Who says we're not bullish?
While we are, certainly, cautious on the market and well-hedged (just in case), we certainly do seem to find a lot of bullish positions to take. That's because we're VALUE INVESTORS and there is almost always something of value to buy in any kind of market and our Top Trades are, of course, our top value picks - the ones we feel most confident in.
In our first year, our Top Trade Ideas had an astounding 81.1% winning percentage with 86 out of 106 trades making money within a few months. That's without even adjusting them. We do not have a portfolio for Top Trades, we just do these reviews but many of our Top Trade Ideas do end up in one of our 4 Member Portfolios.
Our August review took us through July 12th and July 12th was the last Top Trade Idea we had until August because I REALLY didn't trust the market in mid-July so this month, we'll just be reviewing our August trades as we like to give Sept time to cook before reviewing those. We had a surprising amount of trade ideas in August though. Our 15 May, June and July picks had 11 winners but, unfortunately, that actually bought down our percentage!
Of course, when you are reading our reviews, those losing trades are often still opportunities. CMG, CBI, PSO and SDS are all plays we still like from the last review - they are simply late bloomers! SDS, in fact, is a hedge - it's not supposed to win if the others are doing well but we still count it as a loss.
Top Trade Alerts come from our Live Member Chat Room at Philstockworld and represent a very small portion of our trade ideas but they are a fair representation of applying our "Be the House – NOT the Gambler" strategy and you can learn a lot by reviewing the performance of these trades through up and down markets over the course of a year.
