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Mode Mobile recently received their ticker reservation with Nasdaq ($MODE), indicating an intent to IPO in the next 24 months. An intent to IPO is no guarantee that an actual IPO will occur.
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Beginners in Stock Trading
Why you'd want to learn to trade
- The actual return spread between stocks, real estate, bonds, and cash — over a long enough horizon to matter
- Why "buy and hold an index fund" is a floor, not a ceiling, on what's possible
- What a real-world trader's track record looks like, when measured honestly
- What you'll know by Day 365 of this newsletter that you don't know today
This is the first lesson of a year-long course. We're going to take it slowly.
WHY STOCKS, REALLY
A dollar in a savings account today earns about 4% a year, before inflation. A dollar in long-term Treasury bonds earns about 5%. A dollar in real estate, after expenses and taxes, has historically earned about 3–7% real, depending on which decade you ask about.
A dollar in the S&P 500, reinvested with dividends, has earned about 10% per year over the long run.
The gap between 4% and 10% sounds small. It is not.
Compounded over 30 years:
| Investment | Starting | Ending |
|---|---|---|
| Savings account at 4% | $1,000 | $3,243 |
| Bonds at 5% | $1,000 | $4,322 |
| Real estate at 6% | $1,000 | $5,743 |
| S&P 500 at 10% | $1,000 | $17,449 |
That is the floor.
The S&P 500 number is what you get for owning a single index fund and doing nothing for three decades. It assumes you make zero individual stock decisions, zero market-timing decisions, and zero attempts to identify the companies that grow faster than the average. It is the return for being passive.
If you learn to identify the leading stocks within the index — the 5% of companies that account for the majority of the index's returns in any given decade — the math gets considerably more interesting.
"The stock market is the greatest wealth-creation tool in history. But you must understand it before you can profit from it."
William O'Neil, How to Make Money in Stocks (4th ed.)
WHAT A REAL TRACK RECORD LOOKS LIKE
We're going to spend a year talking about the work of William O'Neil, who wrote that quote. So a credential check now, before we go further.
In 1962, O'Neil turned $5,000 into roughly $200,000 over an 18-month stretch by concentrating his capital in three back-to-back leading stocks of that era. That is a 4,000% return. It is verifiable; the trade records were later published.
In 1967, the managed-account business he ran was ranked first in the United States with a 115.6% return for the year. He bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange at age 30. He used those returns as the seed capital to found Investor's Business Daily in 1984.
The investment methodology O'Neil developed — called CAN SLIM — has been ranked the top-performing investment strategy from 1998 through 2009 by the American Association of Individual Investors. The IBD 50, an index based on the methodology, has returned roughly 18% per year since its 2003 inception — about three times the S&P 500's return over the same period.
These are not promises. They are documented facts about one trader's career, and about one methodology's track record. Your results will not match O'Neil's — most traders' won't. But the gap between "passive index ownership" and "what a disciplined methodology has produced over 60 years of public record" is not 1× or 2×. It is large enough to be worth the next 8 minutes a day for a year.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN OVER THE NEXT YEAR
The plan for the next 365 days, briefly:
- Months 1–3 are the foundation. We define what a stock is, how the market works, how to choose a broker, how to read a chart, and then we walk slowly through CAN SLIM — the methodology that has driven essentially every lesson in this newsletter. Each of the seven letters gets a week.
- Month 4 covers the four chart patterns every beginner should recognize on sight: the cup-with-handle, the double bottom, the flat base, and the ascending base. By the end of Month 4, you should be able to look at a stock chart and tell us which of those four (if any) it is currently forming.
- Months 5–6 are about staying in the game: risk management (when to cut a loss; how big to size a position) and trading psychology (why you'll feel the urge to do exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong moment).
- Month 7 is market timing. Even great stocks fall in bear markets. We'll cover follow-through days, distribution days, and the four-stage framework that lets you read the general market's character.
- Month 8 is a 28-day deep dive on the traders whose work this newsletter is built on: Livermore, Darvas, O'Neil, Minervini, Raschke, Williams, the Turtles, and a dozen others. Their credentials are verifiable. We'll show you the receipts.
- Months 9–12 are advanced patterns, execution mechanics, macro forces, and finally — building your own system.
That's the roadmap.
The week ended with a sharp split in the market: technology stocks sold off hard while steadier, defensive corners held up, as investors stepped back from the artificial-intelligence trade that has led the market for two years.
| S&P 500 | 7,354.02 (−2.0% wk) |
| Nasdaq | 25,297.62 (−4.6% wk) |
| Dow | 51,876.11 (+0.6% wk) |
Week of June 22–26 — Friday's close, with the change on the week.
What drove it: The Nasdaq's five-day slide — its worst week in months — followed a report that OpenAI may delay its IPO, which cooled the whole AI trade; chips led the way down. The Dow's small gain against that drop is the rotation in a single line.
What the pros are doing: Investor's Business Daily — the growth-trading playbook this newsletter is built around — just trimmed its recommended market exposure to the 60–80% range and is leaning to the low end as heavy-selling “distribution” days pile up. In plain terms: the smart money is holding some cash and waiting. Even so, the S&P 500 is still up about 7% on the year — a rough week is not a rough year.
Today's lesson argued that the market's true leaders compound far faster than the index itself. NVIDIA is the textbook example — and this week, it's also a lesson in what that does not promise.
NVIDIA Corp · NVDA · $192.53 close (Fri, Jun 26) · about −8% on the week · Semiconductors
Over the past several years, NVIDIA has compounded at many times the index's long-run pace of roughly 10% a year. Its revenue alone grew more than 70% over the past year. This week, though, it had its worst stretch in months, falling about 8% as investors rotated out of AI chips. Both of those things are true at the same time.
- Price: $192.53 at Friday's close, down about 8% on the week — its worst week in months
- Market cap: about $4.7 trillion — still among the largest U.S.-listed companies
- 52-week range: $142.03 to $236.54; the close sat roughly 19% below the high
- Revenue: $253.49 billion over the trailing year, up 70.7% from a year earlier
- This week's driver: a rotation out of AI chipmakers toward memory makers, plus a report that OpenAI may delay its IPO
- Sector: Semiconductors
This is the heart of today's lesson, playing out in real time. The reason to learn this craft is that a small number of leaders produce most of the market's long-run gains, and NVIDIA has been one of them. But being a long-term leader does not mean rising every week. A rough week is noise; the multi-year compounding is the signal. The work ahead is learning to tell the two apart, so a week like this reads as information rather than panic.
We start at the very beginning. Tomorrow we cover what a stock actually is — what you legally own when you buy one, why companies sell shares in the first place, and why this matters more than most beginners think.
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