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After my recent post examining the response to event risk (and when it manifests itself) depending on perspective as a trader or as an investor, I realized that it might be a good idea to throw my two cents in on the difference between trading and investing. It would seem that this is a pretty […]
Was yesterday’s post on investing in your vices a little disheartening? Does the “angel” investor inside you wish you could only invest in cute and cuddly companies which breed unicorns and consume green house gases. Luckily, I think we all know that there’s more than one way to make money in the markets. Yes, vice […]
So, my last post on a few contests that I’ve entered got me thinking about my propensity to play games of chance. I wouldn’t say I have a gambling problem, but I do find myself drawn to those games when I have a few extra bucks lying around. We all know that gambling whether it […]
Are the markets cyclical? Is society always doomed to repeat itself? It would seem that simple human nature and our fascination with using regressive analysis to predict future performance would almost mandate such behavior in the markets. We’ve all heard the old saying, “Sell in May and Go Away.” A few months ago, I posted […]
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 […]
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 […]
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