I don’t get stuck in writer’s block often. But it does happen upon occasion. And this Special Report: 5 Safe Dividend Stocks Paying 6% or More is just such an occasion. The good news is that I finally cracked the block today
I’ve decided to hold my Special Report: 9 Picks to Make Money in This Bear Market until after tomorrow’s CPI inflation report.
Today, October 6, I made Qualcomm the #6 Pick in my 10 Perfect Stocks Special Report. As of October 7, I will be adding Qualcomm to my long-term 50 Stocks Portfolio.
Today, September 5, I’ve gone back through this Special Report to update any parts of my calendar in light of what we’ve learned about the economy, about Federal Reserve interest rate policy, and about the global economy in the last few weeks. This update includes my take on the August jobs report and on recent Fed-speak from the Jackson Hole conference and after. It is different this time. And it’s likely to “be different this time” for the next five years or so. And you need an investment strategy for that period.
My second pick for my Special Report: Own the Future for Pennies with my 10 Best Penny Stock Picks is Nel (NLLSF), a Norwegian company that produces electrolyzers for turning water into hydrogen and fueling systems for hydrogen vehicles ranging from taxis to trucks. The stock closed at $1.20 a share on July 15. This year the shares have traded as high as $2 on March 9 and as low as $1.00 on July 7. The historic high was $4.14 back on January 4, 2021, back when everything “green energy” was soaring. What are the shares worth? Now and in, say, 2025?
Special Report: Own the Future for Pennies with these 10 Penny Stock Picks. Pick No. 1: LNG startup Tellurian. Pick No. 2 Nel. No. 3 Tritium DCFC. Fourth Pick Vestas Wind, Fifth Pick Natura, Si.xth Pick Lynas Rare Earths Stay tuned for 4 more.
The advice is sound, very sound. Move part (at least of your portfolio to cash and sit out the worst of this bear market on the sidelines. And since you have that cash in hand, you’ll be ready to snap up bargains when the market has put in a bottom (or near the bottom, or on the way up from the bottom…or something.) But right now that’s easier said than done.
Sorry for the delay but things have been a bit busy in the market lately. Subscribers will get the Special Report in their mail boxes by 5 p.m. Sunday
There are bargains in this market. But how do you find them? Not, clearly, by looking to see what is cheaper than it was. The fear that’s stopping so many investors from loading up the truck now on Nvidia or Disney or Microsoft or Johnson Controls–all stocks that I really, really like for the long term–is that today’s “cheap” stocks will be tomorrow’s even “cheaper” stocks. So it’s time to dig into your investor’s toolbox and dust off those tried and true techniques for using company fundamentals to figure out the value of a stock. And for separating the real values in this sell off from those cheap stocks on the road to being cheaper.
All you have to do to find the high profits that will make the risk of investing in climate change stocks worthwhile is to focus on sectors (1) where the rewards are solid and the risk is quantifiable, (2) where companies are making profit the old-fashioned way by building out networks and then charging high rents to use them, by (3) carefully targeting a few technologies (wind and solar and hydrogen and electric cars) that will be part of any mix of solutions, and (4) by investing in bottlenecks that are likely to drive prices up (and provide good profits for companies that resolve the bottleneck.
I think these financial market curves will let you map out the longer stories of Federal Reserve interest rate increases and a potential recession–and then chart the shorter stories of war in the Ukraine, global oil and natural gas crunches, summer Pandemic relief, global food crisis, computer chip shortages (and whatever else you think might be important) under those longer curves. That will let you decide when to buy and sell (and what) in order to profit from short-term stories while preparing your portfolio for the longer arcs.
Today, March 17, the stocks, and especially the technology stocks, that have been pummeled in 2022 continued their three-day bounce. For another day, at least, buy on the dip proved to be a very profitable adventure. Lithium recycling startup LiCycle (LICY), for example, gained 10.18% after climbed 6.74% on Wednesday, March 16. Electronic payments platform Block (SQ), formerly known as Prince (no, I mean formerly known as Square) rose 10.26% after picking up 12.57% on Wednesday, March 16. Cybersecurity newcomer SentinelOne (S) climbed 7.48% after a gain of 13.47% on March 16. Stocks like these (and many more) were just too cheap traders decided. But there were signs of, possibly (and we’ve been down this road before so let’s just say “possibly”), of a new caution. A sell on the bounce caution.
