Zuck's Words Crashed META 19% — and Created Safe Income

How to spot income where others don’t. Published By Money & Markets, LLC. May 01, 2024 Published By Money & Markets, LLC. May 01, 2024 [Turn Your Images On] [Turn Your Images On] From The Desk of [Michael Carr]( Editor, [Money & Markets Daily]( Zuck’s Words Crashed META 19% — and Created Safe Income Money & Markets Daily, James Baker is an under-recognized historical figure. He served in several important positions … including Secretary of the Treasury under Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State under George H. W. Bush. Baker’s role in the 1987 stock market crash is one of his under-acknowledged accomplishments. On the [Thursday]( before the crash, he hinted that the U.S. might let the dollar fall to pressure West Germany to lower interest rates. The next day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 110 points (4.7%). The following Monday, it crashed more than 500 points, falling 22% in just one day. And this wasn't the last time Baker would move markets… In the early 1990s, Baker led negotiations with Iraq to avoid the first Gulf War. I was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Air Force at the time. I was stationed in the SAC Underground Command Center on January 9, 1991. Baker held a press conference, and our hopes were high. Then he dashed them when he [said]( “Regrettably, in over six hours of talks, I heard nothing today that suggested to me any Iraqi flexibility whatsoever on complying with the United Nations Security Council resolutions.” We had the Financial News Network (FNN) on in the Command Center. (FNN was a predecessor to CNBC.) As Baker said, “regrettably,” I saw the Dow sink. Within minutes, it fell more than 50 points (2.1%). I remember thinking there couldn’t be anyone else in history capable of sinking markets with so few words. Last week, however, I watched Mark Zuckerberg inflict significant damage to Meta Platforms Inc. (Nasdaq: META)… --------------------------------------------------------------- [Turn Your Images On]( [The Accelerated Income System — Revealed]( Imagine a system you could start using with $470… capable of delivering payouts in 48 hours or less. And in the process, had the power to grow an account 199% in a year… A system with a win rate of 95%. Mike Carr has spent the last 15 months testing this… All thanks to engineering a new, algorithmic technology — he calls it Accelerated Income System. [Full details are laid out here.]( --------------------------------------------------------------- META Crashes 19% After CEO Speaks Meta’s CEO kicked off the company's quarterly earnings call by highlighting his ambitious, cash-burning bets on artificial intelligence (AI) and the metaverse. Despite better-than-expected profits and revenue, Zuckerberg devoted most of his opening statement to Meta's AI models, virtual reality headsets, augmented reality glasses and the metaverse operating system. These innovations are going to cost a lot of money. Investors didn’t share his enthusiasm. META shares plummeted as much as 19% in after-hours trading — erasing over $200 billion in market capitalization. This decline set up a special trading opportunity … one that wasn’t on most investors' radars. Now, META’s steep drop is not a buy signal. It will take months for Zuckerberg to prove he knows what he’s doing with the $40 billion he’s spending on AI and the metaverse this year. The sudden drop also wasn’t an opportunity to short the stock or buy put options to benefit from additional declines. The rapid decline has already happened. Instead, it was an opportunity to generate safe income from the stock. Grow Your Account With Income Trades When I saw the market open last Thursday, I knew it was unlikely META would recover quickly. I immediately reviewed options prices and found an opportunity in a credit spread. A credit spread is an income strategy. It requires selling one option to generate the credit and selling another to protect against a large loss. It’s not a popular strategy because it doesn’t deliver large profits on any single trade. However, over time, consistently winning profits can grow to be incredibly significant. Last week, I alerted my [Precision Profits]( subscribers to an opportunity in META that generated $67 per contract in immediate income. My advanced options pricing models showed a 94% probability we’d win on that trade — and we did. META wasn’t the only trade we found last week, either. We captured two other income trades and have had dozens of these signals over the past year. This income strategy allows us to profit from stocks whether they go down, up, or sideways — with a win rate that’s over 95%. We have more earnings reports coming this week. We’ll have multiple chances to benefit from more income trades in the next few days. [Go here]( to learn how you can be notified of our next trade. But hurry — my team is closing the doors on this offer soon. Until next time, [Michael Carr]( Editor, [Money & Markets Daily]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Turn Your Images On]( [Billionaire Tech Investor - How He Got Rich]( He’s already made gains of 200,000% … 499,000% … and even 3,250,000% on tech startups over the last two decades. Now, he’s invested in a stock few people have heard of, which is trading for just $25 a share. [See how you can invest alongside him]( (but you’ll want to do it between now and May 5th.) --------------------------------------------------------------- [Turn Your Images On] Salaries Keep the Fed Under Pressure Economists believe wages are an important factor in inflation. When prices rise, workers naturally want higher salaries. However, higher salaries raise costs for employers, who often raise prices to maintain their profits. In this way, higher wages contribute to inflation. The latest data on employment costs indicate that wages are still growing at a potentially inflationary pace. In the first quarter, the [Federal Reserve’s Employment Cost]( Index for wages and salaries rose 4.3% compared to a year ago. The cost of [benefits]( increased by 3.5%. This is terrible news for Fed officials fighting inflation and indicates that price pressures and higher interest rates could persist for at least a few more months. — Mike Carr, Chief Market Technician, Money & Markets [Turn Your Images On] [(Click here to view larger image.)]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Check Out More From Money & Markets Daily: - [3 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ELON’S “BIG NEWS”]( - [WHERE'S YOUR "RETIREMENT CONFIDENCE" IN 2024?]( - [TESLA RECALLS 2 MILLION CARS (AND HOW YOU COULD PROFIT FROM IT)]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Turn Your Images On]( Privacy Policy The Money & Markets, P.O. Box 8378, Delray Beach, FL 33482. To ensure that you receive future issues of Money & Markets, please add info@mb.moneyandmarkets.com to your address book or [whitelist]( within your spam settings. For customer service questions or issues, please contact us for assistance. 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