LeapFrog Hysteria - December 28, 2005
by James Boric "...After opening about three of four LeapFrog presents in a row, I remember thinking to myself this company must be raking in some serious bucks right now. So this morning, I did some digging. Who is LeapFrog, I wanted to know?..." Online Brokers Part II - December 22, 2005
by James Boric "...On Dec. 7, I provided you with a list of 10 of the most popular online brokers on the market. The idea was to show you what options you have as a small-cap investor when it comes to choosing the right broker -- so you can maximize your returns on every single investment you make..." Technical Tuesday With Mark Bail - December 20, 2005
by Mark Bail "...Now, I promised two weeks ago that today’s column would be devoted to taking a look at the current technical condition of the Philadelphia Gold & Silver Index (XAU:AMEX). Are you ready? Great, let’s go!..." Wall Street’s Road Kill - December 15, 2005
by James Boric "...For 26 years, the symbol for Ralph Wanger’s small-cap Acorn Fund -- which averaged 17% from 1970 to 1996 -- was a squirrel. Not a bull. Not a lion. Rather, he used a small rodent that weighed about as much as my minuscule ThinkPad laptop to represent his mutual fund. Seems odd at first. But after thinking about it, a squirrel is a perfect metaphor for a small-cap company..." How to Invest Like Bill Gross - December 8, 2005
by Sala Kannan "...A close friend of mine, Ray, works down the street from us at T. Rowe Price in Baltimore. Yesterday, over dinner he told me about an incident that happened a few years ago. Ray was at an investment conference in Chicago. Some of today’s top investment bankers and financial analysts were in attendance..." Revealed: The Best Online Brokers - December 7, 2005
by James Boric "...How could that be? They each invested in the same company. They each bought at the same price. They each spent $500. And their brokers each got them at out the exact same price..." There's Gold in Them Thar Hills - December 6, 2005
by Mark Bail "...However, starting today -- and for the next few columns -- I thought I’d take a break from discussing technical indicators. Instead, with the end of the year approaching, I thought it would be a good idea to put on my technical analyst hat and use technical analysis to locate a segment of the market that looks like a profitable place to invest in over the year ahead..." A Small-Cap Investor's Biggest Advantage - December 1, 2005
by James Boric "...As a small-cap investor, you have a major advantage over every money manager, broker and hedge fund manager in the world. It’s an advantage that gives you the ability to achieve higher returns year after year..." A Real Silver Bullet - November 29, 2005
by Jonathan Kolber "...There is a unique kind of silver solution in labs right now that could kill every virus known to man -- including the HIV-1 virus..." The Magic Investment Formula - November 24, 2005
by James Boric "...Using this "magic formula" over the last 17 years, you would always have made money. You would have beaten the market in every single three-year period since 1988, with below-average risk. And you would have turned $11,000 into over $1 million. Technical Tuesday with Mark Bail - November 22, 2005
by Mark Bail "...Now, I believe it’s important to have at least a passing idea of how an indicator is put together so you have an intuitive feel for how to best use it..." Fire in the Hole - November 17, 2005
by James Boric "...A stripper well is an oil well that produces less than 10 barrels of oil a day. They are the smallest of wells...the kind most investors wouldn't waste their time even thinking about..." The Best Little Company You Never Heard Of - November 10, 2005
by James Boric "...You never know when or where you may run across the next great small-cap idea..." Technical Tuesday with Mark Bail - November 8, 2005
by Mark Bail "...the Stochastic Oscillator, both the RUO and RUJ have moved up from oversold conditions. So as you can see, this indicator can be a valuable tool for spotting short-term market shifts -- i.e., changes in momentum..." Technical Tuesday with Mark Bail - October 25, 2005
by Mark Bail "...Now, let’s take a look at what has happened to these two averages since we last checked on them and see where they might be headed in the days and weeks ahead..." Technical Tuesday: Strength, Relatively Speaking - October 11, 2005
by Mark Bail "...One of the indicators I used to interpret the technical condition ... was the Relative Strength Index. This market indicator is one of the three primary components of the trading system I use..." The Value of Enterprise Multiples - September 22, 2005
by Chris Mayer "...I routinely employ enterprise multiples in my search for appropriate investment candidates, and one metric I always look at is Enterprise Value -- not just market cap. Investors often make the mistake of just looking at market cap and comparing that to sales, earnings, book value, etc..." Technical Tuesday's with Mark Bail - September 13, 2005
by Mark Bail "...I took a look at the Russell 2000 Growth Index (RUO) and the Russell 2000 Value Index (RUJ). (All numbers I cite are as of the close of trading on Monday, Sept. 12.) Here’s what I found..." Technical Tuesday with Mark Bail - August 30, 2005
by Mark Bail "...Because my background is rooted in technical analysis, my friend Carl asked me to contribute to Penny Sleuth every other Tuesday -- Technical Tuesday -- by offering my perspective on different technical indicators and other aspects of technical analysis, and he asked me to begin by discussing moving averages..."
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