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I’ve been consistently bullish for the past 18 months and written about it several times on this blog. Here are the highlights: 1) In April 2016, when the Dow was 17,500, I made a call for Dow 20,000 by the end of 2016 for the following reasons: Psychology, Market Resilience, Improving Breadth, and the Fed. [...]

By |2018-01-28T18:27:12-05:00January 7th, 2018|Tags: , , , |

Always Cut Your Losses!

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 [...]

By |2018-01-13T16:59:46-05:00December 26th, 2017|Tags: , |

The American Dream

“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 [...]

Can You Have the Best of Both Worlds?

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 [...]

By |2017-12-26T16:28:09-05:00December 23rd, 2017|Tags: , , |

Three Growth Stocks For 2018

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 [...]

By |2017-12-23T13:00:03-05:00December 10th, 2017|Tags: , , , , |

Obsessed

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 [...]

By |2017-11-30T23:30:11-05:00November 20th, 2017|Tags: , |

There’s a Big Difference Between What People Say and What They Do.

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. [...]

By |2017-11-20T17:58:35-05:00November 15th, 2017|Tags: , |

The Perfect Storm

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 [...]

By |2017-11-19T14:15:35-05:00November 7th, 2017|Tags: , |
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