Jim Cramer wants you to be a millionaire. He's got a blueprint. It involves identifying a small group of individual stocks to complement your diversified portfolio. The diversified portfolio you already have apparently isn't enough. You need the small group too. Both things at once. Diversified but also concentrated. It's like ordering a salad and a large pizza because you care about balance.
The blueprint works in any market. Bull market, bear market, sideways market, market that's currently on fire because someone tweeted a pepper emoji. Doesn't matter. The blueprint adapts. It's less of a blueprint and more of a choose-your-own-adventure book where every path leads to you watching Mad Money at 6 PM Eastern.
Retail traders will read this headline and think they've found the secret. They'll pick four stocks. Maybe five if they're feeling dangerous. They'll ignore the diversified part entirely because diversification is for people who hate money. They'll go all-in on something that rhymes with Besla. Six months later they'll be in a Reddit thread explaining how the market is rigged and blueprints are actually a scam invented by hedge funds.
The word "any" is doing catastrophic work in this headline. Any market means the strategy works when stocks go up and when stocks go down and presumably when they go sideways while you're sobbing into a brokerage app at 3 AM. If a strategy works in any market it's either indexing or a lie. Cramer's not selling indexing.
He wants you to be a millionaire. Not a hundredaire. Not a break-even-aire. A millionaire. The blueprint is right there. All you have to do is identify the right small group of stocks in any market condition using skills you definitely have. Easy as building a house without knowing how to read a blueprint.
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