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I Put My Money Where My Mouth Is
2007-12-09 04:30:00 As you might know (well, at least those very careful readers might—those who keep tabs on my portfolio without my needing to shine a light on it), I decided to avoid one of the things I often dislike about many commentators who write about the stock market: they can talk all day long but you'll never know if they have the stomach to eat what they say you should eat. In other words, a few days ago More About: Money , Mouth
52 Ways To Profit From The Falling US Dollar
2007-12-04 03:03:00 I was carpooling this morning with my friend when we entered a discussion about the merits and drawbacks of using ADR’s as a means to benefit from already strong overseas companies during these weak times of the U.S. dollar. Even though the conversation was general, it got me thinking. Ultimately, later in the day, I concluded that an obvious way would be one where successful foreign companies More About: Dollar , Profit
It’s Time To Give Away Another $10 Starbucks Gift Card
2007-12-02 17:37:00 Everyone knows by now about my fondness for C. Arabica beverages. But because I couldn’t be so selfish so as to captivate my love for coffee-related drinks to myself exclusively, it’s time me thinks to export some of that indulgence. Well, I’ll provide the cash anyways, you can do the indulging. Unlike last time which turned out to be a bit too complicated, I’ll make this one much easier: a More About: Card , Time , Starbucks , Gift , Give
Snacking On Prospect Street
2007-12-02 02:45:00 To begin, I should disclose that I don’t invest for dividends. I invest for stock price appreciation. In fact, I’m so strict about this, that I don’t even take a company’s dividend into consideration when I buy it. If it has one, and I happen to be holding it for a distribution period, great. Bonus. Period. With that said, I recently purchased some shares of Prospect Street High Income Portfolio
Why A Guy Who Never Wants To Buy A Bank Is Thinking About Buying A Bank
2007-11-27 05:21:00 I never consider buying into banks. They’re always just too safe. They’re always just so “been there done that.” Perhaps were I older, or more risk averse, or retired or something, would I consider them. But I’m none of these. The problem for me has always been that banks just really don’t do that much. In short they’re too easy. The advantage they have over other stocks I do consider is that More About: Buying , Bank , Thinking
Why I Like The Stock Market—Reason #3
2007-11-21 02:56:00 I like the stock market because it’s unlike a traditional job. For the time being, for me, I still very much have to work. So, while my investing activities happen to run parallel to my employment activities, I get, instead of some longing to discontinue the job I am not so perfectly suited for, a chance to constantly compare the one to the other. I get to make them foes while I sit back and More About: Stock , Reason
Some Site Updates
2007-11-19 00:33:00 Two announcements: 1. “What I’m reading right now” sidebar section You had to know, right? You did know right? Of course you knew. You knew I was a reader. You knew I craved books. You knew I satisfied that craving. Constantly. Books and I are like water and fish. And if you’ve ever wondered what it was I was reading at any given instant, now you can find out. At the very bottom on the left I’ More About: Site , Updates , Some
How To Survive In A Bear Market—Warren Buffett Style
2007-11-13 04:17:00 As the plausibility of a bear market continues to grow, I thought it would be useful to consider ways that we could react, should the market take a turn for the worst. Even better, let’s let Warren Buffett do it. Here are some quotes of things he’s said over the years that I think can give any of us at least a few reasons to rest easy. 1. “If a business does well, the stock eventually follows” More About: Style , Survive
Recent Blog Carnival Appearances
2007-11-12 03:42:00 I recently submitted some articles to some blog carnivals and inadvertently had not noticed that the articles were in fact mentioned on the sites hosting the carnivals. I wanted to take a moment and point out those submissions and present the sites: KCLau's Money Tips hosted Personal Finance Money Tips - November 3, 2007 Prior to the carnival, I had never heard of this site. Turns out, it’s a More About: Carnival , Blog , Appearances , Blog Carnival , Recent
Utterly Amazing
2007-11-11 17:20:00 Originally, I was going to title this something-about-the-benefits-of-holding-c ash but damn, this really is, just amazing. After posting better than expected results (better even than my most optimistic version) and after earning the first serious gain in a long while, Headwaters got annihilated today, with much of the market, and broke down to an even lower 52-week low after shedding almost a More About: Amazing
Is Headwaters (HW) Still Too Spooky?
2007-11-01 02:32:00 Now things are starting to look a little interesting in the world of Headwaters (HW). From it’s 52-week low (intraday) on October 25th at $13.16, it has risen a shade over 9% at the close of the market today ending at $14.35. Several things are interesting to me now (instigated because I currently have an embarrassingly large percentage of my portfolio invested in it ): 1) I think the bottom More About: Spooky , Waters
The Best Stock Trading In The World Is Featured On The StartUp Blog
2007-10-30 04:03:00 Just wanted to make a quick note today that The Best Stock Trading In The World was in fact featured on The StartUp Blog at PartnerUp. You can see the latest edition of the Carnival of the Capitalists here. I encourage everyone to go check out both that blog and the articles in the carnival. I’ve read several of them and found them to be noteworthy. There are articles for Sales and Marketing, More About: The World
A Treatise On The Best Stock Trading In The World’s Performance
2007-10-28 23:11:00 Don’t worry, as far as treatises go, this will be both the shortest and least treatise-like treatise you will ever read. So, you might be wondering then, “why call it a treatise?” Not a bad question, but, it proves a very subtle point. That subtle point is that the performance of this site is straddled by its somewhat narrow focus; its performance is dictated by the illusory tastes and relative More About: Performance , Trading , Stock , Perform
Is Headwaters (HW) An Unnecessary Risk?
2007-10-26 03:51:00 Anyone who is keeping tabs on my open positions has the potential to have the somewhat justified right to wonder how I feel now, after my large stake in Headwaters (HW) has softened so much. While others in my position might have bailed by now, I’m still more than convinced that the decision to buy as much of it as I thought I could was the best possible decision I could have made at the time I More About: Risk , Waters
Introducing The Best Web Site Ever Made In The History Of Mankind
2007-10-22 13:17:00 Ok, that might not be so; after all, I might be extremely biased. You see, when I sit down to write about the stock market and investment-related matters, very often I encounter many numerous things that I feel passionate about, or that I am at least certainly fond of; things that I would very much like to write about but that I struggle sometimes with bridging those things to this world, to this More About: History , Site , Mankind , Made , Web site
Am I A Contrarian?
2007-10-21 23:59:00 I guess I never really thought about it that much to be honest with you. As most of you who have been following along regularly know, I’ve really been enjoying the College Analysts. While reading this article, which could be summed up as chocked full of contrarian opportunities, I found myself salivating profusely. Really. Ask my dog. So, if finding a stock, beat down and struggling in a choke
Why We Gnash Our Teeth
2007-10-21 16:30:00 Ideally, every time you buy a stock it would go up in value. Ideally. But, as most and even good investors know, this never happens every time. Instead, you end up buying a stock only to sit and watch it fall right away, and then, sometimes when you decide you’ve had enough, you sell it, only to watch it go right back up again. And then still other times, you take a profit, feeling pretty good More About: Teeth
10 Maxims For Thoughtful Investors
2007-10-21 02:37:00 Occasionally, I think of little mantras which help guide my thinking. So, I started writing them down. Eventually, I began to notice just how much influence they began having on my perspective. It turns out they are little versions or even pieces of the abstract side of my comprehensive strategy. They are signposts in a sometimes strange wilderness. Here are ten of them: 1) Have an iron stomach More About: Investors
Why I Like The Stock Market – Reason #2
2007-10-20 07:08:00 I like the stock market because it defies our wiring. It trumps learned experience, divorces our inherited instruction set and introduces new paths to old goals. All that from stocks? When we drink a glass of water, there is a certain and necessary route we’re just going to have to take. We have to take a sip. And then another. And we have to keep doing this until we’re done. Or when we read a More About: Stock Market , Market , Stock , Reason
Very Large Dataset Analysis #2 – The Impact Of Stock Price On Gains Withi
2007-10-17 01:31:00 This is a continuation of this article. In that article, which was simply a beginning examination of what stock price, exclusively, can seem to indicate about price performance, we determined that stock price alone could seem to be used (for the time frame I selected to examine) to achieve a higher yield; higher when compared to the market overall, but only neck and neck with the performance of More About: Analysis , Stock , Price , Large , Anal
While The College Analysts Get Pummeled, I Put On My Gloves
2007-10-14 23:55:00 As can often be the case in the Blogosphere, bloggers meet other bloggers. Weeks ago, I met the College Anal ysts because I stepped forward to investigate the possibility of some traffic exchange. After learning that any exchange would be rather inequitable (I would receive far more attention than I could possibly give), we both agreed to box up the prospect for potential future use. We even More About: Gloves , Mele
A Reader, Zlatko, Initiates Discussion About Prospect Theory
2007-10-13 21:37:00 In response to my article regarding my intention to never take a loss, a very helpful reader, Zlatko, dished up some very tasty food for thought. He brought up the topic of Prospect Theo ry , a theory I didn’t, at the time, know anything directly about. I replied that I wanted to do some snooping, and afterwards, respond a little more intelligently. You can read those comments here. This entire More About: Reader , Discussion
Very Large Dataset Analysis #1 – The Impact Of Stock Price On Gains
2007-10-12 16:55:00 Have you ever heard the supposition that higher priced stocks tend to perform better than lower priced stocks? Arguments against this supposition will remind us that stock prices ultimately are irrelevant; that, should you have two identical companies, with one whose stock price is half the other’s (i.e. trading at $10 vs. $20), all this means is that the lower priced company simply has twice as More About: Analysis , Stock , Price , Large , Anal
The Best Stock Trading In The World Is Hijacked
2007-10-11 22:10:00 As promised here and here, the winner of the Starbucks gift card contest has elected to hijack a blog post. [Wait! Wait! Please...no...not in the trunk! (muffled sounds follow)] Is it fair, when given the opportunity to hijack another person's blog for a brief moment, to offer him a block of text which gives praise to the owner rather than adding significant content to his website? Probably More About: World , Trading , Stock , The World
The Very Large Dataset Project
2007-10-09 00:51:00 I once took a statistics course taught by an Iranian. Whether it was due to the teaching style, the subject matter or even both, I turned out to both be very successful in the course and to love it. Truly, a really passionate attitude toward it. But statistics? That revelation should pretty much seal my fate in any of your eyes as to the degree to which I am a complete nerd. Nevertheless here’s More About: Project , Large
The Day Money Stopped Being Spendable
2007-10-07 04:13:00 That’s the day you know you’ve finally made it to investorhood. Not that money ever really becomes unspendable, literally. However, money, as often viewed, is an output of some function. It is the end result, the hoped for turnout of some function or action. It’s something you end up wanting to spend. The remarkable day that that stops, the day when perceiving it as the end to which you aspire, More About: Money
Why I Don’t Plan On Ever Taking A Loss
2007-10-06 07:50:00 I will start, nobly, with a defense. Why should I defend myself? Simply. Because most sensible people will take offense to what I am about to say. In other words, by saying what I have on my mind, and have had on my mind since I started this project, people will invent one idea in particular that I don’t even so much as plan on talking about. But the human nature is there, so by starting off by More About: Loss , Plan , Taking
Google Servers Have Runny Nose, Fever
2007-10-05 02:30:00 Provocative title, no? I’ve been trying to access The Best Stock Trading in the World for several hours now. The servers are timing out. Everything on the domain side seems ok, so it looks like a Google issue. I’ve tried pinging the ghs.google.com site every half hour or so, but it’s timing out too. Reversion to legacy blogspot url fails also. It appears that I can post, because I can access the More About: Servers , Nose , Fever , Serve
A Perfect Day For Stocks
2007-10-04 05:29:00 During these dismal dreary days when the stock market recedes some from a recent crest and people everywhere slosh their feet around and put hands in pockets and take them back out and fidget while they stare at the floor, some of us go shopping. Some see sun where others see rain. It was with this gaiety from which I took solace on an otherwise droopy day. Besides a soft and saggy market, my More About: Stocks , Perfect , Perfect Day
Completed Trades And Open Positions Spreadsheet Now Available
More articles from this author:2007-10-02 05:00:00 There has been some degree of interest in, besides my showing completed stock trades, my showing open positions as well. For instance here. And here (this one was the tipping point —“difficulty”?— more like “impossibility” — wow, I felt bad; hope this remedies the labor lost looking WintrOn). Also (as though I should be surprised) I’ve seen some strict skepticism. For instance here. To address More About: Open , Spreadsheet , Shee , Position 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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