Dear Winning Investor, I had just landed in Nicaragua for my annual surf retreat when the email from my broker hit my inbox. The year was 2013. “IMPORTANT UPDATE” was the subject line. When I clicked, I knew what to expect. Still, it surprised me to see it in writing. It was the one phrase every investor dreads: “Fisker Automotive is filing for bankruptcy tomorrow.” This was the worst trade of my life. I was an early investor in the electric vehicle (EV) startup. My thesis in 2010 was that the world was tired of fighting wars over oil. So the EV revolution was right around the corner. I also saw that the cost of producing lithium-ion batteries was expected to drop sharply. Falling prices of semiconductors ignited a computer revolution. In the same way, falling battery prices would change the way we get around. I believed back then that it would someday be cheaper to produce an EV than a gas guzzler. And after test-driving a Tesla Roadster, the quiet torque felt like an otherworldly driving experience. But I was a decade too early. And I picked the wrong horse. When Fisker filed for bankruptcy, shareholders like myself were completely wiped out. Some debt holders received pennies on the dollar when a Chinese company bought them out. I didn’t get anything. Not even a commemorative coffee mug or T-shirt. It was a costly mistake and an expensive lesson. Bankruptcy is an inevitable part of the capital markets. When a company is unable to pay its debts, it either restructures, gets bought out or ceases to exist. For investors, it’s usually the end of the road. That’s the capitalist system. But cryptocurrency is shaking up the old system. It’s reinventing capital formation in ways that weren’t possible before the invention of the internet. And we’re witnessing how this system is changing in real time. | The man whose crypto recommendations have soared as high as 1,061% ... 1,934% ... and 18,325% (in less than a year) is now stepping forward with his biggest prediction yet. Details here. | |
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