Zitat des Tages von Louis Navellier:
There's a lot of companies that profit from a weak dollar.
If you go back to 2001, the market had two violent short covering rallies then, although I know the market didn't officially get going until March 2003.
When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.
I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index.
There's something we calculate called an alpha, and that's the stock's return that's independent, uncorrelated to the market. And the only way you really get a high alpha is for something to zig when the market zags.
My advice to the average investor in 1988 is to be patient and think long-term. It will take 18 months for confidence to get better and, in the meantime, this is absolutely no place for short-term money.
I had Dell for four and a half years, and its sales are still phenomenal, but their operating margins started to contract, so I sold it in early 1999. There's nothing wrong with Dell! It's a fine company. It's just the business risk they took.
Open the borders to willing workers from any and all nations. They will create businesses that pay taxes, especially payroll taxes to fund Medicare and Social Security benefits of retiring baby boomers.
In college, I was told the market can't be beat.
Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells me how to diversify not only the industry groups but the stocks.
I've been investing in the stock market for 27 years and, within that time, have helped investors beat the market nearly four to one.
Don't punish small businesses with over-regulation.
Large-caps were safe in 1996, '97, '98. Everybody was buying index funds and Nifty Fifty funds. As long as money was pouring in, it was great.
There are several things that can create an alpha - stock buybacks are one. High dividend yields are another, especially nowadays because the stock market yields more than the banks and the tenure treasury. But by and large, it tends to be companies with a strong cash flow, rising sales, accelerated earnings, a profit margin expansion.
If you are a short-term trader, you have the right to come and go from our funds.
I expect my return to be 18 to 25 percent in 1988, while the Standard & Poor's 500 should rise 8 to 12 percent and OTC stocks gain 15 percent as liquidity emerges.
One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.
We call it the zigzag theory. You want to find something that zigs and something that zags and blend them together to get a better combined performance.
As a rule, bond funds will not double your money overnight.