Nicholas Vardy
The Global Guru: Is This Your #1 Investment between Now and 2018?
Value-investing legend Jeremy Grantham’s investment team and his firm GMO recently offered predictions on the performance of various asset classes over the next seven years. You may be surprised to learn that timber was #1 on that list.
Booking Double- and Triple-Digit Percentage Profits on HFC and Taking More Money off of the Table
After Friday’s rally, global stock markets ended the week in the positive column. The S&P 500 was up 0.68%, while the NASDAQ rose 0.93%. International markets recovered somewhat with the MCSI Emerging Markets Index ending the week 0.78% higher. Your Bull Market Alert portfolio had a mixed week. Your energy bet Holly Frontiers (HFC) soared […]
Taking Stock — and Booking 31.8% Gains after a Big Bull Run
Although U.S. markets ended the past week broadly higher, after a long and remarkably steady rise since December, markets are overdue for a brief correction. So, although all of your positions but one are trading above their 50-day moving average and are therefore technically “BUYs,” you may want to take a more defensive posture in […]
Booking Some Big Profits after a Big Bull Run
Global stock markets continued to rise this past week, with increases of 1.77% in the Dow Jones and 1.02% in the S&P 500. The MCSI Emerging Markets Index ended the week down 0.82%. Your big gainers in your Alpha Investor Letter portfolio this past week were Lennar Corp. (LEN), up 1.45%; Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-B), jumping […]
Booking 82.68% Gains in HollyFrontier (HFC) options!
HollyFrontier Corporation (HFC) soared 5.32% yesterday on news that rival Valero Energy (VLO) blew past its consensus estimate for Q4 earnings by a whopping 59%. Although HFC itself is only announcing its own earnings on Feb. 26, investors are clearly expecting big things from this energy play. With the options up 82.68%, I am recommending […]
The Global Guru: Is This the Trade of the Decade?
Even as investors are focused on the recent rally in the U.S. and global equity markets, they have all but ignored tumbling U.S. Treasury and bond prices.