Curious Investments

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 [...]


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 [...]


Updates for My Readers

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

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

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?

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 [...]