5 Stocks Hedge Funds Were Dumping Last Quarter [View article]
How do you explain our 31.6% return in 5.5 months? Point me to someone who publicly picked a diverse portfolio of stocks that returned 31.6% in 5.5 months.
5 Stocks Hedge Funds Were Dumping Last Quarter [View article]
The returns from September 4th through February 15th aren't the results from backtesting. Those are actual returns. We started publishing our list at the end of August. It isn't like we started earlier and handpicked a time period that maximizes our returns. Our stock picks outperformed the market by 22 percentage points since we started publishing our stock picks.
We developed this strategy in July 2012 and used a 10-year period to back test it. In this back test our strategy's stock picks outperformed the S&P 500 index by 18 percentage points. This is a HUGE margin that can't be explained by chance or coincidence.
We track 450 hedge funds. The filings are free to download from the SEC's website, but they aren't free to process. Please try to download these filings and come up with your list of most popular stocks among hedge funds. You will notice that some of these filings have serious reporting and formatting problems and you need a TEAM of experienced people to accurately process these filings. It took Goldman Sachs 6 days to process the 13F filings and come up with its own report. What makes you think that you can do this faster and cheaper than we do?
Billionaire Louis Bacon's Top Stock Picks For 2013 [View article]
We have Moore Capital's entire 13F on our site. You can easily access its past filings as well. We display quarterly changes in its positions. You can also see the list of other hedge funds in each position: http://bit.ly/PXGphF
10 Tech Stocks Hedge Funds Are Bullish About [View article]
Hedge funds had until February 14th to submit their 13F filings to the SEC. There were a few hedge funds that submitted their filings one day late. On Friday afternoon at 12:30pm we had access to all hedge fund filings. It took us an additional 60 minutes to process the filings, prepare our reports and send them to our subscribers.
It took Goldman about 5-6 days to process the funds that they are tracking and write their report. Reuters and CNBC reported AIG news yesterday after reading Goldman's report. We published the list of hedge funds' most popular stock picks 6 days before Goldman did because we processed them faster.
5 Stocks Hedge Funds Were Dumping Last Quarter [View article]
IWM returned 14.52% between September 4th and February 15th. Our "small-cap" picks returned 31.6% during the same time period. The majority of our picks are closer to $5 billion in market cap, so they aren't as small and risky as you may think.
We aren't relying on a 5.5-month performance either. In our back tests our small-cap strategy outperformed the S&P 500 index by 18 percentage points per year between 1999 and 2009. That's an average outperformance of 18 percentage points EVERY YEAR, not cumulative. I don't know any index funds with a better track record.
Please try to understand the strategy before criticizing it. We provided ALL of our picks from the first issue of our newsletter. Check them out and tell me whether they are similar to the stocks in your typical small-cap index fund. Here are the stock picks from the end of August:
Most Popular Energy Stocks Among Hedge Fund Stocks [View article]
Did you read the first paragraph of the article? We just answered your question:
"Even with the delay, we've developed investing strategies based on 13F activity, which can be extremely profitable; for example, the most popular small-cap stocks among hedge funds produced an excess return of 18 percentage points per year over a 10-year period (see the list of these stocks and their returns since September)."
10 Tech Stocks Hedge Funds Are Bullish About [View article]
You are wrong again Archman!
Insider Monkey's 15-stock small cap strategy beat the market by 18 percentage points per year between 1999 and 2009, and since sharing the picks of this strategy since the end of August, the strategy gained an average of 31.6% between September 4th and February 15th, vs. 9.1% for the S&P 500 index.
If you had subscribed to the newsletter on day 1 and bought the 15 stocks IM recommended you would have already beaten the market by 22.5 percentage points in only 5.5 months.
Full details here, but it is possible to beat the market. You just have to know where to look. http://bit.ly/WQrEeN
P.S. We reported the AIG/hedge fund news 6 days before Goldman and Reuters reported. http://bit.ly/VAFzsg
5 Stocks Hedge Funds Were Dumping Last Quarter [View article]
That's why you shouldn't invest in hedge funds. However, this doesn't mean that hedge funds don't know how to pick stocks. The most popular small-cap stocks among hedge funds outperformed the S&P 500 index by 18 percentage points per year.
We have been sharing the list of most popular small-cap stocks with our newsletter subscribers. These stocks returned 31.6% between September and middle of February. You can check out the complete list of stocks we shared at the end of August here:
Apple Calls, Google Amongst Billionaire Einhorn's Newest Positions [View article]
He usually doesn't use options. I suspect these must be short-term call options (not longer than 6 months). He was probably concerned about short-term declines in Apple stock but he is a long-term bull.
Billionaire Mario Gabelli's Top Stock Picks For 2013 [View article]
Hi Eli,
We usually include a link to each fund manager's page on Insider Monkey which has their entire 13F portfolio, the changes in each position compared to the previous quarter, the list of other hedge funds in each position, and the history of each fund's 13F filings. We just started tracking Mario Gabelli this quarter and will include his filings in our database in our next update (next week). Until then here is the link to his latest 13F on SEC's website:
5 Stocks Hedge Funds Were Dumping Last Quarter [View article]
5 Stocks Hedge Funds Were Dumping Last Quarter [View article]
We developed this strategy in July 2012 and used a 10-year period to back test it. In this back test our strategy's stock picks outperformed the S&P 500 index by 18 percentage points. This is a HUGE margin that can't be explained by chance or coincidence.
We track 450 hedge funds. The filings are free to download from the SEC's website, but they aren't free to process. Please try to download these filings and come up with your list of most popular stocks among hedge funds. You will notice that some of these filings have serious reporting and formatting problems and you need a TEAM of experienced people to accurately process these filings. It took Goldman Sachs 6 days to process the 13F filings and come up with its own report. What makes you think that you can do this faster and cheaper than we do?
Billionaire Louis Bacon's Top Stock Picks For 2013 [View article]
10 Tech Stocks Hedge Funds Are Bullish About [View article]
It took Goldman about 5-6 days to process the funds that they are tracking and write their report. Reuters and CNBC reported AIG news yesterday after reading Goldman's report. We published the list of hedge funds' most popular stock picks 6 days before Goldman did because we processed them faster.
5 Stocks Hedge Funds Were Dumping Last Quarter [View article]
We aren't relying on a 5.5-month performance either. In our back tests our small-cap strategy outperformed the S&P 500 index by 18 percentage points per year between 1999 and 2009. That's an average outperformance of 18 percentage points EVERY YEAR, not cumulative. I don't know any index funds with a better track record.
Please try to understand the strategy before criticizing it. We provided ALL of our picks from the first issue of our newsletter. Check them out and tell me whether they are similar to the stocks in your typical small-cap index fund. Here are the stock picks from the end of August:
http://bit.ly/WQrEeN
Billionaire Bruce Kovner's Top Stock Picks [View article]
Most Popular Energy Stocks Among Hedge Fund Stocks [View article]
"Even with the delay, we've developed investing strategies based on 13F activity, which can be extremely profitable; for example, the most popular small-cap stocks among hedge funds produced an excess return of 18 percentage points per year over a 10-year period (see the list of these stocks and their returns since September)."
See the details: http://bit.ly/WQrEeN
10 Tech Stocks Hedge Funds Are Bullish About [View article]
Insider Monkey's 15-stock small cap strategy beat the market by 18 percentage points per year between 1999 and 2009, and since sharing the picks of this strategy since the end of August, the strategy gained an average of 31.6% between September 4th and February 15th, vs. 9.1% for the S&P 500 index.
If you had subscribed to the newsletter on day 1 and bought the 15 stocks IM recommended you would have already beaten the market by 22.5 percentage points in only 5.5 months.
Full details here, but it is possible to beat the market. You just have to know where to look. http://bit.ly/WQrEeN
P.S. We reported the AIG/hedge fund news 6 days before Goldman and Reuters reported. http://bit.ly/VAFzsg
5 Stocks Hedge Funds Were Dumping Last Quarter [View article]
We have been sharing the list of most popular small-cap stocks with our newsletter subscribers. These stocks returned 31.6% between September and middle of February. You can check out the complete list of stocks we shared at the end of August here:
http://bit.ly/WQrEeN
Billionaire Steve Cohen's Top Stock Picks [View article]
http://bit.ly/WQrEeN
Their stock picks from Q3 filings performed even better.
Apple Calls, Google Amongst Billionaire Einhorn's Newest Positions [View article]
Apple Calls, Google Amongst Billionaire Einhorn's Newest Positions [View article]
High-Yielding Dividend Holds From David Einhorn [View article]
http://bit.ly/Yx08o9
Billionaire Mario Gabelli's Top Stock Picks For 2013 [View article]
We usually include a link to each fund manager's page on Insider Monkey which has their entire 13F portfolio, the changes in each position compared to the previous quarter, the list of other hedge funds in each position, and the history of each fund's 13F filings. We just started tracking Mario Gabelli this quarter and will include his filings in our database in our next update (next week). Until then here is the link to his latest 13F on SEC's website:
http://1.usa.gov/XWbIZO
Hedge Fund Manager Whitney Tilson's Latest Stock Picks [View article]
His track record in NFLX is mixed at worst.