Jim Cramer’s famous line is “There’s always a bull market somewhere”. This is actually VERY true. Even in a down market there are usually stocks going up. Today’s bull market has been going for at least 17 years and throughout that time, there have been many calling tops and saying the market has to crash.
Overall what drives stocks higher is earnings and we’re seeing HUGE expansion of earnings. That has made me more bullish than I have been in a while.
One thing I can guarantee is the market will go down.
That’s why I want to understand technicals with Trendspider and it’s why I want to understand fundamentals with Seeking Alpha while also holding a portfolio of stocks that have proven to a winning basket of stocks that continues to expand earnings and grows my money - AKA ALPHA PICKS.
An Alpha Pick stock that I’ve highlighted since August of last year. Over the past 17.9 months, the 4 hour algorithm has taken 11 trades and has made 3,608% with those 11 trades. Buying and holding during the same period has made you 2,989% so you’ve done well with both buy and hold and trading the stock. My current strategy is buying when the 4 hour algorithm tells me to and then potentially trimming when I have a full position and the stock looks stretched.
This trade alone over the past 2 weeks could have paid for an entire year of Trendspider with 100 Sidekick messages per month.
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But markets might be hiding a crash in plain sight ….
I’ll go over what I’m doing and hopefully this can help anyone listening … my goal of this podcast is to provide tools for everyone listening to help you understand my decisions …. And why blindly following anyone is a bad strategy
Make no mistake - this is a 17 year bull market and nobody knows when it will end but I know for at least 14 of those 17 years there have been people warning about a crash.
On Friday I did a video for Seeking Alpha on their new Quant Growth and Income portfolio. I highlighted 5 of the biggest stock winners over the last month all of which are up between 20% and 30% in just 1 month. They are high yielding stocks with a strong history of growing their dividend.
I said in the video - if July scared you - this may be a VERY good portfolio for those with a different risk tolerance. Risk tolerance isn’t something to be proud of though. It’s inherent and something that’s built over time. I personally always thought I was risk adverse until I started talking to others about their portfolios and their strategies.
I found out that I am provably a 7 out of 10 risk tolerance compared to many of my friends. I know very wealthy people who I would consider a 3 or 4 out of 10 and I know some very below average wealth folks who have a 9 or 10 risk tolerance in my opinion.
I don’t think there’s a formula for success based on risk tolerance - it’s just knowing the risk.
That’s what Seeking Alpha is doing with their portfolios - trying to model it for risk. Some folks got scared of the downturn in Alpha Picks in the short term - that’s not a knock - that’s just a reality.
That’s why I personally have the tools I do.
Trendspider - the charts help me understand when stocks should be trimmed or bought. Technicals matter to me for even investments like $AAPL.
Seeking Alpha Premium - I love not having pop ups and being able to do all the research I need on my own personal portfolio and the market in general within 15 minutes without having annoying pop ups and I follow a specific set of authors, but having my entire portfolio and all the news central to that portfolio with the Quant rating is essential for me managing my portfolio.
Alpha Picks - this is my portfolio of choice. Growth at a reasonable price focused on long term capital appreciation.
But you have to research who you as an investor are - not who I am. That’s why I try and do these overviews to give you information - yes I make affiliate commissions - but what you do with that information is very much all about your risk tolerance.
Because if you didn’t know - there is one guarantee - the future will see a large downturn. Markets don’t go up forever so I can guarantee you will see a large downturn sometime in the future.
The Vix is even pointing to it at it’s lowest volatility in almost a year.
Earning has been going REALLY well this season.
With that said, what have we seen with earnings? I ran a mega prompt through Perplexity and it created a nice summary.
You’re welcome to read this summary. I find Perplexity to be the best option for me to get general market conditions, but it’s REALLY bad at picking stocks. It’s basically Jim Cramer.
Does your tool allow you to scan for stocks that are trading 20% or more below their 52 week high and then sort them by a ranking like the quant that historically out performs the market?
You could even take this screener and identify stocks that have analysts revising their earnings up with the quant revisions score.
Then you could take that small list and put it through sidekick
One stock example is TTMI 0.00%↑ which is up 54% in the last 6 months and is still a strong buy and over 50% below its 52 week high.
More earnings including WMT 0.00%↑ and we’ve seen other retailers have huge tariff rebates like SWK 0.00%↑ plus a slew of earnings.
An argument is about circular financing but this analyst suggests that too much compute will slow down this bull market.
Personally I think it will be too much compute and open ai inability to fund their entire promise.
But I also think NVDA 0.00%↑ is making enough money to fund open ai and that might be a partnership in the making.
Serenity@aleabitoreddit
I feel like AI investing is simpler than what people expect. Because $NVDA + Jensen literally tells everyone what's coming. But somehow. Almost every. single. time. Markets dismiss it until it actually happens? Be Nvidia in 2025: Buys up EML and laser capacity. Markets
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We’ve talked about how Jenson from NVDA 0.00%↑ has led the market to the next great investments over the past 3 years.
2024 - Energy was the bottleneck - VST 0.00%↑ was the top performing S&P stock
In fact this weekend it was revealed that Peter Tiel took a position in VIST 0.00%↑ - interesting to me based on Patagonia being a potential data center hub based on its cool climate.
2025 - memory was the bottleneck - SNDK 0.00%↑ ran up 4,000% and all the other memory names ran up
2025 - photonics and laser cables - 1 year later: LITE 0.00%↑ +678%, AAOI 0.00%↑ +475.12%, COHR 0.00%↑ +260.7%, AXTI 0.00%↑ +3,843.9%.
CW/EML refers to continuous-wave lasers and electro-absorption modulated lasers, the scarce InP light sources for 800G/1.6T optics and CPO in AI clusters.
Main players:
EML: Lumentum (LITE), Coherent (COHR), Broadcom (AVGO), Mitsubishi Electric, Sumitomo Electric
CW: Broadcom, Sumitomo Electric, Coherent, Lumentum, LandMark/LuxNet
Nvidia has prioritized LTAs and capacity with LITE and COHR. Secondaries include AAOI and InP substrate supplier AXTI.
It’s really not that hard if you believe the ai bull market continues.
Piper Sandler identified the entire stack … it’s like the video game street fighter …. Choose your fighter
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Did you know energy XLE 0.00%↑ was the leading sector last week and the last month?
You have an alpha pick stock that I’ve brought up PARR 0.00%↑ that’s up over 21% in the last month.
Another alpha pick name - SNDK 0.00%↑ was up 35% last week but is still down 6% over the last month.
In fact, if you had traded SNDK 0.00%↑ over the past 18 months in the 4 hour algorithm, you would have mad only 11 trades winning 55% of the time with an average win of 126% making over 3,608% - sure - buy and hold has made you 2,989% - but the 4 hour algorithm performs better.
Including over 46% since August 3rd. I have been buying the dip and yes I bought at $1790 and $1527.
But I have NOT sold since I started buying this back in May.
Having a strategy matters and I wanted to build this position because I believe the Wall Street price targets.
That’s my choice while holding this as an over weighted stock in my Alpha Picks portfolio.
The best performing alpha pick stock over 3 months is OKTA 0.00%↑ - up over 81%
But alpha picks is under performing over 3 months
the reason is some of the biggest weighted stocks in the portfolio are still way down from their highs but that’s only after being huge winners so your entry price on many of these names matters in the short term - but the portfolio I’ve the long term is still outpacing VOO 0.00%↑
How do I avoid this? I use sidekick which is like having a Bloomberg terminal and the analyst to interpret that data. I use the seeking alpha quant rating which we know statistically beats the market index.
BABA 0.00%↑ - is this the time when it breaks out?
I’ll put this in the newsletter and not go over it here, but it didn’t really find a “hit it out of the park” opportunity this week.
Needless to say this week is heavy retail and most likely I’m not a huge researcher on retail so it just very well may know that I’m not a big fan. That’s why if you are a fan of some stocks this week or you own a few - it’s why you should get sidekick.
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