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My Best Ideas
9 December 2018 This is a list of companies that have a very nice estimated one year return on invested capital based on the sum of the delta of the one year estimated price target plus the calculated one year dividend yield. (Full List) |
New Highs
9 December 2018 This is a list of companies that are currently hitting new highs plus have an estimated 5 year earnings growth rate in excess of 25%. As this growth is recognized, these shares are pushed higher and become good swing trades. (Full List) |
Dividend Increases
10 - 14 December 2018 This is a list of companies that have recently increased their dividends. The list includes the amount plus the per cent increase, the forward dividend yield, and the ExDividend, Record and Payment dates. (Full List) |
It's Still About China and Tariffs
9 December 2018 Just when you thought things were getting better between the US and China, the CFO of Huawei gets taken into custody in Canada. While that may not be interesting by itself, if she's extradited to the US on criminal charges, any agreement on tariffs may have just come to a halt. That's shaken traders once again and it could be seen in the market averages. At this point Wall Street bonuses are at risk and that just adds to the stress and volatility we're seeing. At this point I just don't see any catalysts on the horizon that changes this scenario going into the holiday season. Monday Summary: Despite the total confusion in the markets today, it really did feel like a reversal move today. A sharp decline followed by a sharp rise. In candlestick parlance it was a hammer day. At the close, the market was up 34 points. Tuesday Summary: The markets opened higher only to immediately start falling. This confusing action has come to be typical of recent market action and I expect it to continue for a while longer. At the close the DJIA was down 52 points at 24,370. 
Great Ideas About Investing
Using the Past to Predict the Future
Finding great companies whose stock has done well in the past is a relatively easy exercise. Just find an easy and friendly screener, pick out the parameters you're interested in, and hit the sort button. It's that easy. I do it all the time, and most serious investors do too. It's how we find candidates for accumulation. (Full Article) Share Buybacks Don't Benefit Investors
Great companies generate more money that they currently need to execute their business. When that occurs companies need to make the decision as to what they will do with those excess profits. When the decision is made to buy back its own stock on the open market it signals that the company has no better productive use for that money. (Full Article) Using Puts to Go Long
I get a lot of questions on how the use of Puts fits into my strategy of "Buy, Write, Collect" so here's a little information on just one aspect of my multifaceted approach to investing. The overall approach is fairly simple, but the corollary offshoots can, at times, often become a little more complicated. Hopefully this explanation will help those interested in one more way I approach investing. (Full Article) Learning to Read the Market
Learning to be a good investor is learning how to read the market. It’s learning how to look at a chart and understand what the chart is trying to show you. A good investor doesn’t predict where the market is headed, he simply learns to visually read the chart and react to its movements. (Full Article) The Fallacy of the B-School Degree
Stock charts are historical records of human behavior and are beautiful works of art to someone who has studied human behavior (I have my Master’s Degree in Social Psychology from NC State University). Those charts are the visual end result of the human decision making process. If we can discover the reasoning behind those decisions and act upon that knowledge in a timely fashion, the American Dream is within our grasp. (Full Article) 
Always Have an Exit Strategy
The exit strategy is always a mandatory precondition for any trade I enter. All other strategies will have disaster embedded at their core. All other strategies are simply an emotional reaction to events external to the markets. All other strategies will accentuate a reward while ignoring the damage that's incurred by accepting such an extensive implied risk. These are the strategies that I personally refuse to implement into my trading strategy. (Full Article)
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In 2017 the DJIA ended at 24,719
In 2016 the DJIA ended at 19,762
In 2015 the DJIA ended at 17,425
In 2014 the DJIA ended at 17,823
In 2013 the DJIA ended at 16,576
In 2012 the DJIA ended at 13,104
In 2011 the DJIA ended at 12,217
In 2010 the DJIA ended at 11,578
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