[FREE] Our Portfolio Beat the Market by 3x This Year (And The ‘Electrification’ Play I’m Making This Week)

Tired of chasing overhyped tech stocks? Here’s how to invest in what the world actually needs, before everyone else catches on.

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Hey, Rick Sullivan here.

From January to July this year, our NASDUCK30 EQ model portfolio returned 25.74%. To put that in perspective, the S&P 500—the benchmark for the entire market—returned just 7.34% in the same period.

For every dollar the big indexes made for the Wall Street crowd, we made more than three.

But let's be honest. Seeing headlines about record highs can be paralyzing. You feel like you’ve missed the boat, and every choice feels like a gamble. I spent 20 years on Wall Street, running derivatives desks and managing nine-figure portfolios. I know that feeling of being one step behind.

But what if I told you that beating the market isn't about finding the next meme stock or timing the perfect trade? What if it’s about a simple, repeatable system designed to identify unstoppable trends before they hit the front page of the Wall Street Journal?

The Enemy is Hype. Your Edge is Reality.

Wall Street has a dirty secret: its business model relies on keeping you confused and chasing stories. They pump up narratives, create hype around flashy tech stocks, and then leave regular people holding the bag when the story falls apart.

My entire approach is built to fight this. I spent two decades inside that machine, and I learned one critical lesson: the biggest money isn't made by chasing hype. It's made by investing in what is tangible, undeniable, and necessary.

That's why we built the proprietary Caesar Score and the NASDUCK Duel framework. They are systematic tools designed to cut through the noise, ignore the story, and focus on one thing: a company’s fundamental financial health. It’s how we find value where others only see complexity.

Your Free Teaching Moment: A Great Company at a Scary Price

To show you exactly how this works, let's look at a stock everyone is talking about right now: Datadog (DDOG).

The Setup: Imagine you're running Amazon on Black Friday. If a server crashes or a payment gateway fails, you need to know what broke and why, instantly. Datadog provides a single dashboard to see everything—a company’s cloud servers, apps, and security. It’s an essential tool for the modern digital world.

The Conflict: The business is world-class. It’s a cash-generating machine. But the stock is priced for absolute perfection. Wall Street has fallen so in love with its AI growth story that the valuation has reached nosebleed levels. This creates a dangerous conflict between a great business and a risky stock.

The Numbers That Matter:

• Price-to-Earnings (P/E) Ratio: Over 300. That’s more than five times the sector average. It’s like paying $250,000 for a Toyota Camry. Great car, terrible price.

• Caesar Score: A rock-bottom 4 out of 20. Our system is screaming that while the company is innovative, the stock is just too expensive and shows paper-thin profits by standard accounting.

• The Twist (Free Cash Flow): Despite the scary numbers above, the business is incredibly healthy, generating $244 million in pure cash in the first quarter alone.

My Verdict: WAIT / HOLD
Datadog is a fantastic company at a questionable price. Chasing a stock after a massive spike, purely on hype, is a recipe for disaster. We don't buy high and hope it goes higher. We buy great companies at fair prices. Right now, this price is not fair.

The Lesson You Can Apply Everywhere: The most dangerous mistake you can make as an investor is confusing a great story with a great investment. Your job is to separate the two. A brilliant company bought at a terrible price can still lose you a fortune.

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But Here's the Real Opportunity...

While Datadog is a fascinating company to watch, it's not where my money is going this week.

The real opportunity isn't in chasing what's already hot. It's in investing in the engine that makes the entire tech revolution possible. As I explained to our members last week, I'm repositioning our portfolio to capitalize on the "electrification super cycle."

AI data centers, electric vehicles, modern manufacturing—it all runs on one thing: electricity. The world’s demand for power is exploding.

And unlike Datadog, which faces extreme valuation risk and slowing growth, the companies I'm buying for our members have:

1. Inelastic, Real-World Demand: Their customers need their product, regardless of market sentiment.

2. Reasonable Valuations: They trade at a fraction of tech-stock multiples, giving us massive room for growth.

3. A "Shovels in a Gold Rush" Model: They profit from the entire AI boom, not just one speculative corner of it.

One of these companies is a massive power generator profiting directly from rising electricity prices. Another builds the critical grid technology that makes it all possible. They are the picks and shovels of the AI gold rush, and they are still incredibly undervalued.

This is the difference between gambling on hype and making a systematic investment.

Unlock Your Transformation

When you become a NASDUCK Weekly member, you’re not just getting stock picks. You're getting the system, the research, and the confidence to take control of your financial future.

It’s a System Built on a Real-World Edge.

As I explained to our members when we rebalanced our portfolio, the goal isn't just to pick winners; it's to ruthlessly cut losers. We sold our position in Cardano (a crypto gamble that lost 29%) because we're here to invest, not speculate.

The result? The new portfolio—the one you'll get access to—is not only more profitable, it’s safer. In fact, during the months the S&P 500 lost money this year, our new portfolio composition actually went UP. This is what happens when you invest in companies with powerful, real-world engines, not just market hype.

The market is finally waking up to the "electrification" trend. The best entry prices—the ones that can create life-changing returns—don't last forever. As the big institutions pile in, the biggest gains will be behind us. This is the window of opportunity.

The Choice Is Yours

Look, you can keep trying to piece it all together yourself—reading conflicting headlines, chasing stocks that have already popped, and hoping that the conventional advice will somehow work differently this time.

Or you can join hundreds of smart investors who've decided to stop gambling on hype and start building real wealth with a systematic, repeatable engine.

The market doesn't wait. The opportunities in the "electrification" space won't last forever. But this decision isn't really about this week's picks—it's about who you want to become as an investor. One who reacts to the noise, or one who acts with quiet confidence based on a proven system.

Let's do this together.

-Rick Sullivan