Two essential components to successful investing
What Drives Performance? Market Leaders is a sophisticated investment methodology that strives to enhance an investor’s wealth over the long term, typically, a period of five years or greater (which...
View ArticleNo news can be good news
Last week saw a lot of volatility in the NASDAQ 100 as the index ranged from a mid-day low of 2527 to Friday’s close at the high of 2615, up 3.5% from the weekly low. For June, the NASDAQ 100 …...
View ArticleDéjà Vu?
We were flying back to the USA from London on a jumbo jet Saturday. The cabin attendant looked at us and said, “Did you just fly this route?” “Nope, not for many years,” I replied. “I could have sworn...
View ArticleIs a bottoming process occurring?
“Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria.” Sir John Templeton The majority of the news headlines are scary: “Europe is in Recession,” “US...
View ArticleEarnings reports bring mixed results to the NASDAQ 100
Another positive week for the NASDAQ 100 (up 1.1%) resulted in another 2% gain for STF as it remains 2X long. Early in the week, this looked to be a pretty poor choice as weakness in Apple, in...
View ArticleSTF steams forward through choppy waters
The NASDAQ 100 continues to lurch forward with the rest of the stock market indices. Four days spent in a 17-point range kept the index below the anticipated 2655 closing value until Friday, when a...
View ArticleBack in Focus
The only solution I've found is to take the emotion out of the process and replace it with discipline. Since we are all human and humans cannot constitutionally be devoid of emotion, the computer is a...
View ArticleNervous investors approaching a trap?
With the S&P 500 reaching new post-crash highs, it is interesting, to say the least, that most individual investors are not bullish on stocks. Rather, as the market has moved relentlessly higher...
View ArticleThe full market cycle
Which would you rather have: Investment A with only a 20% cumulative return or Investment B with almost a 200% cumulative return? Would you choose Investment A with several years of losses and only a...
View ArticleTwins
Any thoughts that the stock market was going to extend its rally were shortened last week by a truly horrendous jobs report. In an economy that needs 250,000 new jobs each month just to replace...
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