Investing Ideas

With plenty of cash on-hand, I’m always on the lookout to add to my existing stock positions… or find new stocks in which to invest.  Generally speaking though, I don’t consider myself a “sector” style investor.  I don’t buy sector ETF’s or sector index funds…  but sometimes the market will put entire sectors on-sale.

It happens because investors take-on a kind of “group think” around certain industries.  This lemming-like behavior can sometimes be completely right…

As a perpetual student of the stock market, I’m always keeping tabs on what’s moving and shaking in the world of finance.  Lately it’s been a group of stocks I call the “COVID-proof” stocks — Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Tesla, Zoom, Microsoft, and Google, that are doing most of the moving and shaking.  (Meanwhile, the S&P 500 is almost flat for the year — down a mere 1.4%)

All of these stocks have seen incredible price gains since the market lows of mid-March…

In past episodes of Mr. Tako Escapes, I’ve written rather incessantly about the difficulty of trying to predict the future.  Even though it would be exceedingly handy to predict future stock market movements, most humans have no ability to predict the future.

Despite this, many people try — They gamble hard-earned money on the speculative investments in the belief that the investment will become “The Next Big Thing”.  Sometimes they win, and sometimes they lose…

This time of year it seems to get progressively harder and harder to sit down and write a blog post.  Firstly, there’s the holiday’s vying for my time — Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s are the primary offenders.  There’s also parties, celebrations, and family gatherings that fill-up the days surrounding the holidays too!  Certainly no time for writing then!

With October rolling to a close in slightly more than a week, I thought it was high-time to spit out one of my investing ideas posts.  For those of you not familiar with series of posts, every month I try to write-up the most interesting investing ideas I’ve seen over the past month.

These are investments that I find interesting, unique, and perhaps have the potential to compound money for shareholders…