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 stock market reached yet another record high on Monday, but it just doesn’t seem the same as earlier records. Investors (and everyone else) is starting to wonder if Covid is now endemic – an inherent component of everyday life. Will cases surge the...
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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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Last week, we wrote about how the damp Boston-area weather matched the soggy stock market. Pressing our literary luck today, the market is following another New England weather meme: “if you don’t like the weather, wait a few minutes.”
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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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In the Boston area, we’ve had nearly 8 inches of rain so far this month. This 0.7 inches-per-day average compares to the 0.6 inches-per-day average for a monsoon rainforest, the type found in the tropics along the equator. Sounds a lot like the mood...
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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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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 our continuing series on deciding how many positions to hold in a stock portfolio, let’s borrow a page from Major League Baseball (MLB). The methods that these teams use managing their players can be applied to investment portfolios.
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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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Last week, we started our multi-part discussion on position sizes, and looked at the benefits and weaknesses of an equal-weighted approach. Let’s look at perhaps the most common weighting used by fund managers: relative weighting.
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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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In most professional and personal endeavors, there are dozens if not hundreds of decisions to make. Manage a tech company? You need to decide who to hire/promote/fire, what responsibilities to give them, how much to pay them (base and bonus), resolve conflicting agendas, what...
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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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The market seems to have settled into complacency. We’re in a period after first-quarter earnings reports and government statistics indicate a surging economy, yet investors rightfully wonder if or when the Fed will raise interest rates and are starting to consider what happens the...
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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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