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Long-Term
Shift
The
Stock Traders Press is shifting to a higher gear. Our short-term
research report is in its third year. Our Spotlight Stocks
returned 149% last year. The company has grown from a staff
of 3 to 25. Two of our analysts fill regular weekly commentator
spots on Yahoo! Finance Vision and AOL Market Talk. This
passed spring we introduced our long-term research report.
The make-up of the long-term portfolio is shifting. Over the
past 3 months we have put together a group of stocks that
create an excellent foundation for the long-term investor.
We have tried to diversify the portfolio to take advantage
of the gains in many sectors including software, Internet,
telecommunications, and retail. The long-term recommendations
have included highly recognizable high market cap stocks that
provide excellent opportunities for capital appreciation over
the next 6 to 18 months. The recommendations include retailer
and Internet play Best Buy (up 12% since our recommendation),
and semiconductor and telecommunications giant Motorola (up
14%). As the portfolio goes forward the recommendations
will include an increasing number of more obscure, not heavily
followed, stocks in the $15-$40 range. Where the foundational
recommendations are likely to return 40% to 60%, the less
heavily followed smaller stocks will attempt to produce higher
returns over the next 6 to 18 month period. Larger recognized
stocks will continue to be among the recommendations, but
interspersed with the less followed stocks. The emphasis will
be to identify quality companies in rapidly growing industries
that will shortly have the following of larger companies due
to exceptional growth, products and management.
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