October was an overall bad month for stocks and stock picking. While the Base Stock picks outperformed all thee stock indexes (S & P 500, DOW, NASDAQ), the weekly stock picks did not. Even though the base stock picks outperformed, I am selling USCR and adding FTEC to the base stock portfolio. Access the October… Continue reading October 2017 Stock Pick Performance
Category: Stock Pick Performance
August 2017 Stock Pick Performance
The base stock portfolio and the weekly stock picks for August 2017 managed to beat all the major stock indexes (S & P 500, NASDAQ, Dow). That said, it was a difficult month for stock picks. The base portfolio had one change in that USCR took the place of ALK. The following link has the… Continue reading August 2017 Stock Pick Performance
July 2017 Stock Pick Performance
July 2017 Base Stock Performance July 2017 Weekly Stock Performance Once again, all stock pick categories — Base Stocks and Weekly Stock Picks — beat all three stock indexes during the month of July, 2017. The only major negatives in Base Stocks were regional banks (KRE) and the one airline stock (ALK). Weekly stock picks… Continue reading July 2017 Stock Pick Performance
June 2017 Stock Pick Performance
It was a month where “less bad” was the winner. On the other hand, some picks occurred with the expectation buying on a pull-back and thus those with the greatest percentage loss represent the greatest profit opportunities. For base stocks, the only index that was worse was the NASDAQ. Base stocks lost to the S… Continue reading June 2017 Stock Pick Performance
May 2017 Stock Pick Performance
This month both the Base and Monthly stock picks beat the overall market. The improvement in Base stocks was due to substituting Shopify (SHOP) for IBM and GE. The Table below shows the monthly base stock performance compared to the major stock indexes. The table shows that Monthly Base Stock performance nearly doubled the best… Continue reading May 2017 Stock Pick Performance
April 2017 Stock Pick Perfomance
Weekly stock picks clobbered the market yet again! Even so, the set of Base Stocks lagged the market a bit and as a result I am dropping two of my Base Stocks: IBM and GE. I am replacing these two dropped stocks with Shopify (SHOP). The following chart summarizes the Monthly Base Stock performance. April… Continue reading April 2017 Stock Pick Perfomance
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… Continue reading March 2017 Stock Pick Performance
February 2017 Stock Pick Performance
All recommended base stocks had positive gains during the month of February. Data is in in monthly and annualized percentage changes. For comparison, . . . . . . . . . % change February . . . (% change Annualized) DOW 30 . . . . . . . . . 4.63% . .… Continue reading February 2017 Stock Pick Performance