Changes in perspective and reality influencing Markets:

• Deflation to Inflation Investing
• War Time Investing from Peace Time Investing
• A shift from Globalism to Nationalism to Tribalism
• Change in focus involving Past – Present – Future

Investing decisions change for many reasons. “The Market” direction of money flow changes based on Perceptions – real or perceived. Right now, we have to recognize the hard realities in life because it will impact our market returns until they change again. Unfortunately changes in perception have no defined life cycles. Continue reading →

• Dow Holdings – a very favorable chart pattern, a 6 P/E and 5% dividend.
• Soluna – Buy Under $2.75, No news for a while and potential for Tax loss selling
• Frontline – A Ten under $10 holding, is being sold.

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We are making a number of changes to the LOTM Ten Under $10 list today. We see opportunities and yet want to limit the number of positions held on the list in order to keep a focus. That does not necessarily mean we are negative on any of the positions on the list but rather we see some combination of timely & higher potential in other companies than the company we are exiting.

Stocks we are adding to the LOTM: Ten under $10

As is our discipline in this public example, we use the same dollar amount – $1,000 – for each position.

NOTE: a better way for scalability of an active portfolio is to limit the number of positions (companies held rather than number of units in each position) and keep a % of the account as your measure for position size. EXAMPLE: 20 positions at 5% in each position. Then work into over-weight positions and under-weight position as you make determinations on the degree of commitment you want to each company. Staying limited to a set number of units of commitment, forces a certain discipline on Continue reading →

Vizsla Silver (VZLA)* $1.15

In the coming weeks and months, you will hear more and more about the world class discovery that Vizsla Silver is uncovering 45 minutes east of Continue reading →

• Soluna’s News reminded me of two other companies that run short of cash
• Calumet Blows Expectations Away
• StoneCo Down 21% on Meaningless Negative Headline News. Opportunity.
• S&P 500 failed at 200-day MA. End of the Bear Market Rally?

Soluna (SLNH)* $3.35

Soluna is my biggest position. The news about the 10-Q qualification as a going concern surprised and bothered me. For all the transparency of the monthly updates there was no disclosure about cash flow and finances. I believe Soluna Continue reading →

Soluna Holdings (SLNH)* $3.48

Today an account related to LOTM bought shares of Soluna common shares and Soluna Preferred with a 23% yield.

• 72 divided by any number gives you the time to double. 72/23% is 3.14 years.

Naturally, I am assuming they will continuing to pay the dividend but cannot assure that.

• Today management gave their update on July activity. Linked here. If your are concerned about SLNH financially you must watch. Knowledge is Strength. Knowledge plus knowing what your looking for is Power.

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Soluna (SLNH) $3.91

Soluna issued a 10Q that contained the words “substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern.”  Continue reading →

Below we will present one version of “harvesting” profits as a stock rallies. We consider this a conservative plan. A more aggressive plan might be the process popularized by Richard Dennis in his “Turtle Traders” program. In his process, once Dennis caught a trend upwards, he used price corrections back to a support level, to buy more shares thus increasing cost and the size of the share position.

Harvesting Profits with pre-set goals in Stage Analysis

The LOTM approach below is similar to a farmer selectively harvesting a “crop” as the “crop” reaches different degrees of maturity. In our approach we plant the seeds during the over-sold or base building stage (Stage one chart analysis), watching the seed maturing and bearing fruit (stage two chart analysis) and harvesting that fruit in a planned and systematic way (late stage two stage three and early stage four Continue reading →