How to Make a Small Fortune on the Stock Market

David Gamble
Science and Critical Thinking
9 min readMay 1, 2024

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First, I better set your expectations correctly, I’m not trying to sell you anything, nor am I giving you actual financial guidance. Instead this is a posting about how utterly absurd the pricing of the DJT stock actually is.

However, I will tell you a guaranteed way that you can use to make a small fortune on the stock market (skip right to the end for that).

I’ll start by briefly talking about one way you can evaluate a stock price and work out if it is average, a good bargain, or over hyped. Once we understand one approach to doing that, we can then move on to take a look at DJT.

When you look back, picking the right stock is easy, but often at the time you just don’t see it. For example, looking back today then very clearly a suggestion to buy APPL back in 2004 is now seen as excellent guidance. At that time it was perhaps not so clear. Whoever made that buy call then truly nailed it and is most probably retired and sitting soaking up the sun on some Caribbean island that they now own.

Another far more recent example is the current darling of the stock market — Nvidia. So let’s use that as a case study to see if the rapid acceleration in its price is hype or justified.

If you bought Nvidia in Oct 2022, when it was 112, then today, not too much later, you…

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David Gamble
Science and Critical Thinking

Blogger and writer with a keen interest in science, skepticism, critical thinking, and many other weird and whacky topics.