The Investing Club released something called "the Homestretch" every weekday at 3pm, which sounds like what a horse does before it dies but is actually an afternoon update for people who need someone to tell them what to think about their portfolio in the last hour of trading. The exact hour when your decisions matter least. Perfect timing.
AI-related stocks are diving. The market's winners have one thing in common. The Investing Club won't tell you what that thing is in the headline because then you wouldn't click. Classic move. It's like a fortune cookie that makes you pay for the fortune separately. The one thing the winners have in common is probably "not being AI-related stocks" but that would make for a pretty short newsletter.
Here's what kills me about this. You're sitting there at 2:55pm. Your AI stocks are bleeding out. Nvidia down. Microsoft down. Whatever garbage semiconductor company you bought because someone on Reddit said it was "the next Nvidia" absolutely cratering. Then the Homestretch arrives. An actionable afternoon update. Forty-five minutes before the closing bell. What are you going to do with this information? Panic sell and lock in your losses? Finally feel smart because now you know the winners have "one thing in common" which is information so vague it could apply to literally any category of stocks ever?
The Investing Club operates on the assumption that retail traders need minute-by-minute guidance, which is technically true but not for the reasons they think. It's not that the market moves so fast. It's that retail traders have the attention span of a goldfish with ADHD. They need someone to hold their hand through the scary last hour when the big boys are actually making moves and they're sitting there wondering if their seventeen shares of an AI ETF make them a tech investor.
The market's winners have one thing in common: they're not being traded by people who subscribe to afternoon newsletters called "the Homestretch."
Photo by Maxim Hopman on Unsplash
Leave a Comment