Investment Themes

Now that I have over $25k to invest into the stock market, actually closer to $30k, an amount of money I’ve never had before to risk losing in the market, it’s time for me to take my 10 years of trading and investment experience and make some Mad Fucking Money! Booyaa Jim Cramer!!!

Over the last 2 years I have killed my self working massive amounts of overtime to pay off nearly all of my debt and save up $30k in cold hard cash. I have worked so hard for this money and given up so much of my precious time to earn it that I will not let even a single penny of my money be invested in a company that I wouldn’t want to own or waste it on commissions that I don’t need to pay.

As a result, I’ve come to the conclusion that I can’t buy into any broad market or even industry specific ETF, why? Because even within an industry ETF like the Technology sector of the Consumer Discretionary ETF’s there are still plenty of companies held by the ETF that I would never buy into if I was picking individual names. I was trying to avoid having to spend huge amounts of money on GOOGL and AMZN stock by buying the XLK and the XLY but these vehicles only invested 10% of their assets into GOOGL and 20% in to AMZN. And while there are many other stocks within those ETF’s which I love, like NVDA, NFLX, MSFT, MU, and INTC there are also plenty of stocks that are absolute garbage and I would never want to invest into. So I can’t buy into any of the major ETF’s like the SPY or the QQQ’s because I have certain investment themes that I am very bullish on and I really don’t want my money going into anything other than what I truly believe are going to be the biggest growth industries in the coming years. I will reveal my investment themes here shortly.

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Anyways, without further ado here are the themes that I am going to be massively long for the next 5 to 10 years:

• Quantum Computers.
• CRISPR / Cas9 and other gene editing technologies like Zinc Fingers. — We are finally in a position to take full control of our evolution.
• Biotech in general — any company that is working on Stem Cells, immunotherapies, or any novel first-in-class proteins or biologics are going to be red-hot specially when you put Quantum computers and AI to work on the genome, epigenome, and proteins you’re going to have a golden era of explosive growth as we rapidly discover novel cures and solutions to the “bugs” in our own DNA.
• Artificial Intelligence including the GPU and Memory needed for massive neural networks and machine learning that will power things like self driving vehicles.
• Weed — marijuana is going to become recreationally legal in Canada this summer and will likely become legal in the US within the next 5 to 10 years.
• Neuromorphic computers — basically “wet-ware” chips that are modeled after  neurons in the human brain. They are totally distinct from silicone transistor chips or quantum chips, they are more like brain cells which can process multiple threads simultaneously.
• Self-Driving Trucks — there are somewhere between 3 to 5 million truck drivers in the US today and every single one of them will be unemployed when they get replaced by a self-driving Tesla truck. The “domino effects” and ramifications of this event will be far and wide and we are likely to see this happen within the next 10 years.
• Online video education — there will always be a place for physical education Universities like Harvard, Stanford, Berkley, MIT, etc. but there rise of online video education companies like Udemy, TeamTreeHouse, Udacity, Coursera, Lynda are only going to increase as more and more people get put out of work by AI. Anything which can be learned through an online video can now be learned by anyone anywhere. The 4 million truck drivers who will soon be unemployed are going to to these online learning tools first and even during their re-education process.
• Brain Computer Interface (BCI) – Basically plugging into the Matrix but more practically, implanting chips into the human brain to allow us to control things with of minds.

These are my core investment themes. The stocks that I buy in this space are stocks that I will never sell until the promise, the dream of these themes becomes reality. Meaning that every and any pull-back, sell-off, or correction in these stocks for the next 10 to 20 years is a buying opportunity.

I will be discussion and revealing my holdings here shortly but for now I just wanted to get these ideas out there as a frame work and reminder to myself of what it is that I am looking for when evaluating companies.