The Real Threat of Deepfake
Videos of events that didn’t really happen can overturn elections and sabotage companies The pornography industry latches onto new ideas quickly, particularly when it comes to technology. Porn pioneered internet-based…
Wrestling With Reality
Spontaneous or scripted? The pros sometimes improvise on a predetermined storyline to create a crowd-pleasing spectacle. Redneck soap opera. Populist performance art. Repressed homoerotic fantasy. Whatever it’s called, professional wrestling…
The Greatest Tennis Player of All Time
Three tennis players who are candidates for GOAT—greatest of all time—have faced each other repeatedly. Luckbox picks the best. GOAT, which stands for “greatest of all time,” is usually applied…
Truth Be Told: News Is Biased (Odds Are … You Are, Too)
What people say they want in surveys and where they click online doesn’t add up More than 75% of Americans believe it’s never acceptable for news media to favor one…
Side Hustle Success Stories
Most part-time gigs simply supplement a full-time job, but these side hustles blossomed into major, life-changing enterprises for some savvy entrepreneurs. While side hustles start on the side, they don’t…
Topics
Fakery and the Authentication Economy
Business is booming for companies that identify and combat bogus news stories, doctored videos and counterfeit goods Fakery permeates life in the 21st century. On…
The Real Threat of Deepfake
Videos of events that didn’t really happen can overturn elections and sabotage companies The pornography industry latches onto new ideas quickly, particularly when it comes…
Jeri Ellsworth on Augmented Reality
Tilt Five’s CEO Jeri Ellsworth discusses what consumers should expect from the future of AR. Silicon Valley’s Jeri Ellsworth was the first team member hired…
Real Possibilities in Spatial Computing
An unprecedented combination of the real and unreal is set to engulf humanity, thanks partly to the spread of spatial computing Former Microsoft tech evangelist…
Trends
Richard Jewell
The story of Richard Jewell, the security guard who discovered an explosives-filled backpack during the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, is once again captivating…
Bluffing Is Real
Blurring the line between real and fake can help a savvy player steal some pots In poker, investing and life, things are not always as…
La Dolce Vita: THC-infused Sugar
This first-mover cannabis sweetener hopes to earn $3 million in first-year revenues. Shoogies, a (THC) cannabis-infused sweetener, is hitting dispensary shelves throughout California. It’s available…
Race out to find this Rye
For whiskey explorers, discovery is the easy part. There is always something that you haven’t tried, but the results are often disappointing. Happening upon Pinhook…
Options Trading: An Antidote for Division
Smart options traders know that life—and markets—aren’t zero-sum games Trading can bring the country back together. That’s right. Trading. Anyone can see all the anger…
Swimming in Sales
Relentless ambition turns a solo act side hustle into a multi million-dollar business A dream job wasn’t enough for Emily Vaca—she always had a part-time…
Catfish Are Biting in Love and in Money
Separate fact from fiction to reveal the traps set by bogus online daters and fake financial marketers Imagine that you’re using a dating app and…
Greta’s Guitars
Sam and Jake Kiszka, two of GVF’s three brothers set aside time with luckbox to discuss music, fame and influences. Sam plays bass and keyboards…
Meet the Robots: Aibo, Jibo, Leo & Cleo
This robot roundup includes one recently deceased, one arisen from the dead and two that are gainfully employed
OK Boomer
Instead of choosing an individual for Luckbox of the Month, the magazine is recognizing the blind luck of an entire generation—the baby boomers. The cohort…
8 Favorite Fidget Toys
The anxiety-related consumer products market is expected to grow to $7.5 billion by 2023. In the Fall of 2016, two Kickstarter campaigns were launched with…
Wrestling With Reality
Spontaneous or scripted? The pros sometimes improvise on a predetermined storyline to create a crowd-pleasing spectacle. Redneck soap opera. Populist performance art. Repressed homoerotic fantasy.…
Meet Jenny Andrews
Co-host of The LIZ & JNY Show on the tastytrade network Hometown Frankfort, Ill. Age 43 Years trading 22 Office When I’m not at tastytrade,…
Shredded on the Side
Side hustles go better with physical conditioning These days, everybody needs a side hustle. A professional house painter oversees fishing expeditions on the weekends. A…
Burning Man
A former floor trader shares sights—and insights—from his 15th visit to The Playa By Alan Matthew Burning Man, which bills itself as “the place to…
Trades
AMZN: Prime Sell
Candlestick chart analysis for intermediate-term trading As the third-largest Nasdaq…
Real Expectations for Virtual Reality
The adoption rate of new technology varies wildly. The iPhone, for example, succeeded almost immediately, and 100 million people now use them in the United…
2020 Foresight
January’s the time to gauge macro themes that will shape trading and investing in the coming year. “Why bother?” some ask. Unforeseen news and updated…
Auto Show: Ford vs. Tata
In November 2019, Mustang enthusiasts gawked and cringed when Ford (F) unveiled the latest addition to the Mustang lineup: the Mach-E. It wasn’t a louder,…
Inversion in Treasuries: Two Ways to Trade
A savvy futures trader’s take on the markets Rip van Winkle slept for 20 years, but that was 200 years ago. Today, van Winkle’s smart…
Volatility by Sector
RIPE AND JUICY TRADE IDEAS Traders think of Biotech as the most volatile sector, but it wasn’t in 2019. Last year, the most volatile sector…
Tactics
A Better Way to Put It
Protective puts are popular, but traders have more cost-efficient ways of hedging their positions Losses hurt. Experiments indicate that avoiding a $5 loss carries twice…
False Prophets
The financial industry is ripe with personalities claiming to be experts on the financial markets. These individuals, or groups, spout their buy and sell opinions…
Did the Santa Claus Rally Just Get Derailed?
The SPY, a popular barometer for the performance of equities in the United States, had been on a nice run since its October lows. The…
The Myth of the Protective Put
Buying an expensive “portfolio insurance policy” hardly ever works In Chicago, the weather can seem as volatile as the market. A day that begins with…
Binary Events and the Odds of a 2020 Market Correction
When investors and traders hear the term “binary event,” they usually think of biotechnology companies that explode higher after FDA approval, or of a company…
The Implied Volatility-Realized Volatility Spread
With equity markets currently in melt-up mode and the VIX dragging near historical lows, there haven’t been a myriad of great opportunities to sell options…
False Prophets Get It Wrong About Profits
New data suggests it pays to concentrate on managing stocks that are gaining value, not the ones in decline For the last 100 years, Wall…
Zeroing Out Those Utility Bills
With this hack, investors can make utility companies pay the family gas and electric tabs Traders consider utility stocks relatively safe investments—partly because regulation limits…
Taking Futures to a New Level
Advanced uses of futures include scalping, pairs trading and delta hedging Futures contracts offer retail traders some strategic advantages that aren’t available with stocks and…
