Don't Fall for Wall Street's Fake Signals – Follow This Instead VIEW IN BROWSER BY JASON BODNER, EDITOR, QUANTUM EDGE PRO Meet Hollywood’s newest hero – and villain. She’s had glossy red-carpet shots, behind-the-scenes clips, and a growing social media following. Talent agents are interested in representing her. And she doesn’t exist. 
Source: Tilly Norwood Instagram Tilly Norwood is the world’s first AI-generated actress. She was built by a London studio that talks about using AI to cut movie production costs by up to 90%. While it caught the attention of talent agents, real actors from Emily Blunt to Whoopi Goldberg lined up to call her everything from “terrifying” to an insult to human creativity. The actors’ union, SAG-AFTRA, declared that Tilly is just a synthetic performer trained on the unpaid work of real humans. It doesn’t matter if Tilly Norwood is a PR stunt or the actual future of cinema. What’s important to understand is the line between the artificial and the real is increasingly faint. Investors today aren’t just dealing with inflation, interest rates, and earnings. We’re dealing with fundamental questions about who – or what – we can believe. And yes, that includes stock market data. Recommended Link | | Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan CEOs just issued the same warning: A major crash is coming. You can see why. Consumer confidence just hit a 3-year low. Layoffs are at a 22-year high. And tech stocks are plummeting. Yet while most investors panic, Jeff Clark sees opportunity. His simple 3-step “Crossfire” technique could profit from crashes, with past gains of 388%, 1,263%, and 1,285%. And anyone can learn this technique to protect their retirement. [WATCH HIS URGENT BRIEFING NOW] |  | |
My Journey into AI… Before AI Existed My system is built on data analysis, and AI is data analysis at capabilities and speeds we never dreamed possible. Investors are already making millions trading the AI theme, and we’re still early in the game. But the problem with AI – in the sense that most people understand it, as a large language model like ChatGPT – is that it’s generative. It pulls from massive datasets to answer user queries. And as virtually every AI model discloses, it can make mistakes. In the game of markets, mistakes can cost millions, even billions. And mistakes like these can come from bad data. We need to be careful about our data and information sources. I learned this principle firsthand during my 14 years on Wall Street. My job as North American Head of Equity Derivatives at Cantor Fitzgerald was to match Big Money stock and options buyers with corresponding sellers of stocks and options contracts. These were the largest professional investors on the planet. So the job gave me a rare window into an elite slice of Wall Street. A “club” whose members operate skillfully and stealthily – influencing which stocks win and which stocks lose. I noticed how the money flows influenced the price of stocks. When big orders hit the tape, the stock responded – not always at first, but almost always in time. But you have to know what the intent behind these orders is. It’s not enough to see big buying volumes in this or that stock. That can be part of a more complex trade that might indicate something completely different. Nearly 15 years and lots of refinement later, I learned to know the difference between the “real” buy signals and the “fakes.” I studied the answers, aggregated wisdom from the best minds on Wall Street, and backtested it all with hard data – keeping what worked and tossing what didn't. I then wrote this “real” intelligence into my system to find the highest-quality stocks with the highest probability of making money. And it’s worked. After nearly 15 years of using the system to pick stocks, I can count on a 70% win rate on average. When you hit seven out of every 10 investments and your winners are bigger than your losers, you can’t help but make money. TradeSmith’s own backtesting shows the Quantum Edge system outperformed the S&P 500 by 5-to-1 since 1990. It analyzes more than 5,000 stocks every day – 120 points on each that are boiled down to 29 of the most predictive factors. It then generates three scores – an overall Quantum Score as well as fundamental and technical scores. I add in what Big Money is doing – across the market and down to specific stocks – while separating the true-blue Big Money buy signals from the hedges and other noisy trades. Quantum Edge Pro members get access to a special widget on TradeSmith Finance that lists the 10 highest-ranked stocks in my system. TradeSmith CEO Keith Kaplan recently posted the list on X: 
As Keith pointed out, these stocks all have great Quantum Scores. I generally like to see 85 or higher to buy, as well as strong fundamental and technical ratings. Big Money has bought seven of those 10 stocks in the last 30 days. The one with the most buy signals is also the top-rated stock: Eli Lilly (LLY). 
Shares have soared 60% since bottoming in early August after disappointing clinical results. The big move is thanks to strong third-quarter earnings, an increased 2025 earnings forecast, and the White House agreement to lower prices for its weight-loss drugs in exchange for Medicare access. LLY has seen unusual buying (green bars below) seven times in nine trading days. That White House agreement was announced on Nov. 6, but you can also see Big Money stepped in almost a full week ahead of time. 
Source: MoneyFlows.com I’m not saying it was related, but I’m not saying it wasn’t. Somebody always knows something. LLY has jumped 15% since that first green bar, and the data suggests more upside ahead. That’s still the good news. We can use the power of data analysis more than ever, whether it’s Netflix’s AI helping you find movies you’ll probably like, a pharmaceutical company discovering potential new drugs faster than ever, or a stock picking system that helps you grow your wealth. Just be sure to stick with trustworthy, proven data sources and analysis – like my Quantum Edge system and TradeSmith’s many tools. They’ve always been about analyzing the right data the right way, and that will never change. Talk soon,  Jason Bodner
Editor, Quantum Edge Pro P.S. I watch the Big Money tip its hand all day long, sometimes days before the rest of the world realizes what’s happening. But lately, some of the strangest buying surges I’ve seen aren’t coming from hedge funds or billion-dollar quants. They’re coming from the biggest of the Big Money: the U.S. federal government. Whether investors realize it or not, the feds have become one of the biggest Big Money players in the market. It has a virtually limitless supply of capital to put to work. And the ripple effects are already showing up in my data. We’re seeing moves of 90%… 200%… and even more in as little as 24 hours. That’s why on Nov.18, two of the most connected market insiders I know are hosting a special briefing to explain what’s really going on… As you’ll learn, these moves are directly tied to the megatrends of AI, electric vehicles, drones, robots, and more… But have nothing to do with the tech companies building the future. Instead, it has to do securing with the raw materials needed to make it happen. Learn why these two sector experts are coming forward with all the details next week – along with a free trade recommendation for anyone who heeds their message – right here. | 
