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The Dice: Bulls, Bears, and Pigs
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Start with my first post, "Eating an Elephant" and work your way forward. I can teach you to invest well. Please share with friends, bookmark, and follow me by email if you enjoy. Thank-You. Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Bulls, Bears, and Pigs. Companies either have "cash" or "debt" on their balance sheet. Companies with good amounts of cash per share, can weather storms. See, when a company reports a loss for the quarter, they are burning up money. When that money runs out, they either have t...Sometimes...
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The Dice: Why I'm Qualified
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Start with my first post, "Eating an Elephant" and work your way forward. I can teach you to invest well. Please share with friends, bookmark, and follow me by email if you enjoy. Thank-You. Wednesday, January 18, 2012. You know what qualifies a great stock picker? Results are simply gained by being intelligent, knowing what to look for, knowing what information to discredit, and having a contrary opinion. Investing requires you to hold a contrary opinion to be profitable. In general, who ever is...Resul...
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The Dice: The Conference Call
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Start with my first post, "Eating an Elephant" and work your way forward. I can teach you to invest well. Please share with friends, bookmark, and follow me by email if you enjoy. Thank-You. Thursday, January 19, 2012. These conference calls contain a ton of amazing information about the market. You get to know the management team on a personal level. You can hear their confidence, or lack thereof, in their voice, and about the business' future. You hear them answer tough questions. Listening to the conf...
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The Dice: The Dreaded PE Ratio
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Start with my first post, "Eating an Elephant" and work your way forward. I can teach you to invest well. Please share with friends, bookmark, and follow me by email if you enjoy. Thank-You. Thursday, January 26, 2012. The Dreaded PE Ratio. The amount of shares outstanding. Back shares to shrink the float, and increase Earnings Per Share (EPS). Sometimes companies do "splits" and "reverse-splits" which restructure the float, and share structure. How do we then compare these companies Apples. This is exac...
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The Dice: January 2012
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Start with my first post, "Eating an Elephant" and work your way forward. I can teach you to invest well. Please share with friends, bookmark, and follow me by email if you enjoy. Thank-You. Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Stocks Are Leading Indicators. It's these bets, from people with a perceieved knowledge of the situation, that makes stocks leading indicators. This means a stock doesn't report good earnings, and then move higher, it moves higher, then reports good earnings. While it is true, you w...The r...
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The Dice: Dividend Stocks and Money Management
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Start with my first post, "Eating an Elephant" and work your way forward. I can teach you to invest well. Please share with friends, bookmark, and follow me by email if you enjoy. Thank-You. Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Dividend Stocks and Money Management. Established companies payback shareholders in a couple different ways. The stock can go higher, that is capital appreciation. They can pay a dividend. Well keep listening. Altria also increases their dividend about 1-2 times a year on average....Basic...
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The Dice: Cash Is King
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Start with my first post, "Eating an Elephant" and work your way forward. I can teach you to invest well. Please share with friends, bookmark, and follow me by email if you enjoy. Thank-You. Tuesday, January 24, 2012. How much money do you need to get started in the stock market? An Example. Fred invests $500 in Starbucks, and loses 10%. His investment is now $450. Jim invests $50000 in Starbucks, at the same price as Fred, and loses 10%. His investment is $45000. With $10,000, I'd be looking for a high ...
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The Dice: Averaging Up or Down
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Start with my first post, "Eating an Elephant" and work your way forward. I can teach you to invest well. Please share with friends, bookmark, and follow me by email if you enjoy. Thank-You. Monday, January 23, 2012. Averaging Up or Down. Averaging up, or down, can be a solid tactic to maximize your profits. It's also a very dangerous one. That's why it's right to average down, when you are sure the stock is cheap, and the general market activity is a bunch of hocus-pocus, that doesn't affect your stock,...
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The Dice: Big Caps Vs. Small Caps
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Start with my first post, "Eating an Elephant" and work your way forward. I can teach you to invest well. Please share with friends, bookmark, and follow me by email if you enjoy. Thank-You. Friday, January 20, 2012. Big Caps Vs. Small Caps. The word "Cap" is short for Market Capitalization. Market Capitalization is simply the amount of shares a company has in their float, multiplied by their current stock price. This number is supposed to give you an idea of a company's overall value, and size. Stocks a...