Archive for June, 2008
Discounts – Good or Bad?
I’m a big fan of retail stocks. Granted, it’s probably not the best time to be in retail, but all markets turn around and this will too. Now, is the best time to keep your money to the sidelines and really spend some time analyzing potential bargains for when the market finally begins to bottom. [...]
read more »Unbelievable
I’m not a big fan of Jim Cramer. I find his “investments” to be odd and undisciplined given that he, like many other prognosticators, often proposes long term theses for short term trades and doesn’t seem to truly understand many of the indicators he attempts to use to justify his rationale. But, I never thought [...]
read more »Contrarian Ripple Trading, My Take
In my last post reviewing Contrarian Ripple Trading, I mentioned that I would attempt to contribute my own take on a so-called contrarian ripple trading strategy which might act as an addendum or clarification on the views presented in the book. I don’t want to give away the authors’ entire strategy so I’m only going [...]
read more »Book Review: Contrarian Ripple Trading
Finally, got some time to get through Contrarian Ripple Trading by Aiden McNamara and Martha Brozyna. Actually, it’s a very quick read and short by design. The authors go to great lengths in their introduction to describe their intentions not to write a tome filled with unnecessary gobbledygook but to simply and efficiently describe their [...]
read more »Curious Investments Prospective
I named the last post “Retrospective (Part 1)” but I realized that this next post is more a look forward than a look back. And, so, Part 2 is actually a Prospective. More on the topic at hand, where are we going to go now? After two years playing with small amounts of money and [...]
read more »Curious Investments Retrospective
It’s been nearly two years since I started the great adventure that is The Curious Investor. Along with my first foray into learning about stocks and investing, I started my Curious Investments portfolios as a way to try to make some money on my new endeavors and also to test the various strategies I was [...]
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