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They Call It Merger Monday. I Call It Payday.

They Call It Merger Monday. I Call It Payday.

James Altucher

Posted May 29, 2025

James Altucher

I love New York bagels.

I love when someone says “This is not financial advice” and then gives terrible financial advice.

But more than anything, I love buyouts.

Why? Because they’re the closest thing to insider trading you can legally do without ending up in a Netflix docuseries.

Let me tell you a story.

Back in December 2022, a tiny satellite company named Maxar had been limping along for months. Boring chart. Flat price. Nothing to see here. It looked like every other forgotten small-cap.

But I knew something was off.

I didn’t see it first in the news. I didn’t hear about it from some expert on CNBC.

I saw it in the data—my AI model picked up what I call a Blue Spike. It wasn’t loud. It wasn’t dramatic. It was quiet. The kind of quiet that can only happen on purpose.

Two days later, Advent International—one of the biggest private equity firms in the world—announced they were buying Maxar for $4 billion.

The stock exploded.

Anyone who caught the spike early could’ve seen a 32,900% return in 48 hours.

No, that’s not a typo.

That’s turning $1,000 into $330,000—faster than it takes for someone to make a memecoin about an Elon tweet.

Bankers don’t just announce billion-dollar acquisitions ahead of time. The signs show up first in the data. Subtle moves. Hidden volume. Mysterious price activity.

I realized this years ago. Then I spent years watching how it really works. Then I spent another year figuring out how to track it.

And then…

I Built an AI

I call it Alpha-3.

It’s built to detect the early signs of buyouts before they go public. And it works. 

It’s picked up patterns ahead of 84.7% of the biggest Wall Street buyouts over the past five years.

Not based on old data or voodoo predictions. Real-time signals. Noise buried so deep in the tape, most investors wouldn’t know where to start looking.

Because the thing is, while many are poring over quarterly reports, watching moving averages, and praying to the RSI gods… 

Buyouts are happening in locked boardrooms. Over the weekend. With non-disclosure agreements thicker than the plot of 'Tenet' if it were explained by Warren Buffett.

And when the doors open on Monday morning?

Boom. The game resets. A tiny company goes from “never heard of it” to “$7 billion deal” before you’ve had your first sip of coffee.

This happens all the time. And the same thing (the little Blue Spike) happens first.

Let me give you a few more examples:

  • Ambrx Biopharma: Blue Spike. 10 days later, J&J buys them. 1,750% peak gain.
  • Kellanova: They make Pop-Tarts and Pringles. Alpha-3 flags them. Stock surges 10,300% in two weeks.
  • HashiCorp: Blue Spike. IBM buys them. 1,167% return in 9 days.
  • Bluegreen Vacations: Never heard of them until the Spike. Hilton swoops in. 681% in five days.
  • Provention Bio: Stock went nowhere for months. Spike. Three days later, a 7,100% rocket.

There’s more. The past was pretty profitable.

But the next one could be historic.

You Have 48 Hours

I love buyouts because they cut through the noise. You don’t need to know how to read a balance sheet. You don’t need to understand EBITDA.

All you need to know is this: when big money moves, it leaves a trail—and if you know where to look, you can catch it before the rest of the world even knows there’s a party happening.

Right now? Money’s on the move again… getting ready to cut the cake.

Most people didn’t catch it. And that’s the way Wall Street likes it. (And to be honest, that’s the way I like it too.)

I’ve already taken my position.

On Monday morning, I’m betting we’re going to see another buyout…

And this one’s because of Trump.

But Trump didn’t hold a press conference. He didn’t post about it on Truth Social. He just quietly signed a document declaring a “Critical Emergency.”

Boom. Blue Spike.

What did the spike tell me? One tiny company is about to become the most important asset in America. And the time to learn about it is now… before the market realizes.

You have time. But not much. Less than 48 hours.

I’ll explain everything -- including why “Merger Monday” is coming fast -- in the link below.

Click here before time’s up.

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