If you're anything like me then you think that once you click on the appropriate button, or get off the phone with your stock broker, your order speeds off to be filled at whatever price the stock is currently trading at. How wrong I was. After placing an order to buy a stock recently, I was...

Chapter 8 on "Spotting Bottoms in Stocks" is one of the best sections of Jim Cramer's Real Money (review). The chapter is filled with the type of insights you would expect to get from someone with 25 years of experience in the market. The chapter does discuss spotting bottoms in individual...

It’s hot here in San Jose. With a record streak of record temperatures (many over 100 degrees), newspapers are reporting that every local store selling air conditioners has been cleaned out. Similar stories are being heard around the country. Naturally, that led me to think again about companies...

Amidst the turmoil and uncertainty that attends the markets these days, I often find it relaxing to sequester myself for a while and do some analysis. Part of my job as an analyst is to discover things that others may have missed. These may be opportunities to identify “Special Situations.” Some...

I got an email from a reader at my other site asking about Geely Automotive Holdings Ltd (Google Finance). The author had already purchased over 19000 shares which might seem like a lot until you realize this is very much a penny stock. Still, the outlay for a young college student is significant...

Hello, my name is Thomas and I would like to thank Chris, Jason, and Frank for the honor of becoming a new contributing writer. I have hosted my own blog at <http://personalfinancefun.wordpress.com/> since February. My frequency of postings had fallen off a little bit as my wife and I prepared to...

Pension plans have long been offered as part of employee benefit packages. Long thought to be an integral part of any retirement plan. But in todays environment, with large corporate bankruptcies and massively underfunded pension programs, do you still rely on your Pension plan? For years...

We're starting a new category on InvestorGeeks called “Entrepreneurship” because we believe that every investor is an entrepreneur at heart. Investing is the process of making money through the active trading and investing in appreciating assets, and this process of building assets is what a...

In his book You Can Be a Stock Market Genius (review at ThinkingAboutMoney.com), Joel Greenblatt discusses the investment opportunities that come from investing in special situations - such as corporate breakups and mergers. Over the next few weeks, Cendant is breaking itself up into four...

There are two types of metals for investment: precious metals as opposed to base metals. Precious metals include gold, silver, platinum, and some other less known materials such as ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, and iridium. Base and/or industrial metals include copper, nickel, aluminum,...