From Musk to Dawn
My early experience with Elon and the many phases of Tesla
From Musk to Dawn
Charting the Food Groups
A tale of plungers, recoveries and steadies
My Three Decades with Elon Musk
Our resident technician reviews Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the world’s richest man
Disruptive Streamers
Active investors who relish change can find it in these media and entertainment stocks
Artificial Intelligence Reveals Itself
Readers who’ve immersed themselves in recent news stories about ChatGPT may guess the end of this article. Others might not. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a rapidly growing field, and several companies and industries stand to benefit from its growth. Some of the stocks that are likely to benefit the most from growth in AI include … Continued
Big Pharma’s Big Gains
Given enough time, stock in pharmaceutical giants has yielded life-altering gains Many investors will look back upon 2022 as a disaster. It was the worst market for bonds in over a century, and even the largest and best-known tech stocks lost about one-third of their value—with a few losing virtually all their market cap. Value … Continued
Three Stocks Coming Up Short
Stocks are decoupling, and this troika of equities appears to be headed lower Of the many changes that shook the stock market in 2022, perhaps the biggest was that it was allowed to become a market again. It happened when the Federal Reserve stepped away from “accommodation”—the policy of keeping interest rates low to spur … Continued
What Lies Ahead for Stocks
This column’s predictions for stock prices in 2022 have proven painfully correct. Now, the Technician is watching crypto for signals on how equities will perform in 2023. The S&P 500 index reached its highest point in history on Jan. 4, 2022, the same day Luckbox published an article called Dark Days Ahead. The story concluded … Continued
Markets and Midterm Elections
Stock prices used to surge after off-year voting, but the Fed’s adjustments to the economy may have changed that A lot of investors are convinced that a four-year U.S. presidential cycle governs some of the ups and downs of stock and options prices. They say it happens because presidents institute market-friendly policies in the third … Continued
The Bitcoin Standard
Luckbox’s Technician columnist reviews a crypto classic that explores bitcoin’s libertarian underpinnings My story begins in the summer of 1993. We were renting an office for my 1-year-old company, and one of the guys called me over to his desk to show me something. He fired up something on his screen called a “browser,” which … Continued
