Earnings came out for Frontier Communications FTR on February 16, and the company reduced its dividend down to $0 .10 per share, helping them reduce debt, improve leverage and to put cash towards investing in their network.
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After the huge amount of volatility for most of 2011, January and February have been much calmer. Volatility has been down substantially.
My approach in the down cycle is to short stocks which have run up for a while with weak fundamentals and showing a reversal pattern.
February brought with it the quarterly re-balancing of the Crabtree Technology model. We take this action every three months as part of our disciplined investment process.
We are genuinely pleased with the performance of most asset classes in 2012. As we expected, bond yields have moved mostly sideways.
In February KC Capital Management’s Quantitative ETF portfolio had its best performing 30-day period since inception, up 17.0%.
A common view in investing is that “conservative” somehow equates with “buy and hold”, and the corollary to that is that trading equates to higher risk.
February was a good month for the model as a few of the companies saw a modest rise in their stock prices.
February was pretty uneventful for both Alpha Trapper and Beta Blocker models. No trades were made and price movement was minimal.
The market continued its winning ways in February as it slowly but surely moved ahead. Most major averages surpassed the levels attained in the spring of 2011.