Stock Strategies
Indulge Your Vices
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 [...]
read more »The Santa Claus Rally
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 [...]
read more »How to Sell
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 [...]
read more »Case Study: J Crew Earnings Beat
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 [...]
read more »Case Study: MEMC Earnings Beat
To mark an example of how I go about trying to time earnings beats and time buys into potentially explosive growth stocks, I’d like to highlight the most recent purchase of MEMC Electronic Materials. For those that read this blog, you’ll know that I had been high on MEMC most of this month after reading [...]
read more »Picking Earnings Beats
This post might be better titled as a guide to buying growth stocks, but it sounds more impressive as a guide to picking earnings beats. It’s my general strategy to timing entry into stocks. My criteria are simple, but this quarter it has yielded tremendous results. It’s a strategy I believe can work regularly, but [...]
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