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My Best Ideas
21 October 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
21 October 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
22-26 October 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) |
From A New High Back To Support 14 October 2018 Things can often move fast in the stock market and for many young investors, this is the first time they've seen this sort of thing happen. Last week was probably the October surprise everyone was looking for. A week ago the DJIA was hitting a New High above 27,000. This week we were all hoping that the 25,000 level would hold support. For many of us old timers, we've seen this happen a few times in the past, but this time it just feels like a simple correction. Nothing anything more serious than that. Perhaps those that rely solely on the charts will now begin to understand the importance of company fundamentals and guidance in determining stock prices. With third quarter earnings announcements about to begin, I think we'll start to see improving company fundamentals but we'll also hear subdued corporate guidance going forward. It's always best when management under promises and over delivers. Monday Summary: With cross currents of both earnings announcements and talk of further rate hikes, the averages were pushed and pulled all day long. By the close, all three indexes were down with the DJIA down 89 points at 25,250. Tuesday Summary: It appears that traders woke up to the fact that the DJIA was sitting on it's 200 dma and earnings are about to begin. With that stark realization they pushed the markets higher today. By the close the DJIA was up a very respectable 547 points. Thursday Summary: The markets gave back most of its gains earlier this week as the DJIA fell 327 points today. The net result this week so far -- up 39 points. With just one day to go, this week could go either way. 
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
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In 2011 the DJIA ended at 12,217
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