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What’s Navellier’s “Crytpocurrency Master Key” — is it “the “Holy Grail of cryptocurrency investing?”

Blue Chip Growth teases "a unique way to unlock as much as $43,098 (possibly more) beginning Thursday, February 22nd from the booming crypto-markets…"

By Travis Johnson, Stock Gumshoe, December 20, 2017

This is the headline that got a lot of readers’ attention:

“WARNING: Do not put a penny into any cryptocurrency until you read this urgent message.”

It’s part of an ad for Louis Navellier’s Blue Chip Growth, and he goes on…

“If you want to make a fortune in the red-hot cryptocurrency markets, there’s only one thing you need to know…

“DO NOT buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple or any of the other 1,211 cryptocurrencies out there.”

“I’m going to reveal for the first time in public a unique way to unlock as much as $43,098 (possibly more) beginning Thursday, February 22nd from the booming crypto-markets…

“No matter which cryptocurrencies go up or down in value…

“WITHOUT knowing a lick about computers or programming…

“And most importantly, WITHOUT doing anything risky with your money.”

So… what are we dealing with here? First, know the context: Louis Navellier is promoting his Blue Chip Growth newsletter, so it’s likely to be a large capitalization growth stock that represents this “Cryptocurrency Master Key” — but we’ll keep an open mind and sift through the clues.

And he implies that the opportunities are as massive for this “Master Key” as they have been for the actual cryptocurrencies…

“I’m talking about a way to potentially unlock the market’s biggest and fastest gains… and make 10x —20x the returns of many cryptocurrencies — yes, including Bitcoin — over the long haul, but with nowhere near the same amount of risk.”

Time will tell on that… but though he’s certainly using the mania and fervor over bitcoin’s stratospheric recent rise to get your attention, the comparisons he uses in saying that “Master Key beats Bitcoin by more than 3-times!” and similar claims are all from past time periods, like 2016, before that ridiculous bitcoin run. For some reason, he also pulls most of his charts from Stansberry Research, though Navellier’s the main guy at competitor Investorplace (I haven’t seen the two work together in the past, though Stansberry is also distributing this latest ad for Navellier’s letter).

And, as usual, Navellier (or his copywriters, I expect) lays it on pretty think when it gets to how exclusive and lucrative this “master key” is….

“… not 1 in 1,000 people are aware of this cryptocurrency Master Key.

“How does it work? Well, you see, a Master Key is a single key that can be used to unlock any door in a building, even though each door has its own individual key. Imagine a 1,000-room luxury New York high-rise. For privacy and security, each room has its own unique key, which lets residents access their assigned room, but no one else’s. But here’s the thing. The entire building also has a Master Key — a single key that can gain access to any room. Whoever holds this Master Key has the power to unlock ANY door. That’s essentially what I’ve uncovered in the cryptocurrency markets — a way to unlock the biggest gains — and NONE of the losers… the perfect investment.

“It’s basically the Holy Grail of cryptocurrency investing.”

To further illustrate, he compares the cryptocurrency mania to the dotcom bubble, noting that choosing the winning cryptocurrency (assuming there is one, in the end) could be super-lucrative… but that choosing is a risky business right now, akin to choosing between Amazon, Pet.com, Garden.com and Kozmo in the late 1990s. Not everyone chose Amazon, and the others all dropped more than 99%.

And there was also, he says, a “Master Key” for that dotcom era…

“What most investors didn’t realize back in the late 1990s was that there was actually a little-known way to make a fortune no matter which “dotcoms” made it and which ones didn’t.

“That’s right…

“The Internet had a ‘Master Key’ too… much like the cryptocurrency ‘Master Key’ I want to tell you about today.

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“…And it gave investors — those who knew about the concepts behind it — an easy way to unlock the biggest and fastest stock market gains… with virtually NONE of the risk of holding ordinary Internet stocks….

“Folks who took advantage of what I consider to be the Internet’s ‘Master Key’ saw life-changing gains, as high as 83,222%…”

We can tell by the exact chart match that this is a reference to Microsoft (MSFT), in case you’re curious — and actually, it was a lot better than 83,222% — that’s close to the performance of the stock price, but if you count the dividends that Mr. Softy started paying back in 2004, the total return for shareholders who bought in the mid-1980s is now over 130,000%.

So… will this “cryptocurrency master key” match that? Let’s see if we get some more clues to help us ID this fella.

“They all need encryption… computer networks… and high-powered internet servers.

“And they all need the same ‘Master Key’ which allows them to facilitate and verify transactions.

“Incredibly, this Master Key is not owned by the folks behind Bitcoin, or Ethereum, or any of the others.

“It’s totally separate, but it’s used by virtually EVERY crypto in existence.

“Incredibly, you have the opportunity right now—today—to own this ‘Master Key.’”

And he gives us the impression that somehow owning this “Master key” is like owning the cryptocurrency toll road and collecting fees all day long…

“As an owner, you can even receive incredible payouts every year for the rest of your life, all without touching a single digital currency.

“It’s like being the owner of the cryptocurrency ‘toll road’ … you essentially get paid every time a transaction takes place.”

Any other clues? We do get a few tidbits thrown in here and there about the many folks who have already invested in this “Master Key”…

“Spiros Segalas, former U.S. Navy officer turned hedge fund mogul. He’s generating north of $2.4 million per year in passive income from what I call the Master Key”

Hmmm… so in case that name doesn’t sound familiar to you, Segalas manages Harbor Capital Appreciation, a high-quality growth-focused mutual fund.

And I don’t want to spoil the surprise, but that $2.4 million is roughly the dividend that Harbor pulls in from its NVIDIA shares each year. So that’s a strong possibility. (I checked, incidentally, and other potential blockchain-related shares like Visa, Mastercard, and others didn’t have dividend expectations in that neighborhood — V and MA generate about 3X that much dividend revenue for that fund, for example.)

We then get another helpful hint, in the form of a chart (again taken from Stansberry) that shows the relative performance of the “master key” and the various big-name cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ethereum, and the master key beat them all handily… from early February 2016 through early March of 2017.

That’s true, and it proves that we’re right about which stock he’s teasing, because we get that exact price chart match… but it is, of course, also highly misleading now that the crypto bubble has progressed for another nine months and changed the nature of that market entirely… over the past nine months, I expect that no stocks have come close to matching the performance of bitcoin.

So what’s the stock? Thinkolator confirms that this is, of course, NVIDIA (NVDA), by far the most-cited blockchain superstar stock among mainstream investors… though also one that probably won’t get much direct growth from blockchain mania in the years to come, as new blockchain-focused chipsets and competition enter the mining market.

NVIDIA did get a nice boost from the ethereum miners this year, as miners increasingly turned to using graphic processing chips (GPU’s, often as part of high end “graphics cards” aimed primarily at gaming PCs) and both AMD and NVDA, who between them essentially own the high-end GPU market, enjoyed a surprise sales jolt.

Many folks think that is coming to an end now, including Mizuho’s analyst who opined last month that cryptos will be much less meaningful for AMD and NVDA in 2018 — NVDA had a decline in sales to the miners last quarter, though that number is very volatile and clearly the stock is getting lots of attention because of cryptocurrencies.

We should check the context, though — even if you think GPU demand from miners will fall off a cliff, it’s still not a huge part of NVDA’s business. If you annualize the results of the past two quarters (that’s a fancy way for saying “double the half year numbers to guess at a full year number”), sales of chips for cryptocurrency mining would make up about 5% of NVIDIA’s revenue.

That’s partly why NVDA is doing so well — it’s largely a win-win situation as their products surf a bunch of hot tech trends. If crypto-mania continues and lots of new coins come out, with more demand for GPUs to mine them, then they get a boost… if not, then a smallish part of their revenue dries up, and other major areas of the business are growing fast — both their traditional gaming business, which continues to be the primary driver, and the chips for next-generation data centers and artificial intelligence processing that are flying off the shelves and being used by most application developers in AI, to say nothing of the chips that power decisionmaking in self-driving cars.

That’s the strength for NVDA, and the reason it has seen such an exceptional stock price performance — it’s got good underlying growth (explosive growth, even), but, equally importantly, it’s got a meaningful presence in so many “hot” sectors and trends that investors always have room for optimism… data centers, artificial intelligence, self-driving cars, virtual reality, competitive video gaming, and, yes, cryptocurrencies. And I may be forgetting something.

That introduces some risk, as well — NVDA was a sleepy little chip stock for decades, milking the gaming business and trying to get built into laptops and desktops while lower-end GPUs were being commoditized, and investors didn’t start paying much attention until higher-end GPUs got to be popular as they fueled popular and super-demanding PC video games a couple years ago, and then self-driving cars as their chips were built into Tesla’s “autopilot” systems… and then the stories kept building from there because the analysts were too skeptical of that breakthrough growth and had to play catch-up as NVDA kept clobbering their estimates over the past couple years, becoming by far the best stock in the S&P 500 over the past three years (it’s up 900% in that time).

I’ve dabbled in NVDA shares a few times during this run, and ended up putting on an equity position by exercising some of my call options early this year, so it has grown to be a meaningful part of my portfolio… but not an investment that I would consider to be either an income generator or a “earn a few cents for each cryptocurrency transaction” investment.

I suppose you can make the case that’s true in some conceptual way — if miners in the future continue to find that GPUs are the best chips for mining, and mining is essentially the act of verifying transactions as part of the global network and being paid in the cryptocurrency for doing that verification, and miners use the money they make to buy more GPU chips, then I guess you can say they get a share of every bitcoin made in an extremely indirect way… kind of like the way a company who sells vegetable oil is indirectly getting a small share of every french fry McDonald’s sells.

I don’t know what the future holds, I’m afraid — the rapid rise of cryptocurrencies has turned “mining” into an industrial enterprise, with people developing and customizing chips and data centers specifically for mining particular blockchain “tokens”, and there has now been so much money thrown into the sector that it’s hard to see any rational economic decisions being made by any of the actors in the near future.

Blockchain mania could continue, with huge gains for coin owners and dramatically more demand for GPUs, or it could fall off a cliff — either will be good for the economy in the long run, I expect, because all the money chasing bitcoin and all the other tokens is generating incredible amounts of R&D that will advance new technologies, just like the money chasing the dot com boom created the dramatically more powerful internet that evolved from that point… but it might be a really bumpy ride. The coins themselves will be the most volatile part of crypto’s bubble-and-burst chart when we look back in a decade, I imagine, but the stocks that trade partly because of their connection to blockchain will likely move pretty dramatically as well as (if) sentiment shifts.

Still, that won’t impact AI or self-driving cars or data centers, where NVDA has primarily been seeking growth, and it won’t change the market for high-end PC gaming, which is a niche but a very lucrative one for NVDA (and one that analysts continually underestimate, as gaming rigs get more and more advanced and stadiums fill with people watching star “athletes” play video games).

I can’t tell you that NVIDIA, which is now a $120 billion company, will become larger than Intel (which has a $220 billion market cap, but revenue 7X as high as NVDA, with similar margins), and that’s largely where the skeptical comments come in for NVDA… but it is certainly growing revenue and earnings much faster than that semiconductor stalwart, and I’ve often been wrong in worrying about companies getting “too big to grow”.

Currently, NVIDIA trades at about 38X expected 2019 earnings, which is pretty crazy, but justifiable for a company that is expected to grow earnings almost 50% next year and an average of better than 20% a year for the couple years after that… the problem, for investors, is that this lofty valuation brings with it a really hair-trigger response to disappointments. So if NVDA only beats by a couple pennies next time it reports quarterly earnings… or, worse, misses those forecasts… the stock could fall 20% or more very quickly, particularly if they say anything at all pessimistic about future results.

One way to think of that risk is by imagining where NVDA would be priced if expectations were reset to something much more restrained — if competitor AMD began to take meaningful market share, for example (as has been speculated about for years, AMD has had disastrous results for decades in trying to compete with both NVIDIA and Intel), and NVDA began to have the same growth forecast and valuation as AMD, that would mean revenue grows at a little over 10% a year and the stock trades at 20X 2019 earnings estimates… in that case, NVDA shares would have to come down to at least $100.

That’s not what I expect to happen, to be clear… it’s just a quick little math exercise that I find handy to remind myself just how much of a stock’s valuation is based on future expectations and optimism. If you go just by the last four quarters of diluted earnings per share, then NVDA trades at a trailing PE of about 50. That’s a whole heckuva lot for a company that sells an actual physical product, even if they’re growing fast and that product has huge profit margins — the company isn’t likely to get dramatically better, they’re not going to become a lot more efficient, the valuation is based entirely on how much they’re going to grow sales and, therefore, profits.

The temptation is to extrapolate the past into the future, noting that NVDA doubled earnings per share last year, and did the same thing the year before that, so this growth will keep going… and who knows, maybe analysts are still underestimating NVDA, as they have done for three years now, so that’s the optimistic case. Just keep in mind that betting on that continuing “surprise” from NVDA, and continuing rapid growth, has gotten incrementally more expensive every day over the past couple years, so if the rose colored glasses ever fall off because of a weak forecast, it could get ugly in a hurry.

And yes, NVIDIA’s CEO (and founder) Jensen Huang is becoming ever more of a public-facing “star” in technology, so perhaps he’ll say something hugely optimistic at their press event at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next month that makes headlines, and that could easily drive the stock higher… though his profile might be slightly lower at the event this year than it was last year, when he delivered the opening keynote focused on self-driving cars.

So what do I do? I’m still holding my shares, and the future growth expectations and the fact that NVDA is still tapped in to several important growth trends mean I’ll continue to give these shares quite a bit of latitude… but it’s also a momentum growth stock, so I’ll also be mindful of important stop-loss levels and the importance of managing risk if the story begins to fall apart in any meaningful way. It’s a great company, and it trades at a great company price.

And yes, it’s a helluva lot less risky than owning bitcoin… but there’s also no chance at all that NVDA shares will rise by 1,000% next year, and those are certainly the returns that cryptocurrency speculators are daydreaming about, so keep your expectations rational.

Oh, and by the way — what are the specifics of that “income stream” from this “Master Key?” Here’s more from Navellier:

“Unlike cryptocurrencies, the Master Key has begun paying out income streams too.

“In fact, the next big payout is projected to come in March. It will likely total more than $83 million. So to ensure you’re positioned to collect a portion of this payout, you need to act before February 22nd to get in on this money.”

That is just an alluring way of saying that “NVDA pays a quarterly dividend.”

And it does, as Navellier notes, total about $84 million at last quarter’s rate, though they raised it just last month so it should be roughly $100 million when the February payout comes around. That’s still not all that exciting for current buyers, mostly because this is a huge company — the quarterly dividend sounds large out of context, but on a per-share level it’s only 15 cents per quarter and is not growing all that rapidly (it was 14 cents last quarter)… it takes a while for that to build up to something meaningful when you’re talking about a stock that trades at $200 a share.

So yes, there is an “income stream” for NVDA shareholders, but it comes out to an annual dividend yield of about a third of a percent. Less than the interest that some checking accounts pay. It may amount to something one day, and it’s good that they’re growing the dividend, but this is certainly not a stock that will trade based on that dividend anytime soon — and they don’t have a critical “secret” store of overseas cash to repatriate under the new tax reform bill, either, they have “only” about $6 billion in cash and under $300 million in deferred tax liabilities on their books.

Which means there’s no secret tax boon or income bonanza for NVIDIA, the stock price will continue to tell a story of revenue growth and earnings growth and how much optimism investors want to inject into the share price. So far, that’s a lot — and I expect there’s a better-than-even chance that continues for a while, but sentiment can change in a hurry if growth investors get a little mud in their face.

And with that, dear readers, I’ll send it back to you — any thoughts on our old friend NVIDIA you’d like to share? Or on Louis Navellier, for that matter, or cryptocurrency “master key” investments? Let us know with a comment below… thanks for reading!

Disclosure: I own shares of NVIDIA and call options on Intel, and have very small holdings in bitcoin and ethereum. I am not directly invested in any other company mentioned above, and will not invest in any covered stock for at least three days per Stock Gumshoe’s trading rules.

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gary siegel
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gary siegel
December 20, 2017 9:18 am

great reporting and analysis

Hugh Rhodes
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Hugh Rhodes
December 20, 2017 10:10 am

Anyone who understands late 2017 cryto currency mining understands that GPU mining is basically obsolete. Sure the recent rise in cryto prices may make GPU mining somewhat profitable but we are talking about $10s of dollars a week maybe? That won’t even pay you back for the actual video card in a reasonable amount of time. Application specific integrated circuit mining (ASIC) is significantly faster (orders of magnitude faster) , consumes far less energy per computation (Hash) and due to the amount of use is making mining of the currencies more difficult as time passes. The best graphics cards are designed for high end video games, not crypto mining. Nvidia makes great video cards but the reality is that crypto specific ASIC chips are far less expensive and efficient since they only have one job.

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goldstockbull
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December 20, 2017 12:13 pm
Reply to  Hugh Rhodes

Spot on. It is all about ASICs these days and the near monopoly enjoyed by Jihan Wu and Bitmain. Beyond that, many cryptos are moving to proof of stake or other validation systems that do not require so much processing power and energy. This is a bad teaser as it will not allow investors to profit from the rise of cryptos. It is much better to own the cryptocurrencies directly and hold the private keys in your possession.

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petemath
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December 20, 2017 11:00 pm
Reply to  goldstockbull

New cryptocurrencies like IOTA do not use GPUs or ASICs in order to validate transactions.

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Justin J.
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Justin J.
January 18, 2018 3:51 pm
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..and they are ZERO Fee based transactions!

DanM
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December 20, 2017 6:55 pm
Reply to  Hugh Rhodes

My understanding is that Bitcoin miners use ASIC, but other miners use GPUs because they want to be able to mine multiple crytocurrencies, including new ones that are released. ASICs are specifically designed for a specific cryptocurrency and are very expensive, so they are not a viable option for miners that want flexibility about which cryptos they mine.

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dbenn8
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December 21, 2017 6:18 pm
Reply to  DanM

There are over 1000 crypto currencies, many are built specifically for GPU based mining (ASIC resistant). That said, bitcoin is largely mined by ASICs as others above have pointed out, so the original author is either disingenuous or uninformed about the current state of things

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Misty Loreto
January 9, 2018 4:31 pm
Reply to  dbenn8

Original author being whom?

loupup
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loupup
December 25, 2017 10:44 pm
Reply to  Hugh Rhodes

That being said, Nvidia also makes cards for AI and other high-end uses. Though probably overvalued at the moment, it’s still a great company with a lot more tailwind to it.

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Maclin
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December 20, 2017 11:27 am

Outstanding Job Travis as all ways.

bluesharpbob
December 20, 2017 11:33 am

VERY interesting article about Bitcoin by Robert Shiller in the NY Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/business/bitcoin-investing.html

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Sid
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December 20, 2017 2:45 pm
Reply to  bluesharpbob

He tries to explain the rise of bitcoin – but forgets that it is the only currency that the central banks of the world can’t dilute. And you have a known quantity of. IOW the is supply limited and no government can force it’s value down. People everywhere have lost faith in central banks and governments.

Limited supply and assured value? Wow, sounds perfect.

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bluesharpbob
December 20, 2017 5:36 pm

Very well put Travis. I sat on the sidelines during the tech bubble & will do the same here. Time will tell….

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wiperest
December 27, 2017 10:26 pm
Reply to  bluesharpbob

Hello, how can I get my hands on the master key?

goldtharhills
December 28, 2017 1:55 pm
Reply to  bluesharpbob

I didn’t…and I paid for my naivete by being so turned off by stocks I didn’t invest for another 10 years.

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JohnnyBravo
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December 20, 2017 6:23 pm

Great article on Bitcoin. I would like to ask your thoughts on Charlie Lee, who announced on Tuesday night that he has sold off all his litecoin in order to avoid accusations of anything untoward.

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December 20, 2017 7:01 pm

Travis, no argument with what you are saying except that a fork does not equal a dilution. If you owned x number of bitcoins before the fork occurred, you also now own x number of the forked coins. So for every bitcoin I purchased a few years ago, I now have the same number of bitcoin cash and bitcoin gold.

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DanM
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December 20, 2017 8:37 pm

I think I sort of understand where you are coming from. Perhaps another way to think of it is the possibility that forked coins could have features that both have value depending on the user’s requirements. Maybe a stretch too far, but could it potentially be thought of similar to a transportation company that starts out as a trucking company and then spins off a new company that offers rail.

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loupup
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loupup
December 25, 2017 10:54 pm

That’s true to a certain point, but forks are mainly technical and they’re intended to solve problems rather than dilute the value. But I think a better analogy is the QE by central banks. They both mint coins out of thin air and flood the market with liquidity. The only difference is that the trillions of dollars created by central banks are backed by guns and tanks and the cryptos are backed by the you and me from all over the world.

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Marc
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December 26, 2017 1:45 pm

Have you had any requests to find out what Jeff Brown is touting for Bonner. He says he has two companies tied to cryptos that have a product to sell that will move more than cryptos. I thought of NVDA at first, but he says one is a start up that won an award in October. The startup has ties to VISA as well as some banks.

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January 4, 2018 5:44 pm
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perhaps he means SQ?

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February 8, 2018 2:37 pm
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Micron Technology (MU).

goldtharhills
December 28, 2017 1:54 pm

Good and sober sermon, Travis, well said. This is why I will resubscribe to gumshoe: you clear the opacity from our misty and sometimes halfbaked (quarter-baked? Hard-forked?) visions.

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mrosefelt
December 20, 2017 11:36 am

Can I ask what stop-losses you are using for nvda?

SoGiAm
December 20, 2017 11:44 am
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$NVDA – Welcome to the #Gr8Gummunity, Mrosefelt! You shall discover the answer to your question by clicking on the following link: https://www.stockgumshoe.com/personal-portfolio-irregulars-only/ #ThankYOU Travis! Best2ALL! 🙂

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Optoboy
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December 20, 2017 12:04 pm

So what’s the Master Key and where can I capitalize on it?

Jon
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December 28, 2017 12:50 am
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Please anyone all they do is say master key 26 times and no way of buying into it.

altamama
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altamama
December 20, 2017 12:15 pm

I did own NVDA until my subscription letter recommended it be sold at around $100, so I did, thinking they knew more than I did. It had faltered a bit around that price, same as it’s doing now at $200. Really upsets me now.

manhattanmadman
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December 20, 2017 1:50 pm

There is a ton of money to be made. I cannot say I understand it all. But a few month ago I invested in an ICO called ClearPoll and put 1 ETH(worth about $250 at the time) into their ICO. I got back 2800 POLL tokens.

Their token was released for public trading recently at around $2. I sold 2000 POLL tokens between $1.60 and $2 over the past few days. I pulled out over $3500 on a $250 initial investment.

I still have 800 POLL tokens left and it’s now trading around $2.79 so I guess I sold too early. I plan to hold onto at least 500 of those POLL tokens for a long time.

This may have been my best investment ever from a % stand point. $250 into $3500 + 800 tokens still to sell.

My strategy a few months ago was to put a small amount into a few ICO’s and POLL was by far the best return. I’m in a few others now and invested in some new ones this week with some of those POLL profits.

Not sure if links are allowed but this ICO is giving a bonus and is closing next week: https://tokensale.crypterium.io/?ref=6e7bb50e53f61690bc58ef39

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DanM
DanM
December 20, 2017 7:10 pm

Congrats. Agree that there is a lot of money to be made, but also lot to be lost. People just need to realize that this is NOT investing, it is only speculating that the price will go higher. Absolutely nothing wrong with that, just make sure you understand the difference and risk accordingly. I like speculation as well if there is reasonable potential for a large asymmetric reward relative to the risk.

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Sid
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December 20, 2017 2:34 pm

well-written

Pat
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December 21, 2017 6:25 pm

What happens to these cryptocurrencies when quatum computing comes online?

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Eric
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December 22, 2017 1:26 pm
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This is an an interesting question. In short, nothing. Quantum computing is not geared towards this type of computational math problem. There could be crypto-currencies created in the future which rely on this technology, but since there are currently only a handful of uber expensive quantum computers in existence and they are all being used for research, I don’t foresee anything like this happening in the near or even somewhat distant future.

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venus
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December 24, 2017 6:01 am

Louis Navellier is hardly an original thinker. I cannot believe anyone is still recommending Nvidia which has risen 900% since mid 2015 which is when I bought it, thanks to a recommendation by Oxford Resource.

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December 27, 2017 12:00 pm
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If more growth in cryptomining is expected to occur ,I think one is better off in betting on potential turnaround stocks like AMD with more growth to expect from automatization of cars and maybe still more to come from cryptomining,NVDA is great but indeed went up so much that I wouldn’t touch it, if people still believe in huge further growth buy some leap calls ,but for shares I would go for AMD

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George
December 27, 2017 3:43 pm
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Agree with AMD potential in 2018. See what EnerTuition writes on SA about it.

R Herrmann
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R Herrmann
December 24, 2017 8:56 pm

As for NVDA… No complaints… Bought in, in the $30. range and liquidated earlier this year around $155. Not a gamer and have serious doubts how long the current trend will go. Experience has usually shown, if it climbs fast, it can fall fast. I’m getting older and stability is more important these days than fast climb and faster drops. If you intend to play, only do so with what you consider lost from the start. In two years, you still have money… your ahead of the game. Good luck.

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December 28, 2017 6:00 am

As a Blue Chip subscriber, I can confirm NVIDIA is indeed Nav’s “Master Key”

goldtharhills
December 28, 2017 1:47 pm

I wish I had a bitcoin fraction for every newsletter pitch – and there are hundreds of them each year as Travis likely knows better than anyone alive – that barks absurb profit figures in actual dollar amounts, a la “$43,085…and possibly more!”.

We all know these figures are wholly made up, don’t we? I mean, don’t we!

“$100 could net you $10,494,703.37 in extra weekend income” etc etc etc, ad nauseum.

“This little known social security fund could pay you $1,378 extra per month…but only if you ACT NOW!”

These numerical hyperboles are the primary turnoff that saves me countless hours of reading this garbage, however worthwhile the actual info product might be.

Even if I read them, I skip right past these laughable money numbers because they make me distrust the publishers of these products, not to mention the pro copywriters who make tons of money creating the 45 minute short novellas that strive to waste countless millions of hours of our time each year.

I’d rather watch a used car salesman on tv. At least they do something comical, like wear a cowboy hat or say “Yuuuuuge bargains, next two days only! Come on down! Hyaaaaaaaaah!”

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manhattanmadman
manhattanmadman
December 28, 2017 1:59 pm
Reply to  goldtharhills

No joke. I put 1 ETH(worth about $250 at the time) into an ICO called ClearPoll. I received 2800 POLL tokens. They released the coins a few week ago and it was trading between $1.50 and $3. I already sold 2000 POLL and will hold onto the rest to see what happens. That 1 ETH put into this ICO turned into over $4000 when I sold those 2000 POLL tokens and I still have 800 tokens to sell. I’ve since been researching and picking more ICO’s to invest in. You can calculate the return on that 1 ETH investment. The crypto market it going bonkers now. There is no place for better returns and fast. Yes, risky, more risky then biotec for sure. Feel free to reach out to me for ideas as I’m pushing that POLL profits into other ICO ideas.

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Dave
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Dave
January 3, 2018 9:51 pm

Do you have an idea for diversification in the space that we can employ immediately with small amounts of $ (100-1000 per “coin”?

SoGiAm
January 3, 2018 11:13 pm
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Top #Cryptocurreencies: https://www.investing.com/crypto/ #BestIn18&BeyondALL!

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manhattanmadman
manhattanmadman
January 14, 2018 5:44 pm

Update – POLL worked out great but I sold too early! Those 2000 coins were worth as much as $20,000 recently. Off a $250 investment.

Below are two Ico’s I’m putting a little something into that open tomorrow. I’ve done well with other ICO’s and these two stick out among so many. Both allow USA investors.

Digitex is doing a commission free crypto futures trading market. Lots of the exchange coins that came out have done really well.
https://vrlps.co/a?pt=24egHeF-mYgN9sCzFHAbpvZzKrw&referralCode=SyhYaBnmf&refSource=copy

Live Edu is interesting. Lydnda.com sold to Linkedin for tons. These guys already have a subscriber base and content. Check it out here: https://tokensale.liveedu.tv/ref/ceAxtLz2FG16vSQK0

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petrogold
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petrogold
January 16, 2018 12:20 pm

: congratulations ! for right ICO choice & cool investment decision. Let us know next ofyour best ICO. Thank you. ALTAF

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manhattanmadman
manhattanmadman
January 17, 2018 4:12 pm
Reply to  petrogold

Thanks Petrogold.

I did not invest in Digitex as they popped up a box asking you to confirm you are not a US citizen. Going in I thought they did allow USA. Anyway, I heard it sold out in under one hour.

Live Edu has raised over 6 million in a few days and are still offering a 17% bonus for investors. It’s a Decentralized Project Learning.
YouTube for Online Education & Professional Development. See how much Lynda.com(1.5 billion). Use the link below to get 17% bonus. https://tokensale.liveedu.tv/ref/ZDomtqztGkuoOaWwW

What do you think of Legal KYC? I put a little into this one. KYC.LEGAL is the identity verification platform on a blockchain. Main KYC Legal features 1) Digital signature 2) User verification 3) Validation of documents
https://bookbuild.kyc.legal/?ref=3949d3cd1f2d81bf8c3b3512

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stevenbath
stevenbath
January 20, 2018 2:01 pm

How do I reach out to you?

Cameron Rossetti
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Cameron Rossetti
December 30, 2017 6:14 pm

I listened to the very long and very repetitive Crypto Master Key video by Louis Navellier’s and I was very excited, until I learned that NVIDIA was the whole idea behind it. And back when the video was released it made sense, but just like the crypto market, technology has already changed. The problem with mining and needing all these computers to try and figure out the algorithm to mine these crypto currencies. is that its not scalable, at the rate this industry is going it would take an insane amount of power to run all the computers that are needed. Etherium has already fixed this problem by going to a Proof of Stake method instead of Proof of Work. Therefore mining is no longer needed in the crypto world. Looks like Louis will have to come up with the next big “master key” because this is not it.

SoGiAm
January 3, 2018 11:20 pm

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #BigData #Trends #BlockChain #Technology #IoT and much more: https://www.stockgumshoe.com/author/sogiam/ #BestIn18&BeondALL!

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RBD
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January 4, 2018 3:31 pm

I seriously believing in Mr. Navellier’s idea of investing in the technology behind blockchain and diversified ledgers so that I can reap from every company and organization that adapts to this way of doing business in an efficient and more affordable way. What would be your gut feeling about this? Also, what will be the impact of the new tax laws on hedgefund manages profits?

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kblyons46
kblyons46
January 4, 2018 6:00 pm
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blockchain IS the technology. Folks often confuse it with cryptocurrencies. It’s not. It’s a computer science idea that is very promising for many important applications. Many of the companies that are pure blockchain tech plays are riding the cryptocurrency mania because of this confusion. That’s creating a situation, in my opinion, where some of those companies are hugely overvalued and susceptible to stunning losses. That shouldn’t discredit blockchain, although it will in some circles, because it’s just a result of the market hysteria. As the real opportunities in blockchain evolve, like in the arena of international settlements, there is real value to be created. It’s just very hard right now to unravel what part of current valuation is legit and which is hysteria.

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Matt Morris
January 4, 2018 6:12 pm

All that copywriting from Loueee Lou’s team for a NVDA pitch? LOL, boooorrring.

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Armen
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Armen
January 7, 2018 3:38 pm

Good report Travis. Thanks

Aftab ahmed
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Aftab ahmed
January 10, 2018 11:50 am

I believe, we have to look for companies who are the founders of block chain technology or creating innovation in it, what about “riot” a block chain technology stock, or the companies runs the applications of it.

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mskleber
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mskleber
January 11, 2018 3:11 am

Are there any Crypto ETF’s or exchanges to do the same thing?

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