Market Update: 01-17-23

Subject: Buy, Buy, Buy! Risk On!  The Issachar Fund is 91% invested in 53 growth stocks with great fundamental/technical chart patterns! Issachar holds a diverse list of stocks in some of these Sectors: Building, Chips, Energy, Finance, Machine, Medical, Metals, and Retail.The market wants to head higher, anticipating a Fed pivot from...

Market Update: 01-09-23

Fed Pivot Rally! The Issachar Fund is 15% invested in growth stocks with great fundamental/technical chart patterns, plus a gold ETF! Every new year brings new investing themes where big institutions realign their portfolios, hoping to profit in the coming year. I see early signs of big money moving into the Energy, Medical, and Machinery Sectors...

Market Update: 01-03-23

Risk Management! The Issachar Fund is 100% in Cash! Here is a link to the 4th Quarter 2022 Issachar Fund Fact Sheet Risk management remains the key to reaching long-term financial goals, and cutting losses short is rule number one. I learned this lesson in 2021 and have developed rules and disciplines to keep me focused on not repeating...

Market Update: 12-27-22

Managing Risk! The Issachar Fund is 100% in Cash! All major stock indexes are in a down-trending bear market, trading below their 200-DMAs, indicating market risk is high, so capital preservation is the priority. There are pockets of strength in the energy sector, but I have learned they eventually come after the leaders and take them down before...

Market Update: 12-19-22

Bearish Bias! The Issachar Fund is 100% in Cash! The market was not acting as expected, and our Muni bond ETFs were not rewarding us for taking risk, so we cleared the deck. The Fed raised rates 50bps as expected, but they reiterated their plan to keep raising rates until inflation drops from the 7% range to their 2% target. Congress is trying...

Market Update: 12-12-22

The Issachar Fund is about 70% invested in muni bond ETFs! Our energy stocks were not doing what I expected, so I sold them and purchased muni bond ETFs. Energy stocks were in uptrends, but oil was in a downtrend, and they should have been going in the same direction. This type of divergence typically leads to a catch-up trade where oil prices...