The Disciplined Investor Podcast

Stocks have been hitting records while the bond market is throwing a fit. Oil is moving higher as the Fed is trying to figure out what to do next. Something doesn’t quite add up. This week’s guest – James Stack of InvesTech and Stack Financial Management. NEW! DOWNLOAD THE AI GENERATED SHOW NOTES (Guest Segment) Recognized as one of the nation’s leading technical analysts, James Stack was formerly a project manager with IBM Research and has a number of domestic and international patents to his credit. After founding financial research firm InvesTech Research in 1979, he began publishing the InvesTech newsletter in 1982 which he continues to lead today. Over the years, InvesTech has earned widespread recognition for its unique analysis of the key forces behind the stock market and its ability to safely guide investors through the most tumultuous times – including the 2008 Financial Crisis, the 2000 Tech Bubble and the 1987 Crash. In 1994, Jim founded Stack Financial Management (SFM), an affiliate wealth management company which manages over $2B in assets for clients in virtually all 50 states. SFM is considered among the top independent wealth advisors and has consistently been ranked on Barron’s “Top 100 Independent Advisors” in the U.S. and Forbes list of “America’s Top 250 Wealth Advisors”. Check this out and find out more at: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/ Follow @andrewhorowitz Looking for style diversification? More information on the TDI Managed Growth Strategy – HERE Stocks mentioned in this episode: (IBM), (CAT), (AVGO), (NVDA), (MSFT), (GDX), (XLE), (XLV), (XLP), (XLU), (XLI), (EFV)

Here we go – the start of the final 3 months of 2026. A look back to look ahead. What to expect – when investing… We are talking Stock Market Maestros with our guest – Clare Flynn Levy, CEO of Essentia Analytics NEW! DOWNLOAD THE AI GENERATED SHOW NOTES (Guest Segment) Clare Flynn Levy is the founder and CEO of Essentia Analytics, a fintech firm that uses decision attribution analytics to help both equity fund managers and allocators of capital identify investment skill and bias – and continuously improve their decision-making. Essentia leads the field in behavioral analytics and works with many of the world’s largest investment managers. Prior to founding Essentia, Clare spent 10 years as a fund manager, both active equity (running over $1bn of pension funds for Deutsche Asset Management) and hedge (as CIO of Avocet Capital Management, a technology hedge fund). She’s the co-author of “Stock Market Maestros: The winning habits, strategies, and mindsets of the world’s best investors” (2026). Follow @cflynnlevy Check this out and find out more at: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/ Follow @andrewhorowitz Looking for style diversification? More information on the TDI Managed Growth Strategy – HERE Stocks mentioned in this episode: (SPY), (QQQ), (NKE)

Danger Will Robinson – Rates, Prices and Diesel… Somehting is going to break says our guest. A plethora of stocks… And our guest – Frank Curzio – Curzio research…   NEW! DOWNLOAD THE SHOW NOTES (Guest Segment) Frank Curzio can be reached by email at [email protected] Frank Curzio is an equity analyst with close to three decades of experience covering small- and mid-cap stocks. Check out his newsletters. (Free trial subscriptions available) He has been the editor of several well respected newsletters with major companies as well on of the top performers with TheStreet.com where he significantly outperformed the markets during his tenure. He was also a research analyst for Jim Cramer. Frank is the host of Wall Street Unplugged. Frank has been a guest on various media outlets including Fox Business News, CNBC’s The Kudlow Report and CNBC’s The Call. He has also been mentioned numerous times on Jim Cramer’s™s Mad Money, is a featured guest on CNN Radio and has been quoted in financial magazines and websites. Before TheStreet.com, Frank was the editor of The FXC Newsletter and received one of the top rankings by Hulbert’s Financial Digest for risk-adjusted performance. Follow @frankcurzio Check this out and find out more at: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/ Follow @andrewhorowitz Looking for style diversification? More information on the TDI Managed Growth Strategy – HERE Stocks mentioned in this episode: (NKE), (RKT), (LOW), (TME), (WYNN), (LVS), (RRR), (MCD), (PNR), (STZ), (DKS), (FLUT), (VIVO), (DGX), (UEC), (DIS), (PSKY), (NFLX), (AAPL), (KO), (LULU), (WMT), (AMZN), (GOOGL), (COST), (TGT), (FDX), (UPS), (KBH), (LEN)

The Debt Story Is Worse (and Better) than the Headlines. The Fed is boxed in and it Feels like Economic Indigestion. Oil-  could we get to $120 …. and then what? And our guest today – Dr. Barry Eichengreen, Professor of Economic Studies at UC Berkley  NEW! DOWNLOAD THIS EPISODE’S AI GENERATED SHOW NOTES (Guest Segment) Barry Eichengreen (George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee, Professor of Economics) is a distinguished professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is the George C. Pardee & Helen N. Pardee Chair. A leading expert on the international monetary system and global finance, his research covers the history of global financial crises, the international monetary system, economic history, and the causes and consequences of populism. Dr. Eichengreen holds fellowships from several institutions, including the National Bureau of Economic Research and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has previously served as a Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Learn More at http://www.ibkr.com/funds Follow @andrewhorowitz Looking for style diversification? More information on the TDI Managed Growth Strategy – https://thedisciplinedinvestor.com/blog/tdi-strategy/ Stocks mentioned in this episode: (V), (MA), (GLD), (QQQ), (USO)

Total PPI was up 5.4% year-over-year, up from 4.8% in July. Yes, we have inflation. Oil rocking higher – WTI breaks above $100+ Asking: Do you really know your funds? Our guest this week – David Gaffen, Breaking News editor at Reuters. NEW! DOWNLOAD THIS EPISODE’S AI GENERATED SHOW NOTES (Guest Segment) David Gaffen is the U.S. breaking news companies editor at Reuters, where he has worked for almost two decades. He also did stints as the U.S. energy editor and U.S. deputy markets editor and has been a business journalist for more than 20 years. In that time he has covered the 2008 financial crisis, the oil-market meltdown in 2020, and was nominated for a Loeb Award for a series of articles on the growth of stock buybacks in 2015. He lives in New York with his family. Follow @DavidGaffen Check this out and find out more at: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/ Looking to invest in The Disciplined Investor Managed Growth Strategy? Click HERE for the virtual tour – https://tinyurl.com/tdimg1 Stocks Mentioned in the Episode: (EEM), (SPEM), (LEN), (DHI), (SKHY) Follow @andrewhorowitz