If you missed Palantir at $20, Intel at $45 or Seagate at $95, you're not alone.
Each stock ran 500-700% in 12 months and most retail investors had no idea.
I went hunting for the next stock like these, and believe these 3 could go on a similar run:🧵
This is for the investor who keeps missing the big winners despite watching CNBC all day and scouring Reddit forums.
By the time stocks show up there, institutions have taken their gains, and retail is buying the top.
I'm sharing 3 that are still early:
Stock #1: Fortinet (FTNT).
AI is making cyber attackers 1,000x more dangerous.
Every Fortune 500 needs a robust firewall to filter out cyber attacks before they hit the network.
Fortinet builds their firewalls on custom chips, which makes them faster and cheaper to run than any software-only competitor.
Recently, their chart hit a new all-time high.
Stock #2: Compass Minerals (CMP)
They mine salt for roads and specialty fertilizer for premium crops.
Hard assets are back in favor as AI disruption fears spread, and recent earnings pulled institutional money back in after years of decline.
Stock #3: MKS Instruments (MKSI)
Every country is spending hundreds of billions to build their own chip factories to stay ahead of the AI race.
MKS makes the tools inside every chip-making machine.
Institutions are already positioning into it.
The pattern under all 3 is the same.
Each one is off everyone’s radar, sitting on a real business with a macro tailwind, and the institutional money has already started rotating in.
That's the exact setup Palantir, Intel, and Seagate had before they ran 500-700%.
Of course, not all these setup work.
Some of these stocks will run, some will stall, and some will reverse and stop out.
That's the cost of this game.
Position accordingly and always have a sell rule before you buy.
Most retail investors who pick the right stocks still lose money on them.
The thesis usually isn't wrong, but there's no rule for when to take profits before the move reverses.
Without one, even the right pick goes to zero.
A sell rule changes how you treat every position you own.
You stop checking losing trades hoping they bounce back.
Every position has a defined exit written down before you ever click buy, which means the portfolio runs on logic instead of hope.
More clarity, less stress.
If you have a system for picking stocks but no system for selling them, that's the piece I'm covering this weekend in a free 2-hour live training.
I'll cover the sell rules I use, the 3 sectors I'm watching, and a live Q&A.
Reserve your spot: felixfriends.org/live-y
An investor who joined last week's training:
"My initial Goat Academy experience was totally opposite of what I call a typical sales pitch. Educational, no hype, no pressure to buy. I had nothing to lose signing up for a free weekend seminar. It was what I needed to succeed."
A word of caution: nothing here is financial advice.
The thesis I've outlined comes with real downside risk, like any investment.
The framework is meant to support your own analysis, not replace it.
Do your own research before taking any position.
If this thread changed how you see the market, give me a follow.
Every week I break down the stocks I'm watching, the sectors smart money is rotating into, and the patterns that separate big winners from bags.
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