Wall Street’s biggest flaw may be your biggest investing advantage, says Louis Navellier.
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Editor’s note: For nearly 50 years, the myth of quantitative investing Louis Navellier He built his reputation by identifying fast-growing companies before Wall Street could fully catch up. He is one of the few experts on the market who combines deep fundamental research with a disciplined quantitative system designed to track the direction of institutional funds early.
Recently, Lewis has focused on one area of the market that he believes could become particularly important over the next several years: smaller-cap companies. Growth stocks Positioned to benefit from the new Fed cycle and expanded AI-driven infrastructure spending.
In today’s issue, Lewis explains why he believes retail investors still have one structural advantage that Wall Street can’t quite overcome—and why that advantage may be more important now than it has been in years.
He also shares details about his future Free Fed shock event on May 13where he will reveal the 53 smaller-cap stocks that are currently showing the same early signals his system identified ahead of some of the biggest winners. Reserve your place for this event here.
Here’s Louis…
I can be honest about something the financial media would never say out loud.
The game is rigged.
Wall Street has real, important, and lasting advantages. More analysts. More data. More computing power. More access. Faster execution. Better technology. In almost every corner of the market, the biggest funds are winning before they even sit at the table.
But there is one advantage they will have never You have more than you. Not ever. No matter how much money they raise, how many analysts they hire, or how much technology they deploy.
It is so powerful that Warren Buffett – the greatest investor alive – has publicly said that it is the single biggest advantage in the market.
I got it. It doesn’t do that. This gap never closes.
The unfortunate thing is that most investors never use it. Not because they can’t, but because something else is working against them. Something that has nothing to do with Wall Street and everything to do with what’s going on inside their heads.
Today, I want to show you the one place where your permanent advantage over Wall Street is strongest — and how I’ve spent nearly 50 years building a system designed to exploit that advantage.
I’ll also tell you why right now might be the most urgent version of this opportunity I’ve ever seen. I’ll go into it all on my own Fed shock The event is next Wednesday, May 13 at 1 PM ET – Including free stock picking for attendees only. (Click here to reserve your place now.)
What Buffett knows that most investors don’t
In 1999, Warren Buffett said something that should have stopped the entire investing world in its tracks.
He said that if he were managing a million dollars instead of the billions he oversees Berkshire Hathaway (BRK)can guarantee 50% annual returns.
Guaranteed.
Fifty percent. annually. From the greatest investor alive.
Let that sink in for a moment. The greatest investor alive—the man who made his fortune at about 20% a year for six decades—tells you that he does worse because he has too much money.
The opportunity he describes is far beyond his reach. Not because he doesn’t see it. He sees it perfectly.
It’s just that when Buffett sees a stock he likes, he needs to buy a lot to really move the needle for Berkshire. If it does, the price moves. By definition, the act of investing destroys return.
But you don’t have this problem.
Why size is your advantage
When a $50 billion fund tries to buy a meaningful position in small-cap stocks, it’s like trying to drink from a fire hose with a cup of coffee. Their buying pressure starts moving the price against them before they are even halfway through the accumulation process.
Every stock they buy pushes the price higher. The market sees volume. Other traders run them in front. By the time they build any real position, they have already paid a significant premium – and in some cases they have moved the stock so much that the original opportunity no longer exists.
So, they stay away. It’s not because the stocks aren’t attractive. Because they are too old to play in the sandbox.
This is not temporary. It won’t be solved by better technology or smarter analysts. It is structural and permanent. The larger the fund, the more deprived it becomes of this opportunity.
This is exactly where some of the biggest gains in the market are made. I’ve seen that for almost 50 years. I see it now.
Another thing that works against you
Now for the second power I mentioned. This is not Wall Street.
It’s you.
I don’t say that to be harsh. I say that because I’ve seen it happen over and over again.
Our brains are not equipped to invest. They are wired for survival. Avoiding loss seems more urgent than achieving gains. We live in a media environment that has learned exactly how to exploit this — fear gets clicks, bad news travels fast, and uncertainty keeps people frozen in moments when they should act.
But here’s what the moping crowd never shows you: the scoreboard.
The US economy continues to grow. American companies continue to innovate. The stock market – through crashes, recessions, wars and pandemics – continues to achieve new highs.
I’ve watched investors sit on the sidelines during some of the greatest bulls in history because the headlines were too scary. I’ve watched people sell at the bottom of every major crash – 2001, 2008, 2020 – right before the market turned around and delivered massive gains to the people who stayed in it.
Want to know what I’ve learned in nearly 50 years? In fact, it takes courage to be optimistic.
The long-term trend is clear. The S&P 500 is up about 7,300% over the past 50 years.
Investors who build real wealth are those who have the courage to act while others hesitate. Lock and download while everyone reads scary headlines. This is the game.
And when you combine that with the structural advantage I described above — the willingness to operate in an angle of the market that Wall Street can’t actually follow — you get something really powerful.
Why small businesses? Why now?
But the money won’t be made in large stocks. The real wealth opportunity will be in small businesses.
They don’t always lead the market higher. In fact, they are many years behind the giant tech giants.
But something has changed. Over the past year, the Russell 2000 is up about 45% – compared to the S&P 500’s 30%.
The rotation is real, and there are good reasons to believe he has a long way to go.
Small-cap companies are mostly local. They directly benefit from American economic growth. They are more sensitive to interest rates – meaning that when interest rates fall, their borrowing costs fall and their earnings power expands rapidly. And it is still cheap. After years of trading at a deep discount to large-cap stocks, small-cap stocks are only now beginning to fill this valuation gap.
As confidence in the economy builds and earnings momentum expands, leadership tends to shift toward smaller, faster-growing companies. This rotation appears to be underway. What comes next may make what we’ve already seen look like preliminary work.
Here is the history.
Every time the Fed opened a sustained window to cut interest rates, small businesses were the biggest winners. This is because lower interest rates directly reduce borrowing costs for small businesses, which take on more debt. Lower borrowing costs help expand their margins and make their future profits worth more today.
I have seen four other periods of significant interest rate cuts in my career. The last four times, penny stocks have had extraordinary gains:
- Ascendant Communications: +2,866% (1995 Fed pivot)
- Frontline plc (Back and forth): +1,513% (interest rate cuts in 2001)
- Lithia Motors Company (boy): +475% (interest rate cuts in 2008)
- Mara Holding Company (Mara): +1,800% (Coronavirus 2020 Sale)
Now think about where we are today. The Fed has already started cutting. On May 15, a new Fed chair will take office – someone who has publicly called for more aggressive easing and has the full support of President Trump.
Management wants big cuts. Small caps are already on fire.
When it rains, it rains, and I think you guys are about to rain.
Exclusion list
I’m not saying buy beanie hats randomly. This is not how I work. The key here is to find the right funds – ones whose fundamentals are already strong and where institutional money has already started making a move.
This is exactly my thing Stock grader The system does. Every week he scans thousands of stocks looking for these two signals that work together.
I found it Bloom Energy Company (He is) This way – Stock Grader pointed this out when the market cap was $5 billion, and no one was talking about it. Today we are up over 1100% in about 14 months.
A $50 billion fund could not have done that. But my subscribers did.
Currently, Stock Grader has flagged 53 smaller stocks giving the same signals.
I call it Exclusion list – Because that’s exactly what it is. These are stocks that are too small for Wall Street to touch. Too small for the big money. It’s not too small for you..
Lower case is already on. The Fed is about to add fuel to the fire. And these 53 stocks are the ones that my eight-factor model says are among the best-positioned stocks when that happens.
onWednesday, May 13 at 1 PM ESTI’ll be going live to share my most convinced picks from this list — the names I think have the best chance of being the next 10-cap small cap. You will get this exclusion list immediately once you sign up. I’ll also be offering a free stock pick just for attendees.
Wait, people. The journey has just begun.
Click here to reserve your place now.
sincerely,
Louis Navellier
editor, Stock breakout
note: I’ve worked in financial publishing for a long time, and one thing I appreciate about Lewis is that he stays focused on what’s really going on beneath the surface of the market – not the daily hype on TV.
His system has identified a number of major early winners over the years, including Bloom Energy long before its huge launch. If you want to hear what Louis is seeing now – and reach out 53-Stock exclusion list Discussed in today’s article – I would encourage you to do so Reserve a spot for his free event on May 13 here.
