Stock Strategies
Indexing with ETFs
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 [...]
read more »Value Screening
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 [...]
read more »Value versus Growth
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 [...]
read more »Follow the Big Boys
The analysis of companies is an understandably daunting task. You have to take into consideration financial strength and relative value. After performing all this analysis, there’s still no guarantee that the rest of the market will come to the same conclusions that you did. You can wax poetic all you want about possible catalysts, but [...]
read more »Applying Fundamental Analysis: Value Investing
As you may be able to tell from the focus of my recent posts, I’ve been bitten by the value bug. After suffering a string of losses as a result of poor discipline and a several poor trading weeks, I came to the realization that I would feel much more comfortable investing in stocks with [...]
read more »A Simple Breakout/Trend Reversal System
Well, now that we’ve spent a little time getting to know some basic technical indicators and how to read a stock chart, it would seem to be a good time to put it all together in a simple system which will allow us to find stocks to invest in. Right now, it may seem awkward [...]
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