Archive for October, 2007

Is Headwaters (HW) Still Too Spooky?

Now things are starting to look a little interesting in the world of Headwaters (HW). From it’s 52-week low (intraday) on October 25th at $13.16, it has risen a shade over 9% at the close of the market today ending at $14.35. Several things are interesting to me now (instigated because I currently have an […]

The Best Stock Trading In The World Is Featured On The StartUp Blog

Just wanted to make a quick note today that The Best Stock Trading In The World was in fact featured on The StartUp Blog at PartnerUp. You can see the latest edition of the Carnival of the Capitalists here. I encourage everyone to go check out both that blog and the articles in the carnival. […]

A Treatise On The Best Stock Trading In The World’s Performance

Don’t worry, as far as treatises go, this will be both the shortest and least treatise-like treatise you will ever read. So, you might be wondering then, “why call it a treatise?” Not a bad question, but, it proves a very subtle point. That subtle point is that the performance of this site is straddled […]

Is Headwaters (HW) An Unnecessary Risk?

Anyone who is keeping tabs on my open positions has the potential to have the somewhat justified right to wonder how I feel now, after my large stake in Headwaters (HW) has softened so much. While others in my position might have bailed by now, I’m still more than convinced that the decision to buy […]

Introducing The Best Web Site Ever Made In The History Of Mankind

Ok, that might not be so; after all, I might be extremely biased. You see, when I sit down to write about the stock market and investment-related matters, very often I encounter many numerous things that I feel passionate about, or that I am at least certainly fond of; things that I would very much […]

Am I A Contrarian?

I guess I never really thought about it that much to be honest with you. As most of you who have been following along regularly know, I’ve really been enjoying the College Analysts. While reading this article, which could be summed up as chocked full of contrarian opportunities, I found myself salivating profusely. Really. Ask […]

Why We Gnash Our Teeth

Ideally, every time you buy a stock it would go up in value. Ideally. But, as most and even good investors know, this never happens every time. Instead, you end up buying a stock only to sit and watch it fall right away, and then, sometimes when you decide you’ve had enough, you sell it, […]

10 Maxims For Thoughtful Investors

Occasionally, I think of little mantras which help guide my thinking. So, I started writing them down. Eventually, I began to notice just how much influence they began having on my perspective. It turns out they are little versions or even pieces of the abstract side of my comprehensive strategy. They are signposts in a […]

Why I Like The Stock Market – Reason #2

I like the stock market because it defies our wiring. It trumps learned experience, divorces our inherited instruction set and introduces new paths to old goals. All that from stocks?
When we drink a glass of water, there is a certain and necessary route we’re just going to have to take. We have to take a […]

Very Large Dataset Analysis #2 – The Impact Of Stock Price On Gains Within Indices

This is a continuation of this article. In that article, which was simply a beginning examination of what stock price, exclusively, can seem to indicate about price performance, we determined that stock price alone could seem to be used (for the time frame I selected to examine) to achieve a higher yield; higher when compared […]