Question 1

What is the average holding period?

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What is the average holding period?

Q: What is the average holding period?

<h1 id="whatistheaverageholdingperiod">What is the average holding period?</h1> Short answer: There is no set holding period Weekly Stocktip is built to be fully dynamic, it finds stocks that are statistically likely to increase a lot in the future. But when exactly it happens is impossible to predict. It strongly depends on several factors: <ul> <li>The individual stock</li> <li>The company sector</li> <li>Current world events</li> <li>Currrent Market situation</li> <li>News</li> <li>Popularity</li> </ul> That being said, we do have a hard max deadline of 4 years. Although it is extremely rare for a stock to be held this long. | There is no useful metric we could provide for what the holding period will be, except that it will be more than 5 days and less than 4 years. A good average expectation to have, is to hold it for about 2 years. Our approach is best described by Benjamin Graham in this quote: <blockquote> The disciplined, rational investor neither follows popular choice nor plays market swings; rather he searches for stocks selling a price below their intrinsic value and waits for the market to recognise and correct its errors. It invariably does and share price climbs. When the price has risen to the actual value of the company, it is time to take profits, which then are reinvested in a new undervalued security. This approach has both proven very safe and provided high annual returns, but it does require some patience. Sometimes the patience needed may appear quite considerable. But most of the stock picks in our experience have not taken that long to sh </blockquote>

Q: How often do you provide stock signals?

<h1 id="howoftendoyouprovidestocksignals">How often do you provide stock signals?</h1> Weekly Stocktip provides a new BUY signal every week. Our strategy purposefully only invests in 1 new stock every week. There's a common misconception that you need to trade "every day" to be a successful investor, but in reality that's not the case. You just need to invest in the right thing. As Benjamin Graham puts it: <blockquote> It is undoubtedly better to concentrate on one stock that you know is going to prove highly profitable, rather than dilute your results to a mediocre figure, merely for diversifications sake. Weekly Stocktip specializes in finding highly profitable and safe stock picks. While we absolutely could provide more signals, it would simply dilute your results and you would see lower win ratios and lower returns. </blockquote> However, we do provide a stock screening tool as well that ranks every single stock in the market. Using our AI Reports you can choose to invest in multiple stocks every week e.g. by only selecting stocks with a score of +80, or you can use it as a base to do your own research to find more stock picks.

Q: What is the minimum investment?

<h1 id="whatistheminimuminvestment">What is the minimum investment?</h1> There is no minimum investment amount required to use Weekly Stocktip. Since you invest with our signals in your own brokerage account, and we don't charge any management or performance fees, you are free to invest as little or as much as you want. ||| That being said, it doesn't make financial sense to pay us $29 if you're only going to invest $1 The break-even investment per signal in the past has been around $31.

Q: Does Weekly Stocktip use call/put options?

<h1 id="doesweeklystocktipusestockoptions">Does Weekly Stocktip use stock options?</h1> Short answer: No, we don't recommend options or recommend you buy call options on our trading signals. We specialize in picking high quality companies with a great risk/reward ratio. This is how we have managed a +90% win ratio in the past. While at first this might seem like a great opportunity to utilize options for there are 2 important things that makes this unattractive for stock options. #1 The holding period. Our strategy selects stocks selling a price well below their intrinsic value and waits for the market to recognize and correct its errors. It invariably does and share price climbs. However, we cannot predict exactly when or how fast this happens. That isn't much of a concern when you own the stocks. But call options have an "expiration date", an exact point in time where if you don't exercise it before set date, it becomes worthless. Since we can't predict exactly when our stocks go up, this makes options extremely risky. #2 The downside risk is much higher Options are inherently more risky than value investments. Weekly Stocktip has historically had around 7% losing signals. Those 7% of stock picks have lost an average of around -16% in value. (that is a pretty low downside, compared to the average +102% gain on the +90% winners) However when you trade call options your downside is fixed to -100% (unless you hedge your bets where you limit the upside instead), that's about **6 times the risk of owning

Short answer: There is no set holding period

Weekly Stocktip is built to be fully dynamic, it finds stocks that are statistically likely to increase a lot in the future. But when exactly it happens is impossible to predict. It strongly depends on several factors:

The individual stock
The company sector
Current world events
Currrent Market situation
News
Popularity

That being said, we do have a hard max deadline of 4 years. Although it is extremely rare for a stock to be held this long.

| There is no useful metric we could provide for what the holding period will be, except that it will be more than 5 days and less than 4 years. A good average expectation to have, is to hold it for about 2 years.

Our approach is best described by Benjamin Graham in this quote:

The disciplined, rational investor neither follows popular choice nor plays market swings; rather he searches for stocks selling a price below their intrinsic value and waits for the market to recognise and correct its errors. It invariably does and share price climbs. When the price has risen to the actual value of the company, it is time to take profits, which then are reinvested in a new undervalued security. This approach has both proven very safe and provided high annual returns, but it does require some patience. Sometimes the patience needed may appear quite considerable. But most of the stock picks in our experience have not taken that long to sh

Question 2

How often do you provide stock signals?

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How often do you provide stock signals?

Weekly Stocktip provides a new BUY signal every week.

Our strategy purposefully only invests in 1 new stock every week. There's a common misconception that you need to trade "every day" to be a successful investor, but in reality that's not the case. You just need to invest in the right thing.

As Benjamin Graham puts it:

It is undoubtedly better to concentrate on one stock that you know is going to prove highly profitable, rather than dilute your results to a mediocre figure, merely for diversifications sake. Weekly Stocktip specializes in finding highly profitable and safe stock picks. While we absolutely could provide more signals, it would simply dilute your results and you would see lower win ratios and lower returns.

However, we do provide a stock screening tool as well that ranks every single stock in the market. Using our AI Reports you can choose to invest in multiple stocks every week e.g. by only selecting stocks with a score of +80, or you can use it as a base to do your own research to find more stock picks.

Question 3

What is the minimum investment?

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What is the minimum investment?

There is no minimum investment amount required to use Weekly Stocktip.

Since you invest with our signals in your own brokerage account, and we don't charge any management or performance fees, you are free to invest as little or as much as you want.

||| That being said, it doesn't make financial sense to pay us $29 if you're only going to invest $1 The break-even investment per signal in the past has been around $31.

Question 4

Does Weekly Stocktip have a stop-loss system?

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Does Weekly Stocktip have a stop-loss system?

| Weekly stocktip doesn't provide or recommend setting a static stop-loss value.

The investor with a portfolio of sound stocks should expect their prices to fluctuate and should neither be concerned by sizable declines nor become excited by sizable advances. He should always remember that market quotations are their for his convenience, either to be take advantage of or to be ignored. He should never buy a stock because it has gone up or sell one because it has gone down. - Benjamin Graham

Our strategy dynamically tries to figure out the best time to sell a stock based on financials. It is much better at managing and evaluating risk than any hard-coded stop-loss system we have tried.

Human investors have to deal with emotions, the easiest way to try and control those emotions is by following a static stop-loss. E.g. -10% (if that gets hit, no matter what you sell it). However algorithms don't have to worry about emotions at all, instead it analyzes the risk to figure out if it statistically makes sense to keep holding onto the stock, or sell off and take the loss.

Let's say a stock price drops 20% in value in a single day, because of speculations that something will happen, or a scandal about the CEO or they lost a partner etc. etc. Sometimes these events have absolutely nothing to do with the future profitability of the company or its financial situation. The stock might very well drop in price, but if it's still a fina

Question 5

How many stocks are usually in the portfolio?

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How many stocks are usually in the portfolio?

The amount of stocks in the portfolio varies quite a bit depending on the market situation. In strong bull markets it will often be smaller, where as shortly after a crash the portfolio will have more positions.

| A good average estimate is around 30 stocks in the portfolio at a given time.

Question 6

Does Weekly Stocktip use call/put options?

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Does Weekly Stocktip use stock options?

Short answer: No, we don't recommend options or recommend you buy call options on our trading signals.

We specialize in picking high quality companies with a great risk/reward ratio. This is how we have managed a +90% win ratio in the past.

While at first this might seem like a great opportunity to utilize options for there are 2 important things that makes this unattractive for stock options.

#1 The holding period.

Our strategy selects stocks selling a price well below their intrinsic value and waits for the market to recognize and correct its errors. It invariably does and share price climbs. However, we cannot predict exactly when or how fast this happens. That isn't much of a concern when you own the stocks. But call options have an "expiration date", an exact point in time where if you don't exercise it before set date, it becomes worthless. Since we can't predict exactly when our stocks go up, this makes options extremely risky.

#2 The downside risk is much higher Options are inherently more risky than value investments. Weekly Stocktip has historically had around 7% losing signals.

Those 7% of stock picks have lost an average of around -16% in value. (that is a pretty low downside, compared to the average +102% gain on the +90% winners)

However when you trade call options your downside is fixed to -100% (unless you hedge your bets where you limit the upside instead), that's about **6 times the risk of owning

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