Research Report Excerpt #1 House Keeping Notes In December, our chief market strategist Seth Golden will be taking his usual vacation and out for the month. His dedication will provide Finom Group members with consistent weekly SOTM videos, trade alerts/investment ideas, and participation in the Telegram app, per usual. Our final weekly Research Report for…
Within this past week’s State of the Market video, our focus suggested that the market has stepped through the open window and into a relatively protracted period of opportunity for investors. It is during the November – April period of the following year that, within a Midterm Election cycle and 4-Year Presidential Cycle, the greatest…
Research Report Excerpt #1 THE FED IS DRIVING THE MARKET, and it demands the market to stay put until further notice. With the aforementioned sentiment, which is hard to argue against, as it was further demonstrated most recently during the Fed chairman’s press conference this past week, it is ideal for investors to accept this…
Research Report Excerpt #1 The chart of the S&P 500 above is the exact price action from a double-bottom, bottoming process in 1962, whereby the index took off through the end of October and into 1963. Indeed, just as it was in 1962, the markets found the June rally sputter and falter through September, into…
There are good reasons that new traders are washed out of the markets within their first 2 years of trading. The first is likely due to a lacking of discipline and dedication to the investing craft. The second reason is a lacking of respect for capital investing and the process surrounding capital investing, well. The…
Research Report Excerpt #1 Year-to-date through Q3 had been the worst start for a 60/40 portfolio since 1974, which was also an inflation and Fed hiking regime. However, as detailed in the Ned Davis Research chart below, following the other 2 drops below -20%, the 60/40 portfolio then evidenced strong gains for the next 2 years. MAXIMUM…
Research Report Excerpt #1 The average duration of a bear market is 446 days (calendar days). The average duration of a bull market is 2,069 days. The average bear market return is -38.4% while the average bull market return is +209 percent. I’m of the belief that the savvy investor should be willing and able to choose in favor of bullish outcomes,…
The investing landscape couldn’t be any better for investors than it has proven to be in 2022. Now, before you stop reading for fear of lunacy of the author, let me explain. One of the foremost principles of investing is to “buy low and sell high”. In other words, value is the friend of the…
Research Report Excerpt #1 “Assuming, assuming one could be that best market timer in the world, the difference between that amount of work and simply buying the index ETF and holding it through ups and downs is a meager 1 percent. That’s it, that’s all one achieves above the Buy and Hold strategy. In other…
Research Report Excerpt #1 COMPOUNDING is a difficult concept for traders! We dont understand geometric growth as easily as linear growth, because its not intuitive. The chart above helps to depict why, when stocks go up its a win, and when they go down its a longer-term win due to compounding. If you can’t rationalize, that should prices…
