The Search For Winning Stocks
With thousands of stocks and mutual funds to choose from, how do you narrow your search and still find winning investments? If you're like many investors, you turn to investment newsletters from CoolcatReport.com to sift through the markets and discover winning stocks.
CoolcatReport.com Publisher Kevin Kennedy, a veteran of more than 20 years in newspaper journalism and the former mayor of his hometown, was used to trying to find answers to vexing questions when he began working to solve one of the biggest mysteries of all in the mid-1990s: what makes stocks go up in price?
Kennedy wondered: Was there a way for the average weekend warrior with a real job to cut the roughly 30,000 stocks and mutual funds down to a much smaller number that could then be examined more closely without studying stocks for hours and hours each day?
Early on in his quest, Kennedy was introduced to the ideas of William O'Neil, the publisher of Investors Business Daily and author of "How to Make Money in Stocks," in which he details his CANSLIM approach to investing.
As a numbers junkie, Kennedy found the statistics in IBD fascinating and set out to work on developing statistical ideas that could produce winners. Kennedy found the CANSLIM approach wanting in some respects, but relied heavily on its basic tenets of investing during strong market conditions and using research to isolate the characteristics found in winning stocks.
A Coolcat With a Hot Hand
Kennedy tested and refined his ideas on Internet investment message boards before launching the Coolcat Explosive Small Cap Growth Stock Report in October 1997.
Success came quickly. The Hulbert Financial Digest, the most prestigious independent watchdog of investment newsletters for more than 25 years, added the Coolcat Report to the list of more than 150 newsletters it tracks in December 1998. Since then, the newsletter has delivered market-beating performance in both bull and bear markets while helping experienced and novice investors alike in all 50 states and more than 40 countries profit from many of the market’s biggest winning stocks.
The newsletter was ranked No. 3 by Hulbert in 1999 with a 151.2% gain, then finished No. 1 in 2001 with a gain of 77.7%. The Nasdaq, meanwhile, was deep in the middle of its worst bear market ever and fell 21.1% in 2001.
The newsletter's portfolios posted an 82.5% gain in 2003 and entered 2007 with an amazing overall gain of 440.0% (+23.5% annualized) for the eight years from 1999-2006.
That sizzling pace easily ranks the newsletter as America's No. 1 investment newsletter, beating the second-best newsletter by almost 2% a year during that period.
It’s no wonder MarketWatch has called Kennedy “the pre-eminent stock picker of the moment” and “an investment newsletter superstar.” Gushed Kiplinger's Personal Finance: "Kevin Kennedy's stock picks have produced torrid gains. ... Kennedy has proven deft at charting the sometimes bizarre and counterintuitive ebbs, flows and crosscurrents in one of the market's most volatile corners: small-company growth stocks."
The investment newsletter, delivered by email twice a month, includes two model portfolios with buy and sell signals and focuses on top-performing Nasdaq and Nasdaq Small Cap stocks that have the characteristics found in past major market winners.
Among the criteria Kennedy uses to identify leading stocks in the report are new 52-week price highs, low price, low float, high relative strength, high industry group ranking and increasing volume. The newsletter uses market timing and money management strategies to let profits run and cut losses.
CoolcatReport.com newsletters have been featured in Forbes/Forbes.com, Barron's, The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, Kiplinger's Personal Finance, MSN Money, MarketWatch, SmartMoney.com, Seeking Alpha and SmallCapInvestor.com as well as newspapers throughout the U.S. Kennedy has appeared on The Nightly Business Report, Wall Street Week with Fortune and American Scene Radio and has also presented seminars at major investment conferences such as The Money Show in San Francisco, Las Vegas and Orlando.
A Powerful Roster of Newsletters Emerges
Kennedy has taken approaches and strategies similar to those developed in The Coolcat Explosive Small Cap Growth Stock Report and used them to create four more great investment newsletters which identify and analyze the most timely small cap, mid cap, large cap, blue chip and technology stocks as well as exchange traded funds (ETFs) and Fidelity Select funds.
The Coolcat ETF & Fidelity Select Report began regular publication in June 2004. Published monthly, it includes two model portfolios with buy and sell signals as well as our momentum-based rankings of the top-performing exchange traded funds (ETFs) and Fidelity Select mutual funds.
According to the Hulbert Financial Digest, the newsletter's model portfolios had an average gain of 18.7% in 2005 and 13.1% in 2006. The newsletter's ETF Portfolio rose 20.9% in 2005 and 22.7% in 2006 to rank as Hulbert's No. 1 ETF portfolio.
CoolcatReport.com then launched publication of two new monthly newsletters in December 2005:
* The Coolcat Emerging Stock Market Leaders Report, a monthly publication. The newsletter’s Super Small Caps Portfolio focuses on stocks with a market cap of less than $1 billion, and its Emerging Market Leaders Portfolio emphasizes mid-cap and large-cap stocks with market caps of $1 billion-$25 billion. The report appeals to moderately aggressive investors.
* The Coolcat Total Stock Market Report: The newsletter’s Dynamic Blue Chips Portfolio focuses on dividend-paying stocks with a market value of at least $25 billion, while the Total Market Portfolio is a mix of stocks and funds from our other four newsletters and the blue chip port—some microcaps, small caps, mid caps, large caps, ETFs and blue chips. The newsletter is designed to meet the needs of more conservative investors.
The Coolcat Technology Plus Report was introduced in June 2006. This exciting newsletter features the newly-created Coolcat Tech Bubble Survivors Index, which tracks the performance of technology and Internet stocks which burst into prominence during the Nasdaq 1999-2000 bubble before crashing to Earth, then emerging as survivors of the wreckage. The newsletter also has a model portfolio which focuses on the strongest and most innovative companies in the Nasdaq 100.
Our Commitment To You: The Tools To Succeed
Our goal is simple: to give investors the tools to succeed with timely, useful information about the market's leading stocks. These new reports give us a power-packed roster of five great investment newsletters that truly meets the diverse needs of today's investors.
We believe average investors can produce market-beating results if they focus on the following basics:
- Buy stocks when the general market is positive; stay on the sidelines when it is not.
- Develop buying criteria you feel comfortable with. There are many ways to find winning stocks.
- Develop selling criteria which enables you to cut losses and take regular profits, while having the patience to hold some positions for bigger gains.
- Use basic technical analysis tools to help you with your buy and sell decisions.
So, are you ready to become a more successful investor? Subscribe today, and you’ll discover why investors throughout the world count on investment newsletters from CoolcatReport.com to achieve superior investment results.
