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April 14, 2017

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The Stock State: Market Outlook and Strategy

After a strong run-up from the November election and through February, the market was up on a "Trump Bump." Personally, I thought the "Trump Bump" was more of a celebration over the discontinuance of anti-market policies put in place by an Obama administration that never understood how a market economy works. Hilary Clinton would have continued those same misguided policies for the same reasons. That Clinton lost and the anti-market policies ended was reason enough for the stock market run-up.…

Stock Traders and Stock Investors

The difference between stock market traders and stock market investors is often confusing. Here are some brief definitions and examples of each type of trader. According to Ian Harvey at Investopedia (downloaded on 4/10/2017), Stock traders tend to have a short-term time horizon and buy or sell stock based on the market and its characteristics rather than company. Traders consider such things as stock price patterns and the technical analysis of a given stocks price movements, factors that might cause…

April 2017 Stock Picks and Market Strategy

Trading range, consolidation, pull-back to 200 day support line are all possibilities to look forward to in the near term. The market tends toward risk-on with good news about fundamentals such as the ADP hiring report this Wednesday. By contrast, political uncertainty "noise" has a strong, or even stronger, negative effect pushing investors into the risk-off mode very quickly. Strategy: Buy on any strong or significant dips. The long-run upward trend continues to dominate. Thus, you can ride out any…

March 2017 Stock Pick Performance

March Stock Picks the market again . . . just like in February! Base stocks were minus 1.66% for the month but outperformed the Dow, which was down 2.14%. The S & P 500 was down 1.39% and the NASDAQ was up 0.13% for the month of March. Nothing stellar here as the Trump bump winds down and stocks move into a trading range that is dependent on earnings. What was stellar were the FREE monthly stock picks that beat…