This Popular Holiday Toy Is Like Solving the Stock Market In this age of whizbang technology, who would have thought that a 50-year-old "toy" would still be so popular… and be on so many holiday gift lists?
There are flying orbs, robots, mind-blowing video games, remote-controlled vehicles, drones, and so much more.
And then there's Rubik's Cube, which is now half a century old. It's the same age I am, but it's a lot more popular.
Rubik's Cube and Rubik's Cube Mini are second and third on Amazon's list of "Best Sellers in Fidget Blocks." Six of the top 30 in that category are Rubik's products.
I wasn't a big "cuber" in my younger years, but I developed a mild obsession with it and its 43 quintillion possible combinations nearly five years ago.
It started quite by accident when we were all stuck at home during the early days of the pandemic. I bought a box of popular fidget toys for my youngest son, who was under 10 at the time. It had all sorts of items in it, one of which was a cheap Rubik's Cube knockoff.
My son preferred the other toys in the box, but I was bored unable to go anywhere or do anything, so the data nerd thought I would learn to solve that cheap Rubik's Cube. And that was all my son needed. In the age-old spirit of friendly competition with Dad, he took on the challenge of beating my solve times.
And he most definitely did. He got down under 30 seconds, and I have no hope of ever catching him. Even if my brain could think that fast, my fingers can't move that fast.
It's extremely impressive to watch him solve a fully scrambled cube in less than half a minute. And if you want your mind really blown, take a look at Max Park – the world's best "speed cuber." Max holds the world record by solving the 3x3 cube in a blazing 3.13 seconds. It's worth watching... 
This amazing feat becomes even more astounding when you learn how Max got here.
It started a lot like in my household. Max's family had a Rubik's Cube sitting around that he got interested in when he was nine. Max is autistic, and reduced fine motor skills are one of the effects.
Max's mother fostered his interest in the cube, thinking it might help with his dexterity and socialization. She taught herself how to solve it using YouTube videos, and she then taught Max, who picked it up quickly.
How is it even possible to solve something with 43 quintillion possible combinations in just 3.13 seconds?!
The answer is the way to solve any big puzzle, including the stock market. Luck or Skill? No one could come anywhere close to solving Rubik's cube in 3.13 seconds on luck, trial and error, or both.
There are 302.5 million possible combinations for Mega Millions lottery tickets that everyone buys when the jackpot zooms over a billion dollars.
There are 47 billion times as many possible combinations for Rubik's cube.
The difference is the lottery is almost totally random. A number can't repeat in the first five spots, but otherwise, any number one through 70 could be selected.
On a Rubik's cube, the square is always the same color. It can be rotated to different locations, but it does not change color.
That makes it possible – though not easy – to map out solutions.
If you notice in the video above, competitive cubers have 15 seconds to inspect the cube they must solve. Max Park's mind is like a supercomputer, solving it using mental algorithms before the clock starts.
When it does, it's a matter of executing – with his incredibly fast fingers. The Key is the Right Algorithms By running the numbers, you can cut through the noise of seemingly endless possibilities and zoom in on the most efficient solution. And I would call 3.13 seconds amazingly efficient.
The same approach is the key to solving any big puzzle… like the stock market.
Proven algorithms that you run frequently and quickly allow you to cut through noise and avoid the dead ends.
If you want to stay on the path to predictable profits, you must be able to quickly bypass thousands and thousands of stocks that can never get you there.
When I say "thousands and thousands," I'm not kidding. Out of 29,078 stocks listed between December 1925 and December 2023 – 98 years – only 4% generated all of the market returns above treasury bills, according to research done by renowned professor Hendrik Bessembinder,
In other words, 96% of stocks were dead ends.
Finding those rare 4% profit builders means screening millions of data points – and fast. That's where algorithms come in.
Max Park might be able to run his mental Rubik's cube algorithms in just 15 seconds, but my smart technology system takes a bit longer. It retrieves, sifts through, and analyzes more than a million data points every night while everyone is asleep.
Analysis would be useless if it doesn't produce the desired result, and that's where quantitative analysis and my experience come in.
Why sift through the market of 6,000 stocks yourself? I designed my Quantum Edge system's algorithms to perform a deep mathematical analysis of roughly 129 fundamental and technical variables for every single one every single day.
These aren't just any variables. To find those most predictive, it took me extensive research, studying, and talking to the most successful investors I know. Not to mention my own experience sitting at a trading desk and helping millions of dollars change hands through institutions buying and selling stocks.
I identified the variables that were the best predictors of higher share prices – a 70% success rate through three decades of data, years of daily use, and even more years of back testing.
When I log on early each morning, my computers have already done more data retrieval and analysis than probably an entire brokerage firm. My system assigns a Quantum Score to those 6,000 stocks every single day – a single number that lets me know if each of those stocks is an opportunity, a danger, or just not going anywhere.
That's like Max Park's inspection of the Rubik's cube. I might not be able to do it all mentally, like he does...
But I'm always there, ready for the timer to start anyway. And with just a few additional clicks of the mouse or taps of the keypad, I am left with a handful of stocks likely to solve the profit puzzle that plagues so many investors.
It's a long way from where I started in this business. I was as puzzled as anybody else new to stocks. When I made a trade, my boss openly took the opposite position… often without doing much research. Talk about a blow to your ego.
I knew then that I needed to figure out how to figure it out.
I did it with the Rubik's cube, though that was for entertainment. And I'm pleased to say I did it with stocks.
That 70% historical win rate is a powerful path to building wealth. It's based on cold, hard data that forecasts profits with a high degree of accuracy.
And that's the whole goal of my investing services. To help my readers using technology-enabled superpowers that analyze the right data in the right way to make big, reliable, and safe profits – over and over again.
That's how 81% of our current stocks in TradeSmith Investment Report are in the green, and 85% of stocks in Quantum Edge Pro are profitable.
With the data and my outlook pointing to more gains coming in 2025, now is a great time to put those puzzle-solving skills to good use and invest in stocks with the key power factors that make higher prices probable. You can learn how here.
As for Rubik's Cube, I'll leave that up to you. Hope you or whomever you give it to have fun with it. Just know that it can get a little addictive!
Talk soon,   Jason Bodner
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