Before diving into the update of the McClintock, readers need to know that Yahoo has shut the door on free downloading of data.  If you are a Kipling spreadsheet user, Tiingo Adj. Price is still working so use that option to download price data until further notice. And now for the update of this small […]

If you follow the Comments you were notified that Discretionary, Energy, and Technology dipped into the oversold zone.  As a result, I picked up ETFs of VCR, VDE, and VGT yesterday for the McClintock portfolio.  How well did the McClintock negotiate the recent draw-down?  Are we headed into a recession and what is the FED […]

One of the younger Sector BPI portfolios is the McClintock.  In operation a tad over seven (7) months or barely sufficient time to make any kind of evaluation as to the viability of this investing model we are looking for trends rather than current values.  For most of this short period we have been in […]

After spending the last few days developing and setting up the Pauling II Asset Allocation portfolio (not finished) it is time to get back to reviewing one of the many Sector BPI portfolios.  McClintock is the portfolio scheduled for review this morning.  Based on Bullish Percent Indicator (BPI) data from last week, no buy or […]

McClintock is the portfolio up for review this morning.  Last week the utilities sector briefly dipped into the oversold zone and the McClintock was one portfolio fortunate to pick up sufficient shares of VPU to meet the 9.5% recommendation. The market appears to be taking a pause and as such I’ve been placing TSLOs under […]

Yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) closed above 38,000 for the first time in history.  A few readers may recall a book titled:  Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market written by James K. Glassman and Kevin A. Hassett, published on October 1, 1999.  Many investors, […]