{"id":992,"date":"2008-10-07T08:45:29","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T12:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=992"},"modified":"2008-10-07T08:45:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T12:45:29","slug":"strategy-lab-my-stock-picks-in-this-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/07\/strategy-lab-my-stock-picks-in-this-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategy Lab: My Stock Picks in this Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my 20-plus years of professionally investing money, I have never seen such a difficult market. Even 2000-2002 seemed to make more sense than this; there was a clear demarcation that saw a bubble quickly burst, rather than today when we have a slow bleed that eventually pops.<\/p>\n<p>Though I have tried, recently it has been very difficult for me to find any investments I like either for a long or short entry. The markets are taking apart portfolios with a vengeance, and it is clear that a high level of cash with a strategy that is finely disciplined is the only way to survive.<\/p>\n<p>I have carefully searched through the list of securities my team produces using a refined screen that has helped find a few winners even in this market environment. Yet, out of the 65 stocks that it flags as possibilities, only a few seem to have the fundamentals and the technical attributes that are appealing.<\/p>\n<p>Stocks: Chattam (CHTT) Apple (AAPL) Thor Industries (THOR) Flir Systems (FLIR) Preferred ETF (PGF) and more&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Read my picks and the rest of the atricle <strong><a title=\"Strategy Lab\" href=\"http:\/\/articles.moneycentral.msn.com\/Investing\/StrategyLab\/Rnd18\/P4\/DisciplinedInvestorJournal20081007.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my 20-plus years of professionally investing money, I have never seen such a difficult market. Even 2000-2002 seemed to make more sense than this; there was a clear demarcation that saw a bubble quickly burst, rather than today when we have a slow bleed that eventually pops. Though I have tried, recently it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[186,220,12,253,251],"tags":[244],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketmash","category-weekly-gameplan","category-markets","category-strategy","category-msn-strategy-lab","tag-strategy-lab","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}