We'll be streaming LIVE today on Stock Market TV with The Best Morning Show in Finance. This is where we talk about which stocks are moving, the major themes in the market, and what we're doing about it.
Today's guest is our in-house Quantitative Strategist Grant Hawkridge.
Grant joins us from the other side of the world in Australia. So let's all give him a warm U.S. welcome!
REV Group is a leading manufacturer of specialty vehicles like fire trucks, street sweepers, school buses, and more.
They provide every type of vehicle a municipality needs. Sounds like a good business, right?
In the past few years, the company has been trying to divest from several segments, such as school buses, because of slowing sales growth and margin compression.
Instead of school buses, they've aggressively leaned into the fire and emergency vehicle segments. This has boosted profitability, and the market loves it!
REVG just closed at a fresh all-time high on the heels of a mixed report:
As you can see, the market punished the stock for reporting earnings during its prior drawdown from 2018-2020.
In the nearly five years since it made its all-time low and embarked on a new uptrend, the market has rewarded the stock for reporting 65% of the time.
What's more important to us is this quarter's report was the catalyst for resolving a multi-year accumulation pattern.
Are you adding fire truck exposure to your portfolio? Let me know 🙉
Below is the 10th ASC Mastermind Course. In this video, I discuss how to profit from short squeezes.
I love short squeezes. I love how they happen, I love how they're somewhat misunderstood, and most importantly, I love to profit from them.
That's why we created an entire scan to identify stocks with potential short squeezes.
Most people think looking for a short squeeze is as simple as looking for stocks with the highest short interest. But we know there's a little more nuance than that. In reality, there are multiple components to a short squeeze.
In this video, I review the three parts of a short squeeze (why they happen), how we find these stocks, and how we analyze them to ultimately profit.
"First they scare 'em out, then they wear 'em out."
That's a famous old Wall Street saying. And I agree with it 100%.
In Bitcoin, the "scare" post-100K might not have been that scary (or maybe it's yet to come?), but it definitely feels like we're in the "wear 'em out" phase right now.
And my gut tells me the next move higher will catch the chasers by surprise. That's what I want to position for.
In this scan, we look to identify the strongest growth stocks as they climb the market-cap ladder from small- to mid- to large- and, ultimately, to mega cap status (over $200B).
Once they graduate from small-cap to mid-cap status (over $2B), they come on our radar. Likewise, when they surpass the roughly $30B mark, they roll off our list.
But the scan doesn't just end there.
We only want to look at the strongest growth industries in the market, as that is typically where these potential 50-baggers come from.
Some of the best performers in recent decades – stocks like Priceline, Amazon, Netflix, Salesforce, and myriad others – would have been on this list at some point during their journey to becoming the market behemoths they are today.
When you look at the stocks in our table, you'll notice we're only focused on Technology and Growth industry groups such as Software, Semiconductors, Online...
Your struggles are most certainly different than mine. It follows that they are different from your neighbors, work colleagues, friends, and even family members.
They may be better or worse. It doesn't matter. What does matter is that you have struggles, they are yours, and to varying degrees, these struggles affect your mental health and put you at risk of entering a self-fulfilling spiral that you can't escape from until you've lost everything.
I believe traders and finance professionals don't talk enough about their struggles. I know I personally do not.
There is a pervasive, institutionalized, and incentivized culture in our industry to project calm and confidence at all cost.
Everything is great! We're making a ton of money! Nobody is better than us! Let us manage your money for you!
I'm calling bullshit on that because the costs are greater than we can imagine.
The sooner we talk about it, the better we can tackle problems with effective solutions, and the likelier we are to achieve desirable results.
If any of this resonates with you, I encourage you to...