American Consequences

Learn what's really happening in America

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Dan Ferris

March 2020

Trading and the $100 Challenge

A Conversation With Mark Minervini Champion stock trader and author By Dan Ferris Mark Minervini is one of the world’s most successful stock traders and an international performance coach. He won the U.S. Investing Championship in 1997 with a 155%...

February 2020

How to Escape From Japan

By Dan Ferris I don’t believe any business schools offer a ‘How to Escape From Japan 101’ course… They might want to rethink that. For example, let’s say you become the CEO of a big car company in Japan… get anointed as a hero for saving...

December 2019

Poor Henry

By Dan Ferris Tubs of Fun is a simple carnival game. You throw a softball into a plastic tub from a few feet away. The object is to make the ball stay in the tub. It sounds easy, but it’s not. The ball is too bouncy and the tub is too hard. It’s...

May 2019

Sink or Swim

Will your portfolio weather the coming storm? By Dan Ferris Since the birth of today’s bull market in 2009, investors have been pouring money into the market… And yet, most folks don’t seem to care at all about the inevitable storm on the...

April 2018

End of the Anti-Fear Trade

The day I warned about arrived on Monday, February 5. The CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) closed 115% higher than Friday’s close. And some investors lost everything... Before we get to the hairy details, I bet most investors who lost money trading VIX...

August 2017

‘Loss Is the New Black’

Investors have gotten manic many times in the past, frequently for profitless companies. It always turns out badly. By Dan Ferris Investors today are making one of the quintessential and most often repeated mistakes of all time… They have...