Options can open up a lot of… err, options… Okay, bad opening line. There are many advanced strategies for options and perhaps I’ll discuss those later. Right now I’m going to focus on the benefits of using a simple options strategy. As you know, I’m a fan of longer term investing […]
1 comment July 31st, 2007
Although my Marketocracy account hasn’t been going so well lately with the Nabloid.com Fund Genesis, I have had some success in the past. Under my personal account at Marketocracy, one of the funds I started is called Nabloid Solar. I started this fund as a way to track how some of the solar […]
Add comment July 27th, 2007
This week is turning out to be a pretty bad week for the stock markets. Let’s recap some of the issues at hand:
A falling US dollar
Sub-prime lending woes
new home sales down
Oil prices ~$75
I will be using this down turn to find great entry points on under-valued stocks and options. We just have to […]
Add comment July 26th, 2007
While starting my My Mutual Fund, Genesis, I initially thought that the diversification rules at Marketocracy made it so that you had to invest in about 20 companies. Boy was I wrong! After reading the compliance rules very carefully I realized I made a boo-boo.
Basically the rules can be summarized as:
You can’t […]
Add comment July 25th, 2007
We all make mistakes; we’re only human (or nabloids). The important thing is that we learn from our mistakes. The mistake I made (the one I’m talking about today, anyways) is that I didn’t listen to my gut instinct. This was several years ago, I had just got about ~$4,000 worth of money […]
1 comment July 24th, 2007
I’d like to take this time to welcome you to the 46th Festival of Stocks. This week (July 15 to July 21) there were 12 entries (1 of which was down at the time of writing this article - Sorry, Personal Finance Blog Articles).
Stock Analysis
SNX: A Look at the Synnex 10Q posted at Stock […]
3 comments July 23rd, 2007
The age old question, should we be investing for dividend growth or dividend yield?
I don’t know if my thinking is a little off, but here is my argument (well it’s a weak argument, but that’s because I’m tired). You may be surprised by the conclusion I’ll ultimately reach on this subject.
I’d rather invest for […]
2 comments July 21st, 2007
The first of My Mutual Fund’s is named Genesis and trades under the symbol GEN .
I was able to finally log in to my account and fill out the order form. I experienced two problems. The first problem is the company name that comes up when I type in the symbol SLW. […]
Add comment July 20th, 2007
As you know I’m starting up a new “My Mutual Fund” series. I will probably have a few mutual funds but today I focused on setting up my first.
For mutual fund compliance reasons, I need about 20 companies in my portfolio. I’d like to keep it as low as possible so I will start my mutual […]
2 comments July 19th, 2007
I’ve decided to start a new series called “My Mutual Fund“. Basically I will run a fake mutual fund under real life circumstances (fees are subtracted, regulations must be followed, etc) and see how well I do. The biggest downside to this entire series will be the regulations and being limited to just […]
5 comments July 18th, 2007
