CEO, Tradesmith
Charles’ Note: You hear the strangest things at cocktail parties…
It turns out that half of Peru is convinced I’m a CIA spy.
“You’re mysterious, Charles,” Diego informed me as he passed me a glass. “We don’t know why you’re here.”
Before I arrived, the other guests had decided my entire life in Peru was an elaborate cover for my espionage activities.
I’m not a spy.
My life isn’t nearly that interesting.
And there’s really nothing going on in Peru that would warrant monitoring.
I really am here because my wife likes to be close to family and I like the lifestyle.
But I suppose I do a little spying.
With a little help from my friends at TradeSmith, I keep an eye on unusual trading activity. When I spot any, I know that someone out there knows something. It’s just up to me to figure out what that something is.
Today, you’re in for a treat. My friend Keith Kaplan is going to fill you in on one of my favorite “espionage” tools.
Keith is CEO of TradeSmith, a leading U.S. fintech platform headquartered in downtown Baltimore.
It has a staff of 36 data scientists, software engineers, and investment analysts. They’ve spent more than $22 million and more than 50,000 hours developing cutting-edge investing and trading systems to help everyday investors level the playing field with the elites on Wall Street.
These systems help more than 120,000 people around the world track about $30 billion in assets. And because of their breakthroughs, the company has been profiled in Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and The Economist.
You may have heard me talk recently about two of their recent breakthroughs – one that taps into the power of AI to find optimal profit windows for trading stocks and another that uncovers hidden seasonality patterns in the market.
But the one Keith discusses today is different.
Those systems look for repeating patterns in past stock market data to stack the odds in your favor.
This latest one picks up on trades Wall Street players are making as they move in and out of trades today.
If you knew a hedge fund was about to pump $100 million into a specific stock ahead of time, would you buy it?
Or if you knew a hedge fund was selling $100 million worth of stock and you owned it, would you sell it?
Yeah… me too.
Over to you, Keith.
The Wall Street Goldmine You Were Never Meant to See
By Keith Kaplan, CEO, TradeSmith
Wall Street is watching you…
Not in a creepy surveillance-camera kind of way.
Rather, it’s a type of financial surveillance that – without your knowledge – radically tilts the playing field in Wall Street’s favor.
It happens every time you buy or sell a stock on Schwab, E*Trade, Fidelity, or other brokerage apps.
High-frequency trading (HFT) firms engage in something called “payment for order flow.”
They pay your broker to see your trades.
Then they use sophisticated algorithms to exploit your every move – often by getting ahead of the trade you just made and taking the other side.
As you can imagine, this surveillance strategy has been a gold mine.
Payment-for-order flow king, Ken Griffin, used it to post a $16 billion profit at his hedge fund Citadel in 2022.
No one on Wall Street has ever made that much, that fast.
Or take Virtu, which went public in 2015.
It executes millions of trades a day based on order flow. Its public filings showed just one trading day of losses out of 1,238 trading days from January 1, 2009, to December 31, 2013.
It’s no wonder Virtu reportedly spends about $75 million a quarter on buying up order flow.
This isn’t pleasant to hear…
For decades, you’ve been the product – and Wall Street has been the predator.
But what if you could turn the tables and see which stocks Wall Street is scooping up?
What, if instead of being the watched, you could also become the watcher?
There is a way! And I’ll share it with you today.
In fact, this breakthrough system could have helped you drastically outperform the market by more than 5 to 1 going all the way back to 1990.
I’ll show how it works, how you can profit, and how we partnered with a former high-level trader to make it happen in a new presentation.
If you’re interested in learning more, register for free here. Once you do, you’ll get the chance to try out this money flow tool on your favorite stocks.
Read on for more on how you could have used this money flow tool to spot winning trades this year.
Early Notice on the Nuclear Rally
A couple of months back, President Trump signed an executive order to jump start the nuclear power industry.
Here’s a May 23 headline from global newswire service Reuters.
That’s when most folks got wind of a rally in nuclear stocks.
But our system picked up on this trend ahead of time.
A big winner was power generation company Vistra (VST), which operates America’s second-largest nuclear fleet.
As far back as August 3, 2023, our tool picked up on unusually large Wall Street money flows pouring into Vistra.
See those vertical green bars on the chart below? They show large institutional money flows into the stock.
At the time, Vistra shares traded at about $28. Today, they’ll set you back about $198. So, if you got in on the day our system flagged Vistra, you’d be sitting on gains as high as 570% in two years
Another stock that’s been experiencing usually large money flows over the past year is Oklo (OKLO). It designs and makes “micro” nuclear reactors.
This stock is up 224% in 2025 and now trades at $71. But our system started picking up unusual buying activity in October 2024, when the stock was at about $11.
We’ve known that this was a hot stock among Wall Street elites for nearly a year. But most folks are just starting to wake up to this trend now.
That’s all good and well, seeing what could have been. But what about what lies ahead?
Here are three companies that this system is flagging today. Each stock hit that rare “sweet spot” where institutional momentum, technical trends, and real-world fundamentals are all lining up.
Stock 1: The Hidden Banking Play
These days, it seems like every fintech company wants to offer banking services.
- PayPal (PYPL) issues prepaid debit cards…
- SoFi Technologies (SOFI) has high-interest cash management accounts…
- Chime Financial (CHYM) offers traditional banking services…
But fintechs are not legally permitted to provide banking services without the right banking licenses.
Most never try, because these state and federal permits also come with enormous amounts of regulatory compliance and business limitations.
And if a fintech with a banking license wants to perform a separate fiduciary service, such as managing crypto wallets, it must apply for a separate license.
That’s why companies like The Bancorp (TBBK) exist.
The Bancorp is a nationally chartered, FDIC-insured bank that specializes in offering banking services to fintech firms.
When you apply for a debit card from PayPal or open a checking account on Chime, you’re actually doing business with The Bancorp. The fintech firms only act as a final layer on top.
That’s turned The Bancorp from a sleepy South Dakota-based bank into a national high-growth, high-return financial institution.
Pretax profits surged from $80 million in 2020 to $217 million last year, and analysts expect that figure to grow another 73% to $376 million by 2026. Its return on equity sits at 22% – twice as high as industry norms.
Best of all, our latest breakthrough system that I’ll share with you on Thursday views TBBK as a near-perfect investment.
At least one TBBK insider has also been buying shares, a historically bullish sign. Over the past three weeks, director Matthew Cohn and his wife have bought TBBK shares in three separate transactions.
Now, it’s essential to note that The Bancorp is still a commercial bank. Poor underwriting or macro stress can spark loan losses and trigger a liquidity crisis. Shares trade at just 12X forward earnings as a result.
However, that also means significant upside for TBBK if all goes well. Fintech firms are rapidly expanding into banking services, which means this hidden partner could see its stock more than double in the years ahead.
We Couldn’t Have Done It Without Our “Inside Man”
As I mentioned, we didn’t build this breakthrough tool without help.
For this project, we needed someone on the inside – someone who knows how Wall Street players operate down to the financial “plumbing” level of how they execute trades.
Thankfully, we had help from one of the few people on Wall Street authorized to make trades of $1 billion and up.
He worked for Cantor Fitzgerald under President Trump’s Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick. His job there was to build multimillion-dollar positions in stocks on behalf of clients so that other Wall Street firms couldn’t see the trades they were making.
There are few people in the world today who know more about how to track giant Wall Street trades than he does.
That’s why I’m so excited about my new presentation on August 14 at 10 a.m. I’ll be lifting the lid on how this system works… and how it can help you 5x the performance of the stock market by getting in front of the billions of dollars of institutional money.
So, if you’re tired of being Wall Street’s prey. And want to become a predator instead, join us.
I hope to see you there!
Keith Kaplan
CEO, TradeSmith
P.S. Don’t forget… When you sign up to hear my money flow presentation, you’ll get access to our tool so that you can see Wall Street money flows in and out of your favorite stocks.
And as an extra benefit for attending, I’ll also pass along the name and ticker symbol of a stock that could soon see a flood of money pouring in and send its share price through the roof.
Use this link to sign up and “test drive” our money flow indicator.