The Detailed Fortune 500 Rankings are Released
Monday April 27, 2009
Many people think that the Fortune 500 is ranked purely by sales. Far more useful are the other rankings, focusing on measures of profitability. For those of you ... Read More
Turning $37.50 into $900,000.00+ ...
Sunday April 26, 2009
According to the most recent Fortune Magazine, which is dedicated to the annual Fortune 500, "If you'd bought a single share [of Johnson & Johnson] when the company went public ... Read More
A Trading Technique Based Upon Dividend Paying Stocks
Saturday April 25, 2009
One way to play dividend stocks for big gains is to identify otherwise healthy companies that have been forced to temporarily cut their dividends due to problems in their business ... Read More
Selling Call Options, Focusing on Weddings, and Looking at Quarterly Earnings
Friday April 24, 2009
In addition to entering into a series of investments and trading techniques that I described a couple of weeks ago, my operating companies have been busy launching new retail businesses ... Read More
This Week's Earnings Reports Are Going to Matter - A Lot
Monday April 20, 2009
This week, a host of companies are going to report earnings for the last quarter. Given that the stock market has had the best one month period since 1933, ... Read More
Price to Cash Flow Ratio
Friday April 17, 2009
Some investors prefer to focus on a financial ratio known the price to cash flow ratio instead of the more famous price to earnings ratio (or p/e ratio for short). ... Read More
Risk Adjusted Rate of Return
Wednesday April 15, 2009
If you have more than a casual interest in building wealth and investments, you have no doubt come across the term risk adjusted rate of return. It's especially popular with ... Read More
Secular Bull Markets and Secular Bear Markets
Monday April 13, 2009
Have you ever wondered the difference between a regular bull market and a secular bull market - or, for that matter, a regular bear market and a secular bear market? ... Read More
Bond Funds vs. Bonds
Saturday April 11, 2009
When most investors discuss mutual funds, they are talking about professionally managed investment funds that invest in stocks. There are, however, something known as bond funds that use the pooled ... Read More
Dow Futures
Friday April 10, 2009
Have you ever picked up the newspaper or watched CNBC and wondered what the reporters were talking about when they discussed the Dow Futures and the influence they would have ... Read More
Wells Fargo Earnings Cause Massive Rally on Wall Street
Thursday April 9, 2009
The Wells Fargo earnings report today sent stocks skyrocketing. Many of our bank positions were up 25% to 35%, making it a great day to come to the office ... Read More
General Electric Earnings Fast Approach - Might Be a Gauge for Industrials and Financials
Monday April 6, 2009
The Wall Street Journal ran a story about how it's been almost exactly a year since General Electric surprised Wall Street, causing a massive drop in stock prices as investors ... Read More
A Real Trade from One of My Operating Businesses - An Example of Buy-Write Options Trades
Saturday April 4, 2009
A lot of readers ask me for some more advanced trading techniques. A smaller transaction we entered into today might be useful to understanding how value can be found ... Read More