 | | | Can You Really Beat Buffett, Gates and Icahn Using The Same Stocks?
By Bob Bogda
September 27, 2013
"Cast your net where the big fish swim" -- anonymous
Who hasn't dreamed of buying and selling stocks alongside the most successful investors of all time?
I'm talking about big fish like Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett, hedge-fund manager George Soros and activist investor Carl Icahn.
(Let the record show that the per-share book value of Buffett's financial holding company has grown by a mind-numbing 586,817% since 1965, trouncing the S&P 500 by an equally mind-numbing factor of 78.9 times. As for Soros, Forbes this month estimated his net worth at $20 billion. That puts him in the same neighborhood as Icahn, whose latest investment fund has delivered an average annual return of 41.3% since 2004, trouncing the broader market by a factor of seven.)
I'm also talking about lesser-known but remarkably successful investors such as Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies and Steve Cohen of SAC Capital, who have delivered investment gains of more than 30% a year for a decade or more.
The best part, it's now not only possible to ride the coattails of these Wall Street icons, but there's a good chance you can beat them at their own game.
Let me explain...
Say Goodbye To Tiny Yields
There's a small group of stock that have been yielding up to 11% for three years now... yet because of a dividend reporting glitch, most investors think they yield just 1% or 2%. They've also soared 828% over the past decade, while the market's gone up just 99%. Get the names of some of these stocks right now by clicking here.
Each quarter Michael Carr, one of only 1,400 Chartered Market Technicians (CMT) in the world, scours the filings at the Securities and Exchange Commission to determine which stocks are being favored by the top investors in the country -- those who've proven they can deliver market-beating returns under any market conditions. Investors like Buffett, Soros, Icahn, Simons and Cohen.
At the moment, Michael is tracking 400 stocks that 20 of the most successful investing gurus in the world believe will be big winners. In other words, Michael utilizes the research from the best investment minds on the planet to create his watch list.
But that's just the beginning.
Michael himself has 26 years of trading experience under his belt, during which time he's written two books on the subject.
The primary stock-ranking tool Michael utilizes in his own research is relative strength (RS), a measure of the price trend of a stock compared to another stock, or to the market as a whole.
Among the hundreds of "guru" stocks he identifies, Michael will consider only those that are rising faster than 70% of the market during the prior six months.
From the stocks that pass this part of the test, Michael looks at the strength of the companies' cash flow -- the amount of money coming into the business, a barometer he regards as the very lifeblood of a company. Here, again, Mike considers only those holdings whose cash flow per share is rising faster than 70% of all available stocks.
What's left is the best of the best -- the stocks that have the most potential for capital appreciation in the current climate, not to mention the implicit endorsement of the world's top investors.
The best way to get to know Michael and learn more about his system is by watching a webinar I hosted with him on Thursday. In it, Michael shares which gurus he's tracking, how to identify which of their holdings are most likely to outperform, plus two of his top-rated "guru picks" to buy now. You can watch the webinar by clicking here, or on the image below:
This webinar will only be up for a few days, so if you have any interest in learning more about Michael's "guru" system, I suggest you watch it now.
Good investing,
Bob Bogda
Managing Editor
StreetAuthority.com | | | | | | | | | 
Michael J. Carr, CMT, is a widely published market practitioner.
He is the author of two books related to investing, "Smarter Investing in Any Economy: The Definitive Guide to Relative Strength Investing," and "Conquering the Divide: How to Use Economic Indicators to Catch Stock Market Trends." These books describe his comprehensive approach to investing, both focusing as much on avoiding risk as seeking rewards.
His work has been published in major industry magazine including Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, Futures, SFO, Traders and Shares (both UK-based magazines) and at numerous websites including traders.com, moneynews.com and workingmoney.com. He has spoken to numerous groups of investors, always offering precise and detailed tools to use in the investment process.
To learn more about Mike's strategy click here. | | | | | | | | | | |
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