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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The market has been subdued for the last few weeks as investors weigh how far the market has come against the risks of rising inflation, supply-chain problems and the possibility of higher taxes.
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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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No one wants to talk about when to sell stocks at a loss, but it's an integral part of learning how to make a profit in the market.
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Markets continue to consolidate and churn with solid earnings offsetting concerns over inflation and valuations.
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Biding our Time
It’s been a downer of a three months for growth stocks, so we want to start with a positive note, partially in response to some worried questions we’ve started to get as the sellers really dug in their heels last week: term,...
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Fears of rising inflation hammered Wall Street this week so today we are selling two lagging positions and adding a blue chip inflation hedge.
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Back in the Soup
During the past month, the way we thought about what was going on was that growth stocks had finally put themselves into a position to get going after a two and a half month stretch of tough, choppy trading. Instead narrow,...
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Major corporations are sitting on a pile of cash. Wouldn’t that be a nice problem for all of us? This has been a decade-long cash buildup but it has gotten quite a boost from the pandemic. And the trend is even starker outside America.
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Seeing More Setups, but Still in the Spin Cycle
Two-plus months ago, speculation was running rampant and most growth stocks had made giant moves over the prior six to nine months. So when the sellers finally stepped up and cracked the intermediate-term uptrend in growth...
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Markets seem to be pausing a bit, with some stocks losing momentum while a few show surprising strength.
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Sellers Fading—but Will the Buyers Show Up?
We’re all about going with the evidence, and when it comes to growth stocks, the evidence was nearly uniformly negative (or at least not positive) for most of the past month. The vast majority of leading stocks, many...
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Tech stocks struggle a bit but some EV stocks bounce back as investors look to play the long game.
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Less is More
In the real world, persistence is almost always associated with good things. If you’re a salesperson, you don’t give up when a few accounts turn you down; you keep selling until one customer bites. If your team is developing a new they...
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You can often find exciting and profitable investment ideas at the edge of new technologies.
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How many stocks should you own? Not too little. Not too much. Here's how to find the sweet spot for your investment portfolio.
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Open to Anything, but Playing the Odds
Last year saw a ton of “wow, we haven’t seen this kind of unusual market action in decades!” situations, but instead of reverting back to normal behavior, 2021 has had plenty of tricks up its sleeve as The...
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The market is hitting a little turbulence, which is natural as it feels its way across the timing of the pandemic economic recovery, concern over debt, interest rates, and inflation.
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More Cracks Appear
At the start of November we saw a couple of blastoff-type indicators flash green (like the Three Day Thrust rule), and that turned out to be the start of a powerful intermediate-term advance. During the next two-plus months, progress was relative there...
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Some investors are bracing for the possibility that all this will lead to a surge in the cruelest tax of all – inflation.
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