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Steve Selengut

President of Sanco Services Inc.
Phone: 800-245-0494
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Steve is a private investment professional, working primarily with individuals and small businesses. He developed the Market Cycle Investment Management Process during the 1970s. He has always focused on individual IGVSI common stocks, CEFs, REITs and MLPs.. Steve invented, uses, and teaches his ...more
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Minimize Your Risk; Become A More Productive Investor
Wednesday, March 8, 2017 6:00 AM EDT
Risk is compounded by ignorance, multiplied by gimmickry, exacerbated by emotion. It is halved with education, ameliorated with cost-based asset allocation, and managed with disciplined quality, diversification, income, and profit taking protocols.
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Tax Free CEF Yields Soar Above 6%; Taxables Breech 8.5%
Tuesday, November 15, 2016 2:02 PM EDT
Add to your CEF positions as patiently and selectively as you can. This will: Reduce the cost basis of each share you own. Increase the current yield of each position you add to. Increase the yield and total income of the entire portfolio.
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Wall Street's Penny Parasites
Monday, October 31, 2016 1:13 PM EDT
At approximately five million "sell" trades per day, roughly $200,000,000 pennies are siphoned from our investment and retirement portfolios into Wall Street's already deep pockets.... as the regulatory posse stands idly by.
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Broker Investment Account Statements Deceptive By Design
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 10:27 AM EDT
Account statements reveal nothing about the "purpose" of securities, their sectors, or their fundamental risk level. Nothing specifies or summarizes my actual portfolio diversification numbers by either individual security, or by class of security.
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Prevent Investment Mistakes: Ten Risk Minimizers
Monday, December 21, 2015 3:09 PM EDT
Most investment mistakes are caused by basic misunderstandings of the securities markets and invalid performance expectations.
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Wall Street Firms Kidnap Billions In 401k And IRA Income Potential
Monday, November 9, 2015 2:44 PM EDT
Retirement income portfolios comprised of individual common stocks and various types of income purpose securities have existed for decades in privately managed portfolios.
In this article: BBN, ETO, FT, JPS, PFN
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Index And Sector ETFs: Mutual Funds: Speculation X3
Thursday, August 20, 2015 9:21 AM EDT
If you can’t understand or accept the strategy, don’t hire the manager. Mutual Funds and ETFs cannot “beat the market” because both are effectively managed by investor/speculators… not by professionals.
In this article: QQQ, DIA, SPY
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Strategic Investment Mixology – Creating The Holy Grail Cocktail
Sunday, July 12, 2015 7:06 PM EDT
Wall Street mixologists promote a cocktail that has broad popular appeal but typically creates an unpleasant aftertaste in the form of bursting bubbles and market crashes. Many of the most creative financial nightclubs have been fined by regulators.
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Stock Market Corrections Are Beautiful, When ...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 8:59 AM EDT
A correction is a beautiful thing, simply the flip side of a rally, big or small. Theoretically, even technically I’m told, corrections adjust equity prices to their actual value or “support levels”. In reality, it’s much easier than that.
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A Preemptive, Timeless, Portfolio Protection Strategy
Sunday, June 28, 2015 9:57 PM EDT
Investors constantly focus on the event instead of the opportunity that the event represents. Being retrospective instead of hindsightful helps us learn from our experiences.
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One Person’s Bond Crash Is Another’s Income Opportunity
Tuesday, June 23, 2015 9:28 PM EDT
The Bond Portfolio “Window Dressing” sell-off has begun.
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Income Investing: “Feed Your Head… Feed Your Head”
Sunday, June 21, 2015 5:31 PM EDT
For the sake of your retirement sanity and security, you just have to make income investing an intellectual exercise — not an emotional one.
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Income Closed End Funds And Total Return Analysis
Sunday, June 21, 2015 12:33 PM EDT
What are the two main reasons mere mortals invest in income purpose securities: one is their inherent safety compared to equities… a 50% income asset allocation is much safer and theoretically less volatile than a 100% equity exposure.
In this article: XOM
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Income CEF Price Volatility… No Problem At All
Saturday, June 20, 2015 6:59 PM EDT
Market Cycle Investment Management portfolios differ from any others you analyze and all investors analyze their portfolios intently when “bottom line” market values crumble. This focus is Wall Street’s Brainwashing of the American Investor.
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Is Your Investment Portfolio Prepared For Higher Interest Rates?
Friday, June 19, 2015 7:09 PM EDT
A rising interest rate environment is super good news for investors… up to a point. What you should do now in advance of a rate hike.
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The Investment Gods Are Furious
Thursday, June 18, 2015 3:50 PM EDT
Those who invested then: obtained investment ideas from people who knew stocks and bonds, had pensions protected by risk-averse trustees, and appreciated the power of compound interest.
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