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The Logical-Invest monthly newsletter for August 2018

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Logical Invest Investment Outlook August 2018 Our top 2018 investment strategies, year-to-date : The NASDAQ 100  strategy with +8.56% return.   The 3x Universal Investment strategy with +5.99% return.  The Universal Investment strategy with +1.34% return SPY, the S&P500 ETF, returned +6.32%. Market comment: August starts with very much the same market preoccupations as the previous summer months: Fear of a trade wars and questions about central bank policy. The possibility of additional tariffs is holding back international growth and is keeping foreign markets … Read more

The Logical-Invest monthly newsletter for September 2018

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Logical Invest Investment Outlook September 2018 Our top 2018 investment strategies, year-to-date : The NASDAQ 100  strategy with +14.54% return.   The 3x Universal Investment strategy with +12.06% return.  The BUG Leveraged strategy with +2.62% return SPY, the S&P500 ETF, returned +9.71%. Market comment: Despite tariffs, a flattening yield curve, Turkey’s currency collapse and the fear of contagion across emerging markets, the S&P 500 is yet again making new highs. The U.S. equity market has outperformed most other markets and asset classes. Part of … Read more

The Logical-Invest monthly newsletter for October 2018

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Logical Invest Investment Outlook October 2018 Our top 2018 investment strategies, year-to-date : The NASDAQ 100  strategy with +14.50% return.   The 3x Universal Investment strategy with +7.85% return.  The Universal Investment strategy with +2.32% return SPY, the S&P500 ETF, returned +10.37%. Market comment: We are continuing to experience the symptoms of the end of Quantitative Easing: Higher interest rates and slightly higher inflation. The FED is normalizing policy and it seems that moderate growth and low inflation have helped make this into … Read more

The Logical-Invest monthly newsletter for November 2018

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Our top 2018 investment strategies, year-to-date : The NASDAQ 100  strategy with +9.95% return.   The Gold-USD  strategy with -0.81% return.  The BUG strategy with -2.02% return SPY, the S&P500 ETF, returned +2.74%. Market comment: October was not a good month as the S&P 500 had a mini-crash and an ‘official’ correction touching the -10% mark from the September highs. Other markets followed the drop leaving many foreign markets in the red for the year. Our strategies were affected as well.  Let’s take … Read more

The Logical-Invest monthly newsletter for September 2016

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Special topic this month: Passive Investments Logical Invest Investment Outlook September 2016 Our top year-to-date strategies: The Leveraged Universal strategy with 39.09% return. The Maximum Yield strategy with 34.04% return.  The World Top 4 with 20.51% return. SPY, the S&P500 ETF, returned 7.73%, year-to-date. New tools: The Online Custom Portfolio Builder The Consolidated Signals tool. Market comment: The summer market showed strength compared to its seasonal bias. The old saying “Sell in May and go away” did not hold up this year as SPY … Read more

The Logical-Invest monthly newsletter for November 2015

Logical Invest Investment Outlook November 2015 September and October have traditionally been the most volatile months of the year. This year was no exception. Investors were shaken by sharp declines in the equity markets as volatility returned with a vengeance.  The simultaneous fall in equities, bonds, commodities and foreign currencies have left a lot of portfolios with flat or negative returns for the year. Many investors are now wondering on how to move forward. Students … Read more

The Logical-Invest monthly newsletter for January 2016

Logical Invest Investment Outlook January 2016   Market comment: With December 2015 behind us, we have now ended one of the most challenging investing years. The US stock market ended flat for the year. All other assets like precious metals, bonds, commodities and emerging markets gave negative returns. For the past 20 years, including the 2008 subprime crisis year, we always had at least one asset group going up considerably (10% or more). Here is an … Read more

The Logical-Invest monthly newsletter for February 2016

Logical Invest Investment Outlook February 2016 Market comment:   Equities sold off aggressively in the beginning of the year making this January one of the worst of the last 20 years. The market managed to start a small rebound just in the last few days leaving traders pondering if this is another temporary correction or the start of a bear market. In absence of evidence of a more pronounced global economic slowdown, the recent selling looks … Read more

The Logical-Invest monthly newsletter for March 2016

Logical Invest Investment Outlook March 2016 Market comment: February was another high volatility month, however it now looks like the world markets are slowly recovering. Here is a Year-to-Date chart of the world markets together with the defensive TLT (long duration Treasury) and GLD (Gold) ETFs. Last year, the normal inverse correlation of both TLT and GLD to equities failed to materialize for quite a long time. We had several months where Equities, Treasuries and Gold went … Read more