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Actionable insights — How I'm playing today's most mispriced opportunity

Not what Kovacevic owns but how he finds it: follow the major that is de-risking a junior's technology, buy the page-16 story before it reaches page one, check a commodity high in real terms, and size silver off gold — so the screens can be rerun on other juniors and metals.
2026-AUG-27 · Investing News Network · Gianni Kovacevic · ▶ Watch · full analysis · transcript
How to read this page: each insight is a method, a boxed line showing how Kovacevic applied it in this interview, and a "watch for" list for re-running it. He is a self-described speculator with a disclosed stake in at least one name (Lumina Metals); treat these as screening ideas, not recommendations. Timestamps deep-link into the video.

2:24 1. Research the major de-risking the junior, not the junior

The repeatable method
  1. For a junior with unproven technology, find which large, well-capitalized company is doing its engineering study or will operate the asset.
  2. Read the major's own disclosures (website, executive interviews) on whether the technology already works at commercial scale.
  3. If the major is running the study and the plant, the junior's execution risk is largely the major's — price the junior against that, not against its own balance sheet.
Here: SLB (SLB) runs a DLE facility in Nevada, partners with RIO and TechMet, and is completing LBNK.V's feasibility study and will operate its plant (2:52) — "the research is not with Lithium Bank, it's with Schlumberger."
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4:17 2. Buy the page-16 story headed to page one

The repeatable method
  1. Test awareness: ask specialists in the sector whether they know of the development. If deep researchers don't, it isn't priced.
  2. Confirm the results already exist (a working facility, not a promise), so the bet is on recognition and execution, not discovery.
  3. Name the headlines you expect in 3–12 months; position before them.
Here: lithium researchers he called were unfamiliar with SLB's DLE partners (1:55); he expects "Schlumberger succeeds with Rio Tinto…" headlines within a year, the way fracking went from doubted to dominant.
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5:42 3. Pair a compounding-demand commodity with a bust in sentiment

The repeatable method
  1. Estimate demand growth (CAGR) and convert with the rule of 72 to a doubling time.
  2. Check the substitution threat's realistic share (not zero, but capped).
  3. Look for a recent period of "no bid" pricing — a cycle low while the demand curve keeps compounding sets up the multi-year window.
Here: lithium 20%+ CAGR → doubling in ~3.5–4 years; batteries 1.8 → ~5 TWh; sodium-ion ~10% of batteries; 18 months ago lithium was "taken out behind the barn and shot" (7:15) → a 2027–29 story.
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9:05 4. Check a "record" commodity price in real terms before calling a top

The repeatable method
  1. Deflate the nominal record by the dollar's lost purchasing power since the prior peak.
  2. If the real price is below the old real high, don't treat the nominal record as a ceiling.
  3. Then ask where the easy upside has already gone (e.g. developers that have re-rated) and look for the names that haven't moved.
Here: copper's all-time high "is not really" one after dollar debasement; developer 10-baggers are gone, so he points to LMCU trading below its IPO price with a silver stream that could equal its market cap (10:36).
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15:33 5. Size silver targets off gold with a ratio

The repeatable method
  1. Form a gold view first; silver follows.
  2. Apply a ~50:1 gold/silver ratio (range 50–60, not 100) to translate a gold target into a silver target.
  3. Expect spikes driven by momentum "tourists" to overshoot and retrace; the next leg tends to form a higher, steadier plateau.
Here: gold $8,000 at ~50:1 → silver $150–200 (17:06); his earlier triple-digit call was "not a difficult call because gold already moved."
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23:41 6. Account for rebalancing flows after a big run

The repeatable method
  1. When an asset held at a fixed weight (e.g. 10% gold) triples, disciplined portfolios must sell some — expect that selling to cap or pull back the price.
  2. Once weights are reset, that supply stops; look for new cohorts buying for the first time.
Here: Swiss-style 10%-gold portfolios hit ~30% and rebalanced — why he expected gold to sell off; that trade "is coming to an end" as first-time Western buyers arrive (24:02).
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Methods distilled from the public YouTube video (Investing News Network). Not investment advice.