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Welcome to The Starting 5 Newsletter! The 30 Second Newsletter with stocks, motivation, and tunes! Hope you enjoy!
1. Stock Performance 📈
DIA: $489.34 ↓ 0.13%
NASDAQ Composite Index: 23,506.85 ↓ 0.33%
S&P 500 (SPY): $688.55 ↓ 0.15%
AMZN: $243.76 ↑ 0.91%
AAPL: $256.65 ↓ 1.41%
The Future of Shopping? AI + Actual Humans.
AI has changed how consumers shop, but people still drive decisions. Levanta’s research shows affiliate and creator content continues to influence conversions, plus it now shapes the product recommendations AI delivers. Affiliate marketing isn’t being replaced by AI, it’s being amplified.
2. Crypto Check-In 🪙
BTC: $89,890.00 ↓ 2.29%
ETH: $3,074.08 ↓ 3.75%
SOL: $134.06 ↓ 2.81%
LTC: $80.62 ↓ 1.84%
3. Motivation Of The Day 💭
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
— Aristotle
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4. Term Of The Day 📚
Maximum Drawdown
📖Definition: The largest peak-to-trough decline of an investment over a period, expressed as a percentage.
📊Why it matters: It shows how bad things can get in a worst stretch—not just average volatility—so you can pick investments you’ll actually stick with
💡Example: If your portfolio hits $100,000, drops to $75,000, then recovers, your maximum drawdown for that period is -25%
When AI Outperforms the S&P 500 by 28.5%
Did you catch these stocks?
Robinhood is up over 220% year to date.
Seagate is up 198.25% year to date.
Palantir is up 139.17% this year.
AltIndex’s AI model rated every one of these stocks as a “buy” before it took off.
The kicker? They use alternative data like reddit comments, congress trades, and hiring data.
We’ve teamed up with AltIndex to give our readers free access to their app for a limited time.
The next top performer is already taking shape. Will you be looking at the right data?
Past performance does not guarantee future results. Investing involves risk including possible loss of principal.
5. Song Of The Day 🎧
🎧Song: “vampire” by Olivia Rodrigo
Genre: Pop
Why it hits: Big emotion, huge build, and a chorus that punches—perfect if you want something dramatic that still feels catchy.
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