Sysco Corp (SYY-N)

(A Top Pick Oct 9/15. Down 2.01%.) At the time he wanted to be a bit more defensive. October to May is really a cyclical time where you want to take on a lot of risk in your portfolio, but he was just not liking the market action, so was being fairly defensive at the time. On this stock, the average gain between Oct 10 to Dec 31 is about 9%, but this hit resistance at about $41.50. During the period of seasonal strength, it ended up with a marginal gain of about 0.12%.

Oct 10 to Dec 31, it averaged 9.14% 21 out of 25 of the past years. Sometimes they don’t go all the way to the end of year. It could be the end of November.

(A Top Pick March 23/15. Down 5.83%.) The premise was that this was in a defensive sector. There are talks of a merger and being taken to court, so there is some negativity around the stock. Just too much going on here.

It is a consumer staples stock and already starting to show positive signs. Normally it does not have seasonal strength until April 23^rd, but now is the time to get into it this year. A one to two month hold.

Consumers’ staples companies tend to be well in the summer. More of a defensive play. Has done well and is holding above its 20 day moving average. The trend is all positive and he can’t say anything negatively about it technically, it’s just that the seasonals are not backing it up.

On a seasonal basis, this has very strong seasonal strength between now and January, so we are just entering the period of seasonal strength. Looks very interesting from both a seasonal and technical point of view.