Investment Strategy

“There were times when my plans went wrong and my stocks did not run true to form, but did the opposite of what they should have done if they kept regard for precedent.” So wrote Jesse Livermore, as chronicled in the brilliant book Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre. Stock market historians will recall that […]

The Leonid meteor shower hit its zenith over the weekend, and you didn’t even need a telescope to see it. You did need a warm blanket, but all you had to do was lay down on your back to enjoy a great show. A meteor is a space rock, or meteoroid, that enters the Earth’s […]

“The true prophet is not he who predicts the future, but he who reads history and reveals the present.” . . . Eric Hoffer, an American moral and social philosopher. He was the author of ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983. We could almost hear our history professor […]

Up until last Monday (October 29, 2018) we had focused on our short-term model’s “sell signal” of October 2, 2018. The “S” word alone makes most investors uneasy. They find the “B” word, “buying” more pleasant. The reason for this is perhaps best explained in a book written by Justin and Robert Mamis titled “When […]