Marc Gerstein

I just searched “stock market bubble” and Google returned “About 127,000,000 results.” Changing “bubble” to “crash” boosted the total to 268,000,000. Steve Sjuggerud opened his  March 15, 2021 Stansberry Daily Wealth commentary by announcing that “The Melt Up will end sometime this year” (but not necessarily right now). Does this remind you of the 2000-02 tech wreck …

The Market May Or May Not Crash But Even If It Does, You Don’t Have To Follow It Down Read More »

Dan Russo, Chief Market Strategist at Chaikin Analytics headlined his 10/12/20 newsletter to clients with the question: “Changing of the Guard?” He noted that our ETF Power Rank on the tech-heavy Invesco QQQ Trust, Series I ETF (QQQ) (ETF Home) fell from Bullish to Neutral while that of the small-cap oriented iShares Russell 2000 ETF …

If Small-Cap Is Taking Control, Consider These Two Non-Generic ETFs Read More »

Value For A Growth-Obsessed World: Six Infrastructure Plays I could understand how anyone who read my post last week, which suggested Defunding the Value Police, might come away with the idea that I’m anti-value, a spokesperson for the dark side. Not so, not at all. I’ve always been about value and still am. What I’m against …

Value For A Growth-Obsessed World: Six Infrastructure Plays Read More »

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the market’s recent tech wreck caused the long dormant Value Police to run to the spotlight. Ignore them; they’re still wrong. Value can never work in isolation, but always works when joined with growth. Softbank shenanigans aside, I wouldn’t be at all if the market’s recent tech wreck …

Defund The Value Police — Unless Or Until They Get It Right Read More »

Led by Fama-French  and the Quant community, Wall Street has long considered Small-Capitalization to be a significant factor in and of itself. Not so! Fundamental assessment of businesses shows that large and small companies are structurally different and that all else being equal, smaller firms are riskier. Aiming at small-cap per se a risk-on choice; …

What It Will Take For Small-Capitalization Stocks And ETFs To Shine Read More »

There are lots of stocks out there that have the potential to become FANMAG-like superstars of tomorrow, and ETFs that invest in them. One can, however, wonder if such stocks and ETFs expose investors to the sort of value crash we experienced in 2000-02. Analyzing the Chaikin multi-factor Power Gauge model, I suggest that such …

Future-FANMAG Stocks Are Highly Valued, But Not Necessarily Overvalued Read More »

Having cut my teeth with High-Yield (Junk) bonds back in the heyday of the era, when Drexel Burnham and Michael Milken ruled the kingdom from the famous X-shaped Beverly Hills trading floor (with Milken holding down the center point) and annually feted courtiers with what later became dubbed “The Predator’s Ball” (if you haven’t heard …

ETFs That Invest In Classier Versions Of Junk Bonds Read More »

Last week, I offered a bullish outlook regarding Global Thematic ETFs and provided a list of 17 that Chaikin-PortfolioWise rates as Very Bullish or Bullish Today, I explain the ranking model we use and present information showing its efficacy in connection with Global Thematic ETFs And by the way, Technical Analysis is a big part …

Evaluating The Buy Signals We’ve Been Seeing for The 2040-FANMAG Themed ETFs Read More »

FANMAG and FANMAG stocks are fine, but do these already-huge companies really have enough juice to give bona fide growth investors, especially younger investors, what they really need for the long-term? What they really need is to find their way to companies that will be the FANMAGs of 2030 or 2040. Global Thematic ETFs can …

Finding 2040’s FANMAG: Thematic ETFs for Long-Term Portfolios Read More »

After starting out searching for an election-year advertising investment idea I wound up instead in two places I didn’t expect to go; eSports and Social Media Given prior Wall Street experiences with emerging business hype, it’s tempting to assume that such stocks would be for fad-chasing speculators only The Chaikin Power Gauge stock model and …

Two ETFs To Stream Evolving Connectivity Into A Portfolio Read More »