Archive for November, 2007
Using Trendlines
In the last post, we went over how to draw proper trend lines. Today, we’ll look at how to use those trend lines to help inform your investing decisions. Steepness Trend line steepness gives you a measure of how quickly buying or selling pressure is accumulating. Furthermore, changes in steepness from one short-term (or sometimes [...]
read more »How to Draw Trend Lines
I realized that, in many of my recent posts, I’ve included graphs with trend lines drawn all over them, but I’ve never defined trend lines on this website. Trend lines are one of the fundamental tools used in technical analysis. All of technical analysis is predicated on the idea that prices trend in one direction [...]
read more »The Week Ahead (Thanksgiving 2007)
It would seem that we’re off to an inauspicious Post-Halloween period. Unfortunately, credit market turmoil has continued to rear its ugly head and massive writedowns throughout the financial sector and throughout the world are starting to cause some real concerns about the economy in the US. Goldman Sachs decided to add fuel to the fire [...]
read more »How to Sell
In my last post on picking the J. Crew earnings beat, I mentioned that the chart also quintessentially demonstrated my sell strategy for my stock positions. In my book, there are two main methods for selling. The most standard method is to set a target, profit taking price. This is likely the safest way to [...]
read more »Case Study: J Crew Earnings Beat
To follow up on Monday’s post analyzing my prediction of an earnings beat for MEMC Electronic Materials, we’ll take a look at the first stock I bought using the strategy I discussed in “Picking Earnings Beats“, J. Crew. This post is meant to both reinforce my arguments for my aforementioned earnings beat strategy and to [...]
read more »Portfolio Performance Excel File
Just got a comment on my last post during the “Portfolio Performance Metrics” series. I realized that I never did get the final post with a portfolio performance Excel file online. Here it is! Here’s an Excel file which allows you to calculate Sortino and Sharpe Ratios as well as Beta and Jensen’s Alpha and [...]
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