In the past month, I have received the same blueprint email from about 10-20 readers of my blog. The email basically says: Dear Joe, I bought XYZ stock a while ago and I am down big. What should I do? I don’t respond to these emails because I can neither give financial advice over email [...]
“In 1923, seven men who had made it to the top of the financial success pyramid met together at the Edgewater Hotel in Chicago. Collectively, they controlled more wealth than the entire United States Treasury, and for years the media had held them up as examples of success. Who were they? Charles M. Schwab, president [...]
There is a never-ending debate in the financial world about passive vs. active investing. As an active manager, you would think I’m about to bash passive investing, but the honest truth is I think there is room for both strategies in everyone’s portfolio. Here’s the problem: Everyone wants the best of both worlds. When the [...]
As an active money manager, I pride myself in finding stocks that I feel can outperform the market and in turn help me outperform for clients. The following are three growth stocks from three different market caps that have strong potential in 2018. 1) LARGE CAP IDEA: Amazon (Symbol: AMZN, current price $1162) – Of [...]
Here is the video clip from my appearance on Yahoo Finance's Final Round show on 11/28/17. I joined host Jen Rogers to discuss the factors that could keep this Bull Market moving higher. I can be reached at: jfahmy@zorcapital.com
The following Real Vision interview was filmed on September 28, 2016, before the Presidential election. Prior to posting it here, it was only available through Real Vision's paid subscription site. They allowed me to post it because of its accuracy and they invited me back for another interview soon. I am grateful that many of [...]
Carl Icahn is one of the best investors ever. He says in order to be the best at something, you have to be a little obsessed. One thing I am obsessed about is achieving superior returns in the stock market. The first question you might ask is: “Isn’t everyone?” Surprisingly, the answer is no. The [...]
I received a great email last week about sentiment. The question was: “What do you do when two different sentiment measures conflict?” For example, the NAAIM survey (a measure of active manager investment levels) has been declining lately, but Investors Intelligence (a measure of newsletter sentiment) shows an increasing number of bulls. See charts below. [...]
There is something big going on in the stock market. It’s something bigger than most people realize. I like to call it The Perfect Storm. It’s a favorable combination of technicals, fundamentals, global growth, interest rates, sentiment, a pro-business government, and a new technological revolution. The reason I’m excited about it is I’ve been around [...]
1) The first type is the investor who is sitting out, mostly in cash, barely invested, or refuses to participate. They either feel the market is overvalued or we are about to crash any day. It’s impossible to help these people because they have already made up their mind about what the market SHOULD do [...]