A little bit of fear and pessimism should be a necessity

I grade my stocks. I'm what they call a quant, one of the geeks of the stock market.

This is really a stock picker's market and not an index picker's market. I'm not buying stocks on a group's performance ever.

Obviously very leveraged to the financial markets, ... When stocks are going up, this stock should do better than the market. When stocks go down, it should do worse than the market. So, there is risk here. But, it's the most diversified of the major broker dealers.

This year is proving once again to be a stock picker's market. Isolating stocks on the move is exactly what this software was designed to do.

In order to win as a contrarian, you need perfect timing and the perfect size.