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Shah Gilani
Wall Street superstar and former hedge fund manager Shah Gilani is the Chief Investment Strategist of Manward Press and at the helm of the Manward Money Report newsletter and the Launch Investor and Alpha Money Flow trading services. He’s a sought-after market commentator and has appeared on CNBC, Fox Business and Bloomberg TV. He’s also been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post, and he’s had columns published in Forbes.
In 1982, he launched his first hedge fund from his seat on the floor of the Chicago Board Options Exchange. He worked in the pit as a market maker when options on the S&P 100 Index first began trading… and was part of a handful of traders who laid the technical groundwork for what would eventually become the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX). He also ran the futures and options division at the largest retail bank in Britain. Shah gained notoriety for calling the implosion of U.S. financial markets (all the way back in February 2008) AND the mega bull run that followed.
Now at the helm of Manward, Shah is focused tightly on one goal: To do his part to make subscribers wealthier, happier and more free.
Here’s the Big Problem with This “Trillion-Dollar” Buyback Binge
According to the American Prospect, a progressive policy journal, U.S. companies in the S&P 500 spent $5.3 trillion on buybacks between 2010 and 2020. Some analysts believe corporate buying power was responsible for 40% of the rise in stocks over that period, a huge contributing factor to the Great Bull Market of 2010 – 2020. […]
Make This Play on the S&P 500 for a Quick Profit Pop
It’s the start of a new trading week, and that means it’s time to look for a new opportunity to Flip the Chart. Instead of targeting an individual stock, we’re going to target the entire stock market, in response to some trends I see developing. When I look at the S&P 500 based on last […]
The Best Long-Term Plays to Weather Market Headwinds
The wind in the sails of the “everything rally” is starting to die down as the reality of the Federal Reserve’s “higher interest rates for longer” stance continues to settle in. We could be looking at a fairly significant downturn here, and that means it’s time to rethink what we’re doing with our capital right […]
Cash Is King Again – Here’s Where to Park It for Steady Gains
Some of you old Steve Miller fans may remember his seminal 1973 album The Joker and one of its brilliant tracks, “Your Cash Ain’t Nothin’ But Trash.” (For the rest of you who don’t know the song, check it out; you’re going to love it.) Like, I love cash now. Because now your cash is […]
The Best Way to Profit from the Auto Industry’s Slowdown
In last week’s Flip the Chart column, I recommended buying-to-open a MPWR March 17, 2023 $490/$480 Put Spread – and I’m sure glad I did. As I write this, the stock looks like its rolling over, and we could hit our profit target in the next few days. This week’s profit opportunity comes from an […]
Avoid These Anti-ESG Losers At All Cost
The tailwinds behind the “everything rally” have faded a bit in the wake of a CPI and PPI report that showed inflation continuing to be stubborn. Between that and the ongoing growth we’re seeing in the economy, the Fed’s position on interest rates has remained hawkish, and it seems clear that we’re looking at higher […]
How to Save the Free Market from the Fed… and Get Paid Doing It
Most people, including Wall Street investors, don’t realize that we don’t have free markets. We operate under a command economy, not unlike manifestly socialist or Communist countries, or dare I say, banana republics. Who is at the helm of the command center? The Federal Reserve System, America’s private central bank. That’s right, the Fed’s a […]
Make This Trade Today for a Potential 30% Profit
We’ve spent the last several months bringing you inflation-beating ideas in Monday’s column, but with inflation coming down, I want to switch things up and bring you a taste of the “out of the box” trading we’ve been doing in my Hyperdrive Portfolio service. So, welcome to the new Monday column, which I’m going to […]
Grab These Stocks Now Before the “Everything Rally” Fades
As I said yesterday in my Total Wealth article, the “everything rally” is off and running, and we’re seeing a nice run up in pretty much every sector of the market – even stocks that by all rights should be left for dead. So the questions before us are: how long can we expect this […]
The Tools You Need to Profit from the “Everything Rally”
In case you haven’t noticed, almost everything’s been on an upward tear: most stocks for sure, especially meme stocks and zombie stocks, cryptos, junk bonds… just about everything’s going up. It’s the “everything rally,” and it’s scary, because it doesn’t make a lot of sense to some investors. But for the “greed is good” crowd […]