How to Make a Fortune in the Stock Market

Before I get started, let me say unequivocally, this won’t work well if started today. It will work flawlessly after stocks take catastrophic losses in the coming days., Don’t start this in the immediate timeframe!

In 1973, I got my dream job as a retail broker, working for Merrill Lynch. I was the youngest person ever hired as such in the local office. I was hired mostly because of the enormous knowledge I had already accumulated at the young age of 23. I did not do well as a retail broker and only lasted 6 years. I was a miserable salesman, which I still am today. However, it all proved to be an invaluable experience.

1973 and 1974 were periods of a tremendous bear market, The world was coming to an end in the mind of many. It was a tough time, It seemed any stock anyone bought any stock, enormous losses followed,

I had made friends with someone else’s client, whose name was Frank. He was an old guy who set in the board room day after day watching the market. His own broker, thought of him as a pest.

One day as the market was crashing to its final low, Frank, handed his broker a list of stocks and said, “buy these.” He kept buying for about 30 days. I asked Frank what type of upside target he was looking for. Frank answered saying, none, I only buy, I never sell, I lost touch with Frank, but I can’t imagine how much money those stocks were eventually worth.

 


Anyone who accumulates stocks throughout their lifetime is going to make huge profits. On the chart above, it is easy to see that it is best to buy at the bottom of a bear market. About every 40 or so years, the market resets. It is best not to begin one of these programs at the top of a stock market bubble.

That being said, regularly buy stocks over time, Even random selections, if made consistently will pay off over time. The approach I teach is to consistently add positions off of the new high list. Stocks that rise parabolically are on that list Buying off the new high list optimizes your chance of owning true winners and goes a long ways towards, eliminating those which fall short.

Do not over analyze your selections.  Basic fundamentals are fine. You can’t get enough information to make much difference. Instead, ask some simple questions like. Doe this company have genuine utility to society? Could one of their products end up being a part of society? Make up your own questions.

I am 75 and have been trading since I was 19. I have never known a case where this system has been tried without generating Stellar results.


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Remember the Stock Market

In May 2021, I published the following article.
The Stock Market Is All There Is

The essence is that when the stock market collapses, the economy is over. I am posting the link, because there is no point in my re-writing the article. The fact is that for the last 40+ years, the stock market has been driving the economy higher, rather than it being the other way around as would be normal. As long as asset prices move higher, GDP rises. Great idea, but unfortunately central planning always destroys, even if it takes years for the damage to accumulate. Well, the damage has accumulated beyond the point of no return. Keynes, commented to this kind of logic by stating that “in the long run we will all be dead”. Keynes is now dead as are his cohorts.  Those of us who are still alive are experiencing the adverse effects of Keynes’s policies, of which his critics were warning.

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Theft by Stimulus

Theft by Stimulus PDF Version

I used to joke about visiting prisons to teach thieves legal ways to steal money. That way they wouldn’t get locked up again and taxpayers would not have to support them behind bars.

Economic stimulus is a euphemistic term for theft. To know this, it is not necessary to go through volumes and volumes of  economic dogma. Any theory or approach that is used by government to stimulate the economy can be debunked in a few sentences without even knowing the specifics of the dogma being used. The current round of theft began after Reagan took office in 1980. The United States has experienced at least thirty seven consecutive years one kind of stimulus or another.

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What to Expect in an Economic and Political Crisis

What to Expect in an Economic and Political Crisis PDF Version

Evil does not recognize itself because, to it, lies are the truth.
We have to remember that ,what is evil, is becoming exposed, each and every day..
People can either believe the lie or be fooled into complacency. .

By election day, fewer will believe the lie, and as hardships accumulate, complacency will wane. Unpleasant things will happen but they won’t be in line with popular  predictions. The fact is that we don’t know what those unpleasant things will be, but, chaos and confusion for sure.

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How to Help Trump in 2024

How to Help Trump in 2024 PDF Version

 Let me make a few disclaimers before I get started. These are not biases or opinions. They are observations and that makes a huge difference. An observation is what you get by just looking. My observations come from my seeing  a situation or circumstance while thinking in the light of reality.. Here is a simple example. Suppose there is a picnic taking place on a sunny day. Then the wind starts blowing and seriously dark clouds form. What would be my forecast as to what the crowd at the picnic are going to do next? They are going to shut the picnic down and head for cover, maybe while swallowing one last bite of a hotdog. I can make a forecast because I know what people are prone to do when dark clouds roll in, nothing complicated in that.

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Waiting for the Stock Market to Crash

Most are aware of the multitude of crash being made. these days.  So why is he market not crashing? This has been going on since before the beginning of the year, and started accelerating around April. A lot had changed since I posted the following article observation back in February,

Stock Market Scheme of Things 02/23/2024 Thru Spring

One thing that has not changed, is that the market still hasn’t crashed. It has been kept from crashing. The market will not crash until it can’t be managed by hook or crook, the way it has been manipulated for many years.  It is clear, however that it is not being manipulated as easily as it normally is.  Most crashes occur during the September through October time period.. In all recent years, multiple sell signals are generated throughout the summer for the purpose of drawing in shorts to be squeezed so as to leap frog passed the regularly bearish early fall period. My point in that previous article was that there would be no crash until a crash could no longer be prevented.

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Truth and Slavery

Truth and Slavery PDF Version

The truth about slavery begins by understanding that human DNA provides mankind with the propensity to enslave others. Nature makes us all economists to the degree we are all prone to getting our resources with the least amount of effort possible. It makes no sense that pre-civilization humans would opt to force others to do work for nothing and that we would otherwise do ourselves.

Let’s travel back to prehistoric times to get to slavery’s very beginning. First, which tribe occupied what territory, was established by belligerence. The first slaves were the foreign survivors of the wars from which tribal boundaries were determined.   Somewhere along the line the Stockholm Syndrome evolved as a means of enhancing the survival prospects of slaves. Even in today’s world, the loyalties of human beings go to the most belligerent and dominate entities in society. Notice the high degree of patriotism in countries whose armies have killed the most in terms of populations of other countries.

 

Human to human slavery came before the enslavement of animals of other species. Animals were domesticated when they were needed as a means of doing things that humans were not all that good at. Dogs could sniff things out where humans could not. Dogs could find game more efficiently than humans. The result was, given the canine version of the Stockholm Syndrome, dogs began volunteering for slavery. In time, dogs took on an entertainment attribute. Human beings could not cover a lot of ground on foot in a short period of time. Horses were captured, enslaved and then domesticated. Horses are not vulnerable to extinction these days. Today, domesticated animals fare better with respect to survival than species which still exist in the wild.

Finally, early humans began enslaving one another and often doing the equivalent of domesticating them. Slavery became institutionalized rapidly. The morality of slavery was never questioned in any scriptures I have studied. Jesus did not start an abolitionist movement. Until laws prohibiting chattel slavery were enacted in countries experiencing an industrial revolution, slavery was always legal. In Southern states, free blacks could own slaves. Some did. In one case, a free black woman wanted to marry a man who was a slave. She bought him from his master. She was dissatisfied with him as a husband…. and sold him.

Chattel slavery was outlawed in Britain in 1820 and in the U.S, in 1865.  This happened as the need for labor and manufacturing reduced the utility of slave ownership overall. It was cheaper to hire labor at starvation wages than it was to house and maintain slaves. Slaves are not naturally productive. Their owners had to whip them often to insure they were working hard enough. It made no sense to whip factory workers.

After slavery ended, Britain doubled down on its imperialistic efforts. The United States began its imperialistic endeavors with the Spanish – American War in 1898. Countries where chattel slavery had recently been deemed illegal began enslaving entire foreign countries. albeit, not chattel slavery. It was a way of getting human capital at less than it would cost in a free market.  It did constitute forced labor. In the 1980s, the Reagan Administration invaded Nicaragua and returned that population to being slaves of the United Fruit Company.

With the advent of the first Gulf War, the United States began a round of invading countries under the pretense of righteousness, securing their resources and ensuring their availability and low cost to American global corporations.

Chattel slavery is gone from the rest of the world but the propensity to enslave is still with us.


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Election Forecast November 2024

Election Forecast November 2024. PDF Version

I only have one hard cold forecast for 2024. The Democrats lose no matter what they do. The next problem the Democrats have is in finding a vice presidential candidate who is willing to destroy his political career by standing next to Kamala Harris  as her running mate. Lloyd Benson did this in 1988 as Mike Dukakis’s running mate. Benson planned on retiring anyway.

Anything else is on an if then basis. The elite – or Deep State, is desperate. All of the wars for profit being fought on their behalf are now exposed for what they are. Belligerence is the only tool they have ever had.  The attempt to assassinate Donald Trump blew up in their faces. Following the failed attempt on Trump’s, life they are in big trouble. There is no telling what they may try next. Are they finished trying to take Trump out?  It doesn’t appear that they are. Suppose that the media suddenly started engaging in more honest reporting. That would be a sign the Deep State has decided to take the loss and perhaps regroup over the following four years. If this happens, the election will go on mostly unaccepted. Continue reading

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The Price of Your Safety

The Price of Your Safety PDF Version

Efforts to keep Americans safe
abound at a monumental level these days. Suppose the goal was to save as many lives as is humanly possible. Would it not make sense to use the approach that would save the most lives – and add other
methods later ?

Back in the late 1970s and 1980s – in response to an energy crisis, a new law was enacted making 55 mph the maximum speed on all highways. Much energy was saved but that was not all. Thousands of lives were saved because 55 mph was a much safer speed for drivers than 70 mph. If protecting folks from danger is the goal, doesn’t it make sense to return to the 55 mph national speed limit before protecting everyone from what might harm them – but to a lesser degree? Continue reading

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Human Broadcasting And Receiving

Human Broadcasting And Receiving PDF Version

The concept of Fantasy Free Economics is based on recognizing the very few absolutely true observations we can, about the world we live in. Then we approach life. We never let others convince us that these basic things are untrue.

The most profound observation we make is that life is governed and regulated by a system of dominance and subservience. On top of that we make more simple observations, give up fantasies and euphemisms, then look out our windows and see what is going on.

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