The Stay Invested portfolio was UP today: $635.65 (+0.59%) Overall GAIN/LOSS YTD: +$4,207.04 (+4.10%) Our benchmark index, the S&P 500 is UP Year-To-Date +6.95% http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/sandp/ "The most important rule of Fly Fishing is; fish don't have eyelids. This lets them see predators. Investors who seek less crowded trades are doing the same." ― Clay Baker/Kelly R. (I'm attribute most of this quote to my cousin Kelly R) CVS Health Corp CVS might be the cheapes

The Stay Invested portfolio was DOWN today: $218.49 (-0.20%) Overall GAIN/LOSS YTD: +$3,502.97 (+3.41%) Our benchmark index, the S&P 500 is UP Year-To-Date +5.47% http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/sandp/ "Investing is like fly fishing, to catch fish your fly needs to be in the water." ― Clay Baker/Kelly R. (I'm attribute most of this quote to my cousin Kelly R) Cisco Systems In my last post I said I'm a Cisco Bull, I still am. When I posted that statement CSCO closed at $45.

The Stay Invested portfolio was UP today: $407.01 (+0.38%) Overall GAIN/LOSS YTD: +$3,288.66 (+3.20%) Our benchmark index, the S&P 500 is UP Year-To-Date +6.54% http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/sandp/ "Investing is the only school where you get the final exam first, and the education afterwards." ― Clay Baker (I'm sure someone has said this before me, please let me know who) No Buying Today The rally in the market continues and there is still nothing in the bull pen to buy.

The Stay Invested portfolio was UP today: $308.93 (+0.29%) Overall GAIN/LOSS YTD: +$2,892.39 (+2.82%) Our benchmark index, the S&P 500 is UP Year-To-Date +5.15% http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/sandp/ "In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable." ― Robert Arnott Nothing to Buy The rally in the market continues and there is still nothing in the bull pen to buy. This is the main problem with buying in tranches, sometimes you miss out on upside, but you almost alw

The Stay Invested portfolio was UP today: $409.20 (+0.39%) Overall GAIN/LOSS YTD: +$2,582.82 (+2.51%) Our benchmark index, the S&P 500 is UP Year-To-Date +4.36% http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/sandp/ "It's not whether you're right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong." ― George Soros Nothing to Buy With the rally in the market nothing in the bull pen has pulled back to a price where I'd be a buyer.

The Stay Invested portfolio was UP today: $58.94 (+0.06%) Overall GAIN/LOSS YTD: +$1,998.46 (+1.95%) Our benchmark index, the S&P 500 is UP Year-To-Date +3.57% http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/sandp/ "One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute." ― William Feather Today's Buys Today just before the close I took a nibble on Independent Bank Corp (INDB) and First Community Corp (FCCO). These

The Stay Invested portfolio was UP today: $215.21 (+0.21%) Overall GAIN/LOSS YTD: +$681.64 (+.66%) Our benchmark index, the S&P 500 is UP Year-To-Date +3.57% http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/sandp/ "The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system. " ― Milton Friedman Today's Buys This morning I bought a full position in Constellation Brands (STZ) with a limit order of $156. I've

The Stay Invested portfolio was UP today: $364.24 (+0.35%) Overall GAIN/LOSS YTD: +$27.03 Our benchmark index, the S&P 500 is DOWN Year-To-Date +1.71% http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/sandp/ “You can't rush 90-Day Corn" ― Clay Baker Escalator Up, Elevator Down There's an old saying, call it a cliche, in the stock market that stocks take the escalator up and the elevator down. Never wanting to be out quoted, I prefer to say, "You can't rush 90-Day corn". The growth rate cha

The Stay Invested portfolio was UP today: $948.91 (+0.93%) Overall GAIN/LOSS YTD: -$429.75 Our benchmark index, the S&P 500 is DOWN Year-To-Date +1.00% http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/sandp/ “I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.” ― Albert Einstein Powell Read my Blog? Yesterday I wrote that FDA Chairman Jerome Powell is tone deaf to the economy and the markets. Hey Clay, "Powell must have read your blog and

The Stay Invested portfolio was: N/A Overall GAIN/LOSS YTD: N/A Our benchmark index, the S&P 500 is DOWN Year-To-Date (1.38%) http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/sandp/ It Is a Bear Market In previous posts I've commented that Bull Markets don't have an expiration date, Bear Markets do. Bull markets can go on for years, but bear markets tend to last from as little as 3 months to just over a year. I don't think that we actually found the bottom in the stock market after Decembe

The Stay Invested portfolio was: N/A Overall GAIN/LOSS YTD: N/A Our benchmark index, the S&P 500 is UP Year-To-Date (+0.26%) http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/sandp/ 2019 Changes Normally I write after the close, I may not have time for that today so I'm doing something a bit different, I'm posting my short-list, or what we'll call the Bull-Pen. These are stocks that have made it to my final round of analysis, mainly pricing strategy, but that have not yet been added to the