🚨 Urgent Stock Market Warning Signal

"The lowest prospective returns in history..." [Wealthy Retirement]( SPONSORED [5G Bar Chart]( No. 1 Stock for America's Revival America's $51 trillion recovery will be of unheard magnitude. Only it's not from a single thing the government is doing. Or even from big corporations. Instead, it's due to one tiny pioneering American company. You won't believe what this made-in-America device does. It could create more millionaires than pot stocks, cryptos and Big Tech - combined! [Click here for the full story.]( [MARKET TRENDS]( Howard Marks' Warning to Investors Jody Chudley, Contributing Analyst, The Oxford Club [Jody Chudley] One of the top investors of this generation just sounded a warning signal... And given his multidecade streak of outperformance, we would be foolish not to listen. In fact, I've been pounding the table about many of these same signals here at Wealthy Retirement for several months now. But not to worry... While there's risk, there's also opportunity. An Ominous Warning In very few endeavors is experience more valuable than it is in investing. While history never repeats, it often rhymes. Lessons learned in the past can be applied in the present to avoid trouble and seize opportunity. And few people have more investing experience - or brainpower - than [Howard Marks](. For more than 40 years, Marks has demonstrated consistent excellence as a world-class investor. His $2.1 billion net worth is a testament to that... Marks founded investment firm Oaktree Capital Management in 1995. Each quarter, he issues a widely read memo to Oaktree investors to share his current market view. Last week, Marks released his most recent quarterly letter. It is lengthy - almost 17 pages. But the most important takeaway is one phrase... When discussing stock market returns for investors putting new money to work today, Marks referred to "the lowest prospective returns in history." Wow... Marks is saying that now is the worst time ever to be buying stocks - not just relative to any time in his 40-year career, but ever. But if we dig deeper, there is much more to the story. SPONSORED [This Investment Paid Out 1,200%+ FAST. Can You Tell What It Is?]( [AHT BRK Real]( It's NOT a regular stock, bond, option, crypto, futures contract, ETF, mutual fund or anything like that. (Hint: It's the average investor's BEST option for MASSIVE income right now.) Got your guess? [Click here to see if you're right (and get details on three new opportunities just like this).]( Not All Corners of the Market Are Expensive In his recent memo, Marks discusses how incredibly expensive the dominant tech stocks of today have become. You know the stocks I'm talking about - the FAANG group that includes Facebook (Nasdaq: [FB]( Apple (Nasdaq: [AAPL]( Amazon (Nasdaq: [AMZN]( Netflix (Nasdaq: [NFLX]( and Alphabet's Google (Nasdaq: [GOOG](. These great companies sport extremely rich stock market valuation multiples today. Marks then pulls on his deep experience for a lesson on how buying great companies at extremely expensive valuations might end by comparing the FAANG stocks to the "Nifty Fifty." The Nifty Fifty was a group of dominant companies that became extremely popular with investors in the late 1960s. The group included the incredible technology companies of the day, like Xerox (NYSE: XRX), IBM (NYSE: [IBM]( Eastman Kodak (NYSE: KODK) and Polaroid. The thinking back then was that the Nifty Fifty companies were so dominant and had such incredible business moats that no valuation was too rich to pay for their stocks. The same argument is being made today for the FAANG stocks... In the late 1960s, the Nifty Fifty companies looked every bit as bulletproof as Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google do today. But for investors who purchased very expensive shares, that didn't turn out to be true. I'll let Marks explain the Nifty Fifty because he actively invested through this period... Fifty years ago, the Nifty Fifty appeared impregnable too; people were simply wrong. If you invested in them in 1968, when I first arrived at First National City Bank for a summer job in the investment research department, and held them for five years, you lost almost all your money. The market fell in half in the early 1970s, and the Nifty Fifty declined much more. Why? Because investors hadn't been sufficiently price-conscious. In fact, in the opinion of the banks (which did much of the institutional investing in those days) they were such good companies that there was "no price too high." Those last four words are, in my opinion, the essential component in - and the hallmark of - all bubbles. Marks doesn't know that the pricey FAANG stocks of today are going to end like the Nifty Fifty. But he seems to suspect that might be how this movie ends. I've warned about Big Tech stock valuations repeatedly over the past six months. (You can revisit some of those articles [here]( [here]( and [here]( While I'm not saying that I think these stocks are going to crash, I wouldn't rule it out. I most certainly think that the upside in Big Tech names at current valuations is very limited. But it isn't all doom and gloom for investors... While billions of dollars have been piling into FAANG stocks, other areas of the market have been forgotten - and now they represent excellent value. In past months, we looked at some of those: [homebuilders]( [emerging markets]( [banks]( [small caps]( and [value stocks](. Opportunity is always out there. You just often have to look where everyone else isn't looking. Good investing, Jody [Leave a Comment]( MORE FROM WEALTHY RETIREMENT [My Financial Fitness Secret]( [You've Met the Dividend Aristocrats... 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