Jim Jubak
Most read stock picker on the web -- Picks up 254% since 1997
Jim on MoneyShow.com

Videos from Jim 

Next Appearance

02/03/2010 - 02/06/2010
Gaylord Palms Hotel & Convention Center
The Jubak Picks
ABOUT THE BOOK: The Investing Strategy for All Seasons

The Jubak Picks enables you to play great offense and great defense: to make money in the stock market in good times, to protect yourself during downturns, and to reap the biggest profits when the good times return. In good times, Jubak’s strategy beats the market, delivering an amazing return of 360 percent over an eleven-year period. Compare that to the S&P 500 Stock Index return of 68 percent and we are talking about real money in your pocket.

But times aren’t always good and no investor can make money all the time. When stocks plunge during a grinding bear market, you need a strategy for playing great defense that preserves capital, so you can pounce when good buying opportunities present themselves. And best of all, Jubak’s strategy tells what ten trends and fifty stocks will make you the most money when the market rebounds.

Jim Jubak’s top-down stock-picking method is based on being in the right asset at the right time, ensuring that your portfolio is composed of stocks with the wind at their back and that are trending upward. He shows how to find the best stocks by first understanding ten macro trends changing the world, including:

• The economies—Brazil, Russia, Vietnam, India, China, and the “rest of the gang”—driving global demand
• The return of inflation—and the end of the thirty-year era of low prices
• The rising tide of retirement money in an older and wealthier world—and the crucial need for companies that can properly manage it
• The commodities crunch in a world ever more hungry for natural resources
• The end of cheap oil
• Food as the “new oil”
• The decline in global financial stability and the increasing value of safe investing havens
• The world finally getting serious about the environment and global warming

Why heed Jim Jubak and his method?

• Start with the record: Returns that have beaten all major indices by a significant factor for more than a decade...and in bad times, such as the bear market of 2007-2008, losses that are just one-third those of the major indices.
• Factor in transparency: Unlike those who tell you the hot stocks for today but conveniently forget them tomorrow, the decade-long record—triumphs, warts, and lessons—is on MSNmoney.com (“Jubak’s Journal”).
• Add in continual updates: Jubak will provide continual updates on MSNmoney.com of his fifty picks, providing a real-time assessment of stocks that are keepers and those that should be sold.

Click here to read an excerpt from Jim Jubak's book.
Click here to purchase The Jubak Picks from Amazon.com

 
Bob Jones

Bob Jones Hi Jim,
I don't know how often you get a chance to answer these but my cousin is a big fan and follower of yours. I just thought I'd take a stab at asking what your thoughts were on RHODIUM? Since we get a lot from Russia and our relations are not all that good do you think the price will go back up to the $10,000.00 an ounce it was last year?
Regards,
Bob Jones
Pittsburgh, Pa

Jim Jubak

Jim Jubak The new frugality? Jimmy Choo comes to H&M. I was skeptical. But look at the price points: $129 for a pair of high-heel patent sandalettes; $299 for stretch leater over the knee boots. I leave it to the fashionistas to tell me if they'd buy JImmy Choo at H&M.

Fri at 9:57am
Su Turner
Su Turner
Its absurd to have to think about these issues every time you buy something. Even buying organic is causing more transportation fuels to be used. Buying "local" causes me to have to use more gas, more refrigeration, and more hot water to boil. It means I have to plan every meal, which iIlack the emotional ability to do.:) It takes away from the ... Read Morerestaurant industry which helps immigrants and kids get jobs. It also takes away from low-income jobs who are left of out the organic distribution network. Its a never-ending spiral of moralistic implicatons and self-flaggelation over issues that will never be resolved, although they can be ameliorated.
9 hours ago
Su Turner
Su Turner
Wealthy East Coast women, which everyone accuses me of being, which I am not, are the ones who buy all the overpriced shoes. This trickles down to poorer sales girls teens and immigrants getting jobs they would not get. It encourages the restaurant industry with the immigrant boys as dishwashers so they can feed their families. It acts as a ... Read Moreflagship for other stores, which feeds the New York Metro economy. For every 3 to 5 exploited foreigners, there is probably one foreigner who can get an American job and a better quality of life, *based* on restaurants and shoe stores and clothing stores, which encourage women to spend money and jump start the economy. Also Wall St and other pretentious over compensated men and women spend and incredible amount on restaurants and shoes which funds another 50K or so people in new york. college kids 20 somethings and immigrants. Deal with it. This is the economy.
9 hours ago
Karl Schilling

Karl Schilling Hey Jim, follow your work. I wanted to get your thoughts on NovaGold NG on the amex, just read your article on GoldCorp GG, pls compare.

Robert Allen Brown

Robert Allen Brown Mr. Jubak,
I thought your work on MSN was the best and am glad to see this new venture.

Saajan Doshi

Saajan Doshi Wow I am 17 years old and Iam just learning how markets and financial instruments work Your columns on MSN our great. any advice as far as what type of degree/double major(Math,Physics,Finance, Computer Science, Economics) I should be going for if I want to be an invesment banker/ working at a hedge fund.

November 3 at 7:04pm · Report
Jim Jubak
Jim Jubak
Math and finance/economics would seem to be a good mix. Be prepared, however: If you are a rigorous thinker finance is going to seem teribly fuzzy and filled with unproven assumptions.
Fri at 9:58am
Saajan Doshi
Saajan Doshi
Thank you for your feedback. Much appreciated.
I bought your book for my birthday, excited to learn!
Fri at 10:28am
Mary Carlton-Powers

Mary Carlton-Powers I have a question for you, our house value is down 25%. Unemployment is high, especially in construction, prices for materials are down. Why shouldn’t our insurance go down? I talked to mine and they said they don’t decrease only increase.

November 3 at 6:03am · Report
Jim Jubak
Jim Jubak
I'd shop around. I'm sure there's an agent in your town hungrier for business than your c urrent company seems to be. No harm in looking.
November 3 at 11:00am
Mary Carlton-Powers
Mary Carlton-Powers
Thanks, I will.
November 3 at 2:22pm
Jim Jubak

Jim Jubak What's the new cheap? Went searching for cheap no-contract cell phone in London over the weekend. Bought a Samsung for $20. How can they sell this phone at that price? (I assume there's a subsidy from Orange, the service provider, but still...) What have you seen recently that's mindbogglingly cheap?

November 2 at 1:28pm
Brian K. McGrail
Brian K. McGrail
I wounder why you ask that question. I mean, what can we learn from recent low prices?
I think some companies are selling cell phones cheap so they can lock people into service contracts or plans. The phones are a kind of lost leader in other words. Although, I totally agree with Katie Plese's comment made above.
November 5 at 1:00pm
Jan Kirk
Jan Kirk
I saw an ad yesterday for a 32" HD Flat Panel TV at Costco for $349! It's not a top brand or anything, but I spent a whole lot more when I bought my TV four years ago. Oh, and apparently 32" is too SMALL for a general purpose TV and is what most folks would have in their bedrooms.
November 5 at 2:10pm
Peter Klein

Peter Klein Can't get into your Jubak Picks web page. What's up?

November 2 at 7:02am · Report
Jim Jubak
Jim Jubak
Site was down this a.m. It's back up now. We got a surge of volume from Yahoo that smoked the servers for a bit.
November 2 at 1:25pm
Greg

Greg your book "Jubak Picks". According to the info on Amazon.com, it was published in Dec of '08. If that is correct, is it current enough for the times we are in?

October 31 at 8:28pm · Report
Jim Jubak
Jim Jubak
I'm constantly updating the portfolio from the book on JubakPicks.com. The ten trends in the book are supposed to run for 10 years. So if I got them right,they should last at least until the next bubble bursts in 2014 or so. (Date jokingly/seriously based on 7 years between the tech and housing bubbles bursting.)
November 2 at 1:23pm
Greg
Greg
Thanks Jim, I will get the book then.
November 2 at 7:08pm
Martha C. Vargas

Martha C. Vargas Hi everybody, I want to learn as much as I can about Investment, because pretty soon I'M ON MY WAY TO BE A SUCCESFULL RICH BUSINESS WOMAN, for sure millonaire... he he he... :)

Elliott Marchand

Elliott Marchand Jim - I saw this on bloomberg regarding "Rydex/SGI Mid Cap Value Fund" the other day and wondered what your take on it was.

Source: www.bloomberg.com
[bn:PRSN=1] James Schier [] runs his mutual fund using the value investing principles made famous by [bn:PRSN=1] Warren Buffett []. The disciple has found enough cheap stocks to do almost twice as well as the Oracle of Omaha over the past decade.
Roger Conner Jr

Roger Conner Jr
Jim, per your recent article, "Why Big Banks Hate Banking" on MSN, this issue MUST be discussed further and now. The conduct of the banks is deciding the speed and degree of the recovery at street level, and the banks are now the biggest threat to the recovery in the U.S. We must look at the credit union model of ban...king for the middle class (or lower) American to have any access to banking services that do not destroy the future of the banking customer. This is now a crisis situation and must be dealt with soon or we will sink into a black hole that will make Calcutta or Rwanda look like developed nations.
Roger Conner Jr
Read More

October 29 at 2:58am · Report
Jim Jubak
Jim Jubak
So you're really happy (joking) with the news this a.m.that Citigroup is sitting on $244 billion in cash right now. That's cash not being lent out.
November 2 at 1:30pm
Jim Jubak

Jim Jubak Research from Hyundai says 24% of new car buyers in 2010 will be empty-nest baby boomers. Huge number. Investible trend?

October 28 at 8:58am
Mahona Shackelford Witter
Mahona Shackelford Witter
Best of both worlds; a Yukon SUV and a MINI-S
November 3 at 9:54am
Rich
Rich
That's an interesting concept... have Hyundai said what kind of vehicle they are looking after.... or should we look to what Hyundai are selling?
November 3 at 12:48pm
Robert Kephart

Robert Kephart With respect to TC - bought it when you said to around $3 -- just sold about $12 - but now is back about $10 - is it time to buy back in?

October 27 at 4:56pm · Report
Jim Jubak
Jim Jubak
$10 and $11 have been good re-entry points lately.
Fri at 10:00am
Marilyn

Marilyn He is the man I trust.....