If you want to be successful at investing or trading you need to find your own way. I don’t see much point subscribing to any of these stock picking services or ‘Guru’ picks. (Unless of course they are used to educate yourself as to how to find good trades.) That being said, one of my […]
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Finding the Next Starbucks by Michael Moe Review
Just picked up ‘Finding the Next Starbucks: How to identify and invest in the hot stocks of tomorrow’ by Michael Moe. It’s not a very new book, it was actually published in 2006 but I’m finding it pretty good so far. As you might guess, the gist of the book is to try and find […]
Stock market warning as volatility drops to historical lows
US stock markets fell yesterday indicating a new stock market warning with the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropping -0.25% while the Nasdaq sank -0.28% and the S&P 500 fell -0.11%. The fall comes after four days of rallies took global markets to a record value of $63.8 trillion and saw the S&P 500 hit another […]
Friday’s finance links
In a new section for this blog, I have decided to start a series of posts called ‘Friday’s finance links’. Every Friday, I post some of the best links to finance websites and articles that I have found for the previous week. Friday’s finance links: Super rich: The greed game – Excellent video from BBC’s Robert […]
Portfolio Update – 9 March 2014
Portfolio update for Marwood Capital for week ending 9 March 2014: Our portfolio advanced by 0.7% last week, continuing the good form that we experienced in late February. Our stocks have benefitted from the rally that has sent US markets back to their record highs. Our best performers last week included Disney ($DIS) and Perfect […]
An 11-Rule Share Trading Strategy With A 15% Annual Return
Profitable investing can be stressful so a share trading strategy with rules is often preferable to one that is based on hunch or analyst advice. Using rules to trade has a number of advantages. For one, we can trade completely unbiased and objectively. This means we can backtest our trading rules over many years of […]
Four and Twenty Rules For Buying and Selling Shares Review
I Just finished reading Four and Twenty Rules For Buying and Selling Shares by Nigel McCarter, a New Zealand investor who has managed to capture returns of over 20% a year since 1997 using a strategy based on rules for selecting and selling shares on the Australian and New Zealand share market. At just over […]
4 Best Stock Screeners
There are over 8000 stocks listed in the US and nearly 4000 on the NYSE alone. With so many to choose from, it’s essential to have a method to whittle them down into smaller numbers. Here are my 4 best stock screeners, all of which are freely available on the web: Best stock screeners: 1 […]
Using the COT report to trade forex
The COT report or commitment of traders report is provided by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and is an excellent tool for forex and commodity traders to analyse what other participants are doing in the market. The COT report is published using data from Chicago and New York futures exchanges every Friday at 14.30 EST […]
