Talking about MON, USB, WFC, WDC, RIMM, AAPL... you can see how well they did since october 13th...
For Louis Navellier it was a good day to buy with S&P500 at 1003 (now at 868).
(In)Famous last words from Stock Market Experts that help you burn your money. Remember: you can often ask your money back if their advice is useless...
Palm Beach, Florida 10:03AM EST
Our success has been your opportunity, my dear colleague…
…and tonight that opportunity must end.
Our top Quantum Growth stocks thrashed the market in 2008, so I’ve slashed the price of Quantum Growth in half, given an unprecedented 100% money-back guarantee—and restricted the offer to 1,000 Qualified Investors like you.
I couldn't read anything more of this crap.
I just want to remind you how Quantum Growth slashed the market.
I will post the full year performance next week for Quantum Growth and Global Growth, compared to the S&P500. And I will forward it to Bloomberg, CNN Money and other Financial websites.
I hate this crap.
Mr. Hsu was writing between October and November 2007:
After watching FMCN going down for 1 year (red line in chart is a beautiful down-trend) Mr. Hsu decided that it is time to sell it:
We first invested in Focus Media (NASDAQ: FMCN) back in November 2005. At that time, the company had recently gone public, and was growing rapidly by installing advertising screens in buildings, shopping malls and supermarkets across China. In all my visits to China, I've always been thoroughly impressed with the company's advertising screens and the reactions they received from people.
Unfortunately, in the past year, the company has fallen on hard times, as the financial crisis and global economic slowdown pulled down companies' shares across the board. In addition, Focus Media is suffering from competitors who mimic Focus Media's video billboard strategy, as well as the fact that advertising budgets have been cut across the globe.
In light of these recent developments, I think it is now time to sell Focus Media. The stock has recently rallied 30% off its lows, and I think we should use this rally to sell our shares. Sell FMCN.
The close price yesterday was $9.20 and the loss for Mr. Hsu is 34%.
Mr. Hsu provided another lesson about how to turn a 360% gain ($14 to $65) into a 34% loss.
A final word about those subscribers that followed him on November 2007 and bought FMCN at $60.
They lost 84%!!!
What's next
Currently FMCN is positioned as follow among its industry peers:
Best 40% as P/E
Best 20% as ROA and ROI
Best 20% as Quick and Current Ratio
Best 20% as OM, EBITDA and Profit Margin
Best 20% as Sales Growth
Add the fact that Mr. Hsu is selling and it may really be the right time to buy...
UPDATE November 19th, market close
As I said... yesterday Mr. Hsu was saying "Sell FMCN" and today FMCN gained over 19%... what a genius!!!
Here is how NOK (blue) beated the S&P500 (red)
ASIA went to $12.50. Mr. Hsu wrote yesterday:
The time has come to sell AsiaInfo Holdings (NASDAQ: ASIA).
As you know, I first recommended this Chinese technology company back in July, as a way to take advantage of the major restructuring among Chinese telecoms. While the AsiaInfo bounced nicely following my recommendation, it sold off this fall with the rest of the global markets.
After experiencing nearly a 40% decline since September, I placed AsiaInfo on hold in early October and told you that we would likely sell the stock into a bounce later in the year. And on November 5 after the company reported decent third-quarter results, I recommended placing a limit order on the stock to sell it above $12.50.
Well, during today's market rally -- Hong Kong's Hang Seng index gained more than 8% -- AsiaInfo jumped nearly 4% and tripped our $12.50 limit order. That's why I want you to sell ASIA if you haven't already done so. And I'll have more details in this Wednesday's Asia Edge.
A very modest loss of only 7% for Mr. Hsu. One of his best performance of 2008 (at least compared to CTRP, SOHU, QCOM, FMCN, DRYS and others).
Cheers!
Mr. Navellier decided you should have bought XTLB.
August 18th: buy below $4.28
August 25th: Newcomers to the list fared particularly well. XTL Biopharmaceuticals (XTLB), which I told you to buy just two weeks ago, finished the week up almost 9%. Buy below $4.85
September 2nd: [...] don't think our portfolio is one-dimensional–one of our recent health care buys, XTL Biopharmaceuticals (XTLB), jumped almost 10% last week, giving us a total return of almost 22% since I recommended this stock on August 11! [...] Buy below $5.16
September 8th: Just look at XTLB up nearly 20% in less than a month! [...] Top Three Stocks [...] and Israel's XTL Biopharmaceuticals (XTLB) moves up to the #3 spot. XTLB has posted gains of almost 20% in less than a month! Buy below $4.74
September 15th: buy below $4.11
September 22nd: buy below $4.14
September 29th: buy below $3.79
October 6th: buy below $3.42
October 13th: buy below $2.65
October 20th: buy below $3.05
October 27th: buy below $2.90
November 3rd: buy below $3.00
November 10th: buy below $3.06
November 17th: buy below $3.00
November 24th: I'll get to the details in just a bit, but while we're on the subject of our Buy List, we did have one unfortunate surprise last week. On Tuesday, XTL Biopharmaceuticals (XTLB) saw its stock price drop from $2.10 to 13 cents after the company announced that its diabetic pain treatment drug failed crucial tests. In this week's issue, I'll tell you what to do now with this stock.
This week, I recommend selling [...] and Israel's XTL Biopharmaceuticals (XTLB). I referenced earlier in the issue that XTLB fell 94% on Tuesday after the company said its diabetic-pain treatment missed its primary and secondary benchmarks in a clinical trial. In my blog, I initially said to wait to hear from the CEO before rushing to sell. Well, it's been almost a week now, and we haven't heard a thing. With the failure of XTLB's lead candidate, the company is now too far behind to have any real chance of generating revenue, so this leaves us no choice but to sell shares now for a year-end tax loss.
Sell price: around 8 cents.
Loss: 97.8% (NEW RECORD!!!)
As every Monday, Louis Navellier sent his $5.000/year Quantum Growth paying subscribers detailed instruction about FSYS and NCS.
Both of these stocks were bought only 2 weeks ago, so we cannot enjoy Navellier's typical rollercoaster ride (with usual sell at the bottom...).
Very quickly, here is NCS.
It was bought on November 17th at $14.73 and sold yesterday at $12.93 (close prices) for a 12% loss in two weeks (one of these 2 weeks was one of the most profitable in Wall Street history).
FSYS, on which Mr. Navellier spammed so much, was also bought on November 17th at around $32.75 and sold at around $27.90 for a 14% loss.
As you can see in the chart, from July 2008 the game is over and FRO started to nosedive until current $25.10 (what Navellier calls a rally).
In the best case Global Growth $5.000/paying subscribers once more witnessed navellier's magic to turn a 50% imaginary profit to a 43% realized loss.
Those unlucky and trustful readers who bought at $72 (as the icon of growth investing suggested) brought home a 65% loss.
Impressive...
PS: just a quick note: FRO is currently a BUY in Navellier's Portfolio Grader Pro...
Another spam from Navellier:
I wanted to be sure you knew:
At 11:59 p.m. tonight, the price of Emerging Growth automatically doubles. If you wish to join us tomorrow, it will cost you twice as much.
Act now and receive 3—yes 3 FREE timely investment research reports that create an ironclad money machine for you in 2009.
Plus, you snag Emerging Growth at our never-before-offered GIVEAWAY discount, saving you HALF-OFF—all if you act now.
If Not Now—When?
Small stocks are seeing BIG pops right now. Buying panic has gripped the innovators that populate the Emerging Growth Buy List. Just look at this action in the past few days:
“The stocks on the [Emerging Growth Buy List] provide the seeds for nearly all of the big winners of the future!”-Glenn M., Freemont , CA
If these are the best stocks in Navellier's portfolio...
A??? | September 2008 | 1.59% |
A?? | December 2006 | 10.59% |
B?? | October 2008 | -36.33% |
C?? | July 2008 | -30.30% |
D?? | August 2007 | -36.86% |
D?? | December 2007 | -40.45% |
E?? | July 2008 | -73.35% |
F??? | July 2007 | 32.90% |
I??? | September 2008 | -52.46% |
M?? | November 2008 | -9.23% |
P?? | October 2008 | -22.40% |
P??? | April 2008 | -9.70% |
P?? | August 2008 | -64.80% |
S??? | February 2008 | 36.84% |
S?? | December 2007 | -6.30% |
U??? | November 2008 | -12.28% |
C??? | June 2008 | -21.33% |
C? | July 2007 | -11.29% |
D?? | September 2007 | -64.71% |
F?? | January 2008 | -47.46% |
S??? | October 2008 | -11.32% |
T?? | July 2007 | -41.78% |
W?? | September 2008 | -58.42% |
W?? | June 2008 | -73.65% |
F??? | September 2008 | -36.72% |
G?? | September 2007 | -32.94% |
S?? | May 2008 | -23.86% |
OK, I admit, I’m feeling full of myself—and so are thousands of Emerging Growth subscribers!
I told them (and then I told you) back in the spring that an Obama win would mean a win for New Energy—alternative, non-fossil fuels.
Plus, I warned my subscribers last December to flee that symbol of Old Energy, GM. The stock stood at $28 then. It’s at $2 today. And right now, with GM on the operating table, the message from the Obama camp is loud and clear: Go green, Detroit, or go away.
Obama Slates Billions
for New Energy
You’d better act quickly, my friend. Among the laws ready to be railroaded through Congress is a bold and symbolic boost to alternative, non-fossil energy.
A few nimble investors will be able to catch this alternative energy tiger by the tail.
I want you to be one of them, so read every word of the following.
Fuel Systems Up 36%
SQM Up 36%!
LOOK at Fuel Systems. It CRUSHED estimates when it reported. Sales are UP 62%. Earnings went from a loss to a gain of $18 million. Outlook was raised—and the stock shot up 45% in a few hours. I think we’ll see panic buying this week, and not just in Fuel Systems.
This is the FSYS chart. Navellier jumped in at the end of August 2008 at $51.83 and he is currently down 55%.
Let's have a look at SQM now. Navellier bought it at the end of April 2008 at $29.55. SQM went to $59 before plunging to current $19.76. Remember when he was saying "This time last year, this was a $13 stock. Recently, it hit an all-time high of $54. So that’s a 415% gain! And between $54 and $150 there’s NOTHING STOPPING IT!" here.
Louis Navellier feels full of himself for having turned this 100% unrealized gain into a 33% unrealized loss. What a genius...
Here is what a reader wrote in a post comment. I think it is useful to repost it here:
Here is the latest disaster from Navellier.
NTRS: First posted in the Oct 2008 Newsletter
"Northern Trust Corporation (NTRS) is the trick play in our playbook! I know I've been telling you to steer clear of financials, but I'm going to make a very rare exception for this great stock. Why? Because Northern Trust doesn't have any exposure to the problems that are sinking other banks and brokerages! The stock is a huge bargain right now, and we'll buy in before Wall Street figures out how strong NTRS is. Northern Trust is a leading personal trust manager in the U.S., $3.6 trillion of assets under its custody, and manages corporate pension plans for institutional clients. Since some of the largest firms have been beat up so badly by the mess in financials and NTRS has come through unscathed, the money is pouring in! In the second quarter, Northern Trust's earnings were 28.6% higher than analysts' consensus estimates, and its Return on Equity is an impressive 19.9%–yet it trades at barely 17 times forecasted earnings. Buy this Conservative stock below $93."
Today's newsletter (Dec 2008):Sell NTRS (current price $42.16)
Net investement return: Over 40% decline in just under 2 months.
Thanks a lot Louis. I'm sure I could not have lost 40% in 2 months on my own!!!
In addition to MON, GILD and MCD, Navellier's BlueChip portfolio is currently up 20% with B??, 15% with C?? and 1% with P??. All other stocks are down, more precisely:
Conservative stocks (average -5.46%)
Moderately aggressive stocks (average -45.12%)
Aggressive stocks (average -55.65%)
The overall "oasis" is currently down a quite impressive 22.53% (and it does not count the recent disastrous sells)
Louis Navellier to his Emerging Growth subscribers:
We have a lot to be positive about right now. For one, our Buy List stocks are posting phenomenal earnings. Just today, for example, Diana Shipping (DSX) reported that its third-quarter profit rose 14%, beating the Street’s expectations.
He is currently down 58.57% on DSX. But he is positive...Sold at $40.97 for a 40% loss. I am tempted to buy SOHU one of next days...
On August 13th Mr. Hsu bought QCOM, at its highest price ever, except the IT bubble of 2000.
Buy price was $55.39 and Mr. Hsu wrote:
Buy QCOM under $55. I'm targeting $66 in the next six to eight months, which would give us a nice 20% gain.
No way. The decline started just a few days later, but Mr. Hsu, far from the concept of stop losses, with a market going from bad to worse, kept QCOM until yesterday.
Close price was $32.57 for a 41.2% loss.