Don't forget! We're meeting online tonight at 8:30PM ET for a presentation about getting ready to prepare your 2012 Investment Club Taxes. You can register now to join us at www.bivio.com/club_cafe Laurie Frederiksen Invest with your friends! www.bivio.com Become our Facebook friend! www.facebook.com/bivio Follow us ...
10 Lords Leap to Judgment. Today's selection for our Christmas Countdown is Mesa Labs (MLAB). First discovered in this year's Forbes Best Small Company listing, MLAB is an example of a promising faster-growing company that is always welcome in our portfolios: http://expectingalpha.com/2012/12/14/10-mesa-labs-mlab/
Our annual stock selection is underway as we pay homage to drummers, various leaping lords, eight maids with cold hands and a wide variety of birdies. We invite to play along as we get started with CVS Caremark (CVS) and tales of plumbers dealing with ...
Since many of you own Apple, I thought you might find this article interesting. There's a big divergence at the moment between those that are making Apple investing decisions based on the Fundamentals and those making them based on the Technicals. The article discusses the ...
If you are looking for Earnings Conference Call transcripts, here is an interesting site gives you an easy way to search for them. You can search by company to find both free ones and ones that you would need to pay for. You can also ...
We are pleased to announce that, effective December 10, Ira Smilovitz has joined the bivio support team. Ira is well known in the investment club community for his tireless volunteer support of investment clubs both online and in presentations at many live events. Although trained ...
There's not a lot of slam dunk stocking stuffers in this week's batch. With the median stock at 8.8%, a few of them might be worth a head scratch. Some favorites from this week's updates: AVAV UNH NUE http://expectingalpha.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/vl-low-total-return-screen-12142012/ ...
I have this thing about trying to improve my little corner of the world. There's a lot I'd like to fix in the world that is overwhelming, but I can try and impact the things within my reach. I figure if I do that, maybe ...
This is another oldie-but-goodie noting that yet another year seems to have passed without that phone call from Omaha. No worries. Look at the performance graph at the end closely. Keep in mind that the dark blue dots are club-influenced. We believe this is probably ...
If you are plugging numbers into an equation or a form to try and make projections about the future, it is important to understand what they are and what they mean. Otherwise, how can you really understand what you are projecting? This is especially true ...
we wrote a check for a scholarship last fall and the recipient decided not to go to college. the check has been returned . how would you enter it? It's not income. what is a voided check? I'm tempted to go back and delete the ...
Here's a short and simple video describing the fiscal cliff done by the Kahn Academy. They are masters at presenting math concepts in ways that are simple and easy to understand. The video gives you an interesting graphical way to put the monetary amounts being ...
Many of you use the Value Line Investment Survey for research. So do we at Manifest Investing. So do other successful investors like Warren Buffett, Peter Lynch and Walter Schloss. (More on Walter soon) As we update 1/13th of the 1700 stocks each week following ...
During our sessions today that included The Challenge Club, we briefly discussed and underscored watching for opportunities for small faster-growing companies in a form of the January Effect. And it serves as a reminder that perusing the Forbes Best Small Company list that comes out ...