Why Rebalancing Your Portfolio Is Important

Matt Thalman - INO.com Contributor - ETFs - Rebalancing


Despite only being three months into 2018, investors have been on quite a wild ride. The market started off the year as it ended 2017, on a tear higher, then the brief crash in early February, which led to a nice calm recovery during the remainder of the month just to run into what I’m calling “Whipsaw March” with the market jumping higher and lower by more than 1% nearly every other day. Not only have the major indexes been extremely volatile, but some of 2017’s biggest winners, big technology and especially the FANG stocks have seen their prices fall more than 10% in 2018.

Big pops that reverse fortune and the big drops that follow always cause investors to wonder what they could have done to protect themselves from the decline without completely abandoning their position.

The most straightforward and most effective answer to that situation is to rebalance your portfolio. Rebalancing is when you bring the percentage of your holdings back in line with each other.

For example, if you have a portfolio made up of 10 stocks and each represents roughly 10% of your portfolio, you would have a ‘balanced portfolio.’ Now if one of your stocks outperformed the others and ended up representing say 25% of your portfolio, instead of just 10%, then you would rebalance by selling some of your shares in that company until it represented 10% of your total portfolio. Continue reading "Why Rebalancing Your Portfolio Is Important"

Gold's Next Big Move

Hello MarketClub members everywhere. Good to be back, I was away visiting family and unfortunately I picked up a really bad cold. I'm sure you had times like this yourself when you just feel lethargic and don't feel like doing anything. Well, that was then and this is now so let's get the show on the road.

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In today's video update, I'm going to be analyzing gold (FOREX:XAUUSDO) and I am going to be share with you something that I noticed that has been 100% accurate this year in gold, I'm sure you'll find it interesting.

Of course, I will be covering the other markets and the choppy action we are seeing in most of the major indices. A great deal of this indecisive market action I believe has to do with the general uncertainty that's pervasive in the US right now. The main culprit is the upcoming presidential election which is less than 30 days away.

I will also be taking a look at Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL). Both the stocks look very interesting particularly as Amazon reentered the music market today. Amazon is tying music subscriptions both to its Prime accounts as well as ECHO its Alexa-driven knowledge machine both could, in fact, catch the imagination of many Amazon Prime ECHO users.

Stay focused and disciplined.

Every success with MarketClub,
Adam Hewison
President, INO.com
Co-Creator, MarketClub

How One Tech Companies Misfortune Was A Blessing For Apple

Hello MarketClub members everywhere. Yesterday's mandatory recall of all of the Samsung's 7 Note devices is a huge blow for Samsung. Up until yesterday, Samsung was trying to recall and replace batteries that were overheating and causing fires and were a danger to the public and transportation systems everywhere. With this news, the stock of Samsung collapsed literally, and Apple's stock price soared.

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What is interesting is that Apple begins delivery of its new iPhone 7 today. I can't help wondering if there wasn't some political maneuvering behind the scenes in this recall move. Yesterday, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a full recall of the Galaxy Note 7 products in conjunction with Samsung. The formal recall covers about 1 million devices.

The exact wording that the US Consumer Products Safety Commission used was as follows: "Consumers should immediately stop using and power down the recalled Galaxy Note 7 devices purchased before September 15, 2016". Samsung's stock price started slipping on September 9 after what has been a pretty good year for this stock. The big question is how much damage has been done to this mega electronics companies reputation and can it come back to its former glory? Continue reading "How One Tech Companies Misfortune Was A Blessing For Apple"

Haven't We Seen All Of This Before?

Hello MarketClub members everywhere. There is no doubt about it Friday's move was sharp and painful for many investors. However, if you are following the Trade Triangles you were out of the market and on the sidelines based on the red weekly Trade Triangle's that were indicating potential problems for all the major indices.

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Looking back, Friday's move looks very similar to the move we saw on June 24 of this year when the market dropped dramatically on a Friday only to open lower on Monday. The markets then reversed themselves and moved up and made back all their losses in just four or five days.

The big question is, is this going to be a repeat of last June? Continue reading "Haven't We Seen All Of This Before?"

Trading Live Around Apple and The Fed Chickening Out...Again!!!

Well that was a crazy trading day! Come on into my trading office and I'll show you how we handled the Facebook and Apple earnings trade. Plus, we focus in on trades related to the US dollar because the Fed totally chickened out...again!!!

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