Unlike most investment strategies, the Market Cycle Investment Management Methodology includes a selling-for-profit discipline that (incredulously) seems to be a unique investment model. Over the past 40+ years, MCIM users have taken profits during every market upswing and repurchased Investment Grade Value Stocks during every down bubble. Any feel for what the results must have been?

To most investors, the DJIA provides all of the information they think they need, and they worship it mindlessly — thinking it has mystical predictive and analytic powers far beyond the scope of any other market number.

“Hey ‘Deep Pockets’, what were you doing on October 19th, 1987?” the Wall Street Jungle reporter asked. I was gritting my teeth, shaking more than just a little, palms sweaty but placing dozens of individual orders for the best NYSE, dividend-paying, companies — at prices that nearly everyone thought would drop even further. Looking around [...]

There are at least eight reasonable explanations for recent price weakness — there are at least eight excellent reasons why investors should be viewing this weakness as a buying opportunity. Clearly, the financial press has not attended any of my seminars on income investing. Lower prices and higher yields are good news for income investors!

IGVSI Rally Continues – Profit Taking Opportunities Take the Spotlight! The Market Cycle Investment Management model has outperformed the popular investment indices since it was first developed in 1970. It features an approach that embraces market volatility; selects securities using strict quality, diversification, and income standards; and operates under strict disciplines for asset allocation, buying [...]

Darlene Superville and Tom Raum, Associated Press Writers, On Friday September 10, 2010, 2:04 pm EDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama insisted Friday that the U.S. economy is digging itself out of the deepest recession in decades but conceded that “progress has been painfully slow” and many voters in November’s elections may blame him. [...]

March 16 (Bloomberg) — U.S. employers won’t hire enough workers this year to lower the jobless rate much below the level of 9.7 percent reached in February, three Obama administration economic officials said today. The proportion of Americans who can’t find work is likely to “remain elevated for an extended period,” Treasury Secretary Timothy F. [...]

By Walker Simon Walker Simon – Sun Nov 29, 6:43 pm ET CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday he could nationalize private banks unless they comply with the law, adding he had “no problem with that because the banks don’t want to extend credit to the poor.” In a broadcast from [...]

By Shannon Zimmerman November 25, 2009 I’ve been surveying the Fool’s premium service scorecards, analyzing a universe of stock recommendations that ranges from go-go growth companies to the comparatively buttoned-down dividend payers that the team at Income Investor selects for its members each month. And Income Investor is one service that I think deserves especially close scrutiny [...]

Stuart Saft 11.19.09, 4:00 PM ET The commercial real estate market is on its last legs and unless drastic actions are taken, the effects on the broader economy will be catastrophic. The obvious problem is the excessive amount of debt placed on the properties and the amount of debt that has to be refinanced during [...]