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If you find something better, replace it.

Time Warner reveals its plan to spin off its former partner.

Even after seven straight months of rising markets, there are still pockets of value to be found.

( click to enlarge ) Earthlink (ELNK) tried to break out on Wednesday, but the week market pulled the stock down from its high on the day. The stock hit a high of $8.84 which is now resistance for Thursday’s follow through move. Although this trend is encouraging, the near-term outlook stays cautious ...

( click to enlarge ) EarthLink (ELNK) had a strong day and broke through its resistance line. The volume confirmed the breakout, as it was greater than average. With technical chart showing strength as MACD is above signal and K line above D line , we could see the stock keep going up. ...

Fortunately my portfolio management methods don’t revolve around  frequent trading.  One of my kids came up to me recently and said, “What did you do today, Dad?”  I said, “I made one trade, and I did a bunch of research.”  He then asked, “How often do you trade?”  I answered, “That was my first trade in a week, and I haven’t traded much in the last two months, but that’s not normal.  There is no normal for me. When the market is really volatile, I trade a lot more, selling when stocks are rising, and buying when they are selling off.  When the market is relatively placid, I don’t do much.” He looked at me, kind of smiled, and moved on.  Information overload from Dad. Most people and investment managers trade too often.  They sell their winners too rapidly, and panic too soon on their losers.  Now, I’m not advocating “buy and forget,” or Buffett’s statement, “Our favorite holding period is forever.”[More...]

Each week I track which stocks are moving in and out of the top 30 Magic Formula Stocks for companies with a minimum market cap of 50 and 2000 million. Here are the moves for the week ended 5-03-09: Top 30/50 Million: In: Cherokee Inc. (CHKE) Cray Inc. (CRAY) Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. (TYPE) NutriSystem, Inc. (NTRI) Rosetta Stone, Inc. (RST) Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, [...]

Today there were a couple of posts about how tech stocks are currently especially attractive because they hold plenty of cash and tend to have little debt. Paul Kedrosky initially caught my eye with his post "Tech Cash is King" which in turn pointed me to a story on Bloomberg by Eric Martin. I ran a screen tonight that looked at both cash and debt. Specifically, I screened for a Price-to-Cash ratio under three, a Debt-to-Equity ratio under three and a Market Cap greater than $2.5 million. Based on these criteria, I obtained a list of 136 stocks. Judging from our list, it is absolutely true that many tech stocks do seem to have lots of cash and little debt. What also became apparent as I went through the list is that there[More...]

Tom Dorsey and Tammy DeRosier - Investing Internationally

Mark Fightmaster takes a look back at news that drove the major market indices today.

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Tom Dorsey and Tammy DeRosier - New Highs... Relative to What?

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