Editorial
10 Proven Strategies for Long-Term Wealth Building
Today, perhaps more than any time in history, American citizens are taking their financial futures into their own hands. With roughly 100 million brokerage accounts, holding over $20 trillion in assets, this is today’s American retail, self-directed investor. [1] But,...
Research Reports on Aether Holdings’ Current and Future Business Verticals Say…
As a company that strives to establish itself as a preeminent technological enterprise, dedicated to the development of platforms tailored to empower the investing community with invaluable insights… What business verticals does Aether Holdings currently operate...
Get Ready, an IPO Boom Could Be on The Horizon! – But You’d Better Choose Your Investments Carefully –
The 2024 IPO market has already exceeded expectations. By June 30, the market experienced 32.7% more debuts than at the same point last year… even as the Fed has kept interest rates at near two-decade highs.[1] Although we are nowhere near the incredible record...
Interesting Statistics About Day Traders And Retail Investors… And How Some of These Stats Could Potentially Be Improved
Day traders and retail investors are not very good at making money. They are, however, very good at losing it. It’s a fact. A simple Google search of “what percentage of traders lose money” reveals hundreds of results, 22 pages of them… Citing stats showing a whopping...
Subscription-Based Companies Defy Economic Headwinds
On March 17 of 2020, Analysis Mason published a report on the Software as a Service market, or SaaS. At the time, the industry was just beginning to grab mainstream attention, and publicly traded SaaS companies like Salesforce (CRM) and Adobe (ADBE) had tremendous...
Of Bull Markets and Bloodbaths…
Rejoice investors, there’s no bloodbath coming (or is there?). The first half of 2024 has been nothing short of spectacular. The S&P 500 hand-fed investors total returns of over 15%, with the tech heavy NASDAQ doling out nearly 18%. That’s 15-18% in just a six...
Is Investing in SPACs A Good Idea Again? (Was it Ever?)
Not that long ago, blank-check special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) were all the rage on Wall Street. In 2020 alone, there were 248 SPAC target IPO deals, with a whopping 613 of them coming the following year. The market was hot! How hot was it? Well, the...
Stock Market Returns During Election Years
Turn on any cable news channel and you’ll be told, ad nauseam, that this is the single most important election in US history. If candidate A doesn’t win, democracy is over… If candidate B doesn’t win, the economy will be in shambles. And your money? You can kiss it...
Robot Birds, Model-Ts, & $70 Billion in FinTech
Around 350 B.C.E, Pythagorean mathematician Archytas of Tarentum presented his friend Plato with a gift. On the outside, it looked simple enough. It was a wooden pigeon. But this was no simple, hand-carved bird. You see, this seemingly ordinary-looking gift had...
Sweating Under a Buttonwood Tree: A Brief History of Self-Directed Investing
On a cool, late spring morning in 1792, two dozen stockbrokers sat in the shade of a buttonwood tree outside of 68 Wall Street, sweating. Now, it may have been a lovely morning, but these “upstanding” fellows weren’t there to enjoy a cup of tea and good conversation,...