Trades for The Next Leg Up in the Bull Market After the frightening plunge in Stocks on Friday, the action today could NOT have been better. Major equity indexes, which spent most of the day lower, closing in positive territory. Even more encouraging was the Russell 2000 Small Cap Index (RUT) which was the […]
Post-Christmas Rally Stalling The stock market has been on a tear since Christmas. In the last 19 trading days, the Dow Jones Industrials (Dow) have gained 2800 points or nearly 13%. Other key indexes have generated equally impressive gains: Nasdaq 100 (+13.5%), Russell 2000 (+15%) and S & P 500 (+12.5%). The belief that a […]
Asset Re-Balancing To the Rescue? Asset allocation is nothing fancy. Certain investors, especially Pension Funds, routinely target a specific stock-to-bond ratio for their portfolios, for example 60/40. Since stocks and bonds will have different returns, the portfolio is brought back to its target ratio at the end of each quarter. If the equity portion of […]
