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
September 15, 202004:46 PM Eastern
I’m not a big fast-food guy. I prefer home-cooked or fast-casual meals when I have a choice, unless I’m in a huge hurry.
But as an analyst, I’m happy to recommend you sink your teeth into...
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Juan M. Villaverde,
Mandeep Rai and
Mike Larson On
September 11, 202003:00 PM Eastern
September expiration is fast approaching — and it’s time to make a couple of moves with one of your open positions. I’m talking about General Mills (NYSE: GIS, Rated “B”).
You sold a September...
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Mike Larson On
September 11, 202012:00 PM Eastern
Never before have so many companies and so many countries racked up so much debt to so many creditors. And never before have I seen so many asset markets respond by … completely ignoring it!...
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Mike Larson On
September 9, 202004:39 PM Eastern
I’m guessing Icarus enjoyed his flight over the Mediterranean Sea … for a while anyway. The view off the coast of Crete must’ve been nice the higher he flew.
But of course, it didn’t last....
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Mike Larson On
September 9, 202008:00 AM Eastern
Momentum is great. Until it isn’t.
That’s a lesson many investors painfully learned in the dot-com bubble and bust of 1999-2003. And it’s a lesson the market is teaching a new generation of...
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Juan M. Villaverde,
Mandeep Rai and
Mike Larson On
September 4, 202011:25 AM Eastern
The wins just keep on coming in your model portfolio!
You should have had no trouble last week closing out your September McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD, Rated “C”) put spread for a net cost of...
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Mike Larson On
September 2, 202004:10 PM Eastern
I’ve been a vocal bull on precious metals since late 2018 for several reasons.
Gold and silver offer “chaos insurance” in times of market volatility. Central banks have been big buyers in recent...
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Juan M. Villaverde,
Mandeep Rai and
Mike Larson On
August 28, 202011:08 AM Eastern
Good news: You scored another income “two-fer” last week!
First, your August Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE, Rated “C”) put spread expired without value. That would’ve locked down $989 in income for...
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Mike Larson On
August 26, 202005:05 PM Eastern
It’s official. The world’s biggest countries now owe more money than they did right after World War II. Debt as a percentage of GDP just hit 128%, versus 124% in 1946.
And that’s just government...
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Mike Larson On
August 25, 202008:00 AM Eastern
I have to admit something: Until I started working on this piece, I had never heard of Xpel Inc. (Nasdaq: XPEL, Rated “B”). Not the company. Not its products. Not the stock.
But, if you’ve owned...