VectorVest has a confirmed uptrend and writes:
Prudent Investors should buy safe, undervalued stocks, rising in Price.
Aggressive Investors and Traders should play the market to the upside.
I agree with them. We should all buy safe, undervalued stocks, rising in price.
I’m sure there are some.
VectorVest recommends as its Top Stock of the Week
Natural Health Trends (NHTC), is a direct-selling and e-commerce company. Annual sales increased 106% over the last 12 months to $177.7 million. Earnings increased 96% to $2.39 per share. Leading 12-month forecasted earnings are $3.31 per share. Earnings are forecasted to grow at 40% per year. This stock closed today at $42.55 per share, up $5.23 per share for the week. We think it is currently worth $78.24 per share. With an excellent combination of upside potential and financial performance, this stock is suitable for Prudent Investors.
Here’s a chart of NHTC year to date.
Strikes me VectorVest is a bit late with its recommendation. Drat.
Martin Weiss, another investment newsletter guru, writes:
Even while some investors are again piling into the U.S. stock market, the world order as we once knew it continues to fall apart. Commodities are crumbling. Entire economies are slumping. And formerly stable, prosperous countries are sinking deeper into chaos.
This is the great disconnect of our times – a rallying U.S. stock market in the face of global stagnation and turbulence.
Can this disconnect continue for a while? Yes. Investors are not always rational. Or, if there is some kind of “logic” in their decision-making, it’s often faulty and prone to sudden, emotion-laden reversals.
There, between VectorVest and Mr. Weiss, you’re as confused as I am.
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Two changes in residential real estate:
+ Prices to buy are now so high the market for renting is exploding.
+ Most people want a ready-to-move in place, not one they have to fix up. Millennials want the granite countertops and nice appliances already installed when they come to buy.
Uber is raising another $1 billion in VC funding. That brings its valuation to between $60 billion and $70 billion. That’s Uber’s eighth funding round in five years.
Uber has created a veritable revolution. The price of New York City taxi medallions has plummeted as customers (like Susan and I) have moved increasingly to Uber. I’m too old to squeeze into a dirty, cramped New York City taxi — when the price of using Uber is not significantly higher, and in some is actually lower. Go Uber.
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Good investment advice
Cops can be smart.
A police officer calls his station.
“I have an interesting case here. An old lady just shot her husband for stepping on the floor she just mopped.”
“Have you arrested the woman?”
“Not yet. The floor’s still wet.”
Harry Newton who’s into taking some profits when stocks move into nosebleed prices, dumping stocks that drop 10%, placing ultra-low limit buy orders (maybe I’ll get lucky), lots of cash and mulling. Nice weekend, except everybody beat me at tennis. Sophie, age 12 months, is visiting. I tried to hold her this morning. She screamed. I have this effect on young, attractive ladies.
