The most embarrassing thing I ever told my father

A quick note to Rob, Brian, Cody, Matthew, Pascal, Sergius, and Mike.

Some of you I have known for years, gone through highs and lows with, discussed the joys of peach cobbler, raw milk, and manic 20 hour jams…

Some of you are new friends who I could easily see myself having beers with for the years talking about ahem unique dog-attack defense systems…

In either case, I want to extend a sincere heartfelt thank you for joining me inside The IPO Explorer. This is going to be a wild ride and it means a ton to me that you’re going to be a big part of it. As far as I’m concerned, this is the real Mag 7.

And with that out of the way, let’s get into the first ever issue.

I can’t remember exactly what year it was. But if I had to guess, it was around 2014 when my old man asked me “Do you think we can make money in the stock market?”

And I said to him in no uncertain terms: “Investing is a scam.”

Writing the words today, after everything I’ve seen, opportunities I helped identify…

…yeah, what an idiot.

I wish I could take those dumb 4 words back. I wish I had the attitude that I’ve worked hard to acquire since then which is simply: “I don’t know pops but let’s go find out.”

Or even better: “Yup! I have no idea how we will do it but we will find a way.”

I wish…

But what’s done is done. I can’t take it back. All I can do is say “I’m sorry pops. Just like that one promise you made to me that one night, I’m never making that mistake again.”

After the stocks I’ve identified in one way or another…

And some major shifts in the market I’ve gotten ahead of through my work…

(I’ll still never forget the time we created this report where all 25 of our trade ideas shot up 500% or more. Maybe that’s a story for another time.)

You can make money in the markets.

You just to have be willing to:

Nothing in this game is guaranteed.

But if what my experience has shown me, you truly only need to be right a few times to change the direction of your financial life.

Take Palantir for example.

I remember when that stock IPO’d in 2020 I was telling friends and family that’s going to be a banger of a play. Sadly I was a big brokie at the time so I didn’t make a move.

But since then, well if you’re paying attention to the markets, you already know the deal.

It’s gone up 1,500% since then… turning every $10,000 into $150,000.

Same thing happening with this buy-now-pay-later company called Sezzle.

In 2020, I saw this small little blurb in the Wall Street Journal about this company IPO’ing in the Australian Stock Exchange. Yup, the financial thunder down under.

And I remember circling that article saying “that’s going to be BIG.”

Sure enough, it went up 800% in just 1 year.

Recently, I told my brother about this company called Grail that IPO’d in 2024.

Long story short, it’s company that developed a simple blood exam powered by machine learning to detect up to 50 different kinds cancer as early as stage 2 and 3.

And after more and more digging into that company, I couldn’t find a way to refute it as a bad investment. It just checked all these “unconscious boxes” I have in my head.

My brother was up as much as 400% on that within a year.

Point is, you can make money in the stock market.

It does require a systemic process though…

And that’s why I’ve started The IPO Explorer newsletter.

In short, The IPO Explorer is my attempt to solve my own #1 problem in the markets.

I don’t have a defined enough system into digging into these newly listed stocks.

I’ve gotten much better over the years at understanding the top down look on the markets, the macro story, and the overall themes along with investment trends.

However, looking at the stocks themselves…

It’s not something I’ve ever really done that closely or judiciously.

And so, that’s why over the coming year, I’m going to be examining one under-reported newly listed stock closely every week.

The theory behind this is simple.

As a marketer, the #1 thing you learn is that NEW and DIFFERENT is better than better. And the reason for it is the excitement NEW and DIFFERENT bring for consumers.

Sure enough, over the course of selling $20 million worth of investment newsletters…

That statement rings true.

But with it that same idea can be applied to investing?

After all, human nature is human nature, right?

Even investors want that itch of something new and different to invest into…

And what are IPO’s if not a NEW investment vehicle for investors to pile into?

Now, of course, not every newly listed stock is worth it’s grain of salt.

But what happens when that newly listed stock has a product like say…

A new and different way to detect cancer as early as stage 2…

Can detect 10X more cancers than the old way…

While also delivering those potentially life-saving results FAST…

In an affordable and easy way?

Well, now we’re talking about a newly listed stock with a game-changing product that can generate millions if not BILLIONS of dollars in sales and revenue.

And if there’s anything I’ve seen time and time again over 7 years of writing in the financial markets…

Nothing gets investors more excited than seeing that quarterly revenue skyrocket.

Combine that with an under-reported, low coverage, newly listed that stock…

Well, you saw the stories above.

And I’m tired of feeling the pain of missing out on those so, moving on.

Now, this issue is getting a little long in the tooth.

So, I’ll be fast here.

Right now, I’m juggling two long form sales letters for work.

For those if you in the know, you understand how hectic my life looks right now.

And for those of you not, just know, I’m as helter-skelter can be at the moment.

What this means is that for the coming weeks…

There’s going to be a lot of foundational research happening to further refine a systematic lens on how to examine these newly-listed companies.

That’s a fancy of way saying I’m going to build out my filter in real time…

And once that is built to a satisfying degree…

Then I’ll be a weekly breakdown examining an under-reported newly listed stock.

Please note, I have no idea what this is going to look like, what I will find, and so on.

However, unlike before, unlike that ignorant kid I was 10 plus years ago…

I will figure this out, one way or another.

Again, for the 7 of you here…

Thank you.

You have no idea how much having you here means to me.

It’s not just the support that means so much to me but the fact that I know each and every one of you here, it motivates that much more to make this the BEST DAMN NEWSLETTER I could ever create.

Quite frankly guys, I have every intention of making bank from my investments.

And I hope I can bring you guys along for the ride.

Will I bat 100%? No.

And that’s why you never risk more than you can afford to lose.

But we nail it right just once and that can be more than enough to make up for the inevitable losses along the way AND THEN SOME.

Again, thank you for joining.

If you know anybody who would love to be a part of this, please don’t hesitate on sharing The IPO Explorer with them. It would mean the world to me.

Till next time.

From Your IPO Explorer,

Manuel Medrano