Remember that volatility creates volatility–time to look to some tax loss selling (like Nektar)
With the VIX “fear index” falling back closer to “normal” levels–it dropped to 21.89 yesterday from 31.12 on December 1–it sure feels like the extreme volatility of the end of November and early December is on the ebb. The move to...
Adding Bristol-Myers Squibb to my Jubak Picks Portfolio tomorrow
As I noted in my posts over the weekend, I think that along with all the general volatility and the rotation away from high moment and higher price-to-earnings ratio technology stocks, the last week or so saw a rotation into “safe” haven stocks such as...
Watch my new YouTube video: 4 Picks for the Omicron Wave
I’m starting up my videos on JubakAM.com again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My seventy-fifth YouTube video “4 Picks for the Omicron Wave” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. Here’s...
Be careful out there: This is one insanely volatile market both on the up and down sides
Want to know exactly how volatile the stock market is right now? Yesterday investors and traders got news that the first case of the Omicron Variant had been recorded in California. On that, and some “We’ll tighten sooner than expected” remarks from...
A stock isn’t a buy just because it’s cheaper than it was–Lessons from Disney on when to buy on the dip
After a huge rally like we’re had this year, it’s easy to fall into one of the most common buy on the dip traps. Just because a stock is cheaper than it was, it’s not necessarily a bargain. There’s nothing that says a stock has to return to its...
Danaher is Pick #6 for end of the year momentum and raising target price in Jubak Picks
It’s hard today, November 30, to find any stock with the kind of momentum that I’m looking for in the last month of 2021. Apple (AAPL) looks like a good possibility, which is why I made it Pick #5 in my Market Melt Up Special Report on my subscription site...
Why is Apple green today when everything else is red?
Even as losses accelerate for almost all stocks as we head into the close today–the Standard & Poor’s 500, which was down 1.31% at 2:30 In New York had moved to a loss of 1.74% as of 3:30–shares of Apple (AAPL) continue to hang onto the green....
Selling Zebra Technologies out of Jubak Picks tomorrow
When I bought Zebra Technologies (ZBRA) back on June 28, 2021, I thought the stock was moderately over-valued. But that, like many over-valued stocks with momentum, it would move higher. I set a target price then of $596 a share. Well, moderately over-valued has...
Apple is Pick #5 for my Special Report: It’s a Market Melt Up!! on my subscription JubakAM.com site (and for my Jubak Picks and Volatility portfolios)
It was sure hard to see a market melt up today, November 22. The Standard & Poor’s 500 was down 0.32% and the NASDAQ Composite fell 1.26%. Market leaders in the melt up rally like Applied Materials (AMAT) and Microsoft (MSFT) were down 1.65% and 0.96%,...
Selling remaining Treasury ETFs out of my portfolios
On what looks like solid odds for interest rate increases in 2022, I’m selling my remaining Treasury ETFs out of my portfolios. (Treasuries drop in price as interest rate and yields climb.) I’m selling the Vanguard Short-Term Treasury ETF (VGSH) out of my...
Apple is Pick #5 for my Special Report: It’s a Market Melt Up!! on JubakAM.Com. (And for my Jubak Picks and Volatility portfolios tomorrow)
It was sure hard to see a market melt up today, November 22. The Standard & Poor’s 500 was down 0.32% and the NASDAQ Composite fell 1.26%. Market leaders in the melt up rally like Applied Materials (AMAT) and Microsoft (MSFT) were down 1.65% and 0.96%,...
Buying Generac Holdings on the dip and on “not enough” global climate conference results
I wouldn’t call the Glasgow Global Climate Summit, which wraps up on November 12, a failure. The pledge to reduce methane emissions is an important step forward: Methane is an extremely powerful global warming gas. And the promise of a big step up in global...
My picks for infrastructure stocks after Congress finally acts
There was a mad scramble today as Wall Street tried to identify the winners from the $1.2 trillion ($550 billion in new money) infrastructure bill passed by the House of Representatives (finally) late on Friday night. President Joe Biden will sign the bill, which...
Ford raises 2121 earnings forecast and reinstates dividend
So far Ford Motor (F) is meeting the expectations I had when I added it to the Jubak Picks Portfolio on June 9, 2021. On Wednesday, October 27, the company raised its earnings forecast (EBITDA) for 2121 to $10.5 billion to $11.5 billion on an improved supply of chips,...
Selling Ericsson out of my Jubak Picks Portfolio
I bought Ericsson (ERIC) back on August 5, 2020 because of the growth it would see, I thought, from the roll out of the next generation–5G–of wireless systems. The problem for the company–and the stock–is that it has been hit hard the global...
Watch my new YouTube video: Quick Pick Orsted
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My fifty-ninth YouTube video “QuickPick: Orsted” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can see it...
It’s already correction time in the chip sector
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index is now down 8.7% from its September 16 peak. The slump comes as investors and traders sell on fears of supply-chain problems in the sector and especially in the memory chip market. The drop has left the index testing its 200-day...
Watch my new YouTube video: QuickPick Xylem
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My fifty-sixth YouTube video “QuickPick Xylem” went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can see it...
Selling Advanced Micro Devices out of Jubak Picks tomorrow, September 30
With supply chain “glitches” continuing to shred revenue and earnings forecasts for technology companies such as Micro Technology (MU) on Tuesday of this week, I think the risk/reward trade off from a high momentum chip stock such as Advanced Micro Devices...
Ford one of few stocks in green today on electric F150 moves
Shares of Ford Motor (F) were one of the few stocks closing in the green today with a gain of 1.20% to $14.33 a share. Yesterday, September 27, Ford announced that it looking to hire 11,000 new workers and that it would spend an additional $11.4 billion to build...
So far it’s just a typical September slump
I found myself humming “I scare myself” this morning as the market continued its September selling. The Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks song pretty much sums up the market action this morning. We all know that stocks go down in September so we’re sending...
Solutions for my YouTube video on September/October risk–What to do? 5 Moves
Sign Up for Jim‘s Newsletter Back on September 4 I posted a video on YouTube and this site “September and October 2021 Worse Than Usual for Investors?” that argued that September, the worst performing month for the Standard & Poor’s 500 from 1950...
As promised in my YouTube QuickPick video on PANW, I’m adding OKTA to my cybersecurity picks
In last week’s YouTube video QuickPick of Palo Alto Networks (PANW) I promised a longer take on the cybersecurity sector and another pick for my portfolios to go with Palo Alto Systems and CrowdStrike (CRWD). This post is that (somewhat) longer take and OKTA...
Watch my new YouTube video: “QuickPick Palo Alto Networks”
I’m starting up my videos on again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My forty-fifth YouTube video “QuickPick: Palo Alto Networks” went up today. The post to add another cybersecurity pick to my portfolios will go up this evening. Palo Alto...
Ford gains on doubling of production target for electric F-150 pickup
Shares of Ford Motor (F) are up 2.75% as of the close in New York today, August 24, on news that the company has doubled its production target for the F-150 Lightning because of strong early demand for the full-sized electric pickup truck ahead of its 2022 launch. The...
Watch my new You Tube Video: 3 China stocks to buy but not now
I’m starting up my videos again–this time using YouTube as a platform. My forty-second YouTube video “3 China stocks to buy but not now”-went up today. Please watch and subscribe to my YouTube channel. And like my video. You can see it below:...
How much of a hedge do you need–and how much can you afford
I try to use big up and (especially) down days in the stock market to stress test my portfolio. One of the things I look to learn from a high volatility down days is how the hedges that I’ve put on to protect my portfolio work under big stress. So, for example,...
Selling Meituan and Naspers to cut China exposure
Last Wednesday, July 28, Chinese financial regulators told big investors–banks and investment groups heavily exposed to China’s stock market–not to worry. China’s financial markets were sound and despite the fears engendered by the...
A tried and true earnings game boosts Microsoft another 1.23% today
After picking up; 1.3% yesterday, shares of Microsoft added 1.23% today, Friday, July 23, as Wall Street analysts raised earnings estimates ahead of the company’s July 27 earnings report. It’s a tried and true earnings season game: No analyst wants to be...Jim’s Daily Email Alerts:
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