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Update on Slope Plus Portfolio

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Well, we aren’t even two weeks into the new year, and here’s how the 125 Slope Plus ideas I offered up to my subscribers are doing right now

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As you can see, there are only 3 losers out of 125 ideas offered up on January 1st, and only one of those three is a meaningful loss (the symbol was FIVE). We’ve got a profit of 10.56% as of this writing, and a profit of over $130,000 based on $10,000 put into each idea equally.

I wonder how Cramer is doing?

My Enthusiasm Was Warranted

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Surely even God cannot be this munificent.

For days now, the market simply plunges a few hundred points, offering up a gift to the formerly-beleaguered bears. The BTFD crowd has been humiliated and battered and are now reeling from confusion.

Yesterday afternoon, after a fantastically profitable day, I told myself to brace for the prospect of market strength, since there will be a natural to-and-fro to the market, and sure enough, the ES was up about 5 points or so, But then, like clockwork, it slumped to -9. I checked the news and, yep, it was China again (my new favorite country). Just LOOK at what the ES has been doing in just the past few sessions.

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