Armin's Stock Selection

in my basic investment strategy and shouldn't abandon the core principals of diversification, sound values, patience, following a sound plan and maintaining a long-term perspective neither use short-term criteria to judge long-term results. Stock market investing is more about discipline, patience, objectivity and a clear, documented investment policy. and less about a market timing of any kind expecting periodically disappointments. Asset allocation is a diversification strategy that works. It doesn't offer a guarantee against short-term market losses, but it's an effective investment risk-management tool. Anyways, traditional rules of investing are still true and don't believe that even all stories about recession and recession itself is going to break it.But what's a recession? Business cycles are made up of periods of economic expansion and recessions, when the economy is contracting. The generally accepted arbiter of when U.S. recessions begin and end is the "business cycle dating committee" of the 87-year old National Bureau of Economic Research, a non-profit group based in Cambridge, Mass., that is made up of 600 academic economists. The NBER defines a recession as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months," and usually visible in measures such as gross domestic product, employment, incomes and industrial production. A popular rule of thumb says a recession is two consecutive quarters of shrinking GDP, although that doesn't fit some NBER-designated recessions. But recessions don't always coincide with stock drops:

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ASTRA portfolio is going to be here as it's, diversified, low turnover almost buy and hold fund with little or no changes going forward regardless the Wall Street joining a global rout from time to time.
It's more about what and how I do and less about what you should!

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