Archive for January, 2007
Fundamental Versus Technical Analysis
As you may be able to tell, I am personally a rather large proponent of technical analysis and almost always use technical indicators when trading. It may seem odd that it is possible to pick a stock completely based on charts of the stock’s price movements and volume changes. Afterall, investing in the stock market [...]
read more »Portfolio Management: Diversification
After the last post on correlation between stocks, you might have been thinking that this all seems to be leading to a post on the importance of diversifying your stock portfolio. But, in actuality, my intention is to blow a big hole in all the “Diversify, Diversify, Diversify” rhetoric that has long been fed to [...]
read more »New Blog: Curious Investments
Some of you may have found my site from InvestorsParadise.com and may already even know about this, but I thought it’d be a good time to announce! Seth Richardson and Justin DeMerchant, who run Investors Paradise, recently asked me to contribute to the new re-vamped Investors Paradis site. As such, I’ve started a new blog, [...]
read more »Portfolio Management: Correlation
After the last post on risk, you are probably wondering how to evaluate your prospective portfolio for its risk? Well, we gave one way – check the beta of your investments and your portfolio as a whole. While it may be easy to look up beta of your individual investments, it’s harder to get a [...]
read more »Portfolio Management: Risk
Alright, time to get philosophic! Now that you’re armed with tools to analyze stocks and make some picks, it’s time to think about how to build a portfolio. We may all have different goals for our portfolio. Some people may just be looking for a place to grow their savings for retirement. Others may be [...]
read more »Curious Investments: Cosi (COSI)
Well, after about a month of floundering, I decided to pull the trigger and sell both Savvis and Scientific Games. Basically, because each company had about a weeks worth of down days and had fallen about 7% from my purchasing price. This was at the beginning of the last week, and it turns out that [...]
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