The Technical Swing model managed by Michael Arold uses technical indicators and movements in the market to determine which equities to add. As a short-term model, the goal is to take advantage of short-term price swings. On November 2nd, Arold added Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL) to the model. AAPL had […]
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In the long-term Global Clean Energy—Clean Tech model, manager Craigmillar focuses on companies involved in alternative energy. Recently, they added Ormat Technologies Inc (NYSE: ORA) to the model. ORA operates, owns and develops both geothermal and recovered energy-based power plants globally, which do not issue new CO2 into the environment. […]
The Mid-Cap Fundamentals model managed by John Ballard is a long-term model that holds the best companies within under-capitalized sectors. Recently, Ballard added Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX) to the model. NFLX has a high price to earnings ratio compared to peers, but the company has basically no competition in the […]
The Census Bureau released its new residential construction data from September today. While building permits for privately-owned homes were down 10.9 percent compared to September of 2009, they were up from August 2010. Single-family housing starts were up 4.4 percent and single-family completions were up 4.8 percent from the previous […]
The National Association of Homebuilders released their Housing Market Index stats today and showed that the number of housing starts and building permits obtained in October had increased right along with builder confidence. One concern mentioned in the report (which you can access here) was that while consumers seem more […]
Earnings growth for our portfolio companies remains overshadowed by volatility and the manic-depressive behavior of the markets. Our portfolio holds considerable appreciation potential based on prospects of our businesses and the substantial relative value versus bonds.
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%.
Disclaimer: Mark Holder owns TMRK, RVBD, AAPL, TER, LULU and MF in the Covestor Opportunistic Arbitrage model. October 4, 2010: September was an incredible month with a historic rise in a typically negative stock market. The best September since 1939 in fact. Most investors were caught off guard but this […]
The following stocks were traded by Covestor Model Managers on Friday September 24th, 2010 Covestor Model Manager Stocks For The Week traded HANS in their Model Top Internationals Covestor Model Manager Stocks For The Week traded CRM in their Model Top Internationals Covestor Model Manager Frank Hogelucht traded UPRO in […]
This week Michael Arold added some new positions to his Technical Swing model. In this model Arold uses many different technical indicators as well as market movement and fundamental analysis to choose positions to add. This is a short-term model that looks to take advantage of short-term price movement. One […]
The month of August has been a challenge for the economy, the financial markets and for my own portfolio. While not yet committed to calling a 'double dip' in the economy, clearly the pace of the rebound has diminished threatening an economic drop back into full-blown recession.
billion, up from $3.1 billion the previous year. In 2009 they also reduced their total liabilities to $468.8 billion from $482.7 billion the previous year.