From the Racetrack to Wall Street: The Formula That Keeps Beating the Market

Editor’s Note: Sometimes, the biggest investing breakthroughs start in the most unexpected places. For Landon Swan, it began at a Kentucky racetrack – with a $2 bet and a grandfather who taught him the power of risk and reward. That lesson later led Landon and his brother Andy to create LikeFolio, a data engine that tracks millions of real-time consumer signals to spot winning stocks before Wall Street catches on.

Now they’ve teamed up with legendary investor Louis Navellier to fuse those insights with his Stock Grader system – and the results are remarkable. 

Today, Landon joins us to share how their new Ultimate Stock Strategy has uncovered more than 240 potential double-your-money opportunities in five years…

See that family snapshot below? That’s where it all started.

It was taken in 1989 at Ellis Park in Henderson, Kentucky – one of the oldest racetracks in America.

That’s me in the middle, making the “We’re No. 1” sign for the camera.

My older brother, Andy, is the tall boy to my left. Mom is behind me. Dad, in the striped yellow sports shirt, towers just off her shoulder. 

Then there’s Grandpa Rock, the proud guy in the middle with the hat, suspenders, and pocket-protector.

My brother and I grew up in Evansville, Indiana, just over the border from Henderson. Our childhood was pretty normal, with one exception: Grandpa Rock owned racehorses. 

How Risk, Reward, and Probability Built Our Investing Philosophy

This often took us out to the racetrack, about a 30-minute drive from home. Some of my best boyhood memories are of the trips we took to the 1.125-mile thoroughbred track at Ellis Park. 

My parents always gave Andy and me $2 to bet – with an important condition attached. We had to bet on Grandpa Rock’s horse. But we could pick whether it was to win, place, or show.

I was only 9. But it introduced me to the concept of risk versus reward. It ignited a love affair with statistics, probabilities, forecasting, and handicapping that would prove useful for trading the stock market as well as betting at the track.

And it was the inspiration for the consumer insights engine that Andy and I went on to create to help regular investors get an edge over the market.

Turning Data into an Investing Edge

It spots the products, brands, and companies gaining momentum on Main Street before they become news on Wall Street. And it does that by capturing and analyzing millions of consumer data points from across the web every single day. 

This includes:

• Social media posts on X, Reddit, YouTube, and Google
• Company-level web traffic trends and app usage
• Search trends and AI queries

In one day, it processes 1,230,030 items – from Reddit alone. That’s nearly 30 million data points a month… from just one of its data sources. 

Whenever a consumer takes to the internet to talk about or search for a product, our data engine captures it in real time. 

That data gets tracked back to publicly traded stocks you can invest in. And our system distills it all into a simple 0 to 100 Social Heat Score telling us where the next big opportunities lie. (The higher, the better.)

This gives us, and our subscribers, an “X-ray” view into consumer trends related to hundreds of publicly traded companies.

From Social Media to Stock Market Gains

Over the past 12 months, it’s been on fire. We’re talking about wins like:

• 92% on digital ad specialist Magnite Inc. (MGNI)
• 145% on online learning provider Stride Inc. (LRN)
• 461% on under-the-radar nuclear player Oklo Inc. (OKLO)
• 556% on trading platform Robinhood Markets Inc. (HOOD)

And that’s not me cherry-picking. The open positions in our model portfolio currently show an average gain of 83%.

But as hot as this strategy has been, it’s about to get hotter. That’s thanks to an exciting new collaboration with Louis Navellier, a 45-year Wall Street veteran known as the “King of Quants.” 

We’ve been hard at work testing the resulting strategy. And over the past five years, we found it could have identified a stock that goes on to double, on average, every six trading days.

All told, during that five-year span, you could have doubled your money more than 240 times using this strategy.  

I’ll get into more details today. 

But first, a little more on the career path Andy and I took, inspired by our times with Grandpa Rock at the Kentucky races… and how it led us here today.