Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 (QQQ)

Tracks NASDAQ stocks along with a little bit of biotechs and some financials. The NASDAQ tends to do well during a Santa Claus rally and outperforms the S&P 500. He is expecting this to last until January 23. A short-term trade, but definitely something to be taken advantage of.

(A Top Pick April 14/15. Up 2.69%.) The cubes tend to outperform both the TSE Composite and the S&P 500 in the month of May. After that, they have a tendency to underperform going forward. Now is the time to take some profits.

Historically, this has outperformed the rest of the market from the middle of April through to the end of May. This partly has to do with its makeup. It is technology, which is when companies announce their new products. Also, a good chunk is biotech, and there are a lot of announcements from the biotechs that come into the market at that time as well.

The beginning of the NASDAQ run up began in the late 70s when we had the birth of the new economy, up to 2000. The NASDAQ came down and bottomed in 2002. There was then a commodity boom, but then the NASDAQ kind of fiddled diddled until we had our financial crisis in 2007. NASDAQ is now marching back to close to its all-time high. The big run up from 2009 is classified as the Echo Technology Boom. He expects the NASDAQ to take out the old top and go beyond that. This may be the last in the series, but it is going to go on yet.

(A top pick Sept 28/12. Up 17.04%.) About 70% of the NASDAQ index is technology. Historically this sector does best from around now until early January. Looking very interesting again this year.

(Do not purchase this top pick until around mid-October.) Historically the technology sector has been the strongest sector from October 9th right through until the end of January. Biggest holding is Apple (AAPL-Q).