Smart Money watches company insiders — the people actually running public companies — and follows what they do with their own money. Here’s what that means for you, in about five minutes.
Roughly two headline picks a month. Not a flood of ideas — a small number of calls the desk is confident enough to put its name on. Every pick is long only, which means we’re betting a stock goes up, never that one goes down. And every pick is a company worth at least $500 million — small enough to move on a single trade is too easy to move, so this desk stays in names with real size behind them.
A pick is short on purpose. Three things, and nothing else:
That’s the whole plan. Just where to get in, and where to get out.
Here’s the part that makes this simple: the get-out price is the only thing that ever closes a position. It starts where it starts, and then it can only move one way — up. As the stock climbs, your get-out price climbs behind it, always 25% below the highest price the stock has reached since. If the stock ever gives back a quarter of its gain from that high, you’re out. It never moves back down.
Two ways that can play out:
There’s no other trigger. Not a set number of days, not anyone’s gut feeling — nothing but that one rising floor ever closes a position.
Because nobody has to make a judgment call about when to sell — and that’s usually where people lose money on an otherwise good idea. A rule that only moves in one direction takes the guessing out of it completely.
We’ll email you when a new headline pick publishes, and it’s posted on the site the same moment. When it arrives:
Every pick we publish gets tracked in the open, win or lose. We never delete a pick or hide a loss — the get-out price is what limits how much a losing idea costs, not a guarantee it won’t happen.
