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Lumber Liquidators is riding the housing recovery

Positions // April 12, 2013 by Robert Freedland

Lumber Liquidators last earnings report blew past expectations.

Generic drugmaker Mylan is a smart healthcare play

Positions // March 19, 2013 by Robert Freedland

With the population aging, healthcare is a growth sector.

Lumber Liquidators is riding the housing revival

Positions // March 19, 2013 by Robert Freedland

The housing recovery offers attractive opportunities for investors.

Here's why I dumped Ford and bought Colgate Palmolive

Positions // March 18, 2013 by Robert Freedland

When it comes to stock picking, I stick with the winners and cut loose the losers.

Starbucks' double shot: It's both a US recovery and China play

Outlook // January 28, 2013 by Robert Freedland

Why I sold my Apple holdings and picked up Starbucks.

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Healthcare poised for growth under Obamacare

Positions // December 28, 2012 by Robert Freedland

Healthcare reform will bring more patients and boost profits.

We sold Microsoft and picked up Hologic in the portfolio

Positions // November 22, 2012 by Robert Freedland

The Sustained Momentum model is performing well vs. the S&P 500 Index.

Reshuffling the lineup for my Healthcare portfolio

Positions // November 16, 2012 by Robert Freedland

We did some housecleaning in the Health Care portfolio.

Why I sold Apple and bought Ecolab

Positions // November 15, 2012 by Robert Freedland

Here's a breakdown of my portfolio changes in October.

Why the Obama way is good for the economy

Outlook // November 8, 2012 by Robert Freedland

Obama's policy agenda has a good shot of leading American back to prosperity.

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Robert Freedland

Robert Freedland

Robert has over 40 years of investment experience and is a full-time optical surgeon. He uses his expertise in the medical field to help select healthcare stocks.

My Investment Models
Growth and Momentum

The model seeks to find uptrending stocks with improving fundamentals using a combination of fundamental and technical research. The model seeks to hold high-quality stocks for multiple months, although it will regularly remove stocks that exhibit weakening growth metrics or technical weakness.

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Healthcare

Investing in healthcare related stocks identifying companies with reasonable valuation and good prospects for growth including possible dividends to stockholders. These companies will range from drug, device, retail sales, electronic medical record, prescription services, and HMO/hospital companies. While emphasizing mid cap stocks, large cap and smaller capitalization companies may be included as well as emerging medical treatments/technologies.

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Sustained Momentum

This model is designed to invest in ten stocks that represent the overall best performance from a group of fifty stocks that I follow. Any stocks in the overall group that decline 8% are sold and new names are added. Stocks that drop out of the top ten shall be replaced as indicated.

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