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Highlight Reel

December 23, 2020 //  by Lucas Downey//  10 Comments

The 2020 season for stocks has come to an end.

It’s highlight reel time.

Looking back, it was a stellar year for stocks…maybe our best yet.

HIGHLIGHT REEL

When you do a highlight reel, you show your versatility at skill positions. We’ll showcase:

  • Our top MAP View pick of 2020
  • Our Top 20 pick of 2020
  • Our top option trade of 2020
  • Our favorite blog posts

It was a wild and crazy year. Picking stocks is a lot like sports: you gotta deal with the elements. And the stock market had wicked factors to deal with. We started the year overbought, then fell into oversold, then sprang back into overbought.

It’s ok to have an up and down season. What’s important is that you finish strong. And MAPsignals did just that. Let’s now take a journey back through a stock market season like no other.

MAP View 2020 Highlight Reel

Closing out the year in style is what we like to do. As of 12/22/20, our MAP View picks had an average performance of +28.25% vs +17.38% for the S&P 500 (SPY ETF). That’s an outperformance of +63%!

That’s not easy to do. But it helps when you have elite teammates. Our best pick of 2020 was none other than Enphase Energy, Inc (ENPH). It was showcased on 5/25/20:

enph highlight reel
Source: MAPsignals, End of day data sourced from Tiingo.com (Disclosure: we hold a long position in ENPH in managed accounts)

A 203% gain in 7 months is juicy! It’s like a trick play that scores the touchdown. It worked so well that we picked it again just over 2 months ago. The setup was right.

Let’s keep going.

Top 20 Stocks 2020 Highlight Reel

It doesn’t feel natural to be braggadocious. But, that’s what you do in a highlight reel. You show the crowd the juice.

Our Top 20 report finds the best of the best. Some stocks are well-known frequent flyers. Others are newcomers. There were many that went up triple digits. But, there was one standout…a new name to us: Digital Turbine, Inc. (APPS).

It was first a Top 20 name on 6/16/20 at a price of $10.42. Since then, it’s +473%! And it didn’t show up just once. It signaled a top buy 8 times!

apps highlight reel
Source: MAPsignals, End of day data sourced from Tiingo.com (Disclosure: we hold a long position in APPS in managed accounts)

That’s the thing. Sometimes the best stocks appear out of nowhere. And looking above, we’d say that it wasn’t doing anything until Big Money came to play.

But what about options?

MAP Options 2020 Highlight Reel

I’ll come out and say it: We had a monster year in options. Plenty of trade ideas produced stellar performance.

But, in the gloomy days of March – we weren’t bearish. In fact, markets were oversold. And when that happens, we make bets like below.

On 3/22/20, SolarEdge Technologies, Inc. (SEDG) was trading at 69.61. We decided to do a risk reversal…selling 1 SEDG June 45 Put @ 3.50 to buy 1 SEDG June 110 Call for 3.30.

If you don’t know much about options, let’s just say that this was our way of strapping on the helmet when the game was on the line. It was a bullish bet that the stock would be above 110 at expiration. The stock settled at $153.60.

This is a beaut:

sedg highlight reel
Source: MAPsignals, End of day data sourced from Tiingo.com

But we aren’t surprised at that performance. SEDG is a frequent name for MAPsignals. Do you see all of that green above? Those are the hidden footprints of Big Money. Don’t fight that trend!

Now, let’s look at our favorite blog posts.

MAPsignals Top Blog Posts 2020

No one wants to play favorites. But, we must. We enjoyed navigating this unprecedented year.

Here are the posts that made an impact:

  • 1/30/20: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes discussed how our data was signaling bearish
  • 3/19/20: Send The Marines was our oversold signal to buy stocks
  • 4/2/20: Holding Aces said that the odds favor betting on stocks
  • 5/21/20: Investing Bonus Level is when markets award you a lot of points
  • 6/11/20: Initial Descent, we will begin our descent shortly
  • 6/25/20: Master Of Misdirection is when the Big Money deceives the crowd
  • 9/24/20: Election Trade said to expect big selling ahead of election and big buying after
  • 11/5/20: We Have Liftoff said the juice is coming for stocks

That’s one heck of a highlight reel for 2020. As the year comes to a close, we are prepping for what’s ahead.

The 2021 stock market draft starts soon.

If you’re looking for our fantasy picks, get started here.

Happy Holidays everyone!

Lucas Downey
Lucas Downey

Lucas is co-founder of MAPsignals. His full bio can be found here.
Prior to MAP, he was Head of ETF Sales at Cantor Fitzgerald & SVP of Derivatives at Jefferies, LLC.

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Comments

  1. Raj

    December 23, 2020 at 9:38 am

    Hello Jason and Lucas, and the entire team…

    Thank you for all your great newsletters and stock recommendations this year. It was really a good year… At least from an investing standpoint 🙂

    Looking forward to doing it all over again next year!!

    Wish you and your family Happy holidays…
    Raj

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    • MAPsignals Staff

      December 23, 2020 at 9:43 am

      Thanks for the kind words, Raj!

      Reply
  2. JD

    December 23, 2020 at 10:54 am

    Hi MapSignals – love the work the team is doing. How does something like Map20 perform in comparison to S&P500 during huge crashes such as 2000-2003 and 2007-2009? While my bet is that it outperforms, does it net a gain?

    Happy holidays!
    JD

    Reply
    • MAPsignals Staff

      December 23, 2020 at 11:12 am

      Hey JD –

      I will have to go back and look, but we did do a study on it years ago. If I recall, the Top 20 got hurt near-term just like all stocks, but the bounce back was incredible.

      Basically, if you kept betting on the Big Money stocks you came out ahead, but you had to sit through a nasty selloff. Usually when you shop the clearance rack, you find some deals 🙂

      Reply
  3. Greg

    December 23, 2020 at 11:28 am

    Happy Holidays! Great newsletters and love the charts! I’m relatively new to investing so I’m reading EVERYTHING! This is the first that I have seen an Options play. Do you break down option strategies/plays in your newsletters or is that for members only? Thank you again and have a great New Year!

    Reply
    • MAPsignals Staff

      December 23, 2020 at 11:33 am

      Happy Holidays to you, Greg!

      We are glad to hear that you enjoy what we do.

      We offer an options play each week for Gold and Platinum members. This is for paid members only.

      Reply
  4. Dee

    December 23, 2020 at 4:40 pm

    Why do you always have 2 options or a covered call for your option play?

    Reply
    • MAPsignals Staff

      December 23, 2020 at 5:10 pm

      Great question!

      Statistically speaking, selling options wins a lot more than buying options – all things being equal. So, multi-legged trades are where we like to be.

      When you marry that framework with outlier stocks = JUICE (odds on your side over the long-term)

      Reply
  5. Paul J.

    December 25, 2020 at 1:35 pm

    Hello Guys….. Merry Christmas!
    It was nice talking to you Sir Lukas a couple of weeks ago…had a great time and got good info from you.
    Must tell you guys, you produce some impressive ideas through your research and ‘stock/option’ picks.
    Thanks for the great work you do.
    Paul J.
    Nashville, TN

    Reply
    • MAPsignals Staff

      December 26, 2020 at 6:05 am

      Thank you, Paul! We appreciate the kind words!

      Reply

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