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Your Lack of Curiosity is Killing You
S&P 500 is up 14/15 weeks 📈🥳
Welcome to a creative perspective that will breathe new life into your everyday experiences.
Have you ever wondered why, as adults, we seem to lose the insatiable curiosity that defined our childhood?
Children are the embodiment of curiosity, questioning everything around them, while adults seem to have a diminished sense of wonder.
Is it because we think we know it all or are more “experienced”?
I. Mindset
Curiosity begins with a simple yet powerful acknowledgment: there is always more to learn.
Adopt the mindset that every moment, every encounter, and every experience has the potential to teach you something new.
There are 3 surprising benefits of curiosity:
1) Keeps you young: research shows that keeping a sense of wonder throughout life and as well as novelty-seeking behavior helps people stay young. Not just feel younger but actually live 5-7 years longer.
2) Helps you learn: curiosity helps you obtain and absorb new information. You are more likely to remember it.
3) Fosters better relationships: being genuinely interested in other people, builds more robust relationships. It establishes a greater feeling of intimacy.
Thinking about your levels of curiosity yet?
Don’t be alarmed low levels doesn’t mean you are doomed, adults mostly suppress it.
Tips to cultivate your curiosity:
Seek diverse perspectives: make a conscious effort to expose yourself to different cultures, opinions, and ways of thinking. Engage in conversations with people from various backgrounds, read literature outside your comfort zone, and explore topics that challenge your existing beliefs.
Ask more questions: randomly ask yourself “why” and “how” when reading a book or talking with friends. Then say less and listen more- genuinely be more understanding and you’ll learn something new.
Immerse yourself in a topic: select a topic that you find interesting and go deeeeeep- research articles, blogs, listen to podcast, watch TED talks etc then write about the topic. Write about it as if you were introducing it to someone.
Turn mistakes into learning opportunities: stop viewing them as failures and instead as stepping stones to discovery. Curiosity thrives in an environment where errors are seen as opportunities to learn and grow.
Learn about yourself: slow down and ask yourself about your goals, behaviors, explore why you feeling the way you feel.
It's in the unknown that the most profound discoveries await.
II. Money
The lack of curiosity can have significant implications for your financial well-being, from overlooking potential opportunities to stagnation.
By cultivating a curious mindset, you expand your financial knowledge, explore new opportunities, and gain confidence growing your money while making it work for you.
Cultivating curiosity can be powerful when it comes to your finances:
Expands your financial knowledge - by actively exploring topics such as budgeting strategies, investment options, and retirement planning, you enhance your financial literacy and are able to make more informed decisions about your money.
Creative Problem Solving - Instead of feeling overwhelmed or defeated, curiosity prompts you to explore alternative solutions, think outside the box, and consider new approaches when faced with financial challenges.
Recognize and seize opportunities - whether it's researching new investment opportunities, exploring potential side hustles, or networking with industry professionals ➡ curiosity empowers you to identify avenues for expanding your resources in order to achieve your goals.
Are you actively expanding your financial knowledge or find yourself stuck in a rut in your comfort zone?
III. Markets
The stock market rally continued this week making it 14 out of the last 15, as the S&P 500 closes over 5,000!
Small cap stocks rebounded +2.3% after underperforming to start the year.
There still has not been any concerted selling interest despite reports that the market is overbought in the short-term, which has acted as its own upside catalyst.

Here are the main points from last week:
Jerome Powell sat down with 60 Minutes for an interview and again stated that the pace of interest rate cuts is likely to be slower than the market expects. Powell signaled rising confidence that inflation is moving sustainably down to 2%, but the Fed wants “more confidence before they begin to cut interest rates.”
CPI Revised Downward The Consumer Price Index (CPI) Report in December saw a revision lower than what was initially thought, but the overall inflation revisions were a mixed bag.
Commercial Real Estate worries Fears related to the health of commercial real estate and the regional banks that often finance lending in the space were sparked after New York Community Bancorp (NYCB) management disclosed large losses on loans.
Earnings recap positive responses from Ford (F), Eli Lilly (LLY), DuPont (DD), Arm Holdings (ARM), and Walt Disney (DIS) while Amgen (AMGN) and PayPal (PYPL) lagged.

S&P 500 Heatmap for last week
🚨 All eyes this week will be on 🚨
January CPI - Core prices in January are expected to hold steady for a third month in a row at a monthly increase of 0.3%. Annual rates, which in December were 3.4% overall and 3.9% for the core, are expected to slow to 3% and 3.7%.
- Consumer Price Index (CPI) is a measure of the change in the average price level of a fixed basket of goods and services purchased by consumers.
January PPI- Producer prices in January are expected to rise 0.1% on the month versus a 0.1% decline in December. The annual rate in January is seen at 0.7% versus December's 1%.
- The Producer Price Index (PPI) of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is a family of indexes that measure the average change over time in the prices received by domestic producers of goods and services. PPIs measure price change from the perspective of the seller.

Most Anticipated Earnings this week
$SPY: S&P 500 continues its record breaking uptrend now 14 of the last 15 weeks +22% since October climbing over 500 last week.
Growth stocks held their own outpacing value and large cap, will that continue this week.
One thing to note is that rates were also strong last week and they tend to have an inverse relationship to equities, with key inflation data this week let’s see how rates perform. 🧐

SPY over 502 trades to 505,508,510,515. Under 495 pulls back to 492,490,485
Trades Recap📊
Here are how some of our callouts did last week:
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$UBER: Uber our swing from $30 tagged our $70 price target last week for +127% return on your money after beating on earnings.


$COIN: Coinbase set up nicely from our Monday zoom callout tagged our $140 price target for +446% return on your money trading call options. See what we said below.



$SNAP: Snapchat…as we said…its earnings volatility never disappoints last week in our watchlist It gave us a 36% gain overnight after dumping on earnings tagging both our $13 and $11 price targets.


$PLTR: Palantir our callout from last weeks watchlist gave us a 31.43% return on our money after beating on earnings.


$DIS: Disney our swing trade from $82 tagged our $110 price target last week for a 33.86% return on your money. Earnings were decent but investors really liked the 50% dividend increase, new share repurchase program and investment in Epic Games.
Oh and if that wasn’t enough…..Disney+ will be the exclusive home for Taylor Swift Eras Tour 💃


Watchlist 👨🏫
Here are some charts we are watching this week:
$ABNB: Airbnb is reporting earnings on Tuesday after the close, look for it to trade out of the tight range it’s been in since December.
Wall Street is looking for EPS of $0.67, up 39.58% from the prior-year quarter and revenue to be $2.16 billion, showing a 13.7% increase vs. a year ago.

ABNB over 155 trades to 160,170,175. Failure to hold 140 pulls back to 130,125,120
$DKNG: DraftKings our swing trade running up into the Super Bowl is reporting earnings on Thursday.
Wall St expects EPS of $0.06 which represents a year-over-year change of +111.3% and revenue of $1.22 billion, up 42.9% from the year-ago.

DKNG over 45 trades to 50,55,60. Failure to hold 42 pulls back to 38,35,30
$HOOD: Robinhood, a Wall St Bets favorite, is set to report earnings on Tuesday after the close. The chart hasn’t done much but trade in a $4 range, will earnings start a run?
Wall St is looking for a quarterly loss of $0.01 per share, pointing to a year-over-year increase of 94.7% and revenue of $456.75 million, exhibiting an increase of 20.2% compared to the year-ago.

HOOD over 13 trades to 15,17,20. Failure to hold 10.50 pulls back to 9 and 8
*None of these stocks above are recommendations to buy, sell or trade. We do not give financial advice, you should always do your own due diligence and practice proper risk management. For educational purposes only*
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Me exploring my curiosity in Rio de Janeiro 🙌
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