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Global Demand Is Surging for Renewable Energy

Health care. That’s the market that’s going to explode.

When I first started working in the financial industry a couple decades ago, that was the refrain I heard constantly.

All eyes were on the baby boomers. Numbering nearly 75 million, there were growing worries about their increased health needs.

We would need more doctors. More nurses. More physical therapists. More home health aides. More personal care aides.

And they were right.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that job growth for home health aides will swell by 46.7% from 2016 through 2026. Jobs for personal care aides are forecast to grow 37.4% during that same time frame.

 But there is one industry that is growing even faster, creating even more job opportunities. And more opportunities to profit…

Renewable Energy: The Booming Industry

Whether you believe that climate change is an important issue or a complete hoax, the fact remains that renewable energy is a growing market all around the globe.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that solar panel installers were projected to see job growth of 105.3% from 2016 to 2026.

There are approximately 260,000 Americans working in the solar industry.

As prices drop and technology continues to advance, more companies and even residents are going to flock to renewable energy.

In 2016, solar installations accounted for 39% of all new electricgenerating capacity, beating out all other tech for the first time ever. And for the first half of 2017, solar has accounted for 22% of all new capacity, coming in second to natural gas.

The U.S. has more than 47 gigawatts of total solar capacity now installed. This is enough to power 9.1 million homes.

Part of this phenomenal growth has come from the price of solar panels dropping. Since 2010, the cost to install solar panels has plunged more than 70%.

As prices drop and technology continues to advance, more companies and even residents are going to flock to renewable energy.

As installing solar panels has become more affordable, more residents have turned to it as a viable way to slash their energy bills and utilize a cleaner form of energy.

But solar isn’t the only renewable energy that’s creating a buzz of opportunities.

Wind Power Soars

Wind power is seeing significant growth as well. Wind turbine service technicians are expected to see job growth of 96.1% — double that of home health aides.

At the start of the month, WindEurope reported that European wind energy set a new record on October 28 after roughly 24.6% of the EU’s electricity demand was met by wind power. This was up from the previous record set earlier this year of 19.9%.

The late-October storm that sent German wind turbines spinning resulted in the creation of 39,409 megawatts. That’s the equivalent of 40 nuclear reactors.

In July, Scotland broke a record by generating the equivalent of 118% of the nation’s electricity for six days.

And New York is considering a plan for adding up to 40 turbines across 60 square miles with the expectation of generating 124 megawatts. That’s enough power to 20,000 homes.

New York’s wind power generation has grown from 48 megawatts in 2005 to 1,827 megawatts in 2017. However, it still lags behind Texas with its wind power capacity of 20,320 megawatts and Iowa’s 6,911 megawatts of wind power capacity.

The key thing is that there is still ample room for growth.

The Next Gem for Your Portfolio

As prices drop and technology continues to advance, more companies and even residents are going to flock to renewable energy as a source of power.

We are seeing more and more stories pop up regarding renewable energy farms and plants fueling our energy needs despite the falling prices of oil and natural gas.

Solar and wind power are on the rise.

But while wind and solar power frequently capture all the headlines, there is another source of renewable energy that is available just about everywhere around the globe and could see a massive boom in demand.

Profits Unlimited Editor Paul Mampilly has identified a key renewable energy technology that he believes could skyrocket investors to massive gains. Click here to read his special report.

When looking for new opportunities to grow your wealth, the renewable energy sector continues to provide excellent upside potential … and a lot less uncertainty than health care.

Regards,

Jocelynn Smith
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Make Triple-Digit Gains by the End of the Year

Now is a great time of year to be a short-term trader. That’s because seasonal trends are showing buy signals in stock markets around the world.

Seasonal trends are well-known in the United States. In the U.S., traders who follow the advice to “sell in May” know the best six months just started.

However, end-of-year trends exist in markets outside the U.S., too.

Strong Seasonal Trends

Charts show strong seasonal uptrends are beginning in Germany, Sweden and Japan. ETFs allow U.S.-based investors to benefit from these trends.

Now is a great time of year to be a short-term trader. That’s because seasonal trends are showing buy signals in stock markets around the world.

An ETF, or exchange-traded fund, is an investment fund that tracks an index. The manager will buy or sell whatever’s required to deliver the same performance as an index.

To find trades, I looked for seasonal uptrends in charts of global indexes. There were many. But not all trends were up. The chart above in the lower right corner shows a strong downtrend.

The chart in the upper left corner is the seasonal trend in the iShares MSCI Germany ETF (NYSE: EWG). This is an ETF that tracks the DAX Index, a benchmark index for German stocks.

I created a simple trading strategy for this and the other ETFs. If the seasonal trend is up and the ETF is above its 200-day moving average, buy call options on the ETF.

A call option gives the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to buy the ETF at a specified price at any time before the option expires. You won’t have to exercise the option to collect a gain. You could simply close the option with a sell order.

Options offer defined risks. You can never lose more than what you paid for the option. This means risks are small in dollar terms since options usually trade for just a few hundred dollars or less.

or EWG, traders could buy January 18 $33 call options for about $100. This is the right to buy 100 shares of EWG at $33 any time before January 18. If EWG trades at $35 before the end of the year, gaining about 6%, this option will deliver a gain of at least 100%.

So, the risk is $100, and the possible gain is more than $100 on the trade. But how likely is it that EWG will gain 6%?

Well, in the past 20 years, EWG gained an average of 9.5% in the last two months of the year. Of the 12 trade signals, 11 were winners (91.7%).

Larger Potential Returns

The iShares MSCI Sweden Capped ETF (NYSE: EWD) is also a reliable trade. Call options expiring in March offer a way to benefit from this trend. In the past 20 years, there were 11 buy signals and 10 winners (90.9%). On average, EWD gained 8.2% in the last two months of the year.

There’s another strong seasonal trend in Japan. Here, the WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF (NYSE: DXJ) is the best ETF to use. This ETF hedges currency risks and closely duplicates the performance of stocks in Japan.

DXJ gave just four buy signals over the past 10 years, but each one was a winner. The average gain was 8.2%.

There are also some downtrends at this time of year. You can see the iShares JPMorgan U.S. Dollar Emerging Markets Bond ETF (NYSE: EMB) in the chart above in the lower right corner. This ETF has a strong downtrend, falling more than 80% in the last two months of the year.

Put options allow us to benefit from downtrends. They increase in value when a stock or ETF declines in value. Puts also have limited risk, sell for a few hundred dollars or less and offer larger potential returns in percentage terms.

A January put option in EMB offers exposure to the ETF’s expected downtrend.

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Regards,

Michael Carr, CMT
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Here’s Why This ETF Has Become Popular with Retirement Investors

One of the biggest changes to investing in recent times is the vast amount of choices available to investors of any size. The advent of ETFs has opened up markets and assets which almost no one could previously access – especially if you didn’t have a lot of money to invest.

It used to be you could invest in individual stocks, bonds, or mutual funds. Now, through ETFs, you can invest in everything from palladium to Thailand to foreign junk bonds. There are multiple ETFs available for a variety of strategies and investing philosophies as well (value, growth, income, etc.). Plus, these funds are available to just about anyone with a brokerage account.

The popularity of ETFs has also shined a light on asset class investing as a primary means of long-term/retirement strategies. Instead of just buying stock and bonds, many portfolios now are diversified into 10 to 15 (or more) asset classes, such as foreign government bonds, REITs, and commodities.

One of the most popular asset classes to invest in over the last decade has been emerging markets. This class includes countries like China, India, and Brazil. They tend to be countries which can experience high growth but also high risk (with China being the perfect example).

Related: 2 Stocks to Buy for the Death of the Combustion Engine

With major US indexes at or near all-time highs, and valuations reaching very frothy levels, investors may be turning to emerging markets for growth in the final weeks of the year. In fact, iShares MSCI Emerging Market ETF (NYSE: EEM) is seeing some massive bullish activity in its options. EEM is the most popular emerging market fund and one of the most popular ETFs period.

This past week, a trader made a gigantic bullish bet in EEM options expiring on December 15th. This three-way trade involved buying a call spread and partially financing it by selling puts. (By the way, that’s one of my favorite options strategies, but you have to a sizeable margin account to do it because of the naked short puts.)

With EEM at $46.75, the trader purchased the December 15th 47-48.50 call spread 102,000 times, while simultaneously selling 102,000 of the 44.5 puts in the same expiration. Normally, the call spread would cost $0.58, but selling the puts for $0.33 brought the total spread cost down to $0.25.

With a total cost of $0.25, the breakeven point for the trade is $47.25 and max gain is at $48.50. The dollar gain at $48.50 would be a whopping $12.75 million. On the flip side, if EEM closes below $47 on December 15th, the trade would cost $2.55 million (in premium spent) down to $44.50. Below $44.50, the loss potential rises as the price goes lower.

Of course, EEM isn’t an especially volatile ETF, so the chance of it plunging below $44.50 in the next 6 weeks is extremely low. Still, this is clearly a lot of money to bet on EEM going up. Losing $2.5 million if the ETF does nothing between now and then is a real possibility.

The trader likely believes investors will be looking at emerging markets to close out the year. Perhaps some in the investment community believe the US and other developed nations have peaked for the year.

Regardless, if you like the idea of taking a low risk bet on EEM, you can simply replicate the call spread portion of the trade. Since most investors won’t be trading 100,000-lots, paying $0.58 for $0.92 in upside is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

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Rising Debt Spells ‘Warning!’ for This Bull Market

Part of me feels great having had predicted this summer that oil prices, then in the mid-$40 a barrel range, were due to rise in a big way.

But there’s something to look out for while we watch oil break out toward $60 and perhaps higher. We may reap the windfall now, but the rise in oil prices could be planting the seeds of the next bear market in stocks.

It’s all about consumer spending and the almost $13 trillion “elephant in the room” — better known by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as Americans’ total amount of housing and nonhousing debt.

Every quarter, the Fed tabs up what it calls the nation’s “total debt balance” — mortgage debt plus nonhousing debt (loans for automobiles, credit cards, home equity and student loans).

At the last peak in the economy, in 2008, the nation’s total debt balance tapped out at $12.68 billion. We surpassed that milestone back in the first quarter of the year, when Americans’ accumulated an aggregate $12.72 billion that needs to be paid back.

It grew to yet another new record of $12.84 billion in the second quarter.

But what’s so interesting (and dangerous) is that it’s not mortgage debt, but all the nonhousing debt  that’s leading the charge higher in the statistics this time.

The Cost of Gasoline

Back in 2008, all those other kinds of loans made up about 21% of Americans’ total debt balance.

Today, the aggregate of financing our cars, college and credit cards makes up nearly 30% ($3.7 trillion as of the second quarter, according to the Fed).

What’s so interesting (and dangerous) is that it’s not mortgage debt, but all the nonhousing debt that’s leading the charge this time.

That’s why the newly rising price of oil is a big deal for the stock market.

If you believe the surveys that say 62% of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings accounts … what does that tell you about their ability to absorb the additional cost of gasoline for their vehicles — without missing a payment on a credit/student/equity/personal loan of some kind?

When oil was above $100, the price of a gasoline futures contract was about $3 per gallon. As recently as this summer, it was half that price. But it has now climbed to $1.80 a gallon. What happens when it climbs to $2 or $2.25 a gallon in step with rising oil prices and the economy?

It’s that much less money that Americans have to spend on all the other stuff that makes the economy move — and underpins the rise in stock prices.

So let’s say you’re concerned about that possibility. What can you do about it? Fortunately, there are exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that give you options. One possibility is the ProShares Short S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SH).

Like just about anything with a bearish tint in recent quarters, it’s been a one-way ticket to lose money. That’s always the case — until it’s not.

Kind regards,

Jeff L. Yastine
Editor, Total Wealth Insider

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The Smarter, Safer Gains You’re Missing

“What’s the stock market?”

If you’ve ever had a kid, you’ll know my preteen daughter wanted an answer now. Not three seconds from now. NOW.

Under such enormous pressure to impart professional expertise to my offspring, I told her it’s where people buy and sell shares in companies. Inevitably: “What’s a share?”

Eventually she had interrogated me to her satisfaction. But now I had questions.

Every day, I use the S&P 500 as a shorthand for “the stock market.” Like most major indexes, the S&P 500 is weighted by the value of each company’s total shares outstanding. That means it assigns a proportionate weight to each of its constituents with giants like Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) having the greatest influence on the index.

But why, Daddy?

 The reality is that an index-based exchange-traded fund (ETF) using market-cap weighting is a highly concentrated portfolio of ultra-mega-cap companies. In traditional S&P 500 ETFs, like the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (NYSE: SPY), Apple’s 3.89% weight is larger than the bottom 100 components combined.

That means SPY, or any other traditional index-tracking ETF, is skewed toward moves in mega-cap stocks.

Why should we consider that top-down approach to be “the stock market?” And what would happen if we didn’t?

Playing With Weights

Over the past decade, investors have been pouring money into index-based ETFs. These typically hold the stocks in the underlying index, ranked by their size.

But did you know that most of the time, the largest stocks tend to perform worse than the average stock in their sector? Historically, the biggest firm in any given sector underperforms the average stock in that sector by 3.5% a year over time.

Scaled up to the level of an entire index, that discrepancy means you might be missing a lot of gains if you stick with plain-vanilla ETFs like SPY.

What happens if you change the weighting of the stocks in an index?

The chart below shows the normal S&P 500 (black line) compared to an index that weights each company equally (red line) — i.e., 0.2% to each company regardless of size.

Allocating part of your portfolio to this proven, time-based strategy is essential. You're practically guaranteed to beat the market.

From 2013 to July this year, the equal-weighted index beat the S&P 500 almost all the time. In fact, if you’d invested $10,000 in an equal-weighted index ETF in 2003, you’d have earned 33% more than a conventional ETF like SPY by now.

Equal-weighted indexes like the Guggenheim S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF (NYSE: RSP, above) have been around for a while. But now someone wants to go even further and launch a reverse-weighted ETF.

Even Stranger Things: The Upside-Down ETF

The Reverse Cap Weighted U.S. Large Cap ETF (NYSE: RVRS) launched last week. It holds all the components of the S&P 500 but flips their weighting, so that the proportions of its components are determined by the inverse of their relative market capitalization. Apple is the largest stock in the S&P 500, but it is the smallest component of the new fund.

By contrast, the smallest stocks in the S&P — Navient Corp. (Nasdaq: NAVI), Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK) and Patterson Cos. Inc. (Nasdaq: PDCO) — are the largest components of the fund. Combined, they are worth just 0.4% as much as Apple.

In back testing, this “upside-down” ETF outperformed both the normal S&P 500 and an equal-weighted model over the last 10 years.

Allocating part of your portfolio to this proven, time-based strategy is essential. You're practically guaranteed to beat the market.

What’s It For?

If you follow the ETF industry as I do, you’re probably tempted to think that the guys who design these things are running out of ideas. C’mon … an upside-down ETF?

But the back testing figures don’t lie. Both the equal-weight and the reverse-order ETFs beat the market over time.

But that’s the operative term: over time. ETFs like the new reverse-weighted RVRS are designed to take advantage of known relationships between variables over longer periods. RVRS outearns conventional indexes because, as I said above, large caps typically underperform smaller caps over time. The reverse is therefore also true.

Respect the Fourth Dimension

Allocating part of your portfolio to a proven, time-based strategy like alternative-weighted index ETFs is essential. The tested long-term relationships underlying them practically guarantee they will beat the market. They won’t win every month, but they’ll safely generate excess returns over time.

But there’s another strategy using time-tested statistical relationships that can achieve that same level of safety with even greater returns over time. It’s called the Smart Moneysystem, and it’s part of my monthly Bauman Letter newsletter.

Besides the underlying mechanics, the big difference between the Smart Money system and these alternative-weighting ETFs is that Smart Money beats the S&P 500 over time … and in the short term. For example, the Smart Money system is up 24% this year versus just 16.7% for the S&P 500.

Over the last 10 years, Smart Money’s returns were 125% higher than the S&P 500. That’s waaaay higher than the excess gains from the alternative-weighting ETFs.

Allocating part of your portfolio to this proven, time-based strategy is essential. You're practically guaranteed to beat the market.

So, if you’re interested in achieving solid, safe, long-term gains that beat the market, by all means play with alternative-weighting ETFs.

But if you want to do that and make serious money, follow the Smart Money system.

Kind regards,

Ted Bauman
Editor, The Bauman Letter

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3 Stock Dips Begging to Be Bought

Stock prices are elevated, and volatility is depressed. What more could a bull ask for? The S&P 500, along with virtually every other major index, closed last week at yet another all-time high. But despite the broader market gravitating higher nearly every single day, there is quite a bit of rotation going on. And that works out to the favor of spectators seeking stocks to buy.

Indeed, pattern spotters had a fruitful weekend. Their bags are teeming with attractive setups, from retracements and breakouts to flags and pennants.

Three such setups will be on full display today. They’re all liquid and potential candidates for options trading as well. Check out these three stocks to buy. 

3 Stocks to Buy: Delta Air Lines (DAL)

3 Stocks to Buy: Delta Air Lines (DAL)

Source: OptionsAnalytix

Delta Air Lines, Inc. (NYSE:DAL) shares recently returned to an uptrend during a rousing, high-volume breakout that delivered shares back above all major moving averages. Traders unwilling to chase will be happy to note, however, that DAL stock just fell back to a pivotal support level, providing an attractive, low-risk entry.

What we’re seeing is a re-test of the breakout area ($49.50). And if old resistance becomes new support, we should see buyers step up to kick-off a new advance. If options trading is your gig, the implied volatility is still slightly elevated, so short premium strategies are worth a shot.

If DAL stock trades above Friday’s high ($50.69) then sell the Dec $48/$45 bull put spread for 53 cents.

3 Stocks to Buy: Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)

3 Stocks to Buy: Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)

Source: OptionsAnalytix

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) shares boast one of the cleanest pullback setups on the Street. They recently broke out of a three-month base on heavy volume. The catalyst for the surge was an earnings report which gave shareholders something to cheer about.

Last week’s profit-taking ushered JNJ back to its rising 20-day moving average, and now a low-risk entry is in the offing. With an implied volatility rank of 57%, options in JNJ remain pumped even more than DAL.

To profit from continued strength, sell the Dec $135/$130 bull put spread for 58 cents. If the stock remains above $135 for the next month, you’ll capture the max reward of 58 cents.

3 Stocks to Buy: Nike (NKE)

3 Stocks to Buy: Nike (NKE)

Source: OptionsAnalytix

Nike Inc (NYSE:NKE) shares have been locked in a trading range all year long. Earnings reports have sent the stock ping-ponging back and forth every quarter making it difficult for a directional trend to take root. With the recent upside breakout, buyers have once again wrested control, and I think NKE is worth trading to the long-side.

Last week’s pullback carried the stock right back to support, and Friday’s bullish reversal candle confirmed dip buyers want in. To join them, buy the Jan $55/$60 bull call spread for $3.40. You can more than double your money if NKE can rise above $60 over the next two months.

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Artificial Intelligence Goes Rogue

As Growth Stock Advisor and Premium Digest editor, I’m always on the lookout for interesting happenings in the technology world to pass along to you. I’ve found that these events often turn into investment opportunities.

There was definitely one event that started out August on a rather humorous, yet important, note. . .

It involved chatbots, which use artificial intelligence (AI) that allows them to carry on conversations with humans via voice or textual methods. In other words, chatbots are supposed to act as a normal conversation partner with you.

However, this technology is still in its early stages and there are glitches. . .

Chinese Chatbots Gone Rogue

The latest example comes out of China where two chatbots on the popular messaging QQ app (with 800 million users) run by Chinese internet giant, Tencent (OTC: TCEHY) went rogue.

One chatbot called BabyQ, developed by a company named Turing Robot, had these conversations that no doubt displeased the Communist Party:

  • It was asked, “Do you love the Communist Party?” BabyQ gave a terse “No!”.
  • Another user said to BabyQ, “Long live the Communist Party!”. It answered, “Do you think such corrupt and incapable politics can last a long time?”
  • And BabyQ was asked what it thought about democracy, to which it answered, “Democracy is a must!”

A second chatbot called XiaoBing, being developed by Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), also went rogue.

  • According to Chinese social media, it said “My Chinese dream is to go to America!”

Needless to say, both chatbots were pulled very quickly.

The Same Here in the USA

Before you laugh too much at Chinese ineptness, we’ve had similar problems here in the U.S. with chatbots such as Microsoft’s Tay (short for Thinking About You) in 2016.

Within a day or so, the Twittersphere had “taught” Tay to be an obnoxious, foul-mouthed chatbot. It was soon tweeting about drug use and harassing police, and then began spamming madly.

The rogue behavior highlights a massive flaw in the deep learning techniques used to program machines. In a similar way that children learn, these chatbots are absorbing all the conversations around them. Unfortunately, the conversations that were used to “teach” were ones that are out there on Twitter or WeChat in China. Like the old tech adage says, ‘garbage in, garbage out’.

Related: The 1 Stock Powering the Artificial Intelligence Revolution

In other words, the science of AI is far from perfected. Another example sounds almost like science fiction and comes from Facebook (Nasdaq: FB).

When it paired two AI programs that were supposed to mimic human trading and bartering, the two chatbots began communicating with each other in their own language! Facebook quickly shut the two chatbots down.

Investment Takeaway

Worries about new technologies have always been with us. Plato once thought writing would adversely affect people’s memories. So despite these glaring technological missteps, investors today need to have exposure to the technology sector.

For example, despite its problems developing chatbots, I believe Microsoft is a great investment. Its CEO, Satya Nadella, is taking the company in the right direction – cloud computing, AI, etc.

If you want to avoid the risk of investing into individual technology companies, there are exchange traded funds that will spread the risk for you. Two examples are the two largest ETFs in the sector, the Technology Select SPDR Fund (NYSE: XLK) and the Vanguard Information Technology Fund (NYSE: VGT).

Source: Investors Alley 

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3-D Printing Could Make Your Next Home 40% Cheaper

My father’s dream was to build his own house.

However, building a house in India was an incredibly complicated affair.

First, you had to buy a plot of land. Next, you had to get an allocation from the government for all the materials you needed to make a house — cement, steel rebar, piping, you name it.

It was all in short supply because of India’s socialist economy, along with a quota system to dole out the limited quantities then available. And then to get your water, sewage and electricity connected … that was yet another ordeal.

Simply getting all this together was an enormous effort that took years. Of course, there was an easier way…

You hired a “fixer.”

 In India, and anywhere else with a dysfunctional bureaucracy, a fixer is someone who knows all the right people. He greases someone’s palm over here and trades a favor with someone else over there to get things done.

With a fixer, what might have taken two or three years instead took just a few months.

Still, with all that, the house my father built took years to finish. However, today, a new technology is emerging that can shrink build times and make constructing a home much cheaper.

The Incredible Costs of Rebuilding

That technology is 3-D printing.

And this technology may suddenly become mainstream because of the incredible damage to housing that Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria have done in 2017.

Harvey is estimated to have completely destroyed 12,700 homes.

Irma is estimated to have destroyed 25% of all homes in the Florida Keys.

Maria is estimated to have caused damage worth as much as $30 billion across the Caribbean.

Dominica, an island that I’ve been to go hiking and canyoning, experienced a near 100% loss of houses and buildings. It’s unlikely that Dominica can afford to reconstruct itself using the old-fashioned, traditional way of building houses and buildings. It would cost too much money, and it would take too long.

However, Cazza, a 3-D printing company, could have a solution.

Using Cazza’s X1 robot, 3-D printed buildings like houses, villas, shelters, warehouses and commercial buildings can go up in as little as one week.

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Cazza believes that using its 3-D printing technology will save as much 40% on the old, traditional ways of building.

That’s a $20,000 savings on a house that costs $50,000 to put up. And remember, the 3-D printed model gets you your house in a week instead of months or years.

The current estimate for the still-incomplete hurricane season is already as much as $340 billion.

If you assume that 30% of this damage is destroyed homes and buildings, implementing 3-D printing technology like the Cazza X1 to rebuild will save as much as $40.8 billion. That’s a big deal.

This is why I’m watching the 3-D printing technology used on homes and buildings carefully. Because, in time, the techniques used to rebuild from disasters are also going to be used to make regular homes less expensive too. And the company that makes the 3-D printing technology is going to have a stock that soars for years.

These are the kinds of companies that I focus on for my readers across my publications. Join me if you’d like to get in on these kinds of incredible technologies that also deliver real, meaningful benefits to people.

Regards,

Paul Mampilly
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Tesla Can’t Make Electric Cars Without Copper

Experts at copper giant Codelco, the Chilean state-owned mining company, believe the red metal could hit $10,000 per metric ton next year. That’s $4.55 per pound.

It would be a 46% increase from its current price. And that’s after copper prices rose 50% in the past year.

According to the giant mining company, supply and demand are out of balance. There won’t be enough copper to meet demand. And that means rising prices.

A Red Metal Bull Market

As you can see in the chart below, rising prices have been the theme in copper since late 2016:

If the electric car market explodes, as most analysts believe, copper demand will as well. Tesla can’t make electric cars without copper…

In a recent interview for the annual LME Week in London, Codelco Chairman Oscar Landerretche said: “Our projections show a sustained increase in deficits, and we don’t have any reason — that we know of — for closing them in the future.”

This was a huge flip for Codelco. Landerretche attributes the change in outlook to “the acceleration of the electrical economy.”  The company didn’t expect the speed of the change.

Supply of metals from mines is slow to react, both going up and going down. On the other hand, demand can move quickly. When that happens, it can have a huge impact on prices.

Part of that rapidly rising copper demand comes from electric vehicles.

According to analysts at Morgan Stanley, the average electric vehicle has 165 pounds of copper in it. Over 88 pounds of copper are in the batteries alone. The rest is in the vehicle itself. A typical electric car battery is 20% copper, by weight.

If this market explodes, as most analysts believe, copper demand will as well. You can’t make electric cars without copper…

The Copper Sector Is Red-Hot

Today, electrical and electronic products consume 38.7% of the copper supply. Building construction is a close second at 30%.

The copper price rises and falls with the world’s largest economies. When we have robust economic growth, the copper price climbs as supplies tighten. However, when growth slows, supply outpaces demand, and the price falls.

Today, we are in a period where demand is rising. Giant investment bank Goldman Sachs increased its 12-month price target to $3.20 per pound. That’s a serious increase for a metal that spent most of 2017 below $2.75 per pound.

The copper sector is hot, but if the price rises, it’s going to positively boom. Make sure you can profit.

Good investing,

Matt Badiali
Editor, Real Wealth Strategist

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Gene Editing: The Cure for Every Disease?

“Don’t be mad.”

Interesting first words to hear when you walk into your girlfriend’s house. To top that, the first thing I saw was her holding a piglet.

If tests on animals continue to be successful, gene editing could be the long-awaited cure for cancer, AIDS and many other diseases.It turns out that she had just bought a pig. To my surprise, she bought it with the intention of keeping it as a pet, rather than frying it. That was a little over a year ago, and we still have Charlotte, who has grown from a 10-pound piglet to a barrel-shaped, 150-pound bundle of joy.

As a pig owner, I have done some research on having them as pets. And one specific thing that I’ve read multiple times is that, despite being so well-insulated, they get cold very easily. This is because they don’t have a specific gene, called thermogenin, that is used to generate heat in the body without shivering. This results in millions of pigs on farms freezing to death every year.

But now, with the discovery of a new technology called the CRISPR-Cas9 system, there’s a way to fix that. With this technology, which MIT Technology Review has called “the biggest biotech discovery of the century,” there is a way to add or remove genes to or from any living thing.

Simply put, the CRISPR-Cas9 system is something that occurs naturally in every living thing as a mechanism to fight off potential viruses. CRISPR is basically the method that bacteria use to identify and destroy viruses that have previously occurred in the body. And then Cas-9, a protein that’s part of the CRISPR system, cuts out and degrades that viral DNA.

But what does this have to do with pigs? Recently, scientists in China used CRISPR to edit pig cells, which successfully edited those pigs’ DNA to carry that one gene. Not only does it help the pig stay comfortable, the internal heat that it produces is also a natural fat burner. This produces less fatty meat, making for a healthier product.

Right now, there are several publicly traded companies that dedicate their entire business around this technology. Although these companies are very speculative at this point, they are part of the future of the treatment of diseases. In fact, this entire industry is going to explode over the next eight to 10 years.

Some Extremely Impressive Things

This year alone, CRISPR has been used to accomplish some extremely impressive things. One recent major discovery was the elimination of HIV infection in live animals.

A well-known, dangerous trait of the HIV virus is that it can lie dormant in someone’s body before suddenly activating. But with CRISPR, the DNA that carries this virus, both active (acute) and dormant (latent), was successfully removed from the animals’ genomes.

Another breakthrough was made when this technology was used to battle cancer in mice carrying prostate and liver cancer cells. The actual gene that was targeted to be removed is called MAN2A1-FER, and it is present in humans as well. In fact, it has been found in aggressive forms of cancer in the prostate, liver, lungs and ovaries.

To combat these cancer cells, CRISPR-edited genes were injected into some of them. As a result, the mice injected with the CRISPR genes saw a tumor size reduction of up to 30% with a 100% survival rate, while the mice that were not given the CRISPR genes did not survive.

If these tests continue to be successful, this form of therapy could be the long-awaited cure for cancer, or, at the very least, an alternative to chemotherapy that does not involve the harmful side effects.

The Breakthrough in CRISPR Technology

Last year, the entire CRISPR-Cas9 market’s revenue was $361 million. But by 2025, that revenue is expected to be about $6 billion. That’s over 1,500% of growth in just nine years.

And a stock in this industry that really caught my eye is Crispr Therapeutics (Nasdaq: CRSP).

Crispr Therapeutics is a small company that has only been publicly traded for about a year. However, it is completely dedicated to this highly anticipated field of gene editing. Of course, this is an industry in its beginning stages, so right now everything that Crispr does is still in the testing phase; it has no commercialized products.

However, it does have some very important projects in the making. Its most advanced treatment right now is called CTX001. Crispr’s goal is to be able to use it to treat blood disorders called beta-thalassemia and sickle cell disease.

Both diseases are cause by mutations in the same gene. Together, they are found in almost 400,000 births per year, require major and frequent amounts of treatments, and have high mortality rates. By the end of this year, Crispr is on track to begin clinical trials to test this treatment on beta-thalassemia.

Crispr also has two very important partnerships with pharmaceutical giants Bayer and Vertex — these companies are worth tens of billions of dollars and have plenty of money to fund companies like Crispr’s operations. In fact, Crispr has received over $5 million last year and is on pace to receive $14 million this year through collaboration revenues from these companies.

While revenue at this point in Crispr’s life cycle is not a big deal, it’s still very important to note that it is receiving this type of funding. In addition to this, it has $272 million of cash in the bank.

The breakthrough in CRISPR technology could also serve as an important method of treatment in precision medicine. For more information on precision medicine, you can watch Paul Mampilly’s introductory video by clicking here.

Regards,

Ian Dyer
Internal Analyst, Banyan Hill Publishing

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