Roads Less Traveled

I am watching as a group of teens leaps into the cold water of the Indian River in front of me. They begin swimming furiously toward a bobbing object in the water about 75 yards away. When they converge on it, mayhem ensues for a second until the victor is triumphant, and a fourteen year-old boy is excitedly waving a white cross over his head. Continue reading →

OK, so the market opened way down today. This wasn’t entirely unexpected. As I said in previous posits, we are late in a very old bull market and a correction is overdue. I think there will be more bloodletting before this is over. That said, we generally stuck to our guns. Here’s the way the portfolio started:

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Warning! Free advice is worth what you pay for it! Kids, don’t try this at home! You can lose lots of money really fast by blindly following anyone’s investment advice, including mine.

OK, on Thursday I gave you my 2016 stock picks and said we’d keep them all year. Three days later, I’ve decided to change things. So much for consistency.

Let’s go through the picks I will open with tomorrow:

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