Michael Vodicka is the president and founder of the Vodicka Group Inc., a registered investment advisor (RIA) that specializes in providing customized investment solutions to individual and institutional investors. Before becoming a small business owner and entrepreneur, he developed fixed-income investment strategies for a multi-billion dollar brokerage firm and spent five years as an equity portfolio manager for a private investment research company. Mike graduated from the University of Kansas with a degree in business communications and is a licensed investment advisor (Series 65). He loves sharing his passion for the market and investing with clients and readers alike.
Buying a house is a terrible way to profit from the recovery in the housing market. Houses are... Read More
Buying a house is a terrible way to profit from the recovery in the housing market. Houses are illiquid assets. They carry high transaction costs. And they are loaded with expenses such as insurance,... Read More
Goldilocks is famous for being very particular about her porridge. It couldn’t be too hot or... Read More
Goldilocks is famous for being very particular about her porridge. It couldn’t be too hot or too cold. It had to be just right. #-ad_banner-# That reminds me of mid-cap stocks: Not too big, but... Read More
A rising tide lifts all boats.It’s one of the great sayings about the impact of a bull... Read More
A rising tide lifts all boats.It’s one of the great sayings about the impact of a bull market. But what this pearl of wisdom fails to convey is how different groups of stocks respond to that... Read More
The death of cash has been fueling a gold rush for payment processors. Industry leaders Visa (NYSE:... Read More
The death of cash has been fueling a gold rush for payment processors. Industry leaders Visa (NYSE: V), MasterCard (NYSE: MA) and Heartland Payment Systems (NYSE: HPY) have all posted market-beating... Read More
Tesla Motors (Nasdaq: TSLA) has been one of the best ways to cash in on the growing demand for electric cars. After climbing steadily for three years, shares have shot higher this year, surging 390% in just the past nine months.#-ad_banner-# But despite that very bullish move, shareholders got a… Read More
“Sin stocks” are popular because they benefit from extremely loyal customers. But the problem for growth investors is that most of these companies are fairly mature and well past their years of producing big capital gains.#-ad_banner-# Phillip Morris (NYSE: PM) is a good example. Although PM pays… Read More
The rules of modern warfare are changing quickly. Traditional battle lines have been replaced by global terror networks with no boundaries or state affiliations. That’s one of the biggest reasons for the huge growth of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) industry, with U.S. spending jumping to $5 billion from $550… Read More
A forest fire is extremely destructive in the short run. But in the long run, the few trees left standing are sitting pretty. Not only do they have a monopoly on the sun, they also have all the room they need to grow to new heights. That’s… Read More
There are currently more than 118,000 people in the U.S. waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant. But if a group of groundbreaking scientists has its way, that number will soon be zero. In a massive medical and technological breakthrough, scientists are now successfully producing living human kidneys with a mind-bending… Read More