Being a Philadelphia kid, I was able to visit the very places where America was born… Like Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence was signed. The Pennsylvania State House, where the U.S. Constitution was adopted. The President’s House, where our first two presidents, George Washington and John Adams, both lived. The city is rich with American history and the gritty spirit of innovation and freedom that led to the greatest country in the history of the world. I believe that same spirit exists today, which gives me hope as an American and as an investor… The July 4th holiday is many different things – fireworks, swimming, cookouts, big sales, and more.

Welcome to the three-day weekend! After everything we’ve been through these last few months, I think we all deserve some time to relax. Just a reminder that both the stock market and our InvestorPlace office will be closed tomorrow in observance of the holiday. But that doesn’t mean you can’t spend an hour listening to a special edition of MoneyLine! I decided to something a little different this week. I asked my Twitter followers what stocks they wanted me to comment on, and I was overwhelmed by more than 100 responses within just a few hours. After going through the list, I narrowed it down to 20 that I felt were compelling and popular in the investment world today. They range from a couple small-cap biotechs working on a vaccine for COVID-19 to a few recent IPOs.

2020 is a year that just doesn’t stop surprising us. Who’d have thought that the hot new smartphones would be foldable? I’m not talking foldable like the old flip phones – with a screen on one side of its hinge and buttons on another. I’m talking about screens that can fold into any size you can imagine! Not to brag, but I pretty much knew they were coming. In my 10 Fearless Predictions for 2020 published last New Year’s Eve, my seventh prediction was that the “next generation of smartphones will be foldable.” Well, they’re here… If you stay on top of the trends, you could say that a lot of this started last summer in Spain. More than 10,000 technology experts and insiders met at an exclusive summit in Barcelona to discuss the new technologies set to reshape our world.

After a strong start to the week, stocks sold off into the weekend on fears of new and increased shutdowns due to the recent rise in COVID-19 cases. As a result, we should expect more volatility and pullbacks in the market in the weeks and months ahead – but that’s okay. In this week’s episode of MoneyLine, I’ll tell you how we can use that volatility to our advantage. Even with more cases of COVID-19 in select states, others are continuing their reopening plans and more people will slowly start to get back to offices. Still, a lot of people will continue to work remotely, and some permanently. Some companies are already moving to permanent optional telecommuting, including giants like Twitter (TWTR) and Facebook (FB).

What do you remember about buying a personal computer in the 1990s and early 2000s? I remember that the setup included a free, pre-loaded copy of McAfee AntiVirus software. McAfee was everywhere during those times. The company was founded in 1987 by John McAfee and eventually sold to Intel (INTC) in 2010 for $7.68 billion. If you’re not familiar with John McAfee, you should be. He has been one of the most eccentric and polarizing figures in the technology industry over the last few decades. Everything from alleged crazy parties at the company to a wild documentary about a murder in Central America to his involvement in cryptocurrencies. Oh yeah… and now he’s on the run from the U.S. government.

Like any stock market nerd worthy of the title, I like a good modeling tool. I love one that can help me “avoid catastrophe,” like Keith Kaplan’s TradeStops tool did for a whole community of ordinary investors in February. Yes. One little alert on February 27 prepared Keith’s readers for the carnage COVID-19 was about to wreak on financial markets worldwide. So you can bet I wanted to sit down with Keith himself and learn more. And that’s what I just did. Hopefully you have a pile of emails in your inbox, where I was trying to make sure you didn’t miss out on today’s free briefing on TradeStops. The event just wrapped up.

I hope you’ve had a chance to read the recent essays I’ve shared with you here in MoneyWire by my friend Keith Kaplan. Keith uses a revolutionary tool to get in front of major market moves – and the tool has been spot-on about this recent market… as well as every major bear market AND bull market going back over the last two decades. I can’t wait to talk more about it with Keith in an exclusive event we’re holding tomorrow afternoon. I’ll interview him about his system that has signaled every major market move over the last 20 years and, frankly, his amazing story. Today, I want to share another of Keith’s essays so you can get a glimpse into how much research he did to come up with his system. As you know if you’re a regular MoneyWire reader, I’m a research fanatic.

Here is some investing truth: The reason so many investors get lousy market returns is because we let our biases influence our decisions. It turns out that the human brain is a marvelous tool for so many things but is a terrible tool for investing. Why? Because human beings make decisions based on our inherent biases about ourselves and the world around us – and not on the facts that really drive the market. Over the last several days, I’ve been featuring essays by my friend Keith Kaplan. Keith has been telling his story about the amazing tool he uses that has signaled every major market move over the last 20 years. And a lot of that success comes from taking human biases out of the decision making…

Get your pens and pads ready… Today’s new episode of MoneyLine is chock full of investing ideas and ticker symbols. I’d go so far as to say it’s one of the best shows in our short history. I kick off the episode with a discussion of the market, which rebounded this week after a quick pullback from recent high. A close look at the latest COVID-19 numbers shows a positive trend – despite what the media wants you to believe. I’ll share the data with you that proves things are indeed improving. Then, I dive into the often-overlooked world of microcaps. Even with the overall stock market down since early February, my Microcap Millionaire Portfolio in Early Stage Investor is up about 45%!