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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.…

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…

Look Out Below!

Most stock investors worry about sudden sell-offs and plunging stock prices. Here are some strategies that can reduce your worries. 1. The simplest strategy is to have a long-run time horizon that allows you to ignore short-run fluctuations in financial asset prices. Companies always move things and if you have invested in good ones, short-run downturns in the stock market are best ignored. 2. Buy a mutual fund or other fund that lags market turning points, especially the downward turning points. I…