The Safe-Money Investor Advocate
In an era of high-risk, high-stakes exuberance, Mike Larson stands out as a leader in conservative investment strategies that outperform the market over the long haul.
Using the safety-oriented Weiss Ratings as a guide, Mike's Safe Money Report has a proven history of guiding investors to stocks that provide consistent dividends, excellent growth, plus asset protection in down markets.
Meanwhile, his Weekend Windfalls service — where he collaborates with Trading Specialist Juan Villaverde and Ratings Specialist Mandeep Rai — shows investors how to make an average of $1,000 in extra cash nearly every Friday, also based on a safety-first income approach.
And his Heat Maps service reveals the top-rated stocks across a wide swath of industries. In each issue, he also gives an in-depth look into one sector and explains why it — and the stocks within it — should rise to the top investors' radars, too.
Mike is a graduate of Boston University and an alumnus of both Bloomberg News and Bankrate.com, where he helped investors and consumers better understand how to get the most from their savings, how to avoid risks in the mortgage market, and improve their personal finances overall.
He began doing the same on a much larger scale when he joined Weiss Ratings in 2001.
Working closely with founder Dr. Martin Weiss for two decades has given him the opportunity to see, firsthand, how keeping an eye on safety is so essential to building a reliable nest egg.
At Weiss Ratings, he has reached millions of readers and helped investors make sense of the markets, find safer investments with the highest returns, and grow their wealth through both good times and bad.
Over the years, you may have seen him featured on financial news channels like CNN, CNBC, Fox Business and BNN Bloomberg. He has also spoken on dozens of radio shows across the U.S., and his work has been quoted by AP, Reuters, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and multiple other publications.
Today, Mike Larson is the proud standard-bearer of the Weiss 50-year tradition of safe investing.
Mike Larson's Articles
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Mike Larson On
August 4, 202106:00 AM Eastern
I was one of the biggest real estate bears on the planet in the mid-2000s. And boy did that sector crater during 2008’s housing bust.
That was then. Circumstances are completely different now....
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Mike Larson On
August 3, 202108:00 AM Eastern
In my last issue, I said narrow markets could right themselves, and I expected that to happen in this instance, given the forces at play.
In this week’s issue, I’m happy to report the S&P 500...
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Mike Larson and
Juan M. Villaverde On
July 30, 202112:26 PM Eastern
Do you remember the childhood game “Red Light, Green Light?” That’s the one where you would try to be the first to tag the “traffic light” person. You ran towards them on “green light” but had to...
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Mike Larson On
July 28, 202106:00 AM Eastern
A funny thing happened on the road to soaring internet rates ...
Lower interest rates.
Yes, it’s true. Despite extraordinarily hot readings on inflation ... news that the COVID-19 recession...
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Mike Larson and
Juan M. Villaverde On
July 23, 202112:31 PM Eastern
Boy, was last week a busy — and income-filled — week for you! You should have locked down $930 on an energy sector put option trade, plus another $882 on a materials sector move.
If you owned...
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Mike Larson On
July 21, 202106:00 AM Eastern
Blue Origin pulled off a successful rocket launch this week, adding Jeff Bezos to the “Billionaire Astronaut Space Club” list alongside Richard Branson.
The stock market, on the other hand,...
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Mike Larson On
July 20, 202108:00 AM Eastern
The stock market has been getting “narrower” for a while. In the past week, that problem finally caught up to the major averages.
The Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq all started sliding on...
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Mike Larson On
July 19, 202111:58 AM Eastern
It’s been a great run for the markets and many of your positions. But the increasingly “narrow” market is starting to stumble — a signal to me that it’s time to lock down gains on two of your...
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Mike Larson and
Juan M. Villaverde On
July 16, 202111:20 AM Eastern
Sometimes when it comes to income investing, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. That was the case yesterday, when we recommended you go ahead and lock down income on two of your put...
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Mike Larson and
Juan M. Villaverde On
July 15, 202112:38 PM Eastern
July options expiration is tomorrow … and it’s time to take early action on two of your trades.
Specifically, I recommend you …
Buy to close the July Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund (NYSE:...