When I started out investing, I fell in love with the idea of being a market god. Outlier stocks hadn’t yet crossed my mind. Years later I read this great book, “More Money Than God” by Sebastian Mallaby. In it he profiled my heroes. The hedge fund titans who were MAUs or Masters of the… Read more »
At MAPsignals, we live by the numbers. But sometimes data can change its mind. We interpret it and deliver those results. We seek to surf the data and react to what it’s telling us at that moment. Of course, you can try to anticipate it, but that means sometimes you can get it wrong. That’s… Read more »
My son loves it when I hit the gas in the car. When he wants me to speed up he says, “let’s do the vroom vroom, daddy!” That just means – floor it! He gets a cheap thrill when I press the pedal to the floor. Just a handful of stocks have the vroom vroom,… Read more »
I told my wife I’d be home by 10. Famous last words… By 11:30 she called to find out where I was. I was playing in a local poker tournament- winner take all. If I quit early, I was heading home empty handed. In the end, she was happy. I casually sat back and watched… Read more »
We’ve all seen “SLOW – CONSTRUCTION ZONE” signs while we’re cruising along the highway. They tell us to slow down and watch out for workers. It’s the right thing to do to be safe for both the drivers and the road crew. But there’s also a stiff penalty if you don’t. There are plenty of… Read more »
I like to say, “a magician doesn’t need new tricks, they need a new audience.” A great magician is a master of misdirection. If they want to wow the crowd, they need to catch them off guard. The crowd knows it’s coming, but they are still amazed every time. “I must know how that trick… Read more »
It’s a little hard to surf when the tide goes out. The wave peters out on the shore and recedes back to the sea. Stocks saw their own version last week. Suddenly investors stopped gleefully scooping up stocks on the gaining momentum. As we’ve been saying, that crescendo of buying is usually just before a… Read more »
“This is your captain speaking. Take the time now and get up and move around the cabin. We will begin our initial descent shortly.” I’m sure most of us have heard that while flying. It’s the signal that, soon, the path will change course. If our data could speak, the message would be similar to… Read more »
Records are made to be broken. This holds especially true in the stock market. And this week has a few record breakers. Buying levels shattered prior glass ceilings across the board. That sounds good, but is it? When overbought conditions become extreme like now, it often signals the late stage of a market’s bull run…. Read more »
My kids and I searched for 4 leaf clovers for weeks but came up empty. Suddenly, we found our first one. Then another. We got good at sifting through fields of clovers…uncovering the hidden. Looking for outlier stocks is a lot like our clover hunt. The search for the seemingly one-in-a-million is worth it when… Read more »