year-old with big dreams. I...
by Charles Mizrahi | Jul 26, 2021 | American Investor Today, Education, Investing Strategy, Investment Opportunities, Trading Strategies
Today’s Take: Your investing approach should be simple. Will Rogers was one of America’s great humorists and newspaper columnists in the 1920s. His approach to investing in stocks was: “Don’t gamble! Take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it...