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There are several things that can create an alpha - stock buybacks are one. High dividend yields are another, especially nowadays because the stock market yields more than the banks and the tenure treasury. But by and large, it tends to be companies with a strong cash flow, rising sales, accelerated earnings, a profit margin expansion.
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I sell these intermediate bond portfolios for people that can't go to stocks.
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We call it the zigzag theory. You want to find something that zigs and something that zags and blend them together to get a better combined performance.
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What we do is we test what works on Wall Street. And sometimes it is earnings momentum, and sometimes it's earnings surprises. Sometimes it's price-to-sales cash flow, and then we put together our stock selection models.
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I simply can't buy as much of some stocks such as Detection Systems or United Education & Software as I'd like because there just aren't all that many shares available.
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There's a lot of companies that profit from a weak dollar.
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I want attractive stocks that will benefit from persistent institutional buying pressure.
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Open the borders to willing workers from any and all nations. They will create businesses that pay taxes, especially payroll taxes to fund Medicare and Social Security benefits of retiring baby boomers.
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One of the things that launched the strength in biotech is when the pharmaceutical industry itself got a little slow.
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There is a substantial correlation between an election year and how the market finishes.
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I still love the semiconductor industry.
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Since we try and take a fairly buy-and-hold approach to our newsletter portfolios and don't sell at every whipsaw, we want to have a mix of stocks that will perform at both ends of the oscillation.
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If you are a short-term trader, you have the right to come and go from our funds.
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I expect my return to be 18 to 25 percent in 1988, while the Standard & Poor's 500 should rise 8 to 12 percent and OTC stocks gain 15 percent as liquidity emerges.