Can Growth Break Free From the Chop?
In our opinion, there are three main things about the market that make it difficult for most investors to succeed. The first is its contrary nature—oftentimes, many of the same qualities that help you succeed in the world...
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The U.S. economy is growing more quickly than before the pandemic, both the S&P 500 and S&P 600 are up modestly over the past week and, so far, this earnings season has been a massive improvement over the train wreck of the first-quarter season...
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When I wrote to you last Monday, stocks were having their worst day since March, and looked primed for a more sustained pullback. Since then, they’ve gone nowhere but up.
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The market got off to a horrible week as stocks sold off Monday, but things have been a lot better since and the S&P 600 Small Cap Index is now back above where it closed last Wednesday (6% below all-time highs). Stepping back, see...
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The bull market is alive and well, with major indexes hitting new highs in recent days. However, growth stocks in particular have been hit hard recently, and that requires some selling.
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Can’t Shake the Sellers
Because most of us are long-only players (focusing our time looking at what to buy, not short), we usually think of things from the perspective of buyers. There’s nothing wrong with that, per se—a lot of my commentary and analysis focused...
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The big picture this week is much the same as last week. In fact, the S&P 600 Small Cap Index closed today just a fraction off where it closed last Thursday. The same applies to the Nasdaq, while the S&P 500 is up modestly.
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The broad market will stop going up and start going down. And while I will continue to recommend one stock per week, I will recommend that you be more cautious about buying, that you be less patient with underperformers, and that you take more...
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The market, and especially the small-cap index, has been a little soft after the Fourth of July holiday weekend, but all things considered it’s hard to say anything is wrong. The move down in U.S. Treasury yields is a bit of a head-scratcher the...
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Today’s recommendation is a big fast-growing technology company that you may not have heard of, but that has had a huge impact on the lives of Asian consumers.
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Still Tricky, Still Challenging—but Also Still Improving
Through the first half of the year, 2021 has been about as tricky as we can remember, at least for growth stock investors. Rotation and news-driven moves have been the norm, with many leading (or formerly leading) titles...
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In recent weeks, growth stocks, which had underperformed for a few months, have looked increasingly healthier, and today I’m happy to recommend a young one in the life sciences industry with a strong chart and great growth potential.
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Despite some wobbles last Friday it has been a constructive week for the market, and especially for growth stocks. Since last Thursday’s close and through yesterday’s close the S&P 500 has inched up 0.5% (back near record closing highs), the Nasdaq has hit record...
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These days, when you think of “growth stocks,” it’s hard for your mind not to go to cloud software, cybersecurity, e-commerce and online help for small and mid-sized businesses.
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Still (Mostly) a Meat Grinder
In the last issue we wrote about the baby steps the market had taken since mid-May—it wasn’t anything decisive, but after suffering a ton of damage, growth stocks were slowly improving, with some big-volume rallies, more stocks setting up multi-month...
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Small caps have pulled back ever so slightly from the all-time highs of last week. But that’s not the big news of the week. The larger event was yesterday’s Fed meeting, during which Chairman Jerome Powell suggested that a start to tapering of purchases...
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The bull market that began in March 2020 rolls on, and I continue to recommend that you hold a diversified portfolio of stocks chosen through a variety of proven investing systems.
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Small caps and growth stocks continue to look better for the third consecutive week. This is a welcome trend given that the beginning of May was pretty tough.
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The bull market that began in March 2020 rolls on, and the good news is that growth stocks are now looking stronger, as hopes for rapid growth outweigh fears of inflation.
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Baby Steps
Three weeks ago, growth stocks were in ruins, and we don’t think that’s much of an exaggeration—while the Nasdaq was only 8.5% off its high, things like the Russell 2000 Growth Fund (IWO), which we write about later in this issue, sat than...
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