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.
Managing Your Credit Score
Saturday, August 8th, 2009I became real good at managing my credit score 30 years ago, and have just been too lazy to write it up. There is a fairly good article at Dolans.com to get you there if you don’t know how.
How is this cheap lazy investing? First, there are lots of companies that will charge you from $5 – $5,000 to do what you can do for free. And if you have ever tried doing much of anything with a bad credit rating, you know it is hard. It is less work to maintain good credit than to re-establish it, and still less work to re-establish knowing what to do than guessing.
Foolish Take on BofA
Saturday, August 8th, 2009I went to the Fool site today to look into LEAP (and decided not to, thanks to the CAPS). The landing page had a really interesting article on BofA. I only hope they are right as it will make me feel better for exiting early (and profitably) on that one.