A good week, not a buy week yet. The sum of all the deviations has been 654, 140, and now 284 – definitely not up two weeks in a row.
The number of funds I rate as a buy over the last 3 weeks has been 01, 00, and now 00.
It sure would be nice it the market went up more than one week in a row.
We are soon to enter the seasonally weak part of the market year, know as “sell in May and go away.”
This last week was a window dressing week. If you are a fund manager with 10M in cash and 1M of xyz stock, you can take that 10M and buy more xyz (even if you do not like it) and push the price up on every share you own. Thus you look like a better fund manager.
In a recent WealthTrack podcast Consula Mack’s guest pointed out that 2017 was the only year in history in which the market is up every month and suggested you buy a treasury strip – a zero coupon bond type investment. Two of the ETFs which invest this way are EDV, and ZROZ. They have not had a good history but are looking good over the last month.
February returns for IRA#1 -6%, IRA#2 -4%, QQQ -6%, SPY/RSP -7%
For the last 3 months, IRA#1 -1%, IRA#2 -1%, QQQ 3%, SPY/RSP -2%
For the last 6 months, IRA#1 7%, IRA#2 3%, QQQ 9%, SPY/RSP 5%
For the last 12 months, IRA#1 13%, IRA#2 6%, QQQ 23%, SPY/RSP 8%
portfolio changes:
IRA#1 – Sold FSLEX(Feb13) – Invested 100% in cash
IRA#2 – Sold FSLEX(Feb12), FPEMX(Feb13) – Invested in FSRPX, FSLBX, FEMEX, & 40% in cash
QQQ – Sold QQQ(Feb07) – Invested 100% in cash
SPY/RSP – Sold RSP(Feb07) – Invested 100% in cash.
It is a little late to be looking at the bad February, but in review, February just basically wiped out the Dec, and Jan gains. The funds were sold based on the standard 5% weekly loss numbers and the ETFs on a 7% stop loss.
IRA#1
Cash
IRA#2
EmergingEuropeMiddleEastAfrica has a price of 10.69, a sell price 10.74, a rank of 08, and is a sell. (ETF – EMQQ – stopped out)
If it had not been for Fidelity’s stupid rules I’d of sold a couple of weeks ago.
My mutual fund portfolio changes this weekend:
IRA #1 – None
IRA #2 – Selling EmergingEuropeMiddleEastAfrica
My mutual fund portfolio market exposure after this weekend’s changes:
IRA #1 – 00% invested
IRA #2 – 00% invested
The top 20 (out of 100+ I follow) Fidelity funds (percent deviation, rank & weeks on top 20 list, fund symbol, fund price, fund name, and %dev increasing last 2 weeks).
This week:
8.79 01-10 FSDAX 179.06 SDefense&Aerospace
8.42 02-20 FSRPX 140.28 SRetailing
7.46 03-12 FBSOX 57.95 SITServices
7.37 04-06 FSELX 116.67 SSemiconductors
7.17 05-07 FCPGX 26.41 SmallCapGrowth
6.98 06-02 FSCOX 20.09 InternationalSmallCapOpportunities
6.65 07-08 FSDCX 38.43 SCommunicationsEquipment
6.65 08-15 FEMEX 10.69 EmergingEuropeMiddleEastAfrica
6.49 09-01 FJSCX 19.34 JapanSmallerCompanies
6.41 10-16 FHKCX 37.05 ChinaReqion
6.37 11-02 FEDDX 15.99 EmergingMarketsDiscovery
6.08 12-09 FSPTX 188.71 STechnology
5.96 13-02 FCONX 10.01 ConservativeIncomeBond
5.49 14-01 FSLBX 83.25 SBrokerageandInvestmentManagement
5.41 15-02 FPEMX 11.68 EmergingMarketsIndex – InvC
5.28 16-02 FLATX 27.05 LatinAmerica
5.26 17-01 FJPNX 15.87 Japan
5.22 18-10 FSCSX 172.62 SSoftware&ITServices
5.14 19-12 FTQGX 23.66 FocusedStock
4.55 20-01 FSEAX 45.10 EmergingAsia
Last week:
7.89 01-19 FSRPX 138.98 SRetailing
7.84 02-10 FSDAX 176.69 SDefense&Aerospace
7.82 03-14 FEMEX 10.77 EmergingEuropeMiddleEastAfrica
7.12 04-05 FSELX 115.95 SSemiconductors
6.84 05-06 FCPGX 26.23 SmallCapGrowth
6.56 06-07 FSDCX 38.26 SCommunicationsEquipment
6.51 07-01 FCONX 10.03 ConservativeIncomeBond
6.32 08-11 FBSOX 57.11 SITServices
5.91 09-08 FSPTX 187.81 STechnology
5.45 10-01 FSCOX 19.73 InternationalSmallCapOpportunities
5.10 11-15 FHKCX 36.47 ChinaReqion
4.66 12-01 FEDDX 15.68 EmergingMarketsDiscovery
4.58 13-11 FTQGX 23.47 FocusedStock
4.56 14-01 FLATX 26.79 LatinAmerica
4.17 15-06 FOCPX 113.08 OTCPortfolio
4.06 16-09 FSCSX 170.25 SSoftware&ITServices
3.91 17-09 FBGRX 89.83 BlueChipGrowth
3.83 18-01 FSCPX 42.23 SConsumerDiscretionary
3.63 19-01 FPEMX 11.45 EmergingMarketsIndex – InvC
3.16 20-01 FEMKX 32.49 EmergingMarkets
IRA#1 is currently invested in:
100% – CashReserves(FDRXX)(12Feb18) from SSemiconductors(FSELX)(26Dec17)
Feb18 1m-6% 3m-1% 6m+7% 12m+13% 24m+53% 36m+13% 60m+79% 120m+11%
Jan18 1m+6% 3m+5% 6m+18% 12m+24% 24m+63% 36m+27% 60m+89% 120m+18%
Average annual return since 1/82 11%
IRA#2 is currently invested in:
20% – CashReserves(FDRXX)(02Apr18) from EmergingEuropeMiddleEastAfrica(FEMEX)(29Jan18)
20% – CashReserves(FDRXX)(26Mar18) from SRetailing(FSRPX)(16Jan18)
20% – CashReserves(FDRXX)(05Mar18) from SBrokerageandInvestmentManagement(FSLBX)(22Jan18)
20% – CashReserves(FDRXX)(12Feb18) from EmergingMarketsIndex – InvC(FPEMX)(24Jul17)
20% – CashReserves(FDRXX)(12Feb18) from SSemiconductors(FSELX)(26Dec17)
20% – EmergingEuropeMiddleEastAfrica(FEMEX)(29Jan18) from CashReserves(FDRXX)
Feb18 1m-4% 3m-1% 6m+3% 12m+6% 24m+28% 36m+17% 60m+29% 120m+39%
Jan18 1m+3% 3m+4% 6m+9% 12m+15% 24m+33% 36m+26% 60m+36% 120m+44%
Average annual return since 1/82 11%