I have been a student of the stock market since my father and great uncle Andy sat me down in 1974 and started teaching me the beauty of investing in Exxon. This was during the oil embargo and my father’s restaurant “The Highland Diner” was situated right next to a gas station. I saw first hand the...

Is it possible to predict the quarterly earnings for a business, or a giant multi-billion dollar conglomerate accurately down to a single/narrow cent-per-share figure? A large number of investment analysts out there sure think so! After all, who wants to be the sucker who can only give you a broad...

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From time to time I find things on the web that pique my interest. And from time to time I'll share those items with you. So here goes. NPR has some Financial Advice for Twenty-Somethings. The Baltimore Sun has an article describing what those with interest-only loans set to reset in the coming...

On Monday, I wrote about using Google Trends as a resource for investing ideas. I took a look at three restaurant businesses which, while they were on my mind at the time, probably weren't the best candidates for this kind of research. Below, I'll take a look at three Google Trends charts and...

(This article orginally appeared on ThinkingAboutMoney on July 5th, 2006.) One of my basic assumptions with regards to planning for the future (whether it is financial planning, or career planning, or other) is that we are in a period of disruptive change (which I’ve been calling the “Information...

We've had discussions here about different ways to use the huge amount of data freely available on the web to make better informed investing decisions. Let's take a look at some graphs courtesy of Google Trends and see if they can inform us about which restaurant stock to purchase.Our Subjects For...

On August 7th, Sharesleuth.com released their first investigative report. The blog, written by Chris Carey and backed by billionaire Mark Cuban, chose Xethanol Corp. (AMEX:XNL) as its first target. Xethanol is a small New York company whose stock has been riding the ethanol wave. Carey alleges that...

If I'm forced to select only one thing about stock trading to tell you, this is it: do NOT average down. This is not to say that averaging your cost basis on the way down never works. But more often than not, averaging down is a bad decision on top of a wrong one already. A wrong investing...