The Greatest Moneymaking Invention Ever

I've never been more excited for what lies ahead New to the Digest? [Click here.]( [Manward Digest] The Greatest Moneymaking Invention Ever A Note From Amanda: Today, we hand the pen to Manward's Chief Investment Strategist Shah Gilani. As we marvel at how AI has forever changed our economy... Shah takes a look back at how technology has changed the stock market. As a 40-year trading veteran, he's seen it all... including a remarkable innovation that is transforming the markets today. Read on below. [Shah Gilani] Shah Gilani Chief Investment Strategist Plato said that necessity is the mother of invention. I can't argue with that... and I would say the necessity of finding better, easier and smarter ways to make money has spawned some of the greatest inventions ever. Having been a trader and investor for over 40 years now, I can tell you that it's never been faster, easier or cheaper to get into the markets... and that there have never been more ways to invest and trade. I've also never been more excited about what lies ahead than I am right now. The truth is... the path we took to get here was filled with inventions aimed at making investing accessible to all. [[Yours Free! Top FIVE Dividend Stocks Right Now]( First there were stock markets... commodities markets... and futures markets. Then, in 1973, modern options trading was born at the Chicago Board Options Exchange. The market's moneymaking potential skyrocketed. But exchanges were hard to join and expensive to trade through. Brokers charged "fixed" commissions - and I don't mean "fixed" as in set costs... I mean "fixed" as in rigged in an antitrust kind of way. The SEC eventually got involved. It was pushed hard - not by Wall Street brokerages or exchanges, but by upstarts who wanted to introduce what would later be known as discount brokerages. It mandated that on May 1, 1975 - known on the Street as May Day - fixed commissions would have to be negotiated. In other words, let there be competition. SPONSORED [Whatever You Do, DON'T Invest in the Wrong AI Companies]( Most people make the mistake of listening to the mainstream media and investing in megacap companies like Nvidia, Microsoft and Google. But they're already huge! The real money is in the smallest companies with the biggest upsides. Manward Press Chief Investment Strategist Shah Gilani has compiled a list of the absolute best AI stocks in the market today... including one trading for less than $1. He's revealing all the details on why he believes these stocks will be the biggest winners in the $15.7 trillion AI revolution. [Click here to view his presentation.]( Hard-charging, hard-competing discount brokerages opened markets and trading to everyone, giving retail investors easy access to stocks and mutual funds - and, eventually, just about everything. Then, in 1993, thanks to product inventors at State Street Global Advisors, modern-day exchange-traded funds (ETFs) were launched when the SPDR 500 Trust debuted. SPY (the ETF's trading symbol) is a portfolio of 500 large cap stocks and is designed to replicate the S&P 500 Index, the institutional U.S. stock market benchmark. But it can be traded like a single stock, all day, every day the market is open. Now you can trade ETFs that track or hold portfolios of just about everything, in every asset class... and some you've never thought of. Anyone can now trade the Dow, the Nasdaq 100, oil, gas, gold, junk bonds, Treasury bills, real estate, soft commodities or just about anything else you could think of... all thanks to the invention of modern ETFs. In the mid-to-late 1990s, inventors challenged traditional exchanges - like the NYSE and AMEX, and even the Nasdaq - by opening ECNs, or electronic communications networks. Retail traders could trade listed stocks on their platforms directly with other ECNs without having to pay exchange fees. Those inventions made trading faster and cheaper for everyone, especially day traders. SPONSORED [The #1 Energy Passive Income Investment for 2024]( It's not a stock, bond or private company... But this little-known alternative investment could hand you BIG MONTHLY INCOME from the oil and gas surge in 2024. [CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT WHAT IT IS]( A Dizzying Ride Then, in 2001, in an effort to narrow bid-and-offer spreads, traders pushed the SEC to mandate "decimalization," which did away with stocks being quoted in fractions and allowed one-penny increments. We saw the invention of another tradable instrument in 2009. Bitcoin - the first cryptocurrency - made a lot of early adopters very, very rich. It was created out of necessity... the need to preserve wealth stored in dollars that had lost much of their value. Now we have hundreds of alternative coins, or altcoins, to trade. Then, to give even more people access to even the priciest stocks (Berkshire Hathaway Class A shares, for instance, are currently trading at more than $616,000 per share), fractional shares were invented in 2017. Everyday investors can now buy a fraction of a share of most stocks and ride the price higher... and they can even collect fractional dividends along the way. It's been a dizzying ride, full of lucrative inventions that have given us more products and instruments to trade and invest in. Building wealth has never been easier, cheaper or more accessible. So it shouldn't be a surprise that there's a new kid on the block - a new way to own a piece of stocks, real estate, companies, technology, you name it. I'm talking about tokenization. It's the next big thing... and it's created a brand-new market that could be worth an estimated $24 trillion by 2027. It's a topic longtime Manward readers should be familiar with. We have been at the forefront of researching the immense innovation - and opportunity - tokenization presents. If you haven't heard all about it... or, more importantly, if you haven't yet added security tokens to your portfolio... [click here for a full rundown on this opportunity, including a free pick from me](. Cheers, Shah What Else We're Talking About [Where to Find the NEXT Magnificent Seven]( [Biggest US technology companies]( Don't bet on the Magnificent Seven to keep up their astonishing returns. Instead... look at the next Magnificent Seven... a group of likely tech stocks that are already dominant but are much smaller. [Keep reading...]( [3 Reasons Ethereum Could Double... AGAIN]( [Vertical Ethereum coin]( Ethereum has more than doubled over the past year. But with the spot ETF approval in the rear view... there are three reasons Ethereum could double again over the next year. [See them here.]( [Buy This, Not That: Unboxing the Best (and Worst) Big Box Retailers]( [Big Box Store]( Shah dives deep into the world of big box retailers... to see which are riding high on AI and subscription services... and which are falling flat. [Get the tickers here.]( Want more content like this? [YES]( [NO]( Shah Gilani Shah Gilani is the Chief Investment Strategist of Manward Press. Shah is a sought-after market commentator... a former hedge fund manager... and a veteran of the Chicago Board Options Exchange. He ran the futures and options division at the largest retail bank in Britain... and called the implosion of U.S. financial markets (AND the mega bull run that followed). Now at the helm of Manward, Shah is focused tightly on one goal: to do his part to make subscribers wealthier, happier and freer. Was this email forwarded to you? [Click here to sign up!]( You are receiving this email because you subscribed to Manward Digest. 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