How to Buy Week of 9/26 - Name that Stock Up 20% In 1 Week

  

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How To Buy - Week of 9/26

Pictured above is a stock chart of TEGNA (NYSE:TGNA). TGNA is a media company fka as Gannett. 

The old Gannett provided news media -- think newspapers, your local TV stations, etc. They split these operations up and you can still own the slower growth newpaper business (USA Today and it's still know as Gannett) and the TV news / media business is now know as Tegna.  

Still with me?  Great, well I own Tegna. Need a better description, every time you watch your local news station...and it says Channel 13 NBC News, let's just say I thank you and my bank account thanks you. I first got into Tegna after 4 separate investors were looking to hook up with TGNA back in 2020 (note: ultimately TGNA decided against getting married).  This was rough for the stock but I held because election years are great for news and media stocks and Trump, Biden, and the craziness of American politics did not fail. Trust but Verify, see this post:

September 2020 - This post was insight into WHEN and WHY I Bought Tegna:

https://urbanomics.blogspot.com/2020/09/how-being-risk-focused-allows-me-to.html

Last year, Tegna rebuffed it's suiters like a millennial who declines dating someone because they didn't tick off EVERYTHING on their dating wish list. So similar to a break up, Tegna was suffering from the rebound blues. The stock was trading very low for awhile but I knew if 4 companies wanted to slide into their DM, then it meant TGNA was attractive. And by telling us what they would pay for hook up...we found PRICE DISCOVERY. Most buyout offers were around $20. Remember these #traderfacts because they help me be the best trader I can be. 

Earlier this year, I sold 1/2 my position when TGNA reached the initial hook up price and I blogged about it. I've learned to never fully get out of my positions as I often miss out of additional good news later. I may have traded this stock the way it should be done. I held a big position, exited my first position taking my initial investment out and I'm guessing a 20% gain. Then let the rest RIDE!!  See the links below as I post to give you insight into real life trading...not some of this podcast bs that you can get rich over night.

April 2021 - This post was insight into WHEN and WHY I Sold Tegna:

https://urbanomics.blogspot.com/2021/04/when-to-sell-tegna-prism-gun-violence.html

Fast forward to this week: TGNA has SURGED nearly 20% this week and at first I wasn't sure why. Well it turns out therrrrrre BACK!!! My friends in my Mansa Musa Network are trying to slide into Tegna's DM once again. This time the price is higher to get married and I've seen $22 (Byron Allen + Ares Managment) and $23 (Apollo) from 2 suitors.

I recently learned that one of my consultants in my cyber business follows my blog and trades after reading and learning from my posts. I hope to make it easier for us to trade notes in a community that's just for us. I hope to move my subscriber alerts to my "Discord" channel so you can learn How and Why I buy and sell. I also hope to learn from you.

Tegna netted me roughly a 35% profit and that came in less than a year for the April 2021 trade and now we'll be at above 35-45% based on the new hookup prices I've discovered.

#getthebag      #howtobuy  #tegna

How to Buy - Week of 9/17/21: Certified Lover Boy's 17 Trades

 

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How To Buy - Week of 9/17

I was surprised to see I had 17 trades closing this week. I'm worried the rally will begin to fizzle as the Federal Reserve begins to think about tapering (no longer stimulating the economy). Think of what the Fed did as binge drinking. Many US citizens are flush with cash from various stimulus programs. As those are taken away...we may have a bit of a hangover. The stock market has ran up tremendously and I play games I can will. I can take my ball and go home whenever I want...and you start to see my trading reflect that. Here are my trade and brief write-up. More to come as my cyber business is going well...so I'm not as focused on trading at the moment...despite the 17 baby trades you see above. 

ContextLogic Inc. (WISH) - A great example of trading against a stock I can't wait to get out of. Be patient and make income based trades and get out on your terms.

The Beauty Health Company (SKIN) - A high growth SPAC doing well. CEO is part of my Mansa Musa network and was a key reason we got SKIN at around the $12 level.

Joby Aviation, Inc. (JOBY) - My lottery ticket trade. Small trade against this stock to make income

Spotify Technology S.A. (SPOT) - Small trade against this stock to make income. SPOT has been trading erratic. Appears to have stabilized and I hope this trades above mid $300s next year

Uber Technologies, Inc. (UBER) - Regulation is causing this stock to not perform well. My only loss in 17 trades

Novagold Resources Inc. (NG) - Inflation is coming. No worries I own Gold. Gold was Bitcoin before there was Bitcoin

Marqeta, Inc. (MQ) - My old wheelhouse was payment networks. They are the modern day issuer processor for internet companies like DoorDash and other. I like this long-term but I have small position

IronNet, Inc. (IRNT) - My Reddit trade. My position, traded it twice and boy has it delivered. I wish I had bought the stock outright but I traded options. My wife did as well so we were rewarded here 

Magnite, Inc. (MGNI) - I have a feeling MGNI will be in my top 10 trades this year. It just hasn't let me down. Very happy with this company, steady and reliable. They just did a deal w/ FuboTV another Urbanomics stock. Let's get it

DraftKings Inc. (DKNG) - DKNG is back and moving in the right direction. Football season will be big and more and more states are signing up to offer sports betting to get out of deb. Trade to make income against a stock I already own

Forward Air Corporation (FWRD) - A trade from my Mansa Musa Network and it delivered in a BIG way

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH) - My small bet on the reopen. If people wear masks, get vaccinated cruise ships, planes, and hotels will be back. If we wanna be difficult...we all suffer

Tapestry, Inc. (TPR) - Reopen trade, many love Coach bags and I thank them for getting me paid whenever they buy the bags #getthebag

Dave & Buster's Entertainment, (PLAY) - A trade from my Mansa Musa Network and it delivered in a BIG way; I own PLAY and have traded against this stock so many times to make income as it slowly moves up. 

Reach out to sign up for my subscriber alerts. You'll see when I make trades and its a chance to learn how I buy. Coming soon our Urbanomics Investment Club. We dive deep, trade notes and #getthebag together

Peace and Love

SPAC Alert: IronNet (IRNT)

SPAC Investment I Bought: N/A--  I did not buy LGL Systems Acquisition Corp

Public Company I now Own: IronNet (IRNT)

Why I May Hold This High Risk Investment: Cybersecurity (Incident Response)

How is it Doing: Quite Simply Reddit discussions are a catalyst here. I am gambling here as I did not do any research and just believe momentum can help me earn a few bucks here. I am in the Cyber field so I will do more research...but with the Reddit Boards going crazy...I am betting only what I can afford to lose here. 

SPAC Alert: Joby Aviation, Beauty Health Co (1 Bagger Alert), Circle Crypto | Prism: Is the Playing Field Equal?

 

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Also Coming Soon - a series on #HowtoInvest. People have been reaching especially after the spikes in Gamestop, AMC, and other stock to learn the basics. I self taught myself how to invest beginning at the age of roughly 18 and have never stopped. To be a good investor and ensure you are not gambling (speculating), I'll cover (hardest parts of investing in RED):

Budgeting 101 - How to Fund Ur Investments?

Why Stocks as an Investment?

What is Ur Investment Profile + Personality?

How to Pick Stocks?

When to Buy Stocks?

How to Enter My Trade?

How Many Stocks Should I Own?

When to Sell Stocks?

Am I Speculating (Gambling)?

SPAC Alert:

Remember that example I gave you of how people pool money together to pay for things like a vacation. Well there are many ways my friends on Wall Street do this exact thing to buy companies that make them wealthy. They create companies called: Private Equity, Venture Capital, or Hedge Funds. The companies pool money together like we do except they ain't paying for a big vacation rental home. They pool their money together to buy a stake in babies, or 'infant' companies, that are still growing. Just like watching an infant grow, venture cap firms buy infant companies in hope the companies grow fast. This results in venture cap or private equity firms getting paid when the company goes public. This is like when the baby grows up and becomes and adult at 21. If a company goes public this is the perfect exit plan for venture cap investors. 

Remix Rewind: So to summarize for us regular folk: You buy something when young, like a baby and take care of it. Then you sell it when it officially becomes an adult. Who buys it then? Well, once public regular folk like you and me CAN FINALLY buy it on public stock exchanges. Take Coinbase, some investors have described making 100x on their investments like my buddy Garry Tan's firm Initialized Capital did. 

So why can't we all do this: Because us regular folk usually don't have access or are not considered qualified from an investment standpoint. Yep there are some rules that say you need to have a certain amount of money available to invest with venture cap firms.

To slightly level the playing field, investments called SPACs are becoming popular again and offer us regular folk a way to invest in younger companies. They are simply another way to pool money together (or raise capital) for investors who want to acquire companies that want to go public. Buckle up for a bumpy ride as many SPACs are unproven, high risk high reward investments. The trick is when I buy a SPAC, I don't know what company I will be getting. I am betting on the person who is organizing the SPAC to find a good company. So this is like me pooling our money together and you trust me to find the best beach destination for our vacation trip. You don't know in advance where we are traveling to. 

How to deal with High Risk: I like to maintain a small position (roughly 1-2%) in my portfolio. We call this risk allocation and we want to take smart risks. This is like buying a lottery ticket...but I think your chances are bit better in winning. 

Here is a breakdown of a few SPACs I own bought companies:

SPAC Investment I Bought: Reinvent Technology Partners

Public Company I now Own: Joby Aviation (JOBY) 

Why I May Hold This High Risk Investment: Electric Aviation Firm (think air taxis)

How is it Doing: Joby was recently trading under $10 dollars but is now up to $12. I now have a small gain on this lottery ticket.

SPAC Investment I Bought: Vesper Healthcare Acquisition Corp

Public Company I now Own: Beauty Health Co. (SKIN) 

Why I May Hold This High Risk Investment:  This CEO of SKIN, has the leader of Allergan, the maker of BOTOX. In the social media world of today, I think people are gonna spend big dollars to look young and healthy. I like to reinvest with people that have made me $$$ in the past. That's the power of the Mansa Musa network.  

How is it Doing: I now the proud owner of SKIN which makes HydraFacial or a spa-like treatment to to cleanse, extract, and hydrate  the skin.

Major Bag Alert: SKIN is officially a 1 Bagger, my small lottery ticket has already doubled:

SPAC Investment I Bought: Concord Acquisition Corp (CND)

Public Company I now Own: Per a press release, I WILL be the future owner of Circle, a cryptocurrency exchange like Coinbase which made a lot of people bank (pun intended)

Why I May Hold This High Risk Investment:  I do believe in the uses cases for Crypto because I own stock in Gold/Gold Companies and its to store value during times of deflation and inflation. So this is a good lottery ticket for the future.

What To Expect: 

- Circle Internet Financial Inc one will go public and be worth at $4.5 billion.

- Expect the deal close in the fourth quarter. (Like turning 21!) 

- The company will be called Circle and trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CRCL

- Circle issues and maintains a stablecoin known as USD Coin, a cryptocurrency that maintains an equal value to the U.S. dollar (think digital dollar...more research needed)

- Finally, I learned on of my A-Billi Squad billionaire buddies is in this investment as well. Dan Loeb, billionaire, who heads Third Point LLC is along for the ride.

To conclude, you can buy CND now or wait until the deal is closed in the 4th quarter when Circle (CRCL) will begin officially trading and use this trade an entry into the crypto space. 

I will do another post on the risky SPAC plays I am buying up and hope you share your thoughts.         

Prism - Separate But Equal

1) Florida Anti-Riot Law - Same Law Different Outcome for BLM Protesters: 

Why I'm Reading: Happy to see that Florida Gov. DeSantis DID NOT enact the swift penalties he said he claimed would occur if protesters shut down traffic. That was his language on the heels of BLM protesters but when protesters shut down traffic in response in support of change in Cuba he says "it's different". So why pass a law that one person can choose to enforce when he/she feels like. Sounds like crony capitalism to me. Picking winners and losers, a rigged game, maybe even outright racism. Is this a case of separate, but equal???

2) Being Outbid for Your Dream House - Corporations Outbidding Main Street:

Why I'm Reading: Who is behind the mad frenzy in the housing market. Yes, you guess it Wall Street. If you are wondering why there are 80 bids on a home in Washington DC, there were recent articles that you often are not competing against other homeowners... you're often losing that home to Hedge Funds.

3) Pay Your Taxes - Why The Wealthy Don't Pay Taxes:

 Why I'm Reading: I have visited many places across the world and I tell people it's never fun taking 2 hour trip for a car ride that should be 50 minutes. The reason some trips are longer in certain parts of the world is due to a lack of paved roads. So I remind the whiners that paved roads are what allow me to speed home from Chicago O'Hare and Midway and now the Indianapolis airport to get home. The concept of pooling together for the greater good is powerful. It's also why I am a big fan of masks and vaccines to eradicate this pandemic. Your health is precious and your time is. When taxes are used to give the public safety and more time...I am down for paying for that. So I'm sharing an article that exposes how the rich don't exactly pay their fair share and the tools they use. Sound a bit like separate but wait...we're all still equal.

              

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

How To Buy - Week of 8/27: ROKU | SQQQ Hedge | Micron

 

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How To Buy - Week of 8/27

I had 3 baby trades that closed this week, which put me 3 out of 3. Very small but we'll take it. You'll see some familiar friends on this list.

ROKU (ROKU) - Please search my blog for posts on Roku. When learning to trade heed this stock as a perfect example of why having a thesis and conviction is important. One day, I opened a COMCAST bill. The bill was toooo HIGH. I yelled to my wife why are we spending a mortgage on cable and internet. I did a bit of research and decided a Roku soundbar would kill 2 birds with one stone. I get a sound bar and we cut the cord. 

I wrote in this post: URBANOMICS: A Toast --- Refinance Your Future that COVID is was force of nature and the pandemic was like a recession. It made me reevaluate the services I use. Many would say I'm doing well but I still took the time to refinance and review all the things we were spending on. I eventually refinanced both of my homes AND we cut Comcast out. I had to go to AT&T kicking and screaming but my decent AT&T broadband service support our streaming habits and my growing consulting business. No fancy research just real life. This is called a tease BUT I held Roku through some rough moments and watched it flourish. If I had panicked I would have taken a big loss, now I'm sitting no a 1.5 BAGGER and we'll place guess that 5 figure number. I hope Roku goes down as one of my best trades and hits the 6 figure mark. Only time will tell:

SQQQ - A good example of how I was making a larger trade but the entire trade didn't fill. This is an income producing trade as I have a decent position hedging the markets in the event Technology stocks go down. This one is a bit complex but SQQQ is an ETF and I'm playing both sides. More to come when I do a Masterclass on leveraged ETFs.  

MICRON (MU) - Don't count Micron out yet. Simple bet, there is a semi-conductor chip shortage impacting most business. I looked at some of the weaker names in the semi sector and bet they will move of their lows. I like MU and Intel as diamonds in the rough.

Roadmap for Investing - Keep A Diary to Avoid "Whispers"

When it comes to buying stocks, you can guess or have a hunch and do just as well as I might do. But you will run into the same thing we all do eventually -- responsibility. In business, I call this the RACI model. I want to know who is Responsible | Accountable | Consulted | Informed (RACI) for your investment decisions.

When stocks are up, most people that contact me are excited to tell me they were accountable and responsible for making that great trade. Accountable because they made the decision and responsible because they executed the trade in their brokerage account. However, I often joke people don't often tell me about the trades that don't work out. Somehow, that Reddit board, website, podcast, or anonymous tip doesn't come up. You saw my Treehouse (THS) trade in my last post. Of my 9 recent trades that one, missed the mark and I have to own it. I have to go back and do the work to ask why did it not perform as I expected. I stay accountable for my losses just as much as I do for my gains. As discussed before, I should have closed my trade as it approached $52 and was very profitable but I've learned a few things about myself through investing. I could have been in the movie Tombstone...I'm Your Huckleberry and don't mind a good shoot out. So I log my trades and how they perform to gather insight into my tendencies and thinking before I buy a stock, during the trade, and to understand my rationale for why I sold. Keep a diary, get in your feelings the learn from them. A good life lesson, don't keep making the same mistakes twice whether it's dating, managing money, or investing in stocks.

No Sign Posts - Draw a Map

One of my favorite shows is "The Walking Dead". It makes you think, could you survive in a world with no sign posts or GPS? You better draw a map and try not to fall in the mud like Gabriel did in the most recent episode I watched. My map for investing is my diary and I use it to go back and repeat successful trades which trains my brain...like machine learning. If you've done your work, you don't listen to the whispers in your head telling you NOT to trade on a bad day. You trust your research and the process.

So here are a few items in the news that I'm jotting down to help me with my next set of trades:    

Real estate inventories are low and prices of homes are high. Existing home sales were up slightly in June and July and prices keep rising. Diary Note: Not excited to buy new property, but wonder if real estate companies like Zillow and Redfin are worth a look.

Data on people buying big-dollar purchases such as autos, fridges, washers, etc was up slightly. Next, I saw unemployment claims continue to decline setting a new low during the pandemic. I'm watching this close as the Delta virus continues to try and stall the economy. Diary Note: We as people are resilient so I'm watching Retail Stocks very closely. If you look back into my blog posts a year ago during the crisis, I'm searching my diary to see what I traded. Retail has been hit but it feels different this time. If we listen, like I posted last year and mask up and vaccinate...I think retail, cruise ships, restaurants and hospitality will thrive.

Extended Diary Notes:

I own Foot Locker (FL) and it just reported earnings (or it's quarterly health check). I think this trend will continue for retail, cruise ships, restaurants and hospitality stocks if we can all come together and do the right thing. Mask up and protect yourselves because it's the right thing for you, your family, and believe it or not...the economy. 

How To Buy - Week of 8/20

Investing In Yourself – Using Pillars to Build Your Core	https://urbanomics.blogspot.com/2015/04/urbanomics-pillars-path-set-for.html
Setting Budgets + Saving for Black Swans	https://urbanomics.blogspot.com/2013/02/personal-finance-budget-101-free-credit.html
	https://urbanomics.blogspot.com/2019/11/hey-henry-high-earner-not-yet-rich.html
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How To Buy - Week of 8/20

TREE HOUSE (THS) This trade started off profitable and then began it's slide. I could've booked a profit but I haven't been paying attention to my portfolio much lately. THS just recently shared their quarterly earnings report (i.e., healthcheck) and it was not was Wall Street was expecting. The stock has slid further and I now have to make a decision to book the losses or buy the stock.

Translate BIO (TBIO) - I decided to trade TBIO on May 6, as it began to drop under $20. This is a example of where I use data to set thresholds for when I want to make a trade. I just felt it wasn't going to drop much below $17.50. Reach out to be a paid subscriber and you'll receive these alerts. TBIO bottomed out around this level and even to my surprise I found out they are trading today at the $37 range. I traded this via options and made a very nice profit here in roughly 3 month. I just wish I also owned the stock.

FOOT LOCKER (FL) - This is my bet on things eventually reopening. Please mask up so my Foot Locker trade will skyrocket even further. Retail is based on our society addressing COVID and things getting back to normal.

ROKU (ROKU) - I've said enough about my best trade in the last year. It is giving Collector's Universe a run for it's money and most of my portfolio is in Roku.

CONTEXT LOGIC (WISH) - I continue to trade WISH options. I want to get rid of it, but as the stock declined these options have helped me earn income against a stock I no longer want to date.

JUNIOR GOLD MINERS (GDXJ) - Yes I own Gold and I think this is the right play as inflation is creeping in from all the stimulus pumped in the Trump and Biden era. It is also the right play if COVID is not contained and economies slow down. This is the old version of Crypto before Bitcoin hit the scene. Gold and oil have been on the decline but I look for Gold to bottom out as masks are up, fall and winter are coming, and things don't look so good at the moment.

INTEL (INTC) - Intel is an oldie but a good. I am playing Intel based on the new CEO, it being a strong value play, and the overall chip shortage. I have a few buddies in my A-Billi squad that were in this name as well and I'll be holding just NOT for the long-term.

AIG (AIG) - AIG is a play on financial stocks eventually rising as interest rates rise. Banks and insurance companies rely heavily on interest rates. They were increasing as inflation crept up, so if we can get through COVID as a collective country and world...financials will be a nice bet on the future.