Summer is traditionally the time of year where people's attention rightly turns to family and holidays. It's often the first time of the year that people get to take a step back and reflect on what matters most. That's certainly what we are doing and we wish you all the best for the last of the summer wines. But August is also often the time that people look back on their New Year's Resolutions and wonder how they could have kept them better.
Certainly we noticed that huge numbers of investors ploughed back into the Stock Market in the first quarter of 2013 giving fillip to a strong rally in the indices. But since March most of the major UK indices have remained rangebound with barely a bean on offer to those who bought tracker funds. Disappointing to say the least.
A time for stock pickers to shine...
But it's in these environments that the sharper stock market investor can shine. An FT article this week outlined how finally the market environment has changed to the extent that stock pickers are again beating the broader risk on/risk off driven indices - and certainly the stellar portfolio performance of one of our subscribers and blog contributors ExpectingValue illustrates this perfectly.
Beyond this Stockopedia's Guru Screens have started dramatically outperforming again - with the market especially rewarding good value, quality stocks with rising share prices. Since March Stockopedia's Composite of Screens has risen almost 10% while the FTSE 100 and All Share have remained largely flat. Meanwhile Stockopedia's Screen of Screens has risen 12% and those subscribers using these selection tools have enjoyed excellent results.
How to keep an eye on what works...
In order that subscribers can keep track of these statistics and find opportunities in great stocks more quickly we've recently redesigned the homepage. We see this as the first step towards providing a central resource where subscribers can keep an eye on everything going on both in the market and around the site. Every widget on the page has a small blue link icon in the top right of the box that allows you to quickly navigate to the related section deeper in the website for further research.
