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Steve Selengut

President of Sanco Services Inc.
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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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The "Great Recession" - Ten Years Later
Tuesday, June 12, 2018 10:36 PM EDT
Some thoughts about the investment climate around the time of the "great recession". You may find them disturbing, or enlightening, depending on where you think we are today... not a whole lot has changed.
In this article: VTINX
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Investment Strategy: The Investor's Creed, Revisited
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 9:00 AM EDT
Left to its own devices, an unmanaged portfolio (think NASDAQ, DJIA, or S & P 500) is likely to have long periods of unproductive sideways motion. You can ill afford to travel eleven years at a breakeven pace (the Dow, from 12/1999 to 11/2010)
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Stock Market Corrections - Shop At The Gap
Friday, March 2, 2018 1:28 PM EDT
Amid all the uncertainty, one indisputable fact reads equally well in either market direction: there has never been a correction/rally that has not succumbed to the next rally/correction.
In this article: SPX
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Managing The Retirement Income Portfolio: Planning
Thursday, February 22, 2018 9:14 AM EDT
The retirement income portfolio (most portfolios become retirement portfolios) is the financial super hero that fills the income gap between what you need for retirement and the guaranteed payments you will receive from other sources.
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Understanding "Income Purpose" Investing
Tuesday, February 13, 2018 8:53 AM EDT
Theoretically, income purpose securities should be the ultimate "buy and hold" security blanket within retirement income portfolios.
In this article: VTINX
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Market Numbers Through 2017...Not As Impressive As You Might Think
Sunday, January 7, 2018 10:27 AM EDT
The S&P has gained approximately 94% in market value over the past 18 years, or an average of less than 4% compounded,annually, so not so much to celebrate in the S&P for the long term investor.
In this article: QQQ, SPX
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Investing: There's Always Been A Cliff
Monday, December 18, 2017 1:21 PM EDT
With interest rates stranded at historical lows for nine years now, the stock market side of Wall Street has benefited from a self-created image as the only game in town where reasonable "returns" can be had.
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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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