When it comes to investing, I like playing in the gutter. My goal is to locate stocks that have fallen into disregard and are downright hated by most investors, yet retain enough value to create strong odds of a rebound.  This is value investing at its very core — low… Read More

One way to earn large profits in the stock market is by discovering and playing the macro trends in the economy. Think of the Internet revolution and the billions that were… Read More

“They need to get rid of Zuckerberg. Facebook may have a chance if a talented leader is appointed; otherwise it’s a no-go. The guy is a master at the start-up, but he needs to turn the reigns over to someone else to run the company”, exclaimed an under-the-radar Internet insider I recently chatted with in South Florida.  His words proved semi-prescient as the heavily anticipated Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) IPO has gone down in history as providing the worst return of any large IPO in the past… Read More

“They need to get rid of Zuckerberg. Facebook may have a chance if a talented leader is appointed; otherwise it’s a no-go. The guy is a master at the start-up, but he needs to turn the reigns over to someone else to run the company”, exclaimed an under-the-radar Internet insider I recently chatted with in South Florida.  His words proved semi-prescient as the heavily anticipated Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) IPO has gone down in history as providing the worst return of any large IPO in the past decade.  The massive $16 billion IPO was fraught with issues from its launch on May 18. A lack of communication at Nasdaq appears to be the initial trigger of the strife, causing the IPO to be delayed, and some investors complained that their orders weren’t being filled or that they were getting shares at a much higher price than they wanted.  #-ad_banner-#The confusion resulted in about $115 million in losses for the four major market-makers in the IPO: Knight Capital Group, Citigroup’s Automated Trading Desk,… Read More

The business world is full of examples of innovators being left in the dust by imitators. Think Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) was the first company to think of the tablet PC? Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) first developed the idea a decade prior to the advent of the iPad. Think Mark Zuckerberg came… Read More

Trading is in my blood. I vividly remember, as an elementary school student, trading baseball cards with my classmates. My trading interest blossomed as I learned how to buy low and sell high via various part-time business endeavors. These businesses included selling produce I got for free from my grandparent’s… Read More

We often talk about the prowess of the big-time money managers on Wall Street, but we often neglect to talk about their mistakes. After all, if it’s worth learning from the successes of these guys so that we can… Read More

Uber-investor Warren Buffett and I are quite different. Whereas Buffett typically looks for undervalued companies and buys them for the long haul, I usually like to buy stocks that are on a long-term uptrend that have a temporary pullback. And the quicker I can make a decent… Read More

More millionaires have been made in real estate than any other investment in the United States. All one had to do was start buying single family homes, rent them out to cover the mortgage payment, and then… Read More

I’m a stock screening maniac. All day, every day the market is open, I am running my various stock screening programs in real time. I search across time frames, sectors, indexes, and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in an effort to locate companies prepped to continue… Read More