The month of September was a surprisingly great month for the overall market with indexes showing strong gains. The portfolio also performed well in the month.
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You must continue to focus on the comparative value of stocks vs. bonds. You can barely get any interest rate on your cash, with no chance of growth and a good chance of seeing it shrink from inflation. If you buy a stock that gives you that yield or higher, you have a good chance of seeing an increasing dividend and increasing your principal.
In the Market Comparables model, manager Richard Moore uses refined financial models to pick stocks with the prospect of earnings growth and that have possible hidden value. Last week, he added many new positions to the model, but today we’re going to take a look at two of them. One […]
I continue to favor direct ownership in MLPs. Even beyond the taxation profile, I believe there are numerous MLPs in indexes inherently exposed to unbalanced risks. I believe Incentive Distribution Rights (“IDRs”) to certain MLPs general partners can represent a tremendous governance conflict of interest of long term consequence. The only way I can be certain I am taking only those risks I am comfortable with is having control of what goes into my basket.
In September I here added a Cohen and Steers Closed-End Fund which was subject to a distribution increase, RQI. Similar to a prior holding, SLS, which was discussed in the webinar, RQI allows me to diversify my portfolio so as to include categories of exposure to income assets whose income can be dynamic. There are risks in everything of course, but I want to pick and choose which risks I accept in what proportions, rather than embracing peak interest rate risk in all Taxable Income style holdings.
I continue to believe the market for Closed-End Municipal Income Funds is extremely inefficient. I’m certainly happy with what I observe in the daily fluctuations, income, prospects for monthly dividend hikes, and attractive valuations in the funds I hold.
At GEARS we have developed unique tools to find improving fundamentals companies when their share price is depressed and identify deteriorating fundamentals companies when their share price is extended. To perform that analysis, we have created an accurate set of fundamental performance metrics and a share price volatility calculator.
The Micro-Cap Aggressive model added Direxion Daily Small Cap Bear 3X Shares (TZA) to their model this week. TZA is a bearish ETF that attempts to deliver results that correspond to 300 percent of the inverse of the Russell 2000 index. On October 8th, the fund was trading at a […]
It has become accepted wisdom that the stock market will move in an inverse relationship to the dollar. That is exactly what happened last month as the dollar index fell and the stock market rose sharply.
Author: Bob Gay, GEARS Disclaimer: Bob Gay owns FCS in his Covestor Earnings Surprise model. October 8, 2010: At GEARS we have developed unique tools to find improving fundamentals companies when their share price is depressed and identify deteriorating fundamentals companies when their share price is extended. To perform that […]
September was a good month for the market as well as a good month for my own account. Seemingly climbing a wall of worry about renewed real estate foreclosures and concerns about the implementation of healthcare reform, and seemingly endless government red ink, the market found the S&P opening up at 1049 on September 1st and closing at 1,141 by the end of trading on September 30th. This marked the best September in over 50 years for stocks.
Major Indices including the S&P 500 and the DOW gained significantly in the month of September. However, my trading account showed a small gain of .2%.