ne of the biggest mistakes I see investors continually making is to focus on implementation details while completely ignoring the overall strategy. Some actually think they have an investing strategy when in fact they’re really inventing strategies on the fly in a never ending attempt to fit their “strategies” to the things they’re implementing. That’s [...]

ust four decades ago, most people had never heard of a computer. The internet was just a flicker in some engineer’s eye and the stock market was the exclusive domain of the rich. The current situation has turned all that on its head. Today, everyone and their child has a computer, the internet is ubiquitous [...]

re you an investing junkie? Do you read every book, listen to every investing show and attend seminars that promise to make you millions of dollars by this time next month? Are you glued to your desk following the ticker for hours at a time? Honestly, that’s not the way to make money in the [...]

o you invest for yourself? If you don’t, you’re not maximizing your investing potential. Unfortunately, the majority of people are still being sucked in by the old conventional wisdom that says, “save your money and then turn it over to a mutual fund manager and everything will work out.” You don’t have to be a [...]

f you would like to make lots of money investing in the stock market with a minimum of risk, then this article is for you. As you know, there are literally thousands of stock market systems bombarding you with ideas of getting rich quickly and living the Hollywood lifestyle. However the majority of them don’t [...]

s husbands, we all get asked uncomfortable questions from time to time. Unfortunately the wrong answers can explode from a seemingly insignificant exchange of words into a full-blown atomic meltdown faster than you can say, “Tiger Woods.” With that in mind, I’ve come up with some easy answers to some of the most potentially volatile [...]

n Options Trading part one of this two-part series on options trading we discussed the strategy of writing covered calls. This time I’m going to introduce another relatively safe options trading strategy that fits so well with Value Investing techniques that Warren Buffett uses it. And that strategy is selling puts. Normally options traders sell [...]

uestion: Does the stock software work better in Bull or Bear market conditions, in your opinion? nswer: Value Stock Selector lists the highest number of high-quality undervalued stocks in Bear markets. So if you purchase when stocks are cheap, that’s usually when you have the most choice of what to buy. As markets rise, less [...]

uestion: Does Value Stock Selector help me determine when a stock is Overvalued? nswer: Yes, the stock software has 2 indicators to help determine whether a stock is overvalued. Before purchasing, the maximum buy price indicates whether the stock is currently overvalued. If the current price is greater than the maximum buy price, then the [...]

uestion: I’m running the default settings (VSS 4.0 SP1) with the only change being investment horizon reduced to 2 years, down from the default 5. On Friday, the result list contained 14 stocks. Since Monday, the result list contains only 2. Is there a software issue or was there such a significant change in ranking [...]