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JPM Beaten Like a Brexit Goat. “But Still All Good–For Now.”

JUNE 27, 2019. Alexander Bell wasn’t thinking banking when he unwound some wire to create a connection. Quaint it seems now, the notion of telephones for talking. Who talks? Phones are for textual grunts, photos, useless apps, and moving money. Nothing stays the same, and caring just gets in the way. That’s why there are museums. That’s also like our big, old, banks. Soon they will need parks, just like dinosaurs, for those who wish to remember.
Moving money used to be hard, and physical. Slow and expensive marred the experience while Western Union provided the piratical pricing. Western Union increasingly looks like Xerox, a company looking for a future. It’s about to get much worse for them.
JPM is far more than either of those dinos, and more then a money mover. But who cares?
Many would say JPM is the best at what it does However some of what it does is caught in a costly change, and under pressure. Should you want any? Commissioner Gordon could be about to hard-beam the Bat Signal over big banking.

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Looking Larger. Arcing Farther. Find Harris There.

JUNE 19, 2019. It’s been seven months since James Mattis occupied the role of Secretary of Defense. Now we have nominee and long-acting Secretary Patrick Shanahan sinking in a boiling scandal of domestic chaos and violence, a cover-up, and suspect harboring regarding his son and an assault with a baseball bat. Shanahan has playing a high-level decider role in Pentagon procurement actions.
Many contractors troll the beltway and the Crystal Palace clocking very big D.C. business. But who’s shares skated up 2.24% yesterday? And who’s technology now feeds the date-ravenous brain of the F-35 joint strike fighter? And who’s share price has cranked 45.8% year-to-date, but yet remains affordable on a growth adjusted basis? That would be the high-flying yet quiet Harris Corporation.
We’d never heard of Harris. Now we know and we’re sharing what we learned with you.
We only paid up moderately for the chance to participate in a sprawling multiyear global defense modernization program. The program rolls fast on a systematically growing budget, already authorized, yet still in the early stages. Harris is there, on multiple fronts. You can be too.

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Amazon. Simply Amazing.

JUNE 9, 2019. Who else compels massive companies to adapt, to create new types of positions, by the hundreds? Who else dispatches teams to widely roam rural routes and residential neighborhoods on irregular and ever-shifting schedules? Who else’s reach is so extreme that your arrow package swooshes in on a quiet Sunday evening, a day after launching that order?
Of course. It’s Amazon. If you ask, they’ll even place it in your trunk, while you’re parked at work. Really.
Anti-trust? Near total trust. We tell Amazon what we want. Indirectly we are telling Amazon what we want them to be, or they know so already, before we ask. Amazon simply looks, listens, mobilizes, and fulfills, better than anyone in history. And as investors, when angry waves rock our days, our hopes, we want a big ship, or a star, to punch through. Of course it’s Amazon. Name one reason why it wouldn’t be.

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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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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.