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Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 32.3% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 19.0% Average Holding Period: 226 days Shares of ViaSat (VSAT) rallied strongly today after the company reported record quarterly revenues and EBITDA of $358.8 million $109.7 million (adjusted for non-recurring items) respectively. Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 34.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 20.2% Average Holding Period: 226 days This week we take a look at the quarterly results of two of our real-estate-related recommendations. Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 34.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 20.2% Average Holding Period: 226 days Stocks ended what the choppy week on a high note. The S&P 500 rallied 1.3 percent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average snapped a 6-day losing… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 34.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 20.2% Average Holding Period: 226 days Volatility has returned. After a remarkably smooth ride, in five out of the last seven trading sessions (not counting today’s action), the S&P 500 has swung up or down… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 34.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 20.2% Average Holding Period: 226 days U.S. stocks are set to finish the week on a high note after getting off to a rough start. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that the… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 34.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 20.2% Average Holding Period: 226 days Deflationary concerns took U.S. stocks down across the board yesterday, sending the S&P 500 to its fifth-worst day of the year. Euro zone loans shrank… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 34.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 20.2% Average Holding Period: 226 days The results are in. In high turnout, the Scots have decisively voted to stay a part of the United Kingdom as rationality triumphed over nationalistic pride. Despite pre-election polls… Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 34.6% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 20.2% Average Holding Period: 226 days Our most recent recommendation has performed strongly and has quickly already come close to our initial, conservative buy-up-to price. Since joining our portfolio last Friday, the stock is up roughly 3 percent, compared to a 1.1 percent decline for the S&P 500. Lest anyone misses out on the opportunity, today we revise the suggested buy-up-to price upward (read more for details). We rate the stock a solid buy at the current price level. Read More

Yesterday, the European Central Bank (ECB) unveiled its latest monetary policy decision. The ECB trimmed its main interest rate to a record-low 0.05 percent from 0.15 percent. Furthermore, the central bank will punish banks more for keeping funds in its (virtual) vault, lowering the overnight deposit rate to minus 0.2 percent from minus 0.1 percent. The ECB will also commence buying an unspecified amount of covered bonds from banks in October. Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 34.8% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 19.7% Average Holding Period: 220 days Market participants are closely watching this week’s annual Jackson Hole, Wyoming symposium on economic policy, hosted by the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank, for insight into the Fed’s plans—most pertinently, for hints about when the Fed may first increase interest rates. The highlight of the conference, this morning Fed Chair Janet Yellen delivered a speech centered on the labor market. Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 34.8% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 19.7% Average Holding Period: 220 days This week, we take a look at the results reported by two of our recommendations, the hot Chinese online retailer stock that has gained roughly 30 percent since joining our portfolio less than 3 months ago, and the recent diagnostic testing biotech stock that we added just last week. Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 34.8% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 19.7% Average Holding Period: 220 days Earlier this week, we followed the lead of another top hedge fund and added another Brain Trust Profits pick to our portfolio. This company is a leading molecular diagnostic company specializing in developing and marketing tests that assess a person’s risk of developing disease, provides information to guide treatment decisions and evaluate the risk of disease progression and recurrence. Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 34.8% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 19.7% Average Holding Period: 220 days The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that U.S. employers added 209,000 jobs in July, less than the 230,000 gain economists expected. However, the increase represented the sixth consecutive gain of more than 200,000 jobs, the longest such streak since the late 1990s. The headline unemployment rate rose slightly to 6.2 percent as more people entered the labor force. The payrolls increases from May and June were also revised upward by a total of 15,000. The worrisome June 523,000 drop in full-time jobs reversed to a 285,000 gain last month, but average hourly wages remained essentially flat. Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 34.8% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 19.7% Average Holding Period: 220 days With the second-quarter earnings season in full swing, today we review some of our picks that reported results this week. Read More

Average Annualized Return Per Closed Trade: 35.3% Average Return Per Closed Trade: 20.0% Average Holding Period: 220 days Yesterday, a Malaysian civilian airplane carrying 298 people crashed at the Ukrainian border with Russia, suspected of having been shot down by a missile fired by separatist militants with weaponry supplied by Russia. The VIX Index, a measure of implied market volatility also popularly known as the fear index, shot up 32.2 percent for the day. With the ramifications of the tragedy, which can be considered an act of war, unknown, stocks fell sharply as some investors reflexively reduced their exposure to risky assets. Read More

Although far from enjoying a robust recovery, Europe had recently been managing its financial problems well enough to avoid the frequent flirtations with disaster that characterized the region for a long time. However, like a warning to investors not to become complacent, the euro zone has returned to the spotlight. Read More

As tomorrow is Independence Day, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) unveiled June employment numbers one day early today. Yesterday’s separate employment report from payrolls processor ADP, generally regarded as a preview of the official government numbers, indicated that June had been a strong month, and the BLS figures did… Read More

We found out this week that the unusually long and cold winter’s impact on the economy was much worse than originally estimated. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported in its third and final first-quarter real GDP estimate that it contracted 2.9 percent. As more data has rolled in,… Read More