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TREX. That’s What’s Next.

MAY 28, 2019. Precisely how much reflected excitement is socially appropriate? You’re wine touring your best neighbor’s mammoth new hot tub, when you notice it’s clad in exquisite redwood. Is it right to raise a toast “Fa King awesome–those redwoods sucked anyway. All they ever did was stand there.” How about when a cousin coos abut her new cedar wood shingles, and she borders a fire zone? “Nice–of course,” you nod vigorously, lying your ass off with nowhere to stare. “Filthy buggers. You ever seen that crap that comes off cedar trees? Might as well have been you. They were just beggin’ to be nailed to someone’s roof.”
Life is weird, and situations arise, like grossly over-built 10,000 square foot decks. But then there’s Trex, actually making American life seem more sensible, and sustainable. In fact, everyone can feel distinctly better about our decades-long rap sheet of single-swipe plastic bags. That’s what Trex uses to make its’ stuff.
Natural resources are not endless. Most are not renewable, trees included–unless you enjoy fields of stumps. Meanwhile, the true filth of the chemical industry remains slightly more contained as no one needs to slather their completely unused and already half-rotted back deck in paints, or stains, and sealants. Why? Trex. Live like an American, while leaving every tree right where it lives.

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Galaxy of Guesses. Stone Fact.

MAY 5, 2019. Fighting stone theft has brought down the acid rain of trade warring. Correcting the outrage of “Forced Technology Transfer” is turning out to be outrageously expensive. Follow the bouncing tariffs, as the process takes now bumbling share prices down the basement stairs into chaos. No predictable end exists to a war that looks likely to produce a prolonged market decline.
If you’re not defensively positioned now, it’s too late. The remainder of the market seems set for lower prices. We see China-free secular momentum stocks as a refuge, even in a slower economy. Yet even those are targeted now. A descending market takes everyone down. Stay and ride it out? Or return when prices are lower?
Should you be invested in this trade war market?

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Who’s Winning Now? New Age–Peace and Profit.

MAY 18, 2019. Beating the back alleys and broken parking lots for winners is a sucker’s game, unless you find one–a new one just begging to ramp. But that’s the thirsty dirty work few are ever paid for. Is New Age Beverages that rare answer to both a big thirst and stock brilliance?
Back in 2016 along the dynamic front range of Colorado one drink bought another and a drinks company hatched. Relief came to the few as health snapped into view. Now years later a healthy lifestyle has become much more than a fad and pop sugar is seen as brightly-packaged poison. And? And people enjoy feeling good, and like things that help in that quest. Functional beverages help.
Water, tea, and energy drinks are functional and NBEV features those and more. Rivers run and so do trends and people follow both, usually with something to drink. That’s New Age’s business. Their business could be catching. It caught our eye, and Wal-Mart’s. Now STOCKjAW’s sharing our view with you. Who’s Winning Now? New Age–Peace and Profit.

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Extended Hours. The Market is Your Oyster.

MAY 14, 2019. The surface is, well, just the beginning. Much of the story lies below and beyond. Why? Trading never sleeps. Life’s for living and the market’s for winning. Yesterday’s trade war turbulence made that both more difficult, and easier. The value of existing positions was dragged down, while better prices were created. We intend to buy more of what we already own, thus reducing our cost basis. But not yet.
The volatility picture has two additional pieces. The regular trading session is the sun-bubbly party. Extended hours is the exclusive memory-making after party. Many will tell you to remain top-side, in bounds. Most do, rightly so. Every explorer is warned. Only the few move past those entreaties. They’re the ones with tales to tell.
The pre-market and after hours sessions are known as “The Wild West.” True. Barrel-head bargains are cut in mere minutes while butt-fugly knives routinely fall from a darkened sky.
Collectively these flickering hours are called “extended,” and oodles of the good stuff resides there. We go often now, and so might you. We have two tales, in HD detail–and close up gruesome. Yet we go, to get that good stuff. Plan and know, before you go. Otherwise, you’re just working for the man.

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What’s in There? New Age Beverage

APRIL 30, 2019. Add it up. Delicious, organic, gorgeous packaging, and health-promoting, equals momentum. That’s right. New Age Beverage has all that and more, like CBD infusion. What’s not to love?
Everyday our market gets sneakier. Growth flints and hides and then simply vanishes altogether. So what to do? Be patient. Right now owning nothing is far better than owning the wrong. So how ’bout NBEV? After all, the real growth in growth is in the early days. Here’s the who.

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Table Time for Intuitive Surgical. A Neat Bargain or a Box of Bolts?

April 24, 2019. Teledoc brings the doctor to you. Intuitive Surgical made the doctor consistently precise, and metallic. ISRG went on sale last week and this, following a Q1 report badly received. Top and bottom line misses made fans cranky, while coming adds to cap-ex spending created restless departures. Such happens to even the best.
Growth stocks come and go, and slow along that path. Look at Apple. ISRG’s assuredly on that path. But where? They’re still innovating, and selling. Handfuls of ISRG fans hit the door even before bothering to understand, or so it seems. That happens too. Good.
Prices plunge when holders run. 7% on Monday. Buyers come in when that’s overdone. Up 1.91% yesterday–Tuesday. We think there’s more to come. Tuesday’s buyers will not be the last. We paid for the office visit. $495.61 a share. But will the surgeon be in for us? Here’s the quick chart of Intuitive’s heart. ISRG.

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Pay Yourself First. Signal To Launch.

APRIL 9, 2019. You often hear it. “It’s your money.” Is it? Only yours until you spend it. The spent becomes someone else’s. Learn to keep it, and create joy. Oops. Money doesn’t create happiness. No, it allows joy, something far superior. A thousand cappuccinos equals two shares of Amazon. More actually. Fact. Who knew? Long-time Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. Yet living like Martin Luther during his monastic tour leads to little. Hair shirts are nonsense, and so is frittering all your hard-earned jack.
The clean soothing new car smell is outstanding. We love it, every time we load into someone else’s car. That’s because ceaseless car payments grow monastic, except for dealers and OEMs. Depreciating assets don’t pay. What does? Paying yourself first.
PYF is a skill set. No? Were it not, more people would be doing it. We pay ourselves straight off the top, like a Fa King blizzard. If you do also, you know exactly what we’re speaking of. Living better is no accident. Nor is it a money treadmill. Get your edge.
PYF is that edge. It’s about creating more than the sum of your days. Make your efforts accumulate. Again–it’s your money, and time. It’s also your life. Your name’s on all three. PYF means you’ll have more. More means you’re on your way to better. And there’s even more than that. That’s called the Gift of O. It’s simple. You can do this.
Here’s how it’s done.