google.com, pub-2431335701173086, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0 Beat the Market Archives - Page 4 of 4 - MarchéEconomics

Beat the Market

Tag

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 & P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial average. Base stock performance is reflected in the following table. Note that when data collection occurred on…

July 2017 Weekly Stock Recommendations

Stock picks for the 1st week of July, 2017 (July 3 - 7), with markets closed July 4, 2017. The tech sell-off created buying opportunities. July, week 1 stock recommendations must include AAPL. I'd also consider TREE, TCMD, NTES, ANET, JD, JPM, CRIUF, and ARCC. ARCC is a large, solid business development company that pays about 9.3% and has also pulled back recently, making it a good buy. CRIUF is a Canadian utilities company that pays about 8% and offers…

June Stock State: Market Strategy and Outlook

June 2, 2017 update: Markets are gaining momentum. As of this Thursday and Friday, a risk-on appetite from strong labor market data and positive expectations among businesses and consumers led to put more money into smaller, riskier growth stocks. This is a good sign. Moreover, it reinforces the prospects for a continuation of the current bull-market in stocks. Except for the stock market, the economy has been on a recessionary trend the last 8 years. It is the improvement in…

May 2017 Weekly Stock Picks

Busy moving my daughter to Los Angeles, CA this month and have gotten behind. The best I can do now is to combine the 1st and 2nd week's stock picks for May into one set. These tickers are: ZIXI, BOTZ (a fund for robotics and AI), CELG, AEIS, and ABMD. I expect these to beat the market in the coming month and beyond. Do your research when considering any of them to add to your portfolio. For fans of monthly…

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 2017 Base Stock Performance Weekly stock picks for April outperformed all 3 major stock indices by a wide margin. Those with dividends exhibited a greater…

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.…

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…

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% . . . . . . . . . .(55.58%) S & P 500 . . . . . . . .3.69% . . . . .…