Nick O'Connor

Nick O’Connor here. Usually I write to you about your money, the markets or world events. But not today. Today, I’m getting in touch simply to wish you a happy Christmas. However you’re spending the holiday, I hope you find…

Do you like the idea of spending the rest of 2019 making good money from a repeatable trading strategy that’s very easy to follow? Then I recommend you sign-up for the new trading workshop being held by Adrian and the…

In today’s letter: why gold is still the ultimate crisis insurance, for private investors, savers and powerful Russian autocrats alike. Let’s dive straight in! By the way, it’s publisher Nick O’Connor here. I’ve locked Boaz in the studio here at…

One of the questions I get asked the most is this: “Your research looks great – but I don’t know how to get started investing.” Or: “I don’t have a broker, have never bought a share and don’t know what…

Last Monday it was silver. Today, I’m buying gold. A lot of it. I won’t tell you where I’m keeping my ‘stash’ either. But I can tell you for certain it is in no way connected to the regular banking…

Is there anything Mr. Hubble isn’t right about? For nearly the whole of 2018, he predicted chaos in Europe, and here we are: Protestors setting the French central bank on fire, then turning up to protest at The Hague in…

As publisher at Southbank Investment Research, I work with a lot of outstanding market analysts and fund managers. Charlie Morris might well be the finest investor I know. He’s a city legend, frankly. For 17 years, he managed HSBC’s absolute…

You’re about to miss your chance to protect yourself from the next financial crisis. Nick Hubble’s predictions are coming true too quickly. It was only weeks ago that Nick and I recorded the warning together. But the video is already…

Here’s your big idea for today, and indeed for the rest of 2018: is Donald Trump about to put a bullet in the tech bull market and trigger an all-out war for free speech at the same time? There are…

Did the financial elite deliberately build weaknesses into the euro currency system in order to create a financial crisis and bring about closer European political union? That’s what I’ve been thinking about for the past couple of days, particularly since…

How do currency unions die? That’s the question I’m asking myself this week, as Nickolai Hubble prepares to publish his next big prediction about the slow-motion collapse of the euro financial system. The short answer is: be very, very careful…

Last week I told you the one place former Federal Reserve chair Alan Greenspan highlighted as the site of the next major financial crisis: Europe. I want to add some meat to the bones of that prediction. I’ll explain just…

Warning: your bank does NOT want you to read this report Deep down, you probably knew something wasn’t quite right. It’s a decade since the global financial crisis. It was a unique moment in history – a single event that…

What it is it you buy when you get a bitcoin? Is bitcoin more like gold, or is it just another fiat currency? Yes, my friends. We’re going well and truly down the rabbit hole. If you’d rather not question…

At the beginning of 2017, a major US bank handed $92 billion over to the US government. It was all “profit” from its operations. How did it make so much, and why did it have to give the money to…

The single most important wealth creating opportunity on the market right now is in cryptocurrencies. No question. As Publisher, I’m doing everything I can to get you in on this ‘crypto-rush’ as smartly and strategically as possible. That’s why, today,…

“What will my house be worth in two years’ time?” When friends and family find out I write and publish financial advice, that’s generally the first thing they ask me. (Occasionally followed by, “When’s a good time to buy my…

Today… the most important thing you can do for your country all year. All it requires is a few clicks of your mouse. And it’s free. But it could make a massive difference to our way of life in Britain…

“I want to get in on bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. But it looks fiddly and complicated. I just don’t know if I know enough to get started.” I must have received that message, or one like it, close to a…

I should have seen the signs… First, one of our tech analysts – Sam Volkering – wrote to me late one night, a couple of months ago. “You need to start taking cryptocurrencies seriously. They’re reaching the boiling point. Get…

I should have seen the signs… First, one of our tech analysts – Sam Volkering – wrote to me late one night, a couple of months ago. “You need to start taking cryptocurrencies seriously. They’re reaching the boiling point. Get…

“I go and talk to these companies, and they know they need me and they’re keen to make sure they’re protected against cyber-attacks… “Then, I don’t hear back from them for months. I get in touch again. They say, ‘We…

Would you like to win £20,000? The money comes courtesy of the British government. It’s stumping the cash up as part of a competition. Anyone can enter. All you need to do is this: Show me a way of pinpointing…

How do rich families get rich, and stay rich? That’s the question I’ve been asking myself for the last few weeks. As part of it, I’ve conducted a pretty exhaustive study of pretty much every way a private investor like…

Are we on the verge of World War Three? The standoff between the US, North Korea and China intensified over the bank holiday weekend. I was back up north visiting family and seemingly every time someone put the television on…

Welcome to the second part of our interview with Akhil Patel, editor of Cycles, Trends and Forecasts. You can read part one here. Akhil recently made a controversial prediction. He believes the stockmarket could hit 15,000 here in Britain –…

Akhil Patel is an editor at Southbank Investment Research and an expert in economic and financial cycles. He recently issued a note to investors that was titled “The Age of Opportunity”. In it, he contradicted the doom-mongers every step of…

They say a picture’s worth a thousand words. So today I’m going to keep things short, stay quiet and let five charts do the talking. I think they prove that we’re at a vital, and profitable, point in the stock…

We spend far more time discussing the “capital” element of our brief than we do the “conflict” part. That’s mostly by design: the markets keep us busy enough. And changes in the financial world are much more likely to have…

Could this be it? The week we see another milestone in the move towards a more global legal marijuana market? It could well be. This week, Canadian president Justin Trudeau’s government is expected to push through legislation that would make…

Here’s a question for you. What’s going to have a bigger impact on your returns from the stockmarket: the deal Britain gets from the EU… or the fact we’re entering the second, most lucrative stage of the “Grand Cycle”? It’s…

It’s fitting that Theresa May had to address her letter to Donald Tusk. Not on an official level – she had no real choice on that front. Unless there’s a WhatsApp group with all 27 heads of state in it…

Bitcoin has had quite a few years. It’s been the best performing currency in the world, it’s been the worst and it’s been the most volatile. Bitcoin’s turned teenagers into millionaires without them leaving their bedrooms. It’s even threatened to overtake…

Welcome to the age of the sun rush. Solar power installations had another massive year last year – growing by 50% year on year. That growth is mostly down to the USA and China. But the shift to solar and…

What connects an outlawed market that’s legal once again… the biggest moral conundrum the tech world faces… and a big development for post-Brexit northern England? They’re all a part of today’s Capital & Conflict, of course! Eerie calm in the…

OK. I admit it. If there was one simple, powerful way of succeeding in the markets… that all investors could simply set up and start using right away… I would have told you by now. But there isn’t. There is…

The Capital & Conflict mailbag is brimming with your letters again. And this time, I’ve been forced to do something radical. When you get a letter like the one below, there’s only one thing you can do… Before I explain…

Well now. It seems my letter yesterday about how rich retirees feel has really struck a chord. The consensus? The figures may say retirees today are richer than those in work. But it doesn’t feel like it! That’s because there’s…

Have you heard the good news? If you’re a retiree, you’re now better off than people who are in work. That’s right, in the decade during which interest rates and the income yielded on capital has dropped to 5,000 year…

Here’s a simple formula for understanding mega-change – the kind of sweeping political, social and financial revolutions that affect us all. It comes down to three things: The right technology, at the right time, in the right hands. Let me…

Let’s take a look at oil. It’s a great “teachable example” of how to understand the mysterious (but understandable) forces behind a market. After jumping north of $50 following Opec’s decision to limit supply at the backend of 2016, the…

I can’t write to you for long today. I’m here with Sam Volkering preparing for tonight’s live event. If you’ve missed it – and I don’t know how that could be since I’ve been banging on about it all week…

Did we just witness the start of a robotic society? An alliance of robots working in league with one another for the benefit of all (robots), not one? Don’t worry. Our robotic friends haven’t yet risen and overthrown us. I’m…

Quick. Answer on your gut. Where’s the best place for your money today, stocks or gold? OK, so perhaps that’s an unfair question. I don’t expect you to answer important questions about your finances on a “gut feeling” – although,…

On the table for you today is an opportunity. A big one. Whether you take it depends on what kind of person you are deep down. Here’s the story in short: Right now, a group of technology companies are challenging…

Imagine the next time you went to turn out the light at home there was a chance – a very small, but real chance – that a fault in the system would shock you and destroy every other electrical appliance…

Now we walk along the same street, in red pairs, and no man shouts obscenities at us, speaks to us, touches us. No one whistles. There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom…

The next two to three years could be the best time in decades to be invested in the UK stock market. Expect the FTSE 100 to smash through 8,000 – maybe even run on to 10,000. That’s the argument Eoin…

Today we talk trading. Specifically, I want to share an idea with you that could be a real breakthrough if you’re interested in making big short-term gains from the stockmarket. I’ll warn you though… it goes against much of what…

Thank you to everyone who wrote in about our special income project. It really struck a chord. Remember, this is something we’re developing in response to cries for help from a certain portion of our readership: people who’re suffering on…

In today’s letter… why Brexit may never happen… a very British coup… a warning from history… and “operation Clockwork Orange” returns. Tonight MPs will vote to grant, or deny, the government the right to trigger Article 50 and make good…

The negative interest rate experiment continues. In Denmark, rates have been negative since 2012. How’s it working out? Not so good… at least, not if you judge it by the standards of the people behind the scheme. Last week Bloomberg…

Fair warning: you might not like the conclusion you come to after reading today’s letter. But it’s better to address this threat now – and do something decisive about it – than wait ten years when it’ll be a thousand…

Did you see the news? Earlier this week, Theresa May announced she can see the future! Not in so many words. But she may as well have. In an announcement fit to make all free-market, small government enthusiasts shudder (including…

We continue our exploration of the murky world of cybersecurity (and cyber-offence) today. Remember our thesis: it ultimately doesn’t matter if Russia hacked and leaked information that influenced the US election. What’s important is that more or less every major…

Today we delve further into the murky world of cyber-warfare, with insights from former intelligence “spooks” fighting on the front line. My research team at Frontier Tech Investor spoke to experts from two cybersecurity firms, Darktrace and root9B. Darktrace was…

I write to you from Heathrow airport, on my way to Baltimore to meet one of the most powerful – and controversial – central bankers of all time. Can’t say any more than that right now. But expect more information…

Later today a plane will land at San Francisco airport and reignite a major diplomatic and military flashpoint – one that will have consequences for us all. It’s another part in the story I’ve been telling you all week –…

Let’s do a quick straw poll. I need your opinion on something. It’s the biggest and most controversial geopolitical story in the world right now. Did Russia “hack” the US election? Did Russian cyber-attacks favour the presidency of Donald Trump…

Can you boil economic prosperity down to a simple formula? It’s the ultimate question. The economic version of, “what is the meaning of life?”. Perhaps I’m setting myself up to fail in asking it. In fact, almost certainly so. But…

Should the bank of England have seen the 2008 financial crisis coming? Everyone’s favourite economist Andrew Haldane – chief Bank of England economist and “let’s abolish cash and impose negative interest rates” proponent – certainly thinks so. He may or…

There’s something strange about trying to figure out the policy of the next US government via 140 character memos. But that’s the world Donald Trump has delivered us to. One of his latest notes caught my eye. It said: China…

What’s the cheapest source of energy in the world? I’ll give you three guesses. Actually, as this is a letter and not a conversation, I’ll just tell you. It’s solar. At least, in many places in the world it is….