Don't you just love lists?
Apparently, most American's do because the posts that get the most clicks are the ones with lists and quizzes. I don't do lists very often yet, somehow, I still manage to be fairly popular but let's see what happens when I make a list with a catchy headline.
This list is an update of our original 2014 Buy List, which was written on June 6th and originally had 20 trade ideas for the 2nd half of the year. That list quickly grew to 29 and, today, we're adding 11 more to make 40 top stock picks to take us into Q4. Those first 29 picks are already 82% successful with only Hovnanian Enterprises Inc (NYSE:HOV), iRobot Corporation (NASDAQ:IRBT), Transocean Ltd (NYSE:RIG), Terex Corporation (NYSE:TEX) and The Wendy's Co (NASDAQ:WEN) failing to make gains so far and, on average, we're up 72% on our picks in just 3 months.
That's about par for the course with our winning percentages on trade ideas but what makes the Buy List special is that these are the ones we are comfortable committing long-term allocation blocks to, not just messing around with short-term trading. In fact, our 5 "losers" all represent great entry opportunities at lower prices and none are being kicked off the list as our general outlook for these stocks is measured in years, not months!
The strategy we are following is summed up nicely in this video:
As we did in building our Long-Term Portfolio, we're not going to rush in and buy everything. We will do exactly what we did in January where, following our Fall Buy List, we simply added stocks from our list whenever they became cheap. While our Members are able to pick up our trade ideas as they are released, we don't always add them to our virtual portfolios right away.