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The Year of the Rat
On January 25th of 2020, the Chinese Zodiac Calendar flips to the year of the Rat, specifically Year of the Metal (Gold) Rat. I’m not...
James Tharin, CFA
Jan 9, 20202 min read
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Investment Playbook - October 2019
The first sentence of our 2019 Mid-Year Outlook read “Congratulations, you just made it through another bear market! We think the...
James Tharin, CFA
Oct 1, 20192 min read
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Not Making Money in Stocks? Here's Why
If your 401(k) feels flat there's a reason. A quick glance at the chart below shows that the Dow Jones Industrial Average is below its...
James Tharin, CFA
Aug 20, 20191 min read
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2019 Mid-Year Outlook
Congratulations, you just made it through another bear market! We think the cyclical bear is heading back to his cave and that the...
James Tharin, CFA
Jul 8, 20195 min read
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2019 - More Turbulence Ahead?
This post is a synopsis of our 'fearless outlook' for the US Equity Markets in 2019.
James Tharin, CFA
Dec 17, 20184 min read
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Well, It's a Bull Market
I’ve been at the business of investing money for clients and myself for 27 years - almost to the day. I didn’t know it then but after my...
James Tharin, CFA
Oct 2, 20182 min read
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The US Dollar - Strong and Getting Stronger
After sliding about 13% during calendar year 2017, the US Dollar seems to have broken its downtrend and it appears to want to move higher....
James Tharin, CFA
Aug 10, 20181 min read
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Get the Picture?
Value Line (Geometric) Average. The Value Line Geometric Composite Index is the original index released, and launched on June 30, 1961....
James Tharin, CFA
May 15, 20182 min read
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Corrections are part of Normal Markets
“The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy,...
James Tharin, CFA
Apr 8, 20183 min read
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The Year of the Dog
In February of 2018 the Chinese Zodiac Calendar flips to the Year of the Dog, specifically the Year of the Brown Earth Dog. According to...
James Tharin, CFA
Jan 2, 20183 min read
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Watching the FANGs for an Entry Point
According to Bespoke Institutional, stocks broke a 58 day streak of trading without a market move of over plus or minus 1% on August 10th....
James Tharin, CFA
Aug 22, 20171 min read
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Stocks and Bombs
For the last week or so the conflict of words between North Korea and the United States seems to have changed from a rapid boil to a slow...
James Tharin, CFA
Aug 18, 20172 min read
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Do You Really Want to Sell This Market?
Even after the recent political news, stocks appear to be very close to all-time highs and trading in an established long term channel....
James Tharin, CFA
May 19, 20172 min read
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Investment Highlights - April 2017
Was it Really a 'Trump' Rally?' The 1st quarter of 2017 started out optimistically on the part of investors as the surprise “Trump ...
James Tharin, CFA
Apr 3, 20173 min read
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Is the Stock Market Really Overvalued?
With the strong bull run in stock prices since November, we have been reading more from the perma-bear community about how overvalued the...
James Tharin, CFA
Feb 24, 20174 min read
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2017 Outlook - Predictably Unpredictable
Chart 1 Anybody who has been in the investment business long enough knows the futility of forecasting financial events – especially when...
James Tharin, CFA
Dec 28, 20166 min read
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The Valuation Bears Have it Wrong
In today’s low return environment, investors are scrambling to find higher yielding investments in order to fund future or a current...
James Tharin, CFA
Sep 19, 20162 min read
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How the Election Could Affect Your Investment Portfolio
It seems that every election year the pundits bloviate on why this cycle is different than any other election year in history. It...
James Tharin, CFA
Aug 15, 20163 min read
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What's in Style on Wall Street
Whether your game is growth or value, momentum, low volatility or indexing, strategies with strong academic underpinnings generally work...
James Tharin, CFA
May 4, 20163 min read
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Better than Bonds
Some years back I used to enjoy reading a research report that was published periodically by Credit Suisse called “Better than Bonds”. ...
James Tharin, CFA
Mar 21, 20162 min read
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