Mandeep Rai

| Senior Analyst

Ratings Specialist Mandeep Rai received his economics degree from the University of Albany and master’s degree at the University of Florida’s Warrington/Hough School of Business.

He spent six years on the NYSE trading floor, and worked in private equity valuations for General Electric’s Energy Financial Services and as a lead analyst for a $2 billion early stage venture capital seed fund. He holds his Chartered Financial Analyst certification.

Today, Mandeep mines the vast Weiss database of financial data and ratings to formulate investment and trading strategies for stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies and fixed-income investments.

Mandeep contributes to several Weiss publications, including Weekend Windfalls, Heat Maps and the All-Weather Portfolio.

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Cryptocurrencies: Reward, Risk and Reason
By Mandeep Rai On February 7, 201807:55 AM Eastern
Have you ever heard the term “buy and hodl”? No, that’s not a typo. “Hodl” is Bitcoin slang that means “hold through thick and thin” — from the early days when it was trading for a fraction of...
Is the Market Sick? Here’s My Take ...
By Mandeep Rai On January 31, 201807:55 AM Eastern
The flu virus sure is nasty this year. Many of us have friends, co-workers, family members, or acquaintances who have been laid up in recent days and weeks. But even as it seemed like everyone...
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly News About the Dow Hitting 26,000 So Fast
By Mandeep Rai On January 17, 201808:00 AM Eastern
Yesterday, the Dow Industrials blew through 26,000. If it seems like it happened in a heartbeat, that’s because it nearly did! It took 109 days for the Dow to climb from 21,000 to 22,000 ... but...
My Retail Bet Paid Off as Holidays Proved Bright! Now, Here’s the Next Big Thing to Watch For ...
By Mandeep Rai On January 10, 201808:00 AM Eastern
Heading into the 2017 holiday shopping season, you couldn’t give retail stocks away. Investors were worried about weak same-store sales, underinvestment in e-commerce operations, and the loss of...
Bitcoin and Blockchain: Behind the Volatility, a Technology with Major Promise
By Mandeep Rai On January 3, 201808:46 AM Eastern
The breathtaking volatility in Bitcoin is garnering a lot of press these days, and for good reason. The headline-grabbing cryptocurrency is trading all over the map, and so are its lesser-known...
Two Roads Diverged in a Wood: A Tale of Trump, Treasuries, and What’s in Store for 2018
By Mandeep Rai On December 27, 201709:09 AM Eastern
Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is one of the American poet’s most well-known works, famous for its depiction of two roads diverging in a wood. What I’m most interested in today, though, is...
Optimism Showing Up Everywhere as Markets, Economy on the March
By Mandeep Rai On December 20, 201702:56 PM Eastern
Maybe it’s just the time of year, what with holiday displays, music, and lights surrounding all of us. Or maybe Wall Street traders are dipping into the eggnog a little early. But whatever the...
As Leveraged ETFs Go Berserk, Keep the Biggest Dangers in Mind
By Mandeep Rai On December 13, 201708:00 AM Eastern
My colleague Mike Larson just wrote about the Bitcoin Bonanza, and how the best-performing ETF in our database of more than 2,100 such products is a play on the cryptocurrency. But right below...
Semis Giving You a Chance to Hop on Board! Start with These Top-Ranked Names
By Mandeep Rai On December 6, 201708:09 AM Eastern
Too many investors beg and plead for a chance to get on board with winning stocks. Then when those stocks do take a breather, they get cold feet! Of course, soon afterwards, the stocks in question...
My Post-Thanksgiving Retail Report Card Shows Big Gains There for the Taking!
By Mandeep Rai On November 29, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Two weeks ago, I wrote an issue whose thesis was simple: Big profit opportunities were there for the taking in retail stocks given better earnings reports and easy-to-beat, lowered expectations. ...
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