Labor Day has come and gone and in the North-East. That means that it’s time to get back to the real world. Summer’s over. September normally means Wall Street traders return to “work-mode”, and we were eager to find out if that would be true during this pandemic year which is anything but normal. So… Read more »
“Wait until they get the animal spirits!” That’s what my father-in-law told me a few years ago. We were in a bull market then, but nothing quite like this. He was right. I’m glad I held and waited. “Animal spirits” is a term that John Maynard Keynes discussed. He likened the saying to the instincts… Read more »
Remember playing neighborhood basketball? Moms would send us outside for hours. We had to be creative with our game. We’d start out with a game of horse to get things going. But, eventually we ended up in a heated match of make ‘em take ‘em. It’s a game of momentum. Basically, the player that makes… Read more »
There’s good, there’s great, and then there’s MAPsignals. There…I said it. In this business, no one else is going to pound the drum for us, so we have to do it ourselves; especially when our stock picks go into beast mode. Here: we can say it many ways: Our call the bottom and buy 15… Read more »
It’s a cringeworthy phrase. No one really likes hearing it as we humans crave consistency. That’s why it pains me so much to say it now. This time it’s different. Like in life, change is the only constant in markets. However, what we are witnessing this year is like no other change before it. In… Read more »
The road to investing riches is paved with two things: things we know and things we don’t know. What we don’t know is how the market is going to act tomorrow. At MAPsignals, we use data to guide us. That allows us to get it right more than wrong. What we do know, however, is… Read more »
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 »