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📉 How Much Is A Trillion Dollars, Really?

Editor’s Note: Hedge fund legend who delivered a 279% return on cash in 2025 and went on a 20 year winning streak, says Elon Musk is now executing the “Final Phase of his Master Plan”… and he’s identified the ONE ticker that stands to benefit most (it’s not SpaceX, Tesla, or anything you’d associate Elon with). Click here to see the details.

Dear Reader,

SpaceX is public.

Many saw the SpaceX IPO as the money-making event of the decade.

But the truth is that the SpaceX IPO was never a big opportunity.

The big opportunity — the one that’s been overlooked and overshadowed — is the one that comes AFTER the IPO.

Billions of dollars are set to flood across the market and into one specific ticker.

It’s not SpaceX, Tesla, or any of Elon’s companies.

In fact, it’s nothing you’d associate with him at all.

That’s why this could be one of the trades of the year, if you get in early and play it right.

Larry Benedict, the man who made over $274 million for his clients and went on a 20-year winning streak, says now that the distraction of the SpaceX IPO circus has gone…

Investors who want to make real money need to focus on this ticker.

Regards,

Lauren Wingfield
Managing Editor, The Opportunistic Trader

P.S. Most investors will still be talking about the IPO as this move is already underway. Click here now.

BREAKING NEWS

📈 🚀 Thousands Of Traders Bought The Wrong SpaceX Stock. It Did Not Go Well.

The most anticipated IPO in history launched yesterday and the excitement was through the roof. The demand was historic and thousands of people accidentally bought a completely different company.

Here is exactly what happened: SpaceX now trades under the ticker $SPCX. Virgin Galactic, a totally separate space company with no connection to Elon Musk whatsoever, trades under the ticker $SPCE. One letter apart. Two completely different businesses. Thousands of investors, desperate to own a piece of the biggest IPO in history, typed four letters too fast and hit buy on the wrong rocket company.

The chaos that followed was genuinely beautiful in a painful sort of way. $SPCE (Virgin Galactic) spiked nearly 60% in the morning as confused money poured in. Then the penny dropped. People looked at their portfolios, looked at the ticker, looked at their portfolios again, and started selling as fast as they had bought. Virgin Galactic crashed nearly 30% in the same session. One stock. Two completely opposite moves. Same day. Pure chaos.

But this has happened before.

When Zoom Video exploded in 2020 during the pandemic, thousands of people accidentally bought Zoom Technologies, a tiny unrelated Chinese company, instead. It went up 1,000%. Then it went back down. Clearly, nobody has learned anything.

The Munch Take: The SpaceX IPO was so hyped that people drove a completely unrelated stock up 60% by accident before realizing their mistake and selling it back down in the same afternoon. That is not a market. That is a game show. But a fun and interesting one nonetheless.

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BIG STORIES

🚀 How Much Is A Trillion Dollars, Really?

Yesterday, Elon Musk became the first human being in history to be worth $1 trillion. That sentence exists now. It is real.

$SPCX SpaceX opened at $135 per share, jumped as high as $176 on its first day of trading, and closed up 19% with a total valuation of $2.1 trillion. That makes it the sixth most valuable public company in America, bigger than Tesla, bigger than Berkshire Hathaway, and bigger than the entire economy of all but 21 countries on earth.

What’s incredible is that Musk has managed to still own almost 50% of the company. In a massively capital intensive company like building rockets, not selling more of your company before going public is absolutely unheard of. As a result, his net worth hit $1.1 trillion according to Forbes. The founders of Google, Amazon, Oracle, and Meta combined are worth roughly $1.3 trillion. Elon is one person worth nearly as much as all four of them put together.

So what does $1 trillion actually look like in the real world:

  • If you earn the US median income of $84,000 a year, it would take you 12 million years to earn a trillion dollars. You would need to start working approximately when modern humans first appeared on earth and never stop.

  • If you laid one trillion single dollar bills end to end, the line would stretch the distance of 200 round trips to the moon. That is not a typo.

  • With $1 trillion you could buy every single piece of property in Houston and still have $121 billion left over for the furniture.

The important caveat is that Musk's trillion is mostly on paper. His wealth is tied up in stocks that go up and down every day. He’s not sitting on a pile of cash. He could watch his net worth swing by $50 billion in a single afternoon if the stock moves 5% and it’s happened before. Many times.

The Munch Take: The world's first trillionaire arrived yesterday and barely anyone stopped to think about what that number actually means. A trillion seconds ago it was 29,700 BC. A trillion minutes ago the dinosaurs had not yet appeared. And one man now has a net worth measured in trillions. My wife asked me how much a trillion dollars was. I walked her through all the numbers above. She listened carefully and then said "so he could just fix everything." I said it is more complicated than that. She said "it always is with you." She is not wrong.

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