Value vs. Growth Investing
December 30, 2007
here are many investment strategies used by a myriad of both individual and professional investors. Some prefer the growth strategy while others prefer a value approach. While both good in their own regard, a combination of the two trumps them both, and here’s why. Read more »
Wall Street’s Hit List: 15 Worst Performing Stocks
December 25, 2007
The vast majority of investors, both individual and professional, become interested in a stock when it is breaking through it’s 52-week high. It’s not very difficult to determine why this happens - prevailing sentiment on Wall Street is that when something is going up, it will continue to go up. Read more »
Cheap Growth: 15 Lowest PEG Ratios
December 23, 2007
The price-to-earnings-growth (PEG) ratio is primarily a growth investing metric that measures the price-to-earnings ratio in relation to the growth rate the company will experience in the future. Read more »
15 Stocks Ben Graham Would Like
December 16, 2007
Benjamin Graham is widely regarded to be the founder of modern value investing. His greatest student, Warren Buffett, attributes much of his success to Graham’s teachings. Read more »
Have Commodities Stocks Peaked?
December 14, 2007
The commodities sector has been on a momentous run-up in the past year. Now that it is not rising as quickly, some people have begun to think that the sector could be topping out. I am of the opinion that commodity stocks have not hit a ceiling; rather, I believe they are simply taking a breather. Read more »
Jim Cramer’s New Book
December 4, 2007
Let me start by saying that I have not yet read through Jim Cramer’s new book: “Stay Mad for Life: Get Rich, Stay Rich (Make Your Kids Even Richer)”. I have, however, read through the excerpt that Amazon provided and there’s one particular sentence that makes me concerned Read more »
The Best Investment Advice You Won’t Follow
December 4, 2007
Even though you have all heard this a million times, and it has been proven over and over, many of you will not heed this advice and will lose a lot of money in the long run for a shot at the big bucks. I, too, am guilty of not using the following as guidelines for my investing, but I am actively Read more »
How to Play the Feds’ Upcoming Rate Cut
December 1, 2007
On November 29th, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said that the worsening credit crunch and rising energy prices will keep the Fed policymakers “exceptionally alert and flexible.” Many on Wall Street, including myself, believe that his statements suggest that a rate cut on the December 11th Read more »
