Real Name: Andrew
Occupation: Company Director, Private Investor
Interests: Stocks
I've been holding off speculation as I've been waiting for an 'up week' in the markets as my first condition, based on 'a rising tide lifts all boats'. If you follow the link to wikipedia you'll see that Ed Miliband appended to this "Now the rising tide just seems to lift the yachts". To Identify the yachts we can use screening, but first we need…
QARP = Quality at a reasonable priceCurrently I'm 100% cash delaying re-entry until the tea-leaves indicate that the tide might be rising. For me this will be, at a minimum, when the weekly Heiken Ashi turns green for the various index: In the meantime though, my 'quality value' instincts are beginning to revert, as in precarious markets I perceive plenty of risks (although it is…
https://www.stockopedia.com/screens/ For those interested in portfolio return vs draw down this can give you a general idea of SR extremes that almost certainly will be exceeded in one of the directions at some point in the future. Very interesting to see them alongside the guru strategies. A summary page of returns vs draw down would be nice ...Edit: This was a brief glimpse of a…
Edit: Nothing to see here. My misunderstanding. Please move along. I used to take comfort from steadily rising consensus forecasts, however, there is an element of historical revision. I think visibility of how erratic they can be reduces the importance of the trend, especially if for a point in time, the trend can be subsequently revised, several months after the fact.I spotted this because I…
Insider Buy SuperStocks- The worst title ever, which can't have done the book any favours. Yet another techno-fundamentalist approach, in the tradition of Darvas, O'Neill (CANSLIM), Minervini etc.. but, he credits others and does bring something new. The book starts with chronicling his journey, detailing his failures and what he did to address them; even includes diet advice. Second half is examples; but no food…
Maintel Holdings (LON:MAI)Liquidity - I thought there must be a data error when I saw that the quoted market price is 410p Bid, and 500p Offer! Our of curiosity, I asked my broker for the real prices, which are 435p Bid (in size of only 1,500 shares), and 475p Offer (in only 250 shares size). What's the point in having a listing, if the liquidity…
To be easily google-able you need your company name to be a made-up word these days. I think this drives many of these fanciful names.Just to find a potential website address and name, that hasn't been thought of by one of the other 6bn people on the planet, is a challenge. In my experience, if I'd had any pretensions to being creative, they would have…
Hi Phil, Thanks for your feedback: Please can you elaborate on what is giving you the 'green light' as you examine the charts? It wasn't very clear was it? Hopefully the amended paragraphs below make more sense. I've edited them in. To measure 'tide', I've been examining indexes with Weekly Heiken Ashi candles. These purport to give clearer signals by averaging over price criteria. The…
Yield%: Historic so entirely backwards looking. Presumably if you are interested in DY you want future dividends? Rolling Yield%: Partly historic, partly future looking, weighted by proximity to future. This is the one, potentially in combination with rolling 1yr (i.e. rolling 1yr > rolling to ensure no cuts forecast ). I think rolling is most relevant. Rolling Yield% 1yr, 2yr: Entirely future looking but dependent…
I am beginning to think that ETFs are an excellent way to gain exposure to various factors with much less complication than owning lots of shares (or bonds, or commodities).But for me the main problem is simply getting on top of how many ETFs there are, and how they all behave....How on earth does anyone make any progress in sifting through this morass of confusing…
