Bullseye Brief

Ignore the cheers. Keep going when they boo. Trust the process & stay trust to yourself. That's the message from world-renowned artist David Drebin, who sold half his works to Elton John at a show in 2004… and he's never looked back. Today, we explore the surprising similarities between Art & Investing.  

Your Questions Answered - We've witnessed some wild trading activity recently, and amid the volatility I've received some great questions from your fellow subscribers. I'm going to share them, along with my responses. I figure we all get the benefit that way. Thanks for the feedback and keep it coming.

Unknown, unknowns - These are the things out of nowhere that turn markets upside down, and send executives scrambling. A data-mining company called DataMetrex scours social media for clues about the next Big Thing… clients include NATO and the CIA. CEO Marshall Gunter explains how they do it.

Aim High, Work Hard - My friend and former BloombergTV co-Anchor Cory Johnson has launched The Drill Down podcast as business news platform for business-minded people. Like me, Cory is unapologetically optimistic on what American Ingenuity can accomplish. He shares insights and observations about which companies are winning in 2021… and why.

Market Roadmap - We speak with my friend, and former market maker Judd Hirschberg… one of the original rates traders on Chicago Merc from the 1970s. Judd now runs an advisory service called White Wave Trading Strategies. He’s especially good at identifying relationships across assets and spotting changes in trend.  

Biologist Dr. Deborah Brosnan helps businesses and governments around the world identify practical solutions to environmental challenges. She analyzes what Washington’s trillion dollar Green Plan means for our economy, and specifically how we’ll get there.

Future of Health Care - Chris Plance of PA Consulting helps hospitals save lives… from Robotics to Blockchain, he evaluates which cutting edge technologies make the biggest difference. He’s also lectures at the Rutgers Business School in New Jersey.

What Are You Buying? - WSJ #1 Financial Services Analyst and Gabelli & Co. Portfolio Manager Mac Sykes shares ideas for Q2. Mac also earned Runner-up in the annual StarMine analyst awards for stock picking in 2014 and 2018, and has received several Honorable Mentions from the Annual Institutional Investor Survey. Best of all, he’s an old friend.   

Plowshares & Profits - Top-rated agricultural commodities analyst, former investment banker and Marine Corps veteran Chris Narayanan now advises family farmers on the business of farming, as part of the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture. It’s American Ingenuity come home, and I love the mission

Good to Great - Best-selling author Scott Kirsner founded Innovation Leader to advise CEOs on how to cultivate new ideas within their organizations. As someone focused on American Ingenuity, I want to know his secrets.

I have purposely avoided investing in cannabis. The topic makes me uncomfortable and the science feels nebulous. CEO Liz Wald of Good Earth Organics begs to differ, and she joins us for a spirited, thoughtful conversation.

Thank you for your many thoughtful emails over the past several weeks on money and markets. I love getting great questions, and if one person has asked, probably ten others have been wondering too. So today we’ll do this together… answering every question one at a time.

EV Reality Check - Institutional Investor’s top-ranked Auto Analyst Nick Colas takes us inside the newest electric vehicles, separating what’s possible from what’s not. How long will the rollout take? How much demand is there? Are batteries cost effective vs gas and diesel? What about hydrogen fuel cells? Where will all the electricity come from? 

The Chartist – Top Technical Strategist Chris Verrone of Strategas Research joins us to interpret the charts and share tactical ideas for Q1. Chris describes his work as “technical ideas for fundamental investors” and I read his note every morning. Having been named by Institutional Investor as one of Wall Street's top three strategists for a record seventh year in a row, Chris is exceptional.

23 Amazing Guests - My heartfelt thanks to these CEOs, entrepreneurs and thinkers propelling our world forward. This is their story in their words… our best podcast moments of 2020. It’s a good reminder that our north star of American Ingenuity burns bright.

Sharing & Saving - Vitality Insurance will buy you an iWatch if you send them your health data… and they’ll cut your premiums by 10%. Good deal or an affront to privacy? CEO Adrian Gore explains how it works and why customers love it. We discuss the emerging partnership between doctors, insurers and patients.

Recover & Rebuild - Harvard Business School graduates are teaming up with small business owners in NYC to share their expertise, and data scientist Sharon Joseph explains how even free programs like Google Analytics can make all the difference in connecting with customers. 

What Happens After You Hit Send - Text messaging and group chat platforms generate $5 billion annually, with 20%  growth projected through 2025… but are they secure? DatChat Founder/CEO Darin Myman says no, and he thinks encrypted communication across blockchain may offer our only solution.

Hand Sanitizer for Your Nose - A private company called Halodine has created a revolutionary nasal spray that kills the Covid virus on contact. The NFL distributes this product to its players, and Ophthalmologist/Infectious Disease Specialist Dr. Jesse Pelletier joins us to explain how it works.

Technically Speaking - CBOE founding member Judd Hirschberg shares his updated Q4 targets, alerts and inflection points on key US stocks and indicies. Judd’s research is driven by five decades of proprietary models that prioritize  long-term relationships across asset classes. He is highly respected among the Chicago futures trading community, and you can learn more at WhiteWaveTradingStrategies.com. Join us Wednesday at noon.

Attention Stock Pickers: Today we’re talking high-growth, small-cap stocks with Laird Bieger and Randy Gwirtzman of the Baron Discovery Fund. They’re up significantly this year and share some their favorite picks.

Chef/Owner Giuseppe Bruno employs 130 at his three New York restaurants, including Food & Wine World Top 20 finalist Sistina. Covid has wreaked havoc on his business, but he’s putting white table cloths on the sidewalk and refusing to quit. That's American Ingenuity.

Empowerment - Dream Exchange launches as the country's first minority-owned stock exchange focused on funding minority-owned businesses. Thirteen years in the planning, Co-founders Joe Cecala and Bill Ellison join us to celebrate the moment and share their sense of mission.

Neil Grossman managed trillions for Norges Bank, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund. Now Neil makes wine, and we’re paying a visit to his vineyard. From stimulus and rates, to grape juice and sunshine. Our conversation in the vines.

More Please - Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is presiding over the largest government intervention in history… $3T of bond-buying and added liquidity since March alone. It’s great for stock prices, but what’s really happening? Long-time Fed-watcher and macro strategist Peter Tchir of Academy Securities explains.

Kenny practically defined the New York Stock Exchange... a larger than life Italian kid from upstate who arrived in the 70s and hit it big. Chapter Two is Kace Capital Advisors in Florida. As always, he's fired up.

Trading Volatility - The CBOE has just reopened its trading floor, and veteran VIX trader Mark Sebastian of OptionPit.com joins us to share some of his favorite “vol” trades... including a few option ideas for our Bullseye picks.

Déjà Vu? - Former SAC trader and DataTrek Founder Nick Colas shares data-driven observations about the Great Depression, and they're eerily relevant today. From corporate profits to worker productivity, and even human behavior. Déjà vu all over again? You’ll get the link at noon.

Life After Basketball - San Antonio Spurs legend David Robinson and his Goldman trained partner Daniel Bassichis have built a highly successful real estate investment firm called Admiral Capital. Today, their take on adapting to a post-corona world, from rethinking office space to helping communities rebuild.

Family office pioneer Rick Pitcairn of Pitcairn Inc. returns to share his annual outlook. Rick is an exceptional steward of family wealth, serving some of the country’s wealthiest families. His perspective is thoughtful, measured and unique.  

Frank Sorrentino is the Founder and CEO of New Jersey-based ConnectOne Bancorp. His team of community bankers have already issued $400M in new loans under the government’s largest-ever direct stimulus program, and I want to know how it’s going.

Will Nutting introduces US companies to UK investors as Managing Director of Equity Sales for Stifel Nicolaus Ltd. His enthusiasm for growth stocks is infectious, and I want to get a sense for how global investors perceive what’s happening here at home. Will is a former British Army officer and a wonderful friend.

My friend Chris Verrone of Strategas Research Partners calls himself a technical strategist for fundamental investors, and he's especially good at spotting changes in trend. I read his report every morning, and I am thrilled to share his perspective with you. He thinks markets are sending an important message that the worst is over, and we should selectively buy emerging new leaders.

From stone-washed denim in the 80s, to bio-fuels in the 90s, and now a potential cure for Corona, CEO Mark Emalfarb of Dyadic Int'l Inc. (DYAI) has long championed using fast-growing fungal cells to develop biologic solutions at a massive scale... with significant cost-savings. I call it American Ingenuity in the service of humanity. Tune in for: How repurposed fungal cells make drugs. Why companies and countries are signing on. What this means for healthcare in the long run.

Imagine owning a hard asset which has risen in value 95 of the last 100 years, pays a 5% dividend and has no correlation to the stock market. Interesting, right? It's called peace of mind, and large pension funds are big buyers. My friend Edward Hargroves of Goldcrest Farm Trust explains. How institutions acquire property What farmers get in return Why the "I"s are hot  (IA, IL, IN) Where all this is going

DataTrek Founder Nick Colas synthesizes what everyone at Davos was talking about… 5G will transform human interaction and create huge opportunity, but cost WAY more than expected and take longer to install. Plus, some of Nick's highlights for who to watch.

He made some great calls at the start of last year, so Michael Purves joins us again with his predictions for 2020, and insights on our recent economic cycles.

With the year and the decade wrapping up, let's remember the 21 excellent guests that joined us in 2019. It was a big year, and they shared some big ideas - my highlights are collected here. You'll notice key trends, and 21 pieces of advice. I love this business, and I'm looking forward to another great year. Thanks for joining me.

I met Ivan Feinseth of Tigress Financial at the NASDAQ market site and knew we had to do a podcast. He loves stock picking. He's thoughtful in his analysis. He believes in American Ingenuity. And he makes money. We discuss several leading consumer technology names in detail, including AKAM, FB, GOOGL, GRMN, LYFT, MA, NVDA, UBER. I own three of them.

Jeff Hirsch publishes the Stock Trader's Almanac, and he has a knack for picking through the data and uncovering trading trends pegged to holidays, elections - even Halloween. Jeff joins Bullseye to talk about Q4 trends, when the best six months for trading open up, and what we can expect the 2020 election to affect the markets.

Chris Vermeulen of TheTechnicalTraders.com has almost the exact opposite of the normal Bullseye approach. He focuses exclusively on chart patterns across ETFs and asset classes, alerting his 25,000 subscribers about near-term tactical opportunities. He's a macro trader... I'm a stock picker... and that's a great synergy. Chris joins us to talk about how he plays the market, and where he's looking forward.

After a quick downturn in the markets, Randy Frederick is the perfect person to be speaking with. As vice president of trading and derivatives with the Schwab Center for Financial Research, he's got his eye on a host of indicators, and joins us to share his thoughts on what he's seeing - from how to interpret a 20% VIX, to what to watch in put-call ratios. Plus, what we might see with trade negotiations.

John Mauldin, legendary economic observer, joins us to talk about his excitement for the future, from biotech to agriculture. According to John, change in the '20s is coming but life in the '30s is going to be great - and he's got some big tips for Bullseye listeners.

Matt O’Connor says Avocondo will unlock a whole new demographic of real estate investors: millennials. Matt joins us to explain Avocondo’s business model, how they’ll make money for everyone involved, and why real estate is still an untapped market.

John takes us inside the country's most innovative manufacturers, highlighting what sets them apart and which we should own. What does the Factory of the Future look like? How are global supply chains outsmarting tariffs, and where will tomorrow's productivity gains come from?

Michael shared his tactical trades for 2019 at the start of the year, and he nailed the first half. Now he's back to talk 2H19 and beyond, European markets, and six strategic positions - including some Bullseye favorites.

Adam speaks with Dan Oliver, who only invests gold and gold mining companies. Dan shares is investment philosophies, and why gold can be an unpopular story. And according to Dan, with a historic credit bubble in effect, gold is poised to take off - once a few other conditions are met.