Keith Kaplan

Here's the most critical thing you can do in the markets right now. 1) Recall why you entered the stock that you are looking at right now in your portfolio? You have to answer that question. Was it news, a hunch, a recommendation, a fundamentally sound company? Was it for "forever" ... ? 2) When you entered that stock, what was your exit plan? Did you have one? Don't get emotional now and just sell everything. You need a disciplined exit plan for every stock you have. 3) If you are looking at a forever stock or planned to hold that stock a long time (for say dividend collection), don't just go changing your exit plan now. (an idea a few points down for you) 4) If you didn't design an exit plan when you entered a stock and don't want to hold it long term further, here's what you can do now ... You can take the less volatile stocks in your portfolio (stocks like $MCD, $HD, $KO, $JNJ) and assign them a 15% trailing stop. If, since you've owned them, they've dropped 15% from their most recent high while owning them, it's a great time to sell. For medium level volatile companies (stocks like $V, $AAPL, $MSFT) you could assign a 25% trailing stop exiting if they've fallen 25% or more since you bought them from their most recent high. For much higher level volatility companies (stocks like $NFLX, $TSLA, $NAK), you could assign a 35% trailing stop and exit if they've fallen 35% or more from their highs since you bought. This is just a simple way to look at your holdings and apply simple portfolio management strategies that take the emotions out of investing and allow you to be level headed with the markets performing how they are today. 5) For your forever stocks and ones you'll hold for a while ... you could sell covered calls against them and you could target 2 - 4 weeks out at a strike price above yesterday's close. Worst case, your stock retreats and you keep the income and the stock gets called away. BUT, if you want to continue holding it, you'd roll that call (simultaneously buy it back and sell a future one at break even much higher until that expires worthless). Best case, your stock rises a little bit and you get paid income along the way. I love this strategy, but don't chase premiums and lose a forever stock early!! **I hope that these ideas help you. Let me know what you think and what your plan is. You, ultimately, have to decide what's best for you, these are just ideas!**

Laser Weapons Are Now Real - And $LASR Is the Only Pure Play The battlefield is going laser. And there is one small company at the center of what could be a major defense technology shift. All last year, I urged buying drone stocks for a simple reason - military drone makers had started producing effective hardware at low cost, with very high cost-to-damage inflicted ratios. Key drone industry players are up hundreds of percent since those calls. The next wave could be directed energy weapons. In December 2025, Israel's Iron Beam, a high-energy laser system designed to intercept drones and missiles, was deployed in live battle - believed to be the first time a high-energy laser weapon was used in live combat. The U.S. Navy's top surface warfare officer is now publicly talking about "a laser on every ship" after successful at-sea tests. The only pure-play, publicly listed company focused on developing megawatt-class directed-energy weapons is nLIGHT $LASR. nLIGHT is a confirmed supplier to Israel's Iron Beam program and holds a $171 million U.S. Defense contract to scale its beam architecture to 1 megawatt - enough power to engage ballistic and hypersonic missiles. The company has confirmed it is already responding to Golden Dome RFPs, the U.S. program that explicitly envisions a laser layer in national defense. This is not a pre-revenue hope play. Aerospace and defense sales are already growing 40-50%. The company just raised $200 million to expand U.S. manufacturing capacity. The economics are compelling. Once installed, each laser shot costs little more than the electricity to fire it. No missiles to restock, no bullets to reload. Speed-of-light engagement, pinpoint accuracy, and effectively unlimited magazines. Global defense spending exceeds $2.5 trillion annually and is growing. Laser weapons are no longer science fiction. $LASR is a name worth watching closely.