Category: General

General, Stock Analysis

Lagging & Leading Economic Indicators

Throughout this post I’ll introduce some of these indicators & share my thoughts on others. While this list doesn’t encompass every leading or lagging indicator, it’ll highlight a bunch of ones I’ve ran across over the past few years. Also to note, I typically review the release of many of the reports related to these indicators via Econoday. Economic Leading Indicators: Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) – Reported monthly based off data collected from purchasing executives from […]

Commentary, General, Stock Analysis

Fundamentals (Part Deux)

Fundamentals (Part Deux) To follow up on Part 1 of this series on Fundamental Analysis tools, throughout this post I’ll touch on Return on Assets (ROA), Return on Equity (ROE) & Return on Total Capital (ROTC) & explain their importance along with how to use these measurement tools. If you haven’t checked out the first part of this series, I’d definitely recommend it prior to jumping into this post. A couple terms to be familiar with […]

General, Stock Analysis

Stock Types & Classifications

To add to the previous informative post on Order Types, I’ll be posting a series of additional informational articles on different investment “vehicles” (i.e. types of investments). Over the next couple of my posts, I’ll be looking to cover the various types of stocks, bonds, mutual/hedge funds, Index/Exchange-Traded funds, & Real Estate Investment Trusts/Private Equity investments along with various ways of breaking each down to into further categories for a deeper level of classification. As […]

Commentary, General

21st Century Mania

“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.” – Charles MacKay For the last roughly twenty years we’ve been in an era where every new technological innovation is met with feverish acceptance and mimicry. Even with a massive systemic market correction conspicuously remembered as “The Dot-com bubble”, investor sentiment has shown no abatement toward […]