-
Peak Oil Statistics - Reasons to invest
- November 23rd, 2008
A post detailing oil facts and figures to illustrate why oil price will be far higher in the future. Many of the figures and ...
-
Soco Vietnam Oil Company Valuation
- November 18th, 2008
Easy explanation on how to calculate the value of an oil company using Soco international as an example.
-
Portfolio Protection - Hedging
- October 11th, 2008
Given the dreadful performance of the market and my portfolio, it's I think I'm coming to this idea too little too late. I had previously ...
-
Bailouts, Inflation and Deflation
- October 8th, 2008
Following the UK and US bailouts, what now lies in store? I found this post on seeking alpha very easy ...
-
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 ...
