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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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. ...
My Take on the State of the Market
By Mandeep Rai On November 22, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Presidents get to deliver State of the Union addresses. But analysts like me have to settle for a bit less. With that in mind, consider this my “State of the Market” issue. Let’s start with a...
When the Going Got Tough, Investors Went Shopping ... in Retail Stocks!
By Mandeep Rai On November 15, 201707:00 AM Eastern
When the going got tough in the markets last week, investors went shopping … in retail stocks! That tells me a profit opportunity could be brewing as we head into the key holiday season. It’s no...
Why Are Stocks Up? It All Goes Back to Simple Supply and Demand!
By Mandeep Rai On November 8, 201707:00 AM Eastern
Why are stocks up? Market observers will point to several traditional rally catalysts.  We’re in good shape economically. Tax reform and repatriation of corporate profits are on the table. ...
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