Best of the holidays to you and yours, and may the New Year bring you health, happiness, and a perfectly positioned portfolio.
Everyone who has clicked on this blog, read a post, added a comment or sent me an e-mail has my deepest appreciation. You’ve helped turn what was for me a tumultuous 2009 into an exciting new beginning. Without readers, a writer is that tree falling silently in a forest. I hope my posts have provided a good return on the time you’re invested in reading this blog.
The blog is going dark for the days between Christmas Eve and New Years—unless the financial system blows up again. Absent an event of that magnitude, I’ll spend the holidays the way I like best—with my wife and kids—and hope that you’ll be able to spend the time with those you love doing the things that you love best. (Snow. We need some more snow here in New York. What else are Christmas sleds for?)
In the new year—Monday January 4 to be precise–I’ll pick up where I left off with some picks for what promises to be a difficult market, and on January 5 I’ll publish a long post on 10 stocks for the next 10 years, my annual review of the long-term Jubak Picks 50 portfolio. In the days after that I’ll post performance reports and updates on my Jubak’s Picks 12-18 month portfolio and my Dividend Income portfolio.
What’ will be new for 2010?
In 2010 I’ll also make more improvements in the blog. In the first weeks of January, for example, I’ll be adding a watch list so that you can track all those “stocks to buy later” that I frequently throw out. (Thanks to the readers who asked for this feature. It’s a good idea.) I have other plans for new features in 2010 but given how long it takes me to go from idea to execution sometimes (well, make that, often), I’ll save announcing those until they’re closer to reality.
I hope you’ll stick with me for another year. I’m very grateful that you’ve joined me for the four-and-a-half month journey that was JubakPicks.com in 2009. And I hope to have your company as we walk on down the road in 2010.
Happy New Year Jim!
I hope you are indeed enjoying the Holidays with your family.
Jim, Thank You! Thank you… for all you do for the common man. Your honesty and sincerety are remarkable. May God bless and keep you.
anchorout
Jim,
Thanks for your voice, looking forward to another decade of your advice.
-DJBarber
Jim,
Thanks for all you do and the great advice over the past year. Happy New Year !! Looking forward to 2010.
Since I am a relative newcomer, I have one question… when one of your picks reaches it’s target, and it is sold, should the whole position be sold? Or just enough to take the profit that was gained?
Thanks again !!!
Jim,
Happy Holidays to you and your family. Thank you for your work and advice. Best luck in the New Year to you.
market_dogma
Best wishes on a happy and healthy New Year to you and your family. I appreciate what you are doing for us.
Merry Christmas!
A late Merry Christmas to you and yours. I am reading your blog and following your advice. It took me awhile to find you when you left MSN. Maybe someday you will enlighten us on what happened but I have a feeling I already know. Glad you found another way to keep us informed. Thanks for advice I trust from a man I trust. And my trust is not given easily. And Jim,…… Make Me Rich!
Thanks for sharing your market knowledge and insights these past years and looking forward to many more. May you and your family have a truly blessed and prosperous new year.
Thank you again Jim for setting up this site. I find it very useful and I like your book very much.
I wish you a happy holiday and the best for 2010 for all.
I know it is a matter of personal choice, but nonetheless I hope you can give us more insight as to how to balance your different portafolios
Hope your Christmas was Merry and hope you enjoy the celebration of the New Year. Your insight, reasearch, knowledge and encouragement has been the staple that kept the calm for me in a tumultuous sea of decisions as the markets rose and fell. Thank you for all you do, I look forward to your pearls of wisdom in 2010.
Sincere regards from Cape Coral, FL
Jim,
Best Wishes to you and to your family over this Holiday Season from Maine. I read everything you write daily. I appreciate your incite, knowledge and desire to help us all benefit from the greatest capitalist nation on earth. I am not quite sure how you went from MSN to the Money Show however, I am glad to be still connected via your continuing articles and now your blog. Keep up the great work! Your honest efforts and insights are truly valuable. Happy New Year!!
Mark in Old Orchard Beach, Maine.
Your incites, and honesty are greatly appreciated. Happy Holidays to you and yours.
Jim- Let me add my wishes for a merry Christmas and express my appreciation for your work. Here’s looking forward to an exciting new year!
Dan in Ypsilanti, MI
Jim,
Happy holidays to you and yours. Stay healthy.
I much appreciate your market opinions and stock selections.
2010 will be what it is.
Regards,
the kiln
Jim,
Have a happy holiday & a prosperous 2010 for you & your family. Also for those of us in the stock market!
Thanks for you indepth analyses of the stocks.
Hope 2010 will be a better year.
EC
Jim, your a rare and special fellow. Happy New Year and thanks for sharing your global view of the financial markets with us.
Geo
Many thanks for all you have given us this year. You are appreciated!
Jim, just want to wish you Season’s Greetings. Wishing you and your loved ones Happy Holidays and a Happy Prosperous New Year
Seasons Greetings and Happy New Year. to you..
After the XTO , Exxon deal ..do you think that
RRC (Range Resources) could be a take over
kid.
Please enlighten us
Thanks
Thank the Lord you’re back Jim…. missed ya. I get the feeling that MR MARKET, (the herd),doesn’t much agree with you sometimes but you are beating the market and they are not. So I go with your picks and drops into 2010 with much interest and profit.
May your family be blessed and healthy in the new year.
Merry Christmas
Bud
Merry Christmas Jim!
Thank you and god bless.
Thanks for your intelligent, calm voice in a financial world often fraught with greed and dishonesty. I have been admirer for years and have seen you at the MOney show. In the new year, I hope your personal life is filled with goodnes and mercy and our financial life with recovery and profit. Thanks..
Sherry
Hi Jim,
Thank you so much for your enlightening advise. Have a fantastic holiday.
Cyrus
Hey Jim,
Thanks for all you do to help make sense of a crazy world. Hope you and your family have a great holiday.
-Rich
Been reading you for 11 years and am ready to read whatever you put out there for the next 11. Enjoy a happy respite with your family. I look forward to seeing you here in January. All the best to you and yours.
Petunya
Jim: Seasons wishes to you and family and as a newbie on this site (last 4 months), I have come away with some awesome concepts that were taken to greater heights using options.
So it is you I must thank for an honest; unbiased overview of what you see and put into action along the way.
Shalom:
Robert
Merry Christmas Jim and thanks for all your hard work this year.
Jim,
Merry X’mas and Happy New Year to you and your family. Thank you for your tirless effort in keeping all your fans and readers abreast of what is going on in the market. I always value your impartial and unbias comments and directions. I have to say your blog is able to provide information and ideas that excel a lot of the paid subscriptions that are touted by some purported experts.
Thanks again Jim, looking forward to go all the way along with you in 2010 and the many more years to come !
Forgot to mention – they will both be getting your book for Christmas next year!
Jim
It has already been said many times many ways by the previous posts, but thank you so much for what you do. I appreciate that you make what can be difficult, easy to understand. I look forward to coming to Jubakpicks each day. I will miss that over the next couple of weeks. May your Christmas be most blessed, and I’ll look forward to 2010 with you.