The number of sites to take money from suckers is only slightly smaller than the number of suckers. Still,when it comes to investing, the good shills looking to get your money give you enough real stuff to get you to pony up for for the “rest of the story”. One good example is Buying a Beaten-up Stock at the Right Time and Right Price , which is an article aimed at getting you to pay for their predictive software that gives you a good education on what to look for even if you don’t buy. I don’t know how good their software is, but I do know their pitch has all the right moves.
Archive for the ‘Cheap Reference’ Category
Double Top Chart Pattern
Saturday, June 26th, 2010While checking on Advance America, Cash Advance Centers Inc. (AEA), I ran across the term Double Top, which I had seen before. I found an excellent article explaining the pattern at Trending 123.
Yahoo! Finance Cookies
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010Apparently if you upgrade Flash (willingly, knowingly or not) you have to clear your cookies before things like the interactive charts and stock watch alerts will work properly again. In FireFox, you can clear individual cookies, which is great if you don’t want to have to re-login in to all of your automatic logins on hundreds of sites like me
Cheap, But Not Lazy Investment Resource
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010First, Publisher’s Clearing House is not an investment strategy. However, if all I have to do is run one of my many daily searches from their search engine to win money, why not? Funny thing is, when my daily reminder prompts me to do this it is almost always after I have done some extensive searches on everybody’s standard search engine. This means I have to get creative on what I should search for (why waste perfectly good key strokes?). So I ran a search for highest paying dividend and ran across:
Top U.S. Stocks with Highest Dividend Yield as of Mar. 13, 2010
PS: If you start using the PCH search and win, please donate my percentage using the icon at the top of this page
Good Technical Analysis Article
Friday, March 12th, 2010An Analysis on Company Stock Buyback
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Found this in my news search and wanted to share with my reader: Quest Capital: An Analysis on Company Stock Buyback
Offsetting Capital Gains with Capital Losses
Wednesday, November 25th, 2009I would not suggest selling a good stock to offset a gain. I hang on to my colossal losers to offset future gains, though. It is important to keep in mind the difference between short term tax rates and long term rates. A good over-all reference article for this can be found at:
Invest FAQ: Tax Code: Capital Gains Tax Rates
Top 100 Global Venture Capitalists
Saturday, September 12th, 2009Red Herring published their list this week. According to The Motley Fool’s Rule Breakers, Rule Makers: The Foolish Guide To Picking Stocks, part of follow the money is to see who the other investors are.