I’m sure you’ve heard how important it is to keep a diverse financial portfolio. There are many reasons for this not the least of which is spreading out the risks as well as the rewards so that one bad day on the market doesn’t do in your entire financial future. Many people have learned along [...]

1) Figure out what style works best for you. Are you better as a day trader or a swing trader? Do you do best with stock or is forex more your style? Find out what you’re best at and specialize in that. Learn everything about that kind of trading and continue to profit from it [...]

Today we will be looking at General Environmental Management…
“General Environmental Management (GEM) assists its clients, which may include government entities, commercial and industrial clients, educational institutions, and other environmental service providers in the Western United States, in meeting regulatory requirements for the disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous wastes.”
-from GeneralEnvironmental.com
GEM (which trades under the symbol GEVI.OB) [...]

Sometimes stock prices make sense. Other times, hysteria and wild speculation takes over, and sends stock prices well above or below reason. In all cases of the latter though, eventually, the valuations are brought into line.
I suspect that was the case over the last month or so with aerospace and defense stocks. Prior to unveiling [...]

In the ongoing effort to provide information and perspective you won’t get anywhere else, today I’m going to serve up something I know the mainstream media hasn’t passed along (and definitely not in this format). We’re going to take a look at the earnings – historical and future – for the S&P 600 Small Cap [...]

By now surely most of you are aware that Warren Buffett has decided to add all of Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI) to his Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) fund. He already owned 20% of it – he’s getting the rest for about $36 billion and the assumption of about $10 billion in Burlington debt. (How’d you [...]

Despite the market’s implosion, I actually found a very compelling bullish idea…. on a technical as well as a fundamental basis. Teleflex Inc. (TFX) is likely to be undervalued with its current P/E of 7.0. That valuation is being at least a little counter-balanced by the forward-looking P/E (which is far more important) of 12.5. [...]

Regular readers will know by now that one of my core strategies for a strong alpha is using sector rotation…. the art of overweighting the leading industries, and underweighting the weaker ones. Though it’s easier said than done, it is possible, and the payoff is big.
To that end, I’ve decided to do some aggregating work [...]