Chris Markowski

Investment Banking and Big Brokerage. Throughout my decades long career, I have witnessed an industry get progressively worse for individual investors. Whereas Wall Street used to be a place where one would go to borrow money or raise capital to build a business.  The industry has become a utensil for maximizing the number of encounters […]

When we first started Markowski Investments, the first program we initiated was our Account Repair Program.  I am showing my old age here, but this was back in the prime days of the pump and dump boiler rooms and many investors that fell victim were most certainly in need of some serious account repair. I […]

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it most certainly rhymes. We have experienced seemingly countless market panics/selloffs/bear markets throughout our firm’s history.  Each and every event had the mainstream narrative proclaiming the end of the world was going to be soon upon us.  Important lesson: Never bet on the end of the world, it will only […]

In one of my all-time favorite movies, Jaws, everyone’s favorite Narragansett beer drinking Captain Quint offers a warning to Hooper about his fancy equipment. Quint: What are you, some kind of half-assed astronaut? (While examining the shark cage.) Jesus H Christ, when I was a boy, every little squirt wanted to be a harpooner or […]