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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.

EDITOR'S DESK, FUNDAMENTALS, INVESTING, STOCKS, TECHNICALS

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.

CULTURE, FUNDAMENTALS, INVESTING, STOCKS, TECHNICALS

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.

FUNDAMENTALS, INVESTING, STOCKS, TECHNICALS

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.

EDITOR'S DESK, EDITORIAL, INVESTING, MARKETS/ECONOMY, STOCKS, TECHNICALS

Harbor. Here Comes The Storm.

MARCH, 31, 2019. Times change. But god it’s been nice. For years we rode that rising wave. Everyone had a great time. Now it’s curling if not crashing. Storms have come to our formally splendid seas. Many have harbored. As the placid and neat turned angry, utils have grown too expensive to buy. That’s how it goes. Did you grab your slice? Upward and onward we go. Oops, we meant simply onward, and up and down.
The S&P can’t hold 2815 with either wet hand. Our fed’s given up attempting to predict what he isn’t reading. Our bull’s shuffling restlessly. Long term investors are rethinking their approach, as every spike simply melts away into sad little puddles. Has your thinking shifted? Still attempting to climb in that smart slow way? Yeah, us too. But we’re scattered.
Predictable pauses had for years led gracefully into plumy runs of joy and slap-happy success. We’re here to help you forget all that. The way forward feels different now, more difficult, and clearly less promising. We’re struggling to maintain focus. We’re ready to instantly sell any three hundred dollar move. But we did exactly that when ETSY reported, and were promptly left behind.
Market storm socks are stiff. Headwinds shift and gales whip ugly everyday. The warnings are in the water. Our markets now, as seen through five mega-leaders and their clutch of sectors. FANG will not prove a pristine harbor this time. Nor will healthcare. We’re all gonna get wet.

BUSINESS, FUNDAMENTALS, INVESTING, MEDIA, STOCKS, TECHNICALS

Bewitched Night at the Nuclear

MARCH 20, 2019. Our skies run thick with speculation, and hesitation. When will Boeing’s phenomenal new workhorse move? Outside Las Vegas sits the Nuclear Motor Lodge. Us also. Peace brings with it perspective. We’re gaining some. Meanwhile in Renton Washington fresh copies of the 737 Max pile up on the moist tarmac. Shares of BA are piled up also, between the EMAs.
BA will fly Max 8s again, and pretty soon. Count on it. Bet on it. STOCKjAW continues to. We also lucked into a talk with a top level Boeing insider–no kidding. Life’s weird that way.
Some say BA’s a “battle ground.” Thanks Cramer. But that’s indeed true. And then, so what? Wasn’t Target a battle ground in the fugly sprawling aftermath of it’s mammoth data breach? And everybody who pounced on that ick got paid.
Modern living can prove a bitch at times, but then what isn’t? Modern motor lodge living makes that a bit better, particularly mid-week. By then all crowds have fled leaving a quiet elite grace to unfurl. Listen Woody. Amid the utter cool of a turquoise pool, you may just notice Amazon busily busting a major move. We did, and now we share it with you. Check our mega-fresh charts. Get here, and get square on the facts.

CULTURE, EDITOR'S DESK, INVESTING, STOCKS, THE AMERICAN DREAM, THINKING NOW

This Bull’s Last Run?

MARCH 16, 2019. The bank engineered sub-prime mortgage melt down was ten years ago, and ten years equals one very old bull. STOCKjAW charged the desert outside Las Vegas to ponder this “late cycle” equity morass, and then the 737 Max tragedy. While trade talks lumber, our equity market suffer. While the Chinese shoot for 6%-6.5% GDP growth, our tax cut sugar-rush burns to a crisp. A recent survey of U.S. corporations reveals that 84% engaged in “no additional hiring, or capital expenditures” as a result of those massive cuts. What now?
While Europe and Asia slow we show darting sporadic cranky growth. Think Amazon and Faceplant. The bulldozer of mammoth growth we once took for granted is now firing on three cylinders and blubbing dark fits of sour smoke. And then came Ethiopia.
Even leaders run naked on this new landscape. Equity markets change–no warning. “Bam”–welcome to the NFL. Ours has. Guess what? Many of the shareholders you depend on, are rookies in this new market. All 52 cards have been tossed skyward. It’s our job to read the new patterns. Could a bucket of Martini motor lodge living help? Meanwhile, one lesson stands clear. Look wider for your wins, and take them when offered. Lately, “long term” means days, maybe weeks, not months or years.