What is the Key to Success with Zen Ratings?

Let’s start by answering the question from the subject line of this email: What is the key to success with the Zen Ratings? 

Realistic Expectations

That’s because investors too often are looking for overnight riches from resources like the Zen Ratings. 

Meaning they expect that it will act like a “silver bullet” that miraculously produces profits on every pick, even in the worst market conditions. 

That mindset is a recipe for disaster because those expectations will never be met by our system…or anyone else's. 

Instead the path to financial success is best understood through the classic fable of the tortoise and the hare. As we all know the tortoise had the best strategy where “slow and steady wins the race”.

What that means for using the Zen Ratings is that our model gives a decided edge to the investor. 

That edge will not be apparent in every single stock. Or every single month. Especially when the overall market is pouring down like it is now.

Slowly and steadily the proven benefit of the Zen Ratings model shows its clear benefit over time. That includes seeing more winners than losers that leads to market beating performance. 

Going back to the start of 2003 there have been 11,119 A rated stocks that have produced gains. 

+23.86% average profit

104 day average holding period 

Now let’s compare that to the 8,703 A rated stocks that saw losses. 

-12.31% average loss

75 day average holding period

Not only do we have many more winners than losers…but our winners gained about twice as much as the losers. 

That decided advantage is what led to the average +32.52% annual return going back to 2003.

It also explains the consistency of those returns in beating the S&P 500 for 21 of the last 22 years. 

Now let’s turn our gaze to the specifics of the nasty start for stocks in 2025. 

The modest loss for the S&P 500 does not tell the true story of the more widespread pain endured by investors. That is why I want to share with you this year to date performance chart by market cap:

As shared earlier, if the overall market is down…so too will be the A rated stocks. Gladly those losses should be much smaller. 

On top of that the Zen Ratings keeps you away from the fundamentally weakest stocks that typically fall the most. 

Here is the proof from the year to date performance for the Zen Ratings:

-4.94% A’s

-6.97% B’s

-14.68% C, D and F

I am not afraid to show you the warts of our stock losses so far this year. 

That’s because I think those of you with realistic expectations will appreciate how much better it is than the average stock. 

Even better is keeping you away from the much more painful losses in the lower rated C, D and F stocks. 

What to Do Next? 

Use the Zen Ratings!

The best way to do that is to appreciate this easy 3 step method:

1. Track Your Stocks
2. Analyze Your Stocks (to sell off weaklings)
3. Find Better Stocks  

I spell it all out using the resources of WallStreetZen.com in my recent presentation. Just…

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Wishing you a world of investment success!

Steve Reitmeister…but everyone calls me Reity (pronounced “Righty”)

Editor-in-Chief of WallStreetZen

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