Posts in Investors Insight Category

• Are Dividends Overrated? - April 8th, 2008
  Following a question about why an individual should want to own shares in a company that doesn't pay dividends, Emptyend produced a ...
  
• Short Selling to Minimise Sector Risk - March 21st, 2008
  Today I came across a great snippet of information about short selling while following a thread about the subject over at the Fool. The ...
  
• Beware Short & Leveraged ETFs - March 16th, 2008
  I have been considering investing an amount into a commodity ETF (HOGS), and was thinking about ETF Securities leveraged ETF.  However, I've now changed my ...
  
• How to buy Illiquid Small Cap Shares - March 14th, 2008
  Recently I have been buying Small Cap shares, often fairly illiquid and have found it difficult to place an order of a ...
  
• Understanding How Banks Work - March 13th, 2008
  This post by BertEEE on the Fool website describes the banking system and many of the terms that I've been reading ...
  
• Dangers of Going Long, Dangers of Going Short - March 4th, 2008
  Gengulphus raised an interesting point regarding going long/short and things to bare in mind when doing so.  To paraphrase: Dangers of going short: the big danger is having the stock ...
  
• Share price action - March 4th, 2008
  While researching  a small cap value share, I found a couple of posts over on advfn which I thought I would keep for reference, the ...
  
• Sector Rotation - January 9th, 2008
  Interesting comments today from djpreston on the fool regarding sector rotation.   Previously PYAD has stated that banks are usually first into a recession.  The following ...
  
• Cyclical Indicators Signal Potential Problems - August 9th, 2007
  With all attention currently on financial stocks and their exposure to a potential credit crunch and sup prime problems, the FT ...
  
• Historical Stock Market Chart - July 10th, 2007
  I recently found this stock market Chart for the last 60 years which I thought I would share with you. While searching Google I ...
  
• Rule of 72 - June 30th, 2007
  The rule of 72 is a useful quirk that allows you to quickly calculate an investment return. Simply divide the 72 by your expected ...
  
• Historical Stock Charts, What Can We Learn? - January 21st, 2006
  While browsing 'The Big Picture' for 100 year stock charts, I found several historical stock charts that got me to thinking about the current situation ...