While some investors are tempted to dump their stocks with major indices near record highs, six top-performing market newsletter editors recommend against it, says Mark Hulbert, editor of Hulbert Financial Digest.

Only six of the 196 newsletter editors tracked by the Digest outperformed the Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index during both the bear market of 2007-09 and the bull market that has followed during the last five years, he writes in The Wall Street Journal.

All six maintain you should stay fully invested in stocks, or close to it anyway.

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They include Gray Cardiff of Sound Advice, David Fried of the Buyback Letter, Douglas Gerlach of the Investor Advisory Service, Erick Ormsby of the Alcosta Growth Report, Taesik Yoon of the Forbes Special Situation Survey and Tom and David Gardner, co-founders of the Motley Fool.

Three Motley Fool newsletters made the grade: Stock Advisor, Inside Value and Rule Breakers.

Three of the six stars offered forecasts of where the Standard & Poor's 500 Index will close this year. The predictions ranged from a gain of 10 percent to 15 percent.

Just one stock was recommended by three editors: Gilead Sciences.

Others are bullish on stocks too.

"There are always bad things going on in the world, but they don’t all matter to the ultimate direction of markets," Douglas Coté, chief market strategist at ING U.S. Investment Management, told Associated Press.

"The only thing that matters is the following: corporate earnings, manufacturing and the consumer. And they’ve all been solid."

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