Author: Michael Arold Covestor model: Technical Swing Disclosure: Short MIPS, MCD; Long TWM * See important disclosures Market trends usually do not end all of a sudden. Signs of weakness tend to creep in before major market declines and prompt traders to either take profits more often or to open […]
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Author: Patrick Clark Covestor model: Market Neutral Growth Disclosure: Long BIL * See important disclosures My weekly review of currencies, commodities, equity indexes and bond indexes shows several potential setups. The first and maybe most significant move is in the WisdomTree India Earnings Fund ETF (EPI). This ETF broke down […]
Author: J. Stephen Castellano, Ascendere Associates Covestor model: Systematic Long-Only Disclosure: Long TRW, FCX, RES, TER, SNDK, AMD, EWBC, COH, WSM * See important disclosures Proxies that we use to measure cash flow growth, ROIC and fundamental quality continue to improve for many companies. We think this is a great […]
Author: Ben Dickey, BSG&L Covestor models: Pure Growth and Growth Plus Income Disclosure: Long SDRL, CAT, BTU, CLF, FCX, LINE, EMR * See important disclosures Market overview The US economy is slowly gaining momentum, but it is still too slow to reduce unemployment. The manufacturing sector is gaining momentum faster […]
Authors: Robert Preston & Clark Gates, Craigmillar Equity Covestor model: Global Clean Energy-Clean Tech * See important disclosures The Craigmillar Energy Model has maintained healthy allocations to the major sectors: Industrials, Energy and Materials. These sectors were in the top half of the performance of the S&P 500 for 2010. […]
Author: John Ballard Covestor model: Mid-cap Fundamentals Disclosure: Long NFLX, AMZN, ATVI * See important disclosures My goal is to find the companies with the best prospects for long term growth and buy them. The reason why this model is titled a mid-cap model is because I find that typically […]
Author: Amin Khadiani, Focal Point Management Covestor model: Quantitative Hedging Disclosure: Long IYR, GDX, FDN, IYZ * See important disclosures January saw a continuing rally in the broad financial markets along with a continued decline in volatility. Our portfolios stayed on the long side. A low volatility environment makes tactical […]
Author: American Values Investments Model: American Heroes * See important disclosures At American Values Investments we intend to stick to our American Hero investing strategy. That means during the first quarter we will determine which stocks have the best long term outlook. We will also evaluate our diversification to see […]
Author: Steve Beamer Model: High Earnings Momentum Disclosure: Long NBR, MPEL, OPEN The High Earnings Momentum Model started out well in January and moved up pretty smartly until an earnings disappointment in FFIV took away most of the model gains achieved in the first eight weeks of the model. On […]
Model manager Yinglan Tan looks for venture-backed equities that have the possibility of long-term growth and predictable earnings for his Venture Capital – Aggressive model. This week he added SINA (NASDAQ: SINA), which has a service called Weibo that has been called the Chinese Twitter, to the model. In January, […]
*See important disclosures. Robert Freedland looks for companies with strong balance sheets, consistent growth and hidden values in his Covestor Buy and Hold Value model. This week, he bought shares of Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) for the model. AMZN has a PE ratio of 70.9 (on February 5th according to CNN […]
Author: Gerald Gehman Covestor model: Undervalued Growth Companies Disclosure: Long EZCH Overview EZchip Semiconductor (Nasdaq: EZCH) is a fabless semiconductor company that provides Ethernet network processing units (NPUs) for use in telecom networks, data centers and enterprise backbones. Ethernet technology increases bandwidth, lowers costs and creates uniform technology in existing […]