Biotech bottomed. Thanks Congress.
I take it I don't want to look at my GILD and Pfizer today then?
GILD up 1%
It will be OK.
@Humpback - we can end this now. Good luck to you and your investments. We have nothing to talk about anymore. My MO is I am a SR Portfolio Manager for a major US firm and manage over 200MM in assets (and growing). My clients have done nothing but have a solid positive return with me through 3 of the worst corrections in the their lifetimes. In fact they have a lot more money today than before 2008 despite the great recession. Believe it or don't believe it I really don't care.
I do this for a living. I am sharing real insight, life experience and advice here. What I am not going to do is debate the merits of this with anyone here. You either like my idea's, advice and approach or you don't. If your going to continue to attack me (which I am still trying to figure out) just stop already.
Go read your data and whatever information your gathering and continue to do whatever it is you do with your $$$.
My experience comes from actually investing since 1987. My results for my clients and the fact that my clients (as well as myself obviously) have survived quite nicely is what is important to me. This is despite all the doom, gloom and naysayers noise I have been hearing for 2 decades as well getting through 3 major corrections/downturns in the last 15 years. Not every year is going to be a positive year in the market. Not every stock I carefully select in my portfolio will be a winner. Not every mutual fund does great every year. No one ever bat's 1.000. But if can bat .650 - .700 I am doing a fantastic job. If you can asses a clients risk and do the right thing for them your doing your job. I am a risk manager. Asset allocation, goal planning and downside risk is where I put the most emphasis in the overall mix of ones portfolio. For my most aggressive equity investor I am never more than 10% in any one sector...15% is really pushing it and is for the most risk tolerant client. Risk averse clients? Equities are merely 30% max of their entire asset mix.
I clearly stated I was early on oil, but I have been in many of these names for a very long time (and realized profits several times before buying back again at lower prices). When I see sell off's I am just accumulating more shares at lower prices in good, sound companies. Most turn out to be winners,very few losers, some sideways for a while. But the bottom line (and that is what my clients look at) is a good positive return over the long term with almost half the volatility in the overall index on the downside (S&P 500) in a growth and income portfolio (which is the portfolio of choice for 80% of my practice). For new money I was 15% on average early in the energy portion of the overall portfolio, but the yield on the energy sleeve is north of 5% and most of the yield is pretty safe (only in majors and one world class MLP mid stream) and once oil turns (and it will no doubt it will) it will be a nice trade long term. I will even average down on the sleeve once I finally see stability in oil prices take hold.
That's the only data I need. What is my clients bottom line. What is my own personal bottom line.....and how do I do it which I explained a while ago (posting my stock portfolio built over the last 20 years) in several posts through out the last several pages and I am done explaining or trying to prove anything. The equity portfolio numbers are there in the very long winded post I had lol.
I am not trying to prove a thing in here. I am merely giving opinions based on 29 years of my own personal investment experience. You are hell bent on some kind of well "prove it" mission. Prove what? I make one call on oil and all of a sudden I know nothing....LOL. Ok man. Look you invest the way you want. You obviously know it all and don't need guidance and professional advice. Good for you. But a ton of people in this country have no clue how to invest for the long term, no idea how to create a legacy plan, no idea how to harvest their savings in a tax efficient manner for income in retirement, no idea how to do anything but actually make the money used to save. The average return for a retail self directed investor is less than 3% on an average annual return basis. They buy at the wrong time and sell at the wrong time. Hence why I have a career. I am not here to get into any pissing match with anyone in this thread. If your right and we are heading to another recession and a massive crash because of no QE and rising interest rates Great! Good for you. I will stick to what has always worked for me for 29 years. You do your thing. Bears are right...once or twice a decade from my experience. What happens when they are right?
I buy more, rebalance and profit.
And some are not going to agree with me. Fine. I really don't care. We are all sharing idea's and opinions. That's all. I think I will just stay out of the way going forward. It seems more like a day trading type of thread for the most part. Something I don't partake in at all. My opinions are strictly on investing for 3, 5,10 year and longer time periods. Not this year or next. Not getting wrapped up with all the noise 24/7 on CNBC. A great way to assure you lose your money is to watch that channel every day and make emotional decisions based on all the chaos they scream about every single trading day.
I hope I was able to add some value to others and some insight. That is my one and only intention by posting here. What I am not going to get caught up in (and shame on me for continuing to reply to it) is a pissing match. If you don't agree....fine.
Good luck Humpback. No need to reply to this post either.