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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.
Wall Street Doesn’t Care About Inflation Anymore – Here’s What They’re Looking at Instead
The recent crash happened because of a dance between market-maker dealers and the call and put buyers on both sides they were selling to. As investors lost money on calls, they sold off; dealers bought them back but shorted futures as a hedge, and then we started sliding. I wrote about it extensively earlier this […]
The Market’s Overreacting to the Fed Again – Here’s How to Trade It
It was no surprise that the Federal Reserve’s FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) raised the benchmark fed funds rate by 50 basis points yesterday. (In case you didn’t know, Fed funds are overnight loans big banks make to each other. A “basis point” is one one-hundredth of a percentage point, so 50 basis points is […]
Score a Double-Whammy Win on This Dividend Stock as Markets Rally
This is a big week for the markets, and I think it will set up a December to remember. With the Consumer Price Index print for November set to come out tomorrow and the Fed making its next decision on interest rates Wednesday, we’re going to see a lot of market movement this week. I’ve […]
China’s Done with “Zero-Covid” and That’s a Huge Opportunity – Here’s Your Winning Strategy
For understandable reasons, Chinese stocks have been beaten down for over two years. But things are changing in China, and now there are good reasons to play these former losers again. Just don’t expect it to be a one-way ticket back to all-time highs. That won’t happen. Instead, you’re going to see a wave of […]
Set Yourself Up for Profit in 2023 with “Narrative Investing” – Here’s How
The entire stock market narrative changed on Wednesday following Jerome Powell’s Brookings Institution speech. We’ve got our first sign that the Fed believes we could be at peak inflation and a surprisingly optimistic appraisal of our chances of a “soft landing” for the economy that would avoid recession. Though we saw a bit of a […]
A Santa Claus Rally Is Coming to Town – Here’s How to Make the Most Money by January 1, 2023
Traditionally, a Santa Claus rally refers to gains in the stock market happening in December, specifically over the last five days of the month into the first few days of the new year. Since 1950, the average gain over that period, in 70% of those Decembers, was 1.3%. But this December might be different. We […]
This $9 Stock Crushes Inflation with a 10% Yield
There’s a lot of attention being paid to the protests in China around the most recent wave of Covid lockdowns – and for good reason. If China shuts down its factories again, it will have an impact on manufacturing, and it could once again create shortages of components for products. If that happens, those component […]
Grab This Cheap Stock for 7%+ Yields and a Great Inflation Hedge
I trust everyone is having a good day as Americans settle in to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with friends and family. Over several months, I’ve been writing about how to invest in a high-inflation environment. I’ve covered everything from floating-rate investments, high yield debt, real estate investment trusts (REITs), business development corporations (BDCs), closed-end funds, […]
Investors Need to Think Like Traders Right Now to Maximize Gains – Here’s How
A lot of the advice and analysis we give out here on Total Wealth is geared toward investors – people who want to find the best stocks to grab and hang onto in order to build wealth over time. There’s nothing wrong with that, of course, but I always say that being too rigid in […]
Here’s Exactly How to Play the Surge in Chinese Stocks Right Now
Since China embarked on major economic reforms in 1978, its GDP growth has averaged a stunning 9.14% per annum. But not all’s well these days. After decades of unprecedented debt leveraging, and as the global economy slows, China sees its economy following suit and possibly crashing. That has implications not just for China, but for […]