Saturday, February 14, 2015

Saturday February 14, 2015

$SPY, $STUDY, The Alpha One Model continues to grow both on the appreciation of the portfolio holdings now at eleven positions or 55% invested and the daily trading of the SPY options.  This past week I added five names to the portfolio $DAN, $ICLR, $ORAN, $SKX and $UA.  I most likely will hang around this level as the quarter unwinds.  We are now past the peak of earnings announcements and the media faces will begin to hyper report on geopolitical events which will most likely cause market volatility to remain high. If there were only a news source less interested in selling minutes and more interested in reporting factual news without ‘hyper opinion’ the world would be a better place.


In addition to the S&P 500, both the small-cap Russell 2000 and mid-cap S&P 400 indexes are at fresh records. Stocks are overbought on a short term basis but not on a medium term basis. There is more room to go on the upside. Momentum is bullish while sentiment isn’t overly complacent yet. Those that are underinvested are likely to start buy in on pullbacks, keeping downside limited. Technology stocks have outperformed lately. The NASDAQ looks to be making its way back to 5000. It is truly a stock pickers market so measure twice and cut once.  Enjoy the long Presidents Day weekend!




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