Today’s CWS Market Review

eWallstreeter | eWallstreeter | May 13, 2011 5:14 am

The stock market has reached a crossroads this week and I want to explain in full detail what’s happening. Investors need to understand that there’s a major shift happening on Wall Street and it will have a big impact on our performance for the rest of this year.

First off, let’s look at our Buy List. I like to tout how well (or poorly) we’ve done, and we’ve been doing especially well recently. Through Thursday, our Buy List is up 1.41% for the month while the S&P 500 is down 1.10%. For the year, we’re up 12.97% compared with 7.24% for the S&P 500. Each week, it seems, we put more and more distance between us and the rest of the market.

The Buy List is specifically designed to follow the broader market but perform a few percentage points better while having a little less volatility. Part of the reason…