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Welcome to the first issue of Brain Trust Profits! We hope that you will find our service interesting, informative, and most importantly, highly profitable! Our weekly issues will be a mix of market commentaries and frequent reviews of open positions.  … Read More

We found our third pick in the Lazard U.S. Real Equity fund (LREOX). It is relatively small (just $57 million under management), but it’s one of the best performing and best rated (Morningstar gives it 5 stars) REIT mutual funds. It has a 3-year annualized return of roughly 25%, and… Read More

Our second pick comes from the Munder Growth Opportunities fund (MNNAX), a large cap growth fund that averaged 17.1 percent in total return per year between 2003 and 2011. The S&P 500, over the same stretch, averaged 8 percent per year. The fund has beaten the market index by as… Read More

Our first pick comes from the Henderson Global Tech I fund (HFGIX), a four-star (as rated by Morningstar) technology-oriented fund that’s delivered above-sector-average returns in all but one year in the last decade. Not surprisingly, its largest holding by far is Apple, the consumer electronics juggernaut with a market capitalization… Read More

Stocks, as measured by the S&P 500, have been hovering around the 1460 level after their initial jump following the Federal Reserve’s announcement that it would begin buying $40 billion in mortgage-backed securities a month. This relatively muted, sideways trading has made some investors nervous, especially after the sizable gain… Read More

Earlier today, we added the Intel (INTC) December 23 call option. It’s a buy with a limit set at $0.89 per contract. The initial rebound should carry the stock to the $25 area, at which point the shares would still be very attractively priced.  We’re holding several other positions that… Read More

Buy to open the Intel (INTC) December 23 call option. Use a limit order to pay no more than $0.89 per contract. Intel (INTC) has sold off in recent weeks on speculation that tablet computers and mobile devices are well on their way to killing laptops and desktop computers altogether. Read More

The markets have encountered a bit of profit taking this week after last week’s impressive gains. Such profit taking is to be expected and welcomed as it lays the groundwork for further gains in share prices.  The Federal Reserve pulled out all the stops last week. Rather than simply raising… Read More

We added two new long positions earlier today. The Fastenal (FAST) January 44 call option is a buy with a limit order set at $3 per contract. The Qualcomm (QCOM) January 65 call option is a buy with a limit set at $3.85 per contract. As we said, the aggressive… Read More