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Thursday, 25 June 2009

How Much Should You Invest in Stocks?

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When it comes to deciding on the percentage you should devote to common stocks, there are several alternatives that should be considered. Al...

A favourite Formula for Asset Allocation

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Age is the key to asset allocation. The older you are, the less you should have in common stocks. If you are age 65, you should have 65% in...

Benjamin Graham felt that individual investors fell into two camps

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Types of Investors Graham felt that individual investors fell into two camps : "defensive" investors and "aggressive" or...

Developing an approach to a 'tip'

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What I did when someone suggested a stock to buy. This is not uncommon. Your friend or a stranger will suggest a stock to buy. My approach h...

Core Tenets in Value Investing

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Read this promotional pamplet. It contains all the core tenets of value investing in a single page. Very useful indeed. 5 Secrets of Buying ...

7 Stocks That Could Cause Permanent Losses

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7 Stocks That Could Cause Permanent Losses By Alex Dumortier, CFA February 12, 2009 In a recent research note to clients, Societe Generale i...

Can You Stomach Another 40% Drop?

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Can You Stomach Another 40% Drop? By Dan Caplinger February 20, 2009 After seeing the stock market lose half its value and head down toward ...

How We Tripled Our Money in a Year

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How We Tripled Our Money in a Year By Tim Hanson June 24, 2009 This past year was an exciting one to be an investor. At one point in March, ...

Don't Rely on This Stock Measure

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Don't Rely on This Stock Measure By Selena Maranjian June 24, 2009 Should you care about a stock's beta? I recently learned that it...

3 Ways to Beat Lower Stock Returns

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3 Ways to Beat Lower Stock Returns By Dan Caplinger June 24, 2009 When 18 months of losses recently gave way to a nice three-month rally, ma...

5 Traits of Great Stocks

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5 Traits of Great Stocks By Jeff Fischer June 15, 2009 A recent study revealed that three of four stocks on the U.S. markets lost value b...
Wednesday, 24 June 2009

How to value this stock?

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Wednesday June 24, 2009 John Master’s ‘retirement’ an eye-opener Comment by Jagdev Singh Sidhu THE circumstances in which a company proposes...

Always buy, hold or sell based on fundamentals.

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To summarise: We should buy, hold or sell based on fundamentals. The basic premise behind our "buy" strategy - over the long term,...

Why we sell? Because of the fundamentals

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When you're building your portfolio, then, you want to pick the stocks that have the best fundamentals - because (sorry again) over th...

Why we hold? Because of the fundamentals

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When you're building your portfolio, then, you want to pick the stocks that have the best fundamentals - because (sorry to repeat) over...

Why we buy? Because of the fundamentals

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Let us examine the basic premise behind our "buy" strategy - over the long term, investors gravitate toward stocks with strong fun...
Tuesday, 23 June 2009

Determining When to Sell

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While a lot of strategies out there tell you how to buy stocks that will make nice gains, there are few that address the second half of the ...

The most difficult decision - when to sell

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The most difficult decision for an investor isn't deciding which stock to buy, but deciding when to sell. "You can be right about a...

Low Price-Earnings Investor

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What does PE ratio signifies? 1. One of the common explanations of the PE ratio is that it tells you how much investors are willing to pay f...

What is 'low' PE ratio?

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"You should look for stocks with a low PE ratio." What is 'low'? Depending on your point of view, low PE ratios could mea...