Archive for the 'Stock Strategies' Category


Picking Defensive Stocks

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Not interested in changing your whole asset allocation model or just too lazy to learn about international markets and other less popular asset classes? Confident in your stock picking ability and would rather put together a portfolio of individual names? Well, in times of economic distress, you might want to narrow your hunting grounds. Recessions, […]

Feeling Defensive?

Monday, August 13th, 2007

While I’m of the camp that believes that the subprime meltdown will be relatively contained and that the economy and the stock markets will get through this current correction without a collapse in prices, there’s really no way to know for sure. The last few weeks may triggered profit taking or stop losses in your […]

Hedging (and ETFs)

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

So, you think you got what it takes to be a big shot hedge fund manager? Well, with ETFs at your disposal, you can practice similar hedging tactics as many hedge funds in your own portfolio. Now, let’s get something clear, a hedge fund is an investment fund which practices hedging as a way to […]

Indexing with ETFs

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Now that we’ve been through most of the exchange traded products out there. Let’s take a look at how we can use them. The most popular use of ETFs these days has been for passive indexing sometimes referred to as an ETF wrap. For those of you who are familiar with mutual fund wraps the […]

Value Screening

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

You might be able to do these stock screens in Yahoo! Finance, but I personally prefer to use the MSN Money Investment Toolbox. Unfortunately, the only way to get it is to use Internet Explorer. Go to an MSN Money Power Search and click the link for “Customize This Screen with our Deluxe Screener.” You’ll […]

Value versus Growth

Friday, July 13th, 2007

In our last post, we discussed the strategy of attempting to piggyback famous investors, particularly famous value investors who participate in shareholder activism. In the post before that, I discussed simple methods of finding value stocks, but I don’t think the real definition of value investing (or at least my interpretation of it) has been […]


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