Wednesday, February 19, 2014

2/19/2014 rotation


Style Model
Mid Blend
Sector Model
XLU
1.52%
Large Portfolio
Date
Return
Days
ABX
4/11/2013
-17.86%
314
NEM
9/30/2013
-14.34%
142
EW
10/28/2013
-13.03%
114
JOY
11/18/2013
-1.31%
93
SWM
12/31/2013
-11.53%
50
TM
2/3/2014
0.40%
16
RS
2/10/2014
3.95%
9
CSCO
2/12/2014
-1.89%
7
ITRI
2/13/2014
8.09%
6
INT
2/18/2014
-1.00%
1
(Since 5/31/2011)
S&P
Annualized
11.93%
Sector Model
Annualized
25.85%
Large Portfolio
Annualized
27.31%

 

Rotation: selling ITRI; buying CBI.

The “scare market” continues to churn.  This is merely a transition from a fake market to a real one. 

The danger is that the “real” economy is far far below the stratosphere that QE has taken the market.  While the taper is nothing to fear, a hiking of interest rates could prematurely kill the first light the economy has seen since 2007.

Again, I’m talking about the economy itself.  People who work for a living (or people who would like to) have been in a recession during the entire QE fueled bull run.  Stepping back from the looking glass into the real world is a trick I’m not sure Janet Yellen knows how to do.

Time will tell.

Don’t fear the taper!  Only a full reversal of the Fed balance sheet could derail us at the moment.

Tim

 

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