Born in Munich, he first studied economics and graduated in business administration at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in 1995. As he was involved with the stock market at a very early stage, he now has more than 30 years of experience in the capital markets. In the historic dot.com year 2000, he trained as a CEFA analyst in Frankfurt and has since then accompanied over 20 IPOs in Germany.
Until 2018, he held various positions at banks as an asset manager, capital market and macro expert as well as fundamental equity analyst. He is passionate about the energy, commodity and technology markets as well as the tactical and strategic asset allocation of liquid investment products. As an expert speaker at investment committee meetings of funds as well as at customer events, he can still describe the course of the 1987 crash, one of the major buying opportunities of the last 33 years on the stock market.
Today, he knows that the profit in shares is not necessarily the result of buying cheaply, but above all of avoiding mistakes and recognizing in good time when markets are ready to let air out. After all, in addition to basic fundamental analysis, investing in stocks is above all a phenomenon of global liquidity and this must be monitored regularly.
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Commented by André Will-Laudien on December 7th, 2020 | 10:01 CET
EXMceuticals, Aurora, Xphyto Therapeutics - Cannabis 2.0 and Psilocybin!
The North American Cannabis Index has brought itself back to life in October! The index lost 80% since the beginning of 2019, but it's going up again with the survivors of the industry. Overall, the capitalization of the sector has decreased by 85%, with the election of Joe Biden, the second buying wave of purchases is underway. If hemp production was the initial focus, it is now the applications, the achieved market access and new active ingredient combinations. In the slipstream of the therapeutic plant customer, another topic came to the fore that has caused investors' hearts to stutter in recent weeks: the psychedelic drugs in the form of psilocybin. Psilocybin has been used as an entheogen and hallucinogenic drug since prehistoric times. Now the medical applications are being investigated. The trend is already running at full speed, the Canadian brokerage house Canaccord estimates the market volume of all indications that are suitable for treatment with active psychedelic ingredients to be USD 100 billion.
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Commented by André Will-Laudien on December 4th, 2020 | 10:30 CET
Oracle, Facebook, Osino Resources - year-end rally is on!
30,000 in the DOW JONES - Crisis what Crisis? Just at the end of the year, the new mark falls, including the NDX yesterday with a fresh green lamp. Never before has the government debt apparatus increased more in one year than in 2020, and never before has there been such a rally of the century after a correction on the stock markets. Missed out? Whoever sold in March and didn't get back in, today the dogs bite, but whoever dared to make up for it despite Corona, has a whopping 65% profit on the shares bought later. With the technology stocks, it was even a close doubling. And if one has also put the DNA of the "Corona winners" into a portfolio, then I would be surprised if there was not a plus of 150%. The market continues - the year-end rally has 15 trading days left ... and it's gaining momentum every day!
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Commented by André Will-Laudien on December 3rd, 2020 | 11:51 CET
Bayer, Carnival, Silver Viper - Rough weather on the high seas!
Gold up 60 Dollars! Precious metals are beginning to recover from their recent decline in the options market. It is often rumored that the sales in gold & silver have to do with raising money from the prominent market players. Short Gold - Long Nasdaq. The NDX, in any case, climbed to a new all-time high yesterday. In the face of renewed speculation frenzy, which also drove the Bitcoin price back to record highs, some financial media have revived the old argument. The Blockchain creature would be the new gold is the slogan, but some Tweets also show, e.g., from market analyst Fred Hickey, why Bitcoin should not be confused with the yellow metal: "The history of gold is 3,000 years old - that of Bitcoin not even 10 - and gold has a natural attraction!" Currently, the value ratio is 10:1 - Gold analysts see the price at over USD 20,000 in 2025, but Bitcoin already costs that today.
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Commented by André Will-Laudien on December 1st, 2020 | 09:54 CET
Desert Gold, BioNTech, Vodafone - Healthier, Cleaner, Gold!
Asian stocks have recently faltered near their record highs, but the Nikkei, in particular, has experienced a grand rally of 15% in the last 4 weeks. Yesterday 30.11. is a popular settlement day for fund managers around the globe because from this date on you only have 1 month to clean the portfolio from unwanted components. In simple terms, stocks which ran poorly all year are likely to be sold and stocks that everyone's talking about and have performed well so far, tend to be topped up again. Among asset management experts, these measures are called "window dressing", i.e., perfecting the design of the viewing rooms in the form of a portfolio listing.
On the market as a whole, investors seem to be developing the view that the economic recovery will gain momentum next year, and this is driving some to liquidate their gold holdings - intended as a security investment - rather than to sell them. On the technical front, support for gold remains intact at around USD 1,750 to USD 1,770 an ounce. Silver continues to see massive interest near the psychological level of USD 22-23, the Technical Analysis tells us. Whether we can take this as a given at the end of the year remains to be seen; the pressure on precious metals prices is currently high.
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Commented by André Will-Laudien on November 30th, 2020 | 12:12 CET
BIGG Digital Assets, Alibaba, Square: Crypto & Technology - the new empire makers!
Many probably did not expect such a sharp correction. After weeks of rushing upwards, the Bitcoin and the entire crypto market has let off steam. To 25.11.2020 BTC/USD reached its 52-week high of USD 19,480.50, other prominent cryptos like Ethereum, Ripple or Litecoin also stood on new high marks. However, this was probably too big a sip from the bottle, a sell-off shortly before the magic USD 20,000.00 in Bitcoin captured the entire market and led to short-term discounts of up to 50% in the side stages. Bitcoin itself corrected a temporary loss of a good USD 3,000.00 or 15% up to USD 16,300.00. Yesterday, Sunday, however, the weak phase seemed to be over again, and the most popular Internet currency climbed again by 10 percent to USD 18,100.00. If that was the correction, then there are likely still some hot weeks left in the year ahead!
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Commented by André Will-Laudien on November 27th, 2020 | 10:12 CET
Ballard Power, Varta, SolGold - Trillions of Biden!
Joe Biden is moving forward in the fight against climate change and wants to boost economic growth with a spending plan worth more than $5 trillion. He wants to start with the completely outdated American energy industry to generate carbon-free electricity by 2035. The plan reflects ideas that were taken up by some of Biden's more progressive allies during the primary elections, such as Jay Inslee, the governor of Washington. Perhaps this is even a point that cost Donald Trump a few votes.
In his plan, Biden promises to spend about $2 trillion over four years to promote his energy proposals, which is significantly more than he proposed during the primaries. In terms of content, he attaches great importance to modernizing American infrastructure and investing in improving the energy efficiency of buildings and housing as well as promoting environmental protection efforts in agriculture. Now that's an announcement!
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Commented by André Will-Laudien on November 26th, 2020 | 08:42 CET
Deutsche Telekom, Tencent, Upco International – it used to roar!
We are currently in the early stages of 5G rollout, with a focus on developing new features and increasing network performance. It's easy to get caught up in the 5G hype, and rightly so: the benefits that 5G can offer to several technology sectors are enormous. The industry speaks in this context of the age 4.0 or IOT, meaning "internet of things" - i.e. the total networking of production with all its suppliers and customers in real-time categories. Everything is traceable, controlled and validated online - accounting is entirely automatic. However, there are still unanswered questions about the health effects of high-performance networks on people, which nobody really knows how to answer. Until we have reached a nationwide expansion stage in Germany, LTE users will continue to make up the vast majority of the operators' subscriber base and continue to generate substantial revenues. The last mile of digitization is still to come, a clear sign of a misguided industry policy.
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Commented by André Will-Laudien on November 25th, 2020 | 11:24 CET
RYU Apparel, Nike, Abercrombie - Black Week Online is booming!
The Bitcoin goes through the roof with USD 19.400, and Amazon & Co. is ringing the cash box. We are in Black Week - the shopping week with the highest turnover of the year. Introduced originally as Black Friday, it was the Friday following Thanksgiving, when 85% of all North Americans don't have to go to work. And what do Americans prefer to do than shop? US retailers make about 20% of their annual sales during this time because there are also early Christmas purchases. In COVID-19 times the picture is again in favour of online business. Yesterday the Black Week started with great discount offers, today the Dow Jones jubilates with new highs - we take a closer look at prominent representatives of the styling industry.
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Commented by André Will-Laudien on November 24th, 2020 | 10:28 CET
Scottie Resources, Bitcoin, Tesla: rocket propulsion in demand!
Once again gold was voted out of the market by analysts yesterday, hitting a 3-month low of USD 1,831. Deutsche Bank recently released figures on the performance of traditional markets and the crypto market following the optimistic move towards a Covid-19 vaccine. In addition to varying stock market gains with increases between 5 and 15%, Bitcoin came out as one of the biggest winners. The attractiveness of Bitcoin as an alternative hedge continues to increase according to Deutsche Bank analysts. Further gains are likely, but we should not forget the many speculators who are probably unscrupulously chasing the rocket-trend.
There seems to be a substantial increase in demand to use Bitcoin in place of gold, to hedge various dollar or inflation risks. Bitcoin and other TOP10 cryptos have gained between 20-50% in this month alone. The run is similar to the development in the years 2017-2018. Gold and silver, on the other hand, continue to show a need for consolidation, many investors are currently shifting their security investments into other areas. However, this downward movement should not continue for long, unless Bitcoin reaches the price target of USD 100,000 of the well-known Bitcoin bull Max Keiser. If not, there is, of course, a considerable need for technical corrections, which can also happen overnight due to the 24-hour trading.
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Commented by André Will-Laudien on November 23rd, 2020 | 11:16 CET
Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, Almonty Industries - Base metals for the upswing
Last week, Canadian star economist David Rosenberg said: "Base metals are generally the most correlated with the Chinese economy, so I would say that base metals have performed very well. The correlation between Chinese GDP and commodities is incredible. It is not difficult for me to take a constructive stance towards the base metals sector when I believe that they are the primary source of demand worldwide and that China consumes half of the world's metals."
Looking to the future, Rosenberg said that the US and the rest of the Western world must confront China's growing power and influence. "I hate to say it, but whoever the president is, he is currently facing the challenge of preventing China from capturing an ever-increasing share of global GDP."
The message is clear: In China, Covid-19 seems to have already been overcome; it is essential not to lose the connection because of the pandemic-related downturn. Overall, raw materials will, therefore play a huge role in this environment.
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