Archive for January, 2009
Fundamental analysis for traders?
Having written about technical analysis for fundamental investors, it seems only fair that I pay credence to how a trader can user fundamental analysis. Unfortunately, I’m not sure it’s quite as instructive to use fundamental analysis for trading. The principles of valuation and balance sheet analysis do not lend themselves naturally to trading. The goal [...]
read more »Technical Analysis for Fundamental Investors
I haven’t written about technical analysis in a long time. Given my shift away from trading and technical analysis to a more long term value focus, it’s probably to be expected. But, I realize that a lot of investors out there have their interest piqued by technical analysis and hope to incorporate it in their [...]
read more »The Safest Dow Dividend Stocks
After reading a bit on the Dogs of the Dow theory and doing a little research of my own on large cap returns, I seem to have convinced myself of the opportunity that may lie within U.S. large caps at the moment. Never in the last ten years do I think we’ve had the opportunity to [...]
read more »Buy the Dow
In my last post about various dogs of the Dow strategies, I outlined the potential for market beating stock picks through the identification of depressed Dow stocks. The general idea is that this forced contrarian strategy is a good way to induce all too often over optimistic investors to truly buy low and, hopefully, sell high. These [...]
read more »Book Review: Winning with the Dow’s Losers
I read Winning with the Dow’s Losers by Charles Carlson years ago, but haven’t really thought about it until recently. As you might guess, this is basically a book about the “Dogs of the Dow” strategy first publicized by Michael O’Higgins in his book, Beating the Dow. O’Higgins claims to have discovered this strategy in [...]
read more »The value of Steve Jobs per share
I wrote earlier today about why I believe Apple will be fine despite Steve Jobs’ surprise leave of absence. And, overall, it seems investors agree (at least at current market value) with the stock falling just 2% after trading down nearly 7% in after-markets the night before. Despite this, I’ve noticed many fear mongers out [...]
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