January 2012 – Page 2 – Smarter Investing

The Top 5 Screener strategy is best suited to directional markets and trending stocks.

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Once Europe calms down, expecting volatility to fall

Humintelligence, humdiligence and humambition are the three most important traits to the making of a great investor.

The lie, of course, is that you can get money for nothing, that it is possible—and even easy—to beat the market without doing any real work.

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Here's why I consider these stocks attractive from a fundamental perspective.

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High bullish readings did not have any predictive value in the last two years.

Eventually the housing market will recover and when it does I’m hopeful the portfolio will benefit.

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We are not optimistic that a political solution can be delivered, but at least we’ve begun to see the ECB act as a provider of liquidity.

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Investors jumped into "dividend only" stocks at the end of 2011, chasing yield with reckless abandon.

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And we're underweight cyclicals and healthcare names.

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The word that sums up 2011 to us is “hubris" - amazing amounts of it slimed the markets in all corners of the world.

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Pop quiz: Which is the tech stock, Dell or 3M? Crazy question, right?!

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With the macroeconomic picture cloudy, we prefer investing in biotechs like this.

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