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Curious Investments Retrospective

Monday, June 16th, 2008

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 […]

Updates for My Readers

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Hi all,
While I usually try to shy away from being too personal on this site, I feel like I do owe an update to the regular readers on this site as far as why I’ve been so dormant lately. As some may know, I’m graduating from college in a week so things have been quite […]

Portfolio A Update - Bye, Bye Centex

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

Apologies for not updating sooner. I actually sold this stock on Friday. It seems that I’m shaking off some rust for my short term trading skills. While my initial pick of Centex was correct, my upside prediction was quite wrong. The stock moved swiftly to about $27.80 before hitting hard resistance and cracking down. Beyond […]

Google Earnings Report Analysis

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Taking a break from the recent Dow Theory series to give my two cents on today’s earnings beat by Google. It’s a stock I own so I’m understandably thrilled by Google’s recent earnings report. Google’s shares had shed nearly 40% of their value since reaching a peak at $750 and fallen to their 52-week low […]

Apple, Tech Firm or Not?

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Yesterday’s post on Apple’s recent correction and current rally was, for the most part a technicals driven analysis with attention paid to short term catalysts. I thought I’d sound off a little on my impression of Apple as a longterm story. The focus here is more on Apple’s strategic position than on crunching its fundamental […]

Apple’s Retracement

Monday, April 7th, 2008

We discussed Fibonacci Retracements last week and I promised a more in depth post on my thoughts on Apple’s current rally during my Quarter 1 Investment Review. Today, we’ll put the two together with a look at the recent rally in Apple’s stock. The stock sold off heavily as people took profits and ran away […]


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