The Investor's Outpost

A common trap that investors fall into is paying any mind to the price range that a particular stock has sold for in the past. The price-range, like many other metrics of stock “evaluation”, has very little to do with the actual value of a stock. Seeing that a stock is selling at a relatively … More Why the Price-Range is a Useless Metric

A relatively recent development has taken place in the mutual fund industry. Salesmanship has taken a silent chokehold. There has been an increasing emphasis on marketing rather than management efficiency and results. The industry has replaced performance with publicity in an attempt to increase revenues from fees without engaging in sensible investment policies. It is … More Mutual Funds: Marketers not Managers

Exaggeration Earnings reports, mergers, and management changes. These developments that companies go through almost always give way to exaggeration of their stock price to some degree.  While harder to take advantage of and much less common, exaggeration may and will also occur on an aggregate market basis in the event of global developments such as … More The Trifecta of Undervaluation