Research

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Forecasting Future Stock Prices Using Fundamentals

This week, we are going to put the concepts covered in the last two posts to work in order to come up with a stock price forecast several years into the future. If you haven't yet, be sure to read both "Stock Selection Process, Simplified" as well as "A Powerful...

A Powerful Buffett Concept Revisited: The Equity Bond

In a continuation of last week's article, " Stock Selection Process, Simplified" we are going to revisit a concept which famed investor Warren Buffett outlined in a talk he gave at Columbia Business School in the late 1980s. Revolutionary for both its time and perhaps...

Stock Selection Process, Simplified

Welcome to 2024. Some of you might remember me, others might not. For years I wrote about markets right here at Omahacharts.com. In the early days of this site, I was a very active trader of my own personal funds. Essentially serving as my online trading diary, this...
Highly Skewed Risk Reward Opportunity In Retail Name

Highly Skewed Risk Reward Opportunity In Retail Name

As my main focus has been centered around overall portfolio management and building trading systems as of late, I still want to point out individual stocks from time to time when the risk/reward objectives are positively skewed. One example of this is a stock I...

This Market Is Outperforming Four Out Of Five U.S. Stock Indexes

This Market Is Outperforming Four Out Of Five U.S. Stock Indexes

It's frequently quoted in the financial media that the U.S. is the best house in a bad neighborhood in terms of markets in which to invest. While warnings of economic growth slowdown, negative interest rates and geopolitical turmoil are abundant, a common theme is...

The Holy Grail Of Any Trading System

The Holy Grail Of Any Trading System

It is common for the novice trader or investor to begin their quest for financial freedom by searching far and wide for the "holy grail" trading system. Oftentimes, the novice scours the internet looking for a self-proclaimed guru's advice or they shell out their hard...

Technical Voodoo At Play In The Benchmark S&P 500

Technical Voodoo At Play In The Benchmark S&P 500

Among the many technical indicators available to us as market technicians lies one in particular that to this day I have trouble wrapping my mind around. These tools aren't necessarily difficult to use or interpret, but trying to grasp why these work takes some higher...

The Memory Remains

The Memory Remains

Welcome to Q4, 2019. It's hard to believe a year has passed since my final exam. I don't mean a university, FINRA or other written exam given by a financial institution. I mean the final exam given to me by Mother Market that I along with several other traders I am...

Skill Versus Luck: An Enormous Advantage In Trading And Investing

Skill Versus Luck: An Enormous Advantage In Trading And Investing

"Most of the successes and failures we see are a combination of skill and luck that prove maddeningly difficult to tease apart." - Michael J. Mauboussin (The Success Equation) Around the time I turned 21 years old and visited a casino for the first time, I remember...

Research

Research

Forecasting Future Stock Prices Using Fundamentals

This week, we are going to put the concepts covered in the last two posts to work in order to come up with a stock price forecast several years into the future. If you haven't yet, be sure to read both "Stock Selection Process, Simplified" as well as "A Powerful...

A Powerful Buffett Concept Revisited: The Equity Bond

In a continuation of last week's article, " Stock Selection Process, Simplified" we are going to revisit a concept which famed investor Warren Buffett outlined in a talk he gave at Columbia Business School in the late 1980s. Revolutionary for both its time and perhaps...

Stock Selection Process, Simplified

Welcome to 2024. Some of you might remember me, others might not. For years I wrote about markets right here at Omahacharts.com. In the early days of this site, I was a very active trader of my own personal funds. Essentially serving as my online trading diary, this...
Highly Skewed Risk Reward Opportunity In Retail Name

Highly Skewed Risk Reward Opportunity In Retail Name

As my main focus has been centered around overall portfolio management and building trading systems as of late, I still want to point out individual stocks from time to time when the risk/reward objectives are positively skewed. One example of this is a stock I...

This Market Is Outperforming Four Out Of Five U.S. Stock Indexes

This Market Is Outperforming Four Out Of Five U.S. Stock Indexes

It's frequently quoted in the financial media that the U.S. is the best house in a bad neighborhood in terms of markets in which to invest. While warnings of economic growth slowdown, negative interest rates and geopolitical turmoil are abundant, a common theme is...

The Holy Grail Of Any Trading System

The Holy Grail Of Any Trading System

It is common for the novice trader or investor to begin their quest for financial freedom by searching far and wide for the "holy grail" trading system. Oftentimes, the novice scours the internet looking for a self-proclaimed guru's advice or they shell out their hard...

Technical Voodoo At Play In The Benchmark S&P 500

Technical Voodoo At Play In The Benchmark S&P 500

Among the many technical indicators available to us as market technicians lies one in particular that to this day I have trouble wrapping my mind around. These tools aren't necessarily difficult to use or interpret, but trying to grasp why these work takes some higher...

The Memory Remains

The Memory Remains

Welcome to Q4, 2019. It's hard to believe a year has passed since my final exam. I don't mean a university, FINRA or other written exam given by a financial institution. I mean the final exam given to me by Mother Market that I along with several other traders I am...

Skill Versus Luck: An Enormous Advantage In Trading And Investing

Skill Versus Luck: An Enormous Advantage In Trading And Investing

"Most of the successes and failures we see are a combination of skill and luck that prove maddeningly difficult to tease apart." - Michael J. Mauboussin (The Success Equation) Around the time I turned 21 years old and visited a casino for the first time, I remember...