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The Investment Grade Value Stock Index:
The IGVSI is a barometer of a small but elite sector of the stock market called Investment Grade Value Stocks. Some IGVSs are included in all averages and indices, but even the well dressed Dow Jones Industrial Average includes several issues that are well below Investment Grade and very few boast an A+ rating. The S & P 500 contains about half the IGVSI selection universe, which tracks a portfolio of less than 400 stocks. |
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Press Release: IGVSI Outperforms S & P 500 and DJIA By Significant Margins in 2011:
Because the MCIM operating system demands buying on weakness (and because all securities produce income), positions are increased and new positions are added while others panic. A true MCIM user would be taking profits during rallies, in preparation for the next inevitable downturn --- it's part of the methodology. |
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Investment Grade Value Stock - MCIM Program - Expectation Analyzer:
What happens in the future is unpredictable, but understanding the past and how it impacts your unique portfolio, is essential to your long-run investment comfort --- and sanity. The IGVS Expectation Analyzer has been developed for investors who want to open their monthly statement envelop (or view it on line) with a reasonable idea of what to expect. |
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New 52-Week High and Low Statistics:
The New High and New Low issues themselves can also identify weaker and/or stronger sectors within the Investment Grade Value Stock selection universe--- very important in helping investors determine where the bargains are and where the profit taking opportunities should be. Clearly, new high vs. new low statistics are at mature rally levels. |
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IGVSI Issue Breadth Statistics:
IGVSI breadth statistics signal changes in direction within Investment Grade Value Stocks only --- all CEFs, ETFs, REITs, and preferreds (and individual issues that are NOT investment grade) are excluded. Issue Breadth Statistics should allow investors to look inside an index to obtain a better feel for what has been going on --- these numbers will help you do just that. |
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Investment Grade Value Stocks (IGVS) Bargain Stock Monitor:
The fewer IGVSI equities at bargain prices, the stronger the market and the more Smart Cash that should be accumulating in the equity bucket of your portfolio. As the list of bargain IGVSs grows (indicating market weakness), portfolio Smart Cash should be finding its way back into undervalued securities. |
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Value Stock Buy List Program - What's all the Excitement About?:
Investor's are discovering an Investment Grade Value Stock Selection and Trading Strategy that makes sense. Merritt Information Strategies has developed a multiple level spreadsheet program that allows you to implement the Market Cycle Investment Management methodology documented in The Brainwashing of the American Investor, inexpensively and productively, on your own PC, whenever... |
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Golf and Investing --- Four Important Lessons:
Golfers will spend thousands on instruction, gadgets, machines, clinics, magazines, lessons, drivers, and putters. Investors love the gimmicks, shortcuts, and expert recommendations, but they seem allergic to anything really educational. They must see it as a sign of weakness. Golfers should be better investors. Investors need to introduce themselves to some basic education. |
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Modern Portfolio Theory Assumptions --- The Root Of All Evil:
Clearly, the MPT creators were once Mutual Fund investors, looking for something better after years of disappointing investment returns. True, mutual fund managers rarely beat the markets --- but why? And also true, private, individual, portfolio managers rarely fail to beat the market averages over significant time periods. |
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Harnessing Stock Market Volatility:
On the bright side, enhanced market volatility enhances the power of the equity and income security trading disciplines and strategies within the Market Cycle Investment Management (MCIM) methodology --- an approach to market reality that embraces market turbulence, and harnesses market volatility for results that leave most professionals either speechless or in denial. |
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IGVSI Out Performs DJIA & S & P 500 in Best Stock Market October Ever:
The IGVSI is a barometer of a small buy elite sector of the stock market called Investment Grade Value Stocks. None of the popular averages or indices track investment grade companies exclusively and few market tracking websites offer expert comentary that can help you develop reasonable performance expectations for properly diversified portfolios |
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Play Kiawah's World Famous Ocean Course For Free and For Two:
Kiawah Island's renowned Ocean Course is rated one of the best tracks in the world that YOU can play. Up to four times per year (depending upon entries) one lucky winner will be invited to play the Ocean Course absolutely free, with a friend --- including caddie and beverage cart (within reason). |
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The Investment Grade Value Stock Index - Continued:
The IGVSI was developed in December of 2007 to provide a benchmark for the Equity portion of MCIM portfolios managed using Working Capital Model (WCM) disciplines. For more than ten years, Investment Grade Value Stock investors had been frustrated by the inadequacies of the DJIA and the NYSE indices. During that period. NYSE Issue Breadth and New High vs. New Low Statistics moved in different directions than the averages, nearly all of the time. |
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Stock Market Perspective 2011 --- Some Things to Think About:
Always, every time and without exception, the general media has predicted the end of the financial world, financial experts have pointed out the remarkable differences from the last correction, and investors everywhere have been encouraged to take their losses and sit on cash or gold until the smoke clears. Every time, the short sighted fear mongers have been wrong. Not just most of the time mind you --- absolutely all of the time. |
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Making A Volatile Stock Market Your VBF (very best friend):
Call it foresight, or hindsight if you want to be argumentative, but a long-term view of the investment process eliminates the guesswork and points pretty clearly toward a trading mentality that keys on the very natural volatility of the hundreds of investment grade value stocks out there for your portfolio building attention. Market Cycle Investment Management makes market volatility your Very Best Friend |
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If You Don't Love Stock Market Corrections... well, maybe you're confused.:
Why are investors afraid (shocked, confused, overwhelmed, angry) about stock market corrections? Here are seven assessments of the correction phase of the market cycle that may just clear their heads about these periodic gifts from the Investment Gods. |
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Predicting Stock Market Movements:
The risk of loss cannot be eliminated. A simple change in a security's market value is not a loss of principal just as certainly as a change in the market value of your home is not evidence of termite damage. Markets are complicated; emotions about one's assets are even more so. Wall Street spins reality in whatever manner it can to make most investors unhappy, thus increasing new product sales. |
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Investors Dig The BIG Buy Low (October, 2005):
Market Corrections can be good for the wallet! Corrections are part of the normal shock market menu, and can be brought about by either bad news or good news. If you don’t love corrections (and deal with them like visiting relatives) you really don’t understand the financial markets. Don’t be insulted, it seems as though very few investors see it this way. |
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How Do You Spell Correction? (August, 2007):
Repetition is good for the brain's CPU, so forgive me for reinforcing what I've said in the face of every correction since 1979... if you don't love corrections, you really don't understand the financial markets. Don't be insulted, it seems as though very few financial professionals want you to see it this way and, in fact, Institutional Wall Street loves it when individual investors panic in the face of uncertainty. |
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The Rally Is Coming! The Rally Is Coming! (March, 2008):
The market has never and will never be a one way ticket to ride (smile Beatles fans). None of the important aspects of the voyage (advances, declines, speed, beginning, or end) are predictable, by anyone, no matter how overpaid or well credentialed. Sooner or later, some gutsy financial gurus will declare the stock market oversold and full of bargains. |
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This Stock Market Correction Is Dead (September 2009):
Actually, hindsight and the Investment Grade Value Stock Index (IGVSI) Bargain Level Monitor tell us that it died early in March 2009. More realistically, however, corrections don't really die quite so abruptly. They are supplanted by rallies--- and vice versa. |
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Investment Retrospective – A Preemptive Portfolio Protection Strategy (October 2009):
Both Market Cycle Investment Management and The Working Capital Model were nearly ten years old when the robust 1987 rally became the dreaded Black Monday, (computer loop?) correction on October 19th. Sudden and sharp, that 50% or so correction proved the applicability of a methodology that had fared well in earlier minor downturns. |
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Investors Dig The BIG Buy Low - Conclusion (October, 2005):
Market Corrections can be good for the wallet! Corrections are part of the normal shock market menu, and can be brought about by either bad news or good news. If you don’t love corrections (and deal with them like visiting relatives) you really don’t understand the financial markets. Don’t be insulted, it seems as though very few investors see it this way. |
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MCIM Program Compensation Plan For Financial Professionals:
General structure of referral fee compensation plan for MCIM mirror portfolio solicitors. |
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Manage Stock Market Corrections - Brainwashing Book Strategies Take the Sting Out:
The Brainwashing of The American Investor: The Book That Wall Street Does Not Want YOU To Read provides the investing education you didn't get in college, or anywhere else. It helps you figure out what to do right now (feeling like a kid in a candy store)!
A must re-read book with 28 5-star Amazon.com reviews. |
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Investment Scam Buster Workshop --- Who Ya Gonna Call?:
Investment Scam Buster Workshop. Who Ya Gonna Call? |
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Interesting Reading - - - Two Articles by Others:
Charlie Reese's Final Column: 555 People & A Constitutional Amendment to Reform Congress |
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Modern Investment Thinking Three: Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) & Non-Management (MPNM):
MPT doesn't just ignore all fundamental analytics while playing Frankenstein with technical analysis, it also pays no attention to the reality of market, interest rate, and economic cycles. It goes beyond real numbers and rational thinking by creating new and refined numbers --- supercharged to impress the intellectual elite while doing nothing to create dependable income streams for retirees.- |
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Modern Investment Thinking Conclusion: We've Come Full Circle To ---:
From the unmanaged Buy and Hold strategy of generations past, it's interesting to observe the full circle we've traveled to the unmanaged multi-product portfolio of the 21st century. Somewhere in the process, both technical and fundamental analytical techniques have been steamrolled under the pavement of the new highway to --- |
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Modern Investment Thinking Two: Fundamental Analysis:
Certainly, it was presumed, the most financially sound companies would be the most resilient in the face of whatever surprises the economy, global politics, and the weather had to offer. Companies that had grown up profitably would have what it takes to continue in the right direction. |
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Modern Investment Thinking One: Technical Analysis:
The future is uncertain, for certain. No numbers of any variety, in any combination or with any correlation or probability, will ever achieve the alchemy needed to reliably, even consistently, change leaden reality into golden certainty. |
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Financial Website Warning Label:
The purpose of the Sanco Services website is threefold: (1) to promote the somewhat unique (and non-mainstream Wall Street) Investment Strategies of former Investment Manager Steve Selengut; (2) to promote the sale of his book entitled The Brainwashing of the American Investor; (3) to provide educational information to the investing public. |
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Sanco Services:
Sanco Services is an investment portfolio consulting firm specializing in asset allocation, portfolio design, and trading techniques. |
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KGIS Partners & Sponsors News:
KiawahGolfInvestmentSeminars.net helps golfers combine the annual golf road-trip or vacation with enough of an investment education experience to qualify the trip as a tax deduction--- possibly. But Kiawah is far more than just a golf destination. |
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Investment Grade Value Stock Buy List Program - Endorsements ~ Endorsements ~ Endorsements:
After spending $15k on systems, and blowing $60k trading them, I stumbled upon The Brainwashing of the American Investor. I started trading [the strategy] in November '05. In the first year I've had 50 winners and zero realized losers! This can change your life! It certainly changed my trading career. |
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The Investment Grade Value Stock Watch List --- On Demand:
A large number of high quality stocks on the Watch List is clear evidence of market weakness and a limited number of such opportunities signals a market that is overpriced and attractive only to Mutual Fund salesmen, the media, and the greedy. Understand The Investor's Creed and get in sync with the market! |
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Retire Social Security Debt and Save The Economy --- What If?:
What if the US Government sold the Social Security system/employees/buildings/DEBT/etc. to Insurance/Annuity industry companies for the amount of the debt plus a few billion --- all in cash plus secured debt of the hundreds of companies involved in the purchase? Is this a guaranteed winner for a presidential candidate or what? |
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IGVS Bargain Stock Monitor At Ten Month High:
The Bargain Stock Monitor is one of three market statistics used as performance expectation analyzers for portfolios that are designed and managed using the Market Cycle Investment Management (MCIM) methodology. |
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Working Capital Model ~ Market Cycle Investment Management Performance:
In the longer term scheme of things, a well defined, well organized, and quality based investment model will just naturally out-perform those that are not similarly constructed --- it's getting to that level of management expertise that is the issue. |
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Working Capital Model ~ Market Cycle Investment Management Performance:
A well defined, well organized, and quality based investment model will just naturally out-perform those that are not similarly constructed --- it's getting to that level of management expertise that is the issue. |
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The Regulated States of America --- A True Story:
Franklie would be able to reduce citizen George's mortgage payment by nearly 26% which she knew he would put back into the economy to the benefit of all the more potential homebuyers. She, in turn could think of two or three purchases she would be making over the weekend in anticipation of a bigger payday. |
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Investment Grade Value Stocks At Highest Levels Ever!:
IGVSI Eclipses 2007 All Time High --- above 2007 levels since mid-February 2011 --- now up 6.9%; ahead of DOW and S & P by roughly 19%. Market Cycle Investment Management Model Portfolios build upon 18% gain in 2010. S & P 500 and mighty DOW lag the IGVSI, need average of 14% more just to equal 2007 levels. |
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Minimizing Financial Risk in a Changing Investment Environment:
Risk minimization requires the identification of what's inside a portfolio. Risk control requires decision-making by the owner of the investment assets. Risk management requires a selection process from a universe of securities that meet a known set of qualitative standards. |
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The Working Capital Model - Part 3:
I know of no other Investment Manager anywhere (other than those who have contacted me and obtained my consent), private or public, that uses the Working Capital Model to direct individual investor portfolios... certainly none of the major operators, who are dependent for their survival upon the whim of large others. |
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The Working Capital Model - Part 1:
Asset Allocation is an Investment Planning Tool, not an Investment Strategy --- few investment professionals understand the distinction. Fewer still have discovered the power of: The Working Capital Model! |
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Sanco Services Two:
Sanco Services teaches investors how to design what we affectionately refer to as the: You probably don't need an annuity, really, income program. It emphasizes the generation of high levels of realized income within a portfolio that contains only high quality securities. |
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Portfolio Content Analysis:
As more people choose to manage their own investments without professional advice, their buying/selling strategies can produce investment portfolios with asset allocations that are either inappropriate or dangerous. Similarly, the simplicity of investing the old fashioned way has been obscured by the seemingly limitless variety of packaged investment products with their one-size-fits-all investment and speculation ideas. |
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Investment Grade Value Stocks At Ten Year Lows:
A cocktail of credit market laxatives is working its way into a constipated world economy. Relief is on the way. Today's prices may well be looked at as the lowest of the next ten years! Here's a list of things to think about or to do while Investment Grade value Stock prices are at ten-year lows |
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Old Fashioned Equity Investing - Building A Better Mousetrap:
Since the level it achieved just prior to the bursting dot-com bubble in 2000, the S & P 500 Average (on October 15th 2010) had lost 17% of its market value. In the same time frame, portfolios managed start-to-finish using the Market Cycle Investment Management methodology have gained roughly 113%, in spite of the impact of the recent financial crisis. |
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Income Investing 101 --- What Your Professors Never Told You:
After forty years of investing, a few things become crystal clear: you need to focus on quality, individual securities, diversify intelligently, and develop a lifetime supply of income. I call these principles the big three or the QDI. Just like the ice cream brick of my youth, it's just not right without all three flavors. The investment puzzle becomes easier to solve if you have a handle on all the pieces. |
