Investor Spotlight

Happy New Year

2017 was one of the best years other than the year 2009 when the market came out full force with a confirmed bullish uptrend. There were so many doubters about the 4 day rally from Feb 11th thru the 17th (4 day rally) of 2016. No one believed that the market would maintain its bullish stance after 7 years. There were however plenty of signals in the market in mid February of 2016 when IBD(Investors Business Daily) signaled a 'Follow Thru Day'. That was the time to start initiating stock positions in the Leading Stocks in the Leading Industry. It will be 2 years on Feb 2018 for this continuation of the bullish trend that started in March of 2009. We have only had less than -3% correction in the market last year. Volatility ($VIX) has been at record lows and hovering around 9.

High Lights of Market Performance

I took the time over the weekend to analyze the markets and study some of the profitable trades that I did and the stocks that I shared in my weekly blog in 2017. It helps me to get the sentiments of the market and where I see the opportunities heading into 2018. The performance of the 3 major indexex and the 9 main sectors is highlighted below:

$SPY ... +19.4% (General Market Index of 500 Large US Companies)
$DJI ... +25.1% (Dow 30 Index of 30 Mature Companies)
$QQQ ... +31.5% (Technology Market Index of 100 Companies)
$XLK ... +32.2% (Technology Sector)
$XLB ... +21.8% (Materials Sector)
$XLI ... +21.6% (Industrial Sector)
$XLY ... +21.4% (Consumer Discretionary Sector)
$XLV ... +19.9% (Health Care Sector)
$XLF ... +19.5% (Financial Sector)
$XLP ... +10.0% (Consumer Staples Sector)
$XLU ... +8.50% (Utilities Sector)
$XLE ... - 4.20% (Energy Sector)
$DJT ... +17.3% (Transport Sector)

The rally has been pretty broad based with the exception of the Energy Sector ($XLE). Leading index has been the Technology Sector ($XLK) and most of the stocks I had highlighted in my blog posts in 2017 were in that sector as well.

Here are some of the stocks that were the most profitable ones in 2017. You can review some of my posts in 2017 where I shared my Stock Watch List and the trades on these stocks. All of my 160 blog posts are archived for your FREE access.

$NVR
$NVDA
$ALGN
$ANET
$CTRL
$KEM
$YY
$OLED
$CGNX
$AMAT
$THO
$NFLX
$AVGO
$NTES
$LRCX
$VEEV
$PYPL
$MA
$PRAH
$CBOE
$RHT
$BABA
$VMW
$GRUB
$HDB
$IPGP

Market Outlook

My sentiment of the market is quite bullish for 2018. We are witnessing an unprecedented event throughout the world markets. Asian markets are up over +30% (South Korea, India, China, Hong Kong) as well as South Africa. Large economies of Europe (Germany and France) as well as Japan are all up over +23% for 2017. These are the economies that will fuel the emerging economies of the world in 2018. I shall be monitoring the following segments of the markets:

Oil and gas production, transportation and exploration.
Commodities like steel, gold, silver, coal, copper, chemicals and mining companies.
Machinery to process the materials, and rail/airlines/shippers that transport the materials.

Growing economies of the world will need commodities and machinery to mine the minerals and process the chemicals. The same is true of the major big markets of US, Europe and Japan. As always, I shall let the stock charts be my final guide to reflect my sentiments. I shall continue to share with my readers, subscribers and followers, My Market Outlook in my blog posts every week. I appreciate all the comments and suggestions you have made over the last 52 weeks. Please continue to give me your feedback and suggestions in 2018 as well.

Mentoring Service

Did your portfolio increase by +40% to +50% in 2016?

If it did not than you need to start asking questions about what it is that you are doing wrong! 2016 was an unprecedented bullish year and you better learn:

How to find winning Growth Stocks?
How to Buy the Stocks Right?
How to Plan your Trade for Profit, Loss and Time in the trade?
How to Sell your Stock Right?
How to TIME the market?

I shall be opening up a very limited number of slots for mentoring this month. Schedule a FREE 30 minutes of "Discovery Call" with us and see how best we can help you become a consistent and a profitable trader and an investor in 2018. Don't pass up the opportunity of making a difference in your portfolio. Start out the new year with a resolution to invest in your education.