Print the page
Increase font size
EXPOSED: My $10 Million Secret

EXPOSED: My $10 Million Secret

James Altucher

Posted February 12, 2025

James Altucher

{{#and firstName (not (eq firstName "EMAIL" ))}}{{capitalizeFirst (lower firstName)}}, {{else}}{{/and}}

For the last 20 years, I’ve kept a $10 million secret close to my chest.

I like money. But I like ideas more. You can’t make money without good ideas – and ideas are where money comes from.

If you give money away, it’s gone forever…

But I figured out a long time ago that if you give good IDEAS away … it can come back to you 10-fold.

Well, today, I want to share one of my best ideas.

An idea that helped me make $10 million almost 20 years ago … and basically launched my financial career.

Here it is…

David Vs. Goliath

Wall Street is rigged.

It’s designed to make sure the big money gulps down the lion’s share of the gains.

You know the old saying. “The house always wins.”

And that’s true.

Insiders and institutions have access to intel that you and I never will.

But as weird as it sounds…

50 years ago, the government fixed it.

Yes, the government actually did something RIGHT for the little guy.

In 1975…

Congress passed a new section of the Securities Exchange Act that required institutional investors – the big money – to show us their cards.

Suddenly, the jig was up.

The big guys couldn’t hide anymore…

And anyone who knew where to look could see EXACTLY what moves the smart money was making.

Every quarter since, they’ve been required to show us exactly which stocks they’re buying – and selling – every quarter.

Which gave me…

My $10 Million Idea

In 2006, I launched a website called StockPickr that scrubbed all this big money data…

And gave it away to anyone that wanted to see it.

If you wanted a quick snapshot at what guys like Warren Buffett ... George Soros … and Mark Cuban were buying … this was the place to be.

It became an overnight success.

Basically, I wrote the code so that anyone could post their own stock picks online…

Rank portfolios they liked or hated…

And see portfolios that were similar to theirs.

So, it became one of the first places where investors could “hang out” online.

In 2007, traffic grew by 2,000% and Time’s listed it as one of the year’s top 50 sites.

Big Money = Big Money

StockPickr became so popular…

I ended up getting an offer to run a $100 million hedge fund using some of the strategies it helped me uncover.

I turned it down.

Because as much as I like money…

I like freedom more.

With this deal, I would’ve had to give up everything else I was doing…

My appearances on CNBC…

My book deals…

My columns in The Financial Times and TheStreet.com…

Which, sounded like a crummy deal.

Instead…

I went all-in on StockPickr.

And within a year, I sold it at a $10 million value.

I took the Big Money’s secrets…

And I made Big Money with it.

This Friday, It Happens Again

I bring all this up to highlight the value of institutional money moves.

Once every quarter, all the big players are forced to lift up their skirts and show us exactly what they’ve been up to.

This Friday, February 14…

All the big players will be forced to do so again.

Basically, I think Friday is about to mark the start of a huge paradigm shift on Wall Street…

Where the smaller, forgotten stocks will start pulling ahead.

In fact, they’re already starting to.

Last year, we saw a lot of these tiny stocks shoot up 1,000%.

And, sure enough…

This weird SEC document showed the big guys were buying them up BEFORE their big runs.

And on Friday…

We’ll get to see what Wall Street was up to in Q4…

When Trump got elected…

When the Fed began cutting rates…

When stuff like Bitcoin and Tesla broke to new highs…

You get the gist of it.

Wall Street is preparing for something big.

A lot of these tiny stocks are starting to double and double again.

But, I think this is just the beginning of a much bigger trend.

Something that could play out over the next decade…

And make investors as rich as stocks like Apple, Google and Tesla did over the last decade.

A One-Way Ticket to Mars (And How to Profit)

Posted February 20, 2025

By Chris Campbell

The biggest fortunes are never made by settlers. They’re made by frontier investors.

Everything is Rigged… Until You Hack It

Posted February 19, 2025

By James Altucher

How anyone can steal this playbook to dominate in any industry

LIBRA: Milei’s Memecoin Disaster, Unplugged

Posted February 18, 2025

By Chris Campbell

The LIBRA Effect: For every genius invention, there is an equal and opposite dumb use case.

Stablecoins: The Walking Debt

Posted February 17, 2025

By Chris Campbell

The US is currently playing 4D chess with its financial system. Here’s how to play it.

Making Your First Million (and Beyond)

Posted February 14, 2025

By James Altucher

Lying is hard work. Making a million dollars is easier. It can be done. By anyone.

DOGE’s Trillion-Dollar Footnote

Posted February 11, 2025

By Chris Campbell

This Friday—Valentine’s Day—the market’s most overlooked sector gets a love letter from Wall Street.