Monday, September 2, 2019

Tariff in front row again.....

We are back to square one on USA vs China flip flop trade announcements and markets obliges each time.

How many reversal can we handle in a week, we are getting used to down days after UP or mixed day.....

Very hard to fathom the strategy behind negotiations on the back of world markets....

It is becoming very clear its " no way out " until this deal is finalized.....

Stocks are following market reversals on a dime....

My suggestion is " slightly underweight your exposure " until trade mess settles...

Have a diversified portfolio, so some can offset declines......

On down days, some stocks do buck the trend, hopefully we all have some of those stocks....

Technology stocks were trying to come out of their Chinese led exposure into a desirable stocks...but here we go again......

Stocks with major exposure to Chinese companies or Chinese market are going through serious down moves on down days.....

LRCX MSFT LSCC TWTR were behaving better in a very difficult environment thus are better candidate for " buy the dip "

Let us hope by open there will be damage control either by " tweet " or policy statement from China which may control most of the negativity.

Good luck with your own take on the market and your own comfort level.

BLOG does NOT give buy or sell.

Saleem

2 comments:

stocktrader_1996 said...

Hi Saleem,

Last week: +0.01% (YTD: +11.48%)
Notable Winners: TREX TWTR PSNL
Notable Losers: VYGR PLAN

I significantly underperformed the indices last week due to some growth stocks lagging in the face of a cyclical rally. Notable regrets involved selling BZUN on Monday right before it shot up, but also seeing the big runs in FSLY and CSTL having sold those in recent weeks. It is never wise to dwell on missed opportunities, but hopefully I have learned some lessons to take forward with me. Overall it seems the market has found a comfortable spot with the tariff situation (no more escalation?) and I think we may see gains through the end of the year with the accommodative Fed and others.

Holdings: PLAN FSLR FB TREX LITE PSNL ACMR TWTR LYFT CSOD VYGR ACST TRIL, cash 0.0%

Stocktrader

Stocks100 said...


Hi Stocktrader,

Last week UP 6.19%

YTD UP 66.18%

Saleem