CASH (CASH)

(A Top Pick Aug 12/13.) He has a tremendous amount of cash on the sidelines, as opportunities present themselves. Would love to deploy more of the cash as he is not getting much return on it.

September usually offers opportunities. He is in 32% cash.

(A Top Pick July 17/13.) The Volatility Index VIX is getting a little low, which tends to indicate complacency which tends to indicate that maybe the market could be due for a very small correction in the next week or 2.

(A Top Pick July 5/13.) There was some lingering turmoil going on last year in Europe. He wanted to wait to see what happened, so he just parked the money.

(A Top Pick May 27/14.) Originally he held about 25%-26% cash, but recently deployed about 5%, so is now down around 21%. Likes to see some cash right up until October. Thinks that over the next few weeks, there is a reasonable opportunity for a pullback, and he wants the cash to Buy some good stuff.

(A Top Pick June 28/13.) Likes to hold cash because he does a fair bit of buying later in the year. Cash can be really underrated. It allows you to hop into stocks at the right time.

(A Top Pick April 16/14.) (He currently has 27% of his holdings in cash.) You want to reduce your risks so you sell some of your stocks where you have made gains over the winter. You want to have some cash so that if the market sells off, you want the potential to be able to Buy stocks.

(A Top Pick June 28/13.) He likes to have cash on the sidelines and this is a good time to think that cash is a good thing. The question is where to employ it. In these markets it is very, very difficult to get more than 2.5%.

For the past 2 years, the market has been kind of volatile usually from around April or May and often troughing or making some kind of the summer bottom between June and September. He is looking to deploy some cash into some cheap stocks over the next few months.

(Top Pick May 21/13, Flat)

Keep 20-25% cash in oil weighted part of portfolio. We could have a 20-30% correction. There will be another great buying opportunity soon.

(Top Pick Nov 15/12, Flat) When there is uncertainty, he goes to cash. He has been fully invested since then and is today.

There is a possibility of a glut of crude oil, courtesy of OPEC, pushing the WTI price down substantially. This would put pressure on stocks so cash will allow you to keep your powder dry and back up the truck. Also, tax loss season selling between now and the 3^rd week of December is going to be very strong, so the weak stocks that are weak year to date are going to be weaker for the next 5-6 weeks.

(A Top Pick Nov 15/12.) Currently he has close to zero cash in his portfolios. He is fully invested.

(Top Pick October 24/12, Flat) He has bought some stocks back now. He is back down to 5-15%, higher end of that range for growth accounts. Not sure when he will deploy the rest of the cash.