"In the investing blog, I seek to help you take sound investment decisions free from emotion by sharing my objective insights on markets, sectors, and companies."
Sam Subramanian
Weakness in the U. S. dollar and hopes of an improving global economy have thus far pumped up the price of oil. Oil has nearly doubled in price over the past three months. While oil is taking its cue from the U. S. dollar on a day-to-day basis, the uptrend appears to be running into resistance in recent… Read More »
The AlphaProfit Sector Newsletter’s Stock Searchlight feature is enabling several subscribers to earn spectacular returns from individual stocks with little effort, month after month. Here are some examples of recent recommendations and their results: View more stock recommendations results. We provide specific buy, sell, and stop-loss targets for each of the stocks recommended in Stock Searchlight. To use… Read More »
The first half of 2009 has been tough on most momentum-based strategies. After declining 11.0% in the first quarter, the broad market turned around and staged a roaring rally. The S&P 500 is now up 15.7% for the second quarter. The snap in performance between the first and second quarters is even more striking at a sector level.… Read More »
Although the S&P 500 has advanced 32% since the March 9 market bottom, the rally has been quite selective from a sector perspective. Groups decimated during the recent bear market have rallied the most. Financial shares are up big after losing 81% from September 30, 2007. With investors demonstrating healthy risk appetite, defensive sectors have generally lagged. Utilities… Read More »
Investors are chasing risk since the markets bottomed in March. While the U. S. large cap stocks as measured by the Russell 1000 index are up 10.9%, small cap stocks have rebounded 12.6%. Developed foreign markets have scored even better, galloping 18.0%. While the above returns are impressive, the real action has been in emerging markets. After being… Read More »
The AlphaProfit no-load, no-transaction fee growth model portfolio is up 522% since the start of 2009 compared to the 444% gain for its benchmark. The model portfolio will be reconstituted with new recommendations on Saturday, November 19. Learn more about AlphaProfit's Free and Premium Service investment newsletters.
DEC. 1993 to DEC. 2025| Fidelity Agg. Growth | 17.6% |
| Fidelity Growth | 14.6% |
| ETF Agg. Growth | 17.4% |
| ETF Growth | 14.4% |
| ETF Style Rot. (since 2009) | 11.3% |
| S&P 500 | 10.8% |
DEC. 2013 to DEC. 2025| Win Rate | 91% |
| Avg. Holding Period | 2.6 months |
| Avg. Gain | 13.1% |
