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Yet after the world’s most valuable chipmaker smashed expectations with its blowout report Wednesday, the AI party is one nobody can afford to miss. Short interest is nearly nonexistent among tech behemoths. … For active managers, the pressure is getting more intense by the day to ride the upward momentum across tech-powered indexes like the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 …

Shortly after the trough of the Great Financial Crisis, this newsletter observed that Wall Street was selling “dividend investing” strategies to coax investors back into equities. In pieces ranging from The Dividend Deception to Rushing About: The Thirst for Yield, we pilloried what we felt were often deceptive marketing pitches that led investors into history’s biggest bubble in dividend stocks.

“One of our clients is a married couple with about $5 million in liquid assets. They are both 80 years old. 90% of their money is in equities. Most in US large cap index funds and then they own large single positions in Nvidia, Eli Lilly, and Tesla. The husband wants to be 100% in these things. The wife wants it all in CDs. Trying to walk them back from so much risk would seem easy but

Researchers in behavioral finance have documented the following three items: • Human beings have a nasty habit of extrapolating trends • Even worse, the longer a trend has been going on, the more likely we are to extrapolate it…. • …. which is terrible because the longer a trend has gone on, the more likely it is to revert!