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TRADING PUTS A TIMER ON YOUR MONEY…

Everyone has heard the saying, time in the market is better than timing the market, but let’s go into depth on why it doesn’t work.

Even before Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd) uttered the words in the 1983 comedy film, Trading Places, everyone has been trying to catch what profit they could squeeze between the margins of support and resistance.

Today, the allure of fast profits and the millionaire made by penny stocks has turned Wall Street into the biggest casino on Earth. The only problem is between the lack of experience, technology and the blindness of greed, most ignore the sign that says 95% plus lose when trading the market.

But there is always one hero that thinks—between all the courses they have purchased, chart set ups, and simulator accounts they are the masters of the realm. It’s best that you waste not one breath informing them of the danger that lies ahead; let the penalty of loss sought them out.

Predicting how the market moves is nearly impossible. Even highly skilled professionals rarely predict both the correct time to enter and exit the market consistently. Accurate timing of the market requires being right not once, but twice—on the way in and on the way out.

P.T. Barnum said a sucker is born every minute and it’s only a sucker that thinks he can beat Goliath with a stone in the stock market. Fun fact: The stock market’s best and worst days are unpredictable and often come clustered together.

Six out of the 10 best days from 1999–2018 happened within just two weeks of the 10 worst days—making it easy for market timers to miss major rebounds. Yet you hear the whispers “sell and wait ‘til the market bottoms out.”

These are folks that trade off of false confidence and lose more money than they make and the profits they manage to squeeze out the market they lose right back over time.

What they never tell you is that missing even just a handful of the market’s best-performing days can dramatically reduce your investment returns.

For example, if you missed the 15 best days from 1990 to 2024, your annualized returns would drop from 10.7% to 7.6%—and missing the best 90 days results in an annualized loss.

But had you invested $1,000 in NVIDIA at its IPO on January 22, 1999, you would have purchased shares at $12 each, giving you about 83.33 shares. NVIDIA has had multiple stock splits: 2-for-1 in 2000, 2001, and 2006; a 3-for-2 split in 2007; a 4-for-1 split in July 2021; and a 10-for-1 split in June 2024. After all these splits, your original 83.33 shares would have become 39,998.4 shares or roughly 7 million dollars current state in 2025.

Now imagine if you had a plan to dollar cost average just $1,000 a month since the IPO; the millions lost to trading would make you sick as NVDA went up 182,000% since its IPO.

What trader in the world can compete?

Data shows that the majority of actively managed funds, which try to time the market, consistently underperform the overall market. Over a recent 15-year span ending in 2024, most U.S. stock funds trailed their benchmarks.

Nobel Prize–winning economist William Sharpe showed that to outperform a passive investment, a market timer must be correct about 74% of the time—an almost impossible standard.

Note; that is up 74% but right 74% of the time.

This is nearly impossible—not to mention, many investors let fear or greed drive their decisions, causing them to buy high and sell low—which is the opposite of success.

And then if you add on the compounded effect of emotional instability, it’s destroy any potential of a positive performance over the long-term.

For you lucky few, do not forget about taxes now that you are working directly in partnership with the IRS.

But as my dad used to say a hard head makes a soft behind and some are just too hard headed to realize what studies and real-world scenarios have been confirming for years—simply investing regularly (regardless of market timing) nearly always outperforms attempts to strategically jump in and out of the market.

Investment Dojo’s success is living proof with real gains and people to show so we waste no time looking a gifted horse in the mouth.

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THE WHITE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS…

It’s been an eventful two weeks—starting with the federal takeover of the District of Columbia police, better known as the federalization of the DC police department—a move reminiscent of mother Russia, but only temporary.

While Trump insists that crime was “out of control,” the day suggests that the crime rate was actually dropping, but less than 10 hours after Trump declared a public safety emergency and took control of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), a 33-year-old man was shot and killed in Logan Circle, less than a mile from the White House.

This shooting was the 100th homicide in D.C. in 2025 and the first since the Trump administration took over control of the police.

Trump used a combination of legal and emergency powers to deploy the National Guard in D.C. and assumed command of the Metropolitan Police Department for up to 30 days—a step that legal experts note is permitted under certain emergency provisions, but is highly controversial and rarely used.

This move involved invoking sections of the D.C. Home Rule Act, which allows the president, under emergency conditions, to direct the city’s police for federal purposes—though this authority is limited and typically subject to congressional review after 30 days.

But when you hold up Trump’s administrations actions to a mirror and combine it with the nationalization of MP materials and now the discussion by 10% of Intel, it has a communistic feel.

The deal is as follows :

The U.S. government is buying approximately a 10% stake in Intel. Specifically, it is investing $8.9 billion to purchase 433.3 million shares at a price of $20.47 per share. This stake represents about 9.9 to 10% ownership in the company.

The investment is structured as a passive ownership with no board representation or governance rights for the government. It is financed using previously awarded but not yet disbursed grants from the CHIPS and Science Act and the Secure Enclave program.

Now, of course the now embattled CEO Lip Bu Tan agrees with the deal.

It’s hard not to when the government has a gun to your head and yells out get down or lay down, which is figuratively what Trump did.

It almost seems coerced that Intel’s CEO highlighted this agreement as boosting U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing.

But like most thing, he did it for the money.

Now, if Intel needs the investment, this also includes a five-year warrant for an extra 5% stake under certain conditions, which means Pandora’s box is officially open and the drinks are on the WHITE HOUSE.

Even NVIDIA and AMD caught some stray bullets striking a desperate man’s deal, allowing for the garnishment of 15% of their China wages in exchange for a license and approval to sell.

If this isn’t a mafioso tactic then what is? In the name of national security seems to be the ongoing theme for the onslaught of government intervention; just when we thought the passing of the big beautiful tax bill was a move towards small government.

The move not only stunted Nvidia and AMD growth, but China has instructed companies not to buy Nvidia H20 chip.

This move comes after the suspicion of a back door in NVDA chips, which the company totally denies.

This probably has something to do with Trump repeatedly saying, we will give the 4th generation chips, on CNBC. The only problem is that China watches CNBC and as we are well aware, Trump’s words sometimes shoots everyone besides himself in the foot.

On a macro note, Jay Powell signals in his Jackson hole speech a shift in policy. Powell also hinted at a possible interest rate cut in the near future, noting growing risks to the labor market and uncertainty around inflation pressures, including those from tariffs.

Powell described the inflationary effects of tariffs as likely being a “one-time shift in the price level,” meaning they could raise prices initially but not cause persistent inflation.

Which is an about face from his wait and see approach.

Could it be the political pressure and the fresh attack on the Fed governor Lisa Cook, although highly unlikely to move Jay Powell. It is still a great distraction and insurmountable amount of pressure.

Although the are 12 votes only 7 are needed to change rates and In the July 29-30, 2025 FOMC meeting, two Fed governors—Michelle Bowman and Christopher Waller—voted against the decision to hold rates steady.

Which proves that dissention is in the air.

They preferred a 0.25 percentage point rate cut instead. This was notable as it marked the first time since 1993 that multiple governors dissented together on a Fed interest rate decision.

The majority of the committee members felt it was too soon to lower rates, citing ongoing inflation risks, but some members expressed concerns about rising risks to employment and slowing economic growth.

So, in short, the eggs are about to crack, and once again, the administration gets what it wants.

If this happens, either this will set up a bull rally or a major move to the upside of inflation… stay tuned!

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Kevin Davis Founder of Investment Dojo and Author of The C.R.E.A.M. Report