Andy's Two Cents

Notes and thoughts from our director.

7 Key Principals to Investing

August 11, 2016 One of the greatest American investors and entrepreneurs of his time was William J. O’Neil born in 1933. He began his career after graduating from Harvard as a stock broker for Hayden, Stone & Company, and developed an investment strategy which made early use of computers in 1958. In 1984 he founded […]

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Wall$treet Week

  January 28, 2016 Louis Richard “Lou” Rukeyser was born January 30, 1933 and was best known for starting the popular PBS series Wall$treet Week with Louis Rukeyser in 1970. Rukeyser was the one of four boys with a financial journalist as their father, Merryle Rukeyser (He wrote for the New York Tribune). He graduated […]

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How Safe Are Dividends on Oil Stocks?

January 20, 2016 Back before the crash of 2008, the majority believed that the housing market was untouchable. Bankers that worked for the big guys on Wall Street vehemently defended mortgage-backed securities, yet no one was looking at these mortgages and had they been better regulated, it would’ve been clear that a crisis was coming. […]

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Chinese stocks: canary or elephant for world markets this year?

January 6, 2016 Canary in the coal mine or elephant in the room? For investors, either idiom could apply to Chinese stocks in what is already shaping up to be a rocky ride for global markets this year. Read more here http://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinese-stocks-canary-elephant-world-153952130.html

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May the Force Be With You

Dec 8, 2015 Over the years the investment realm has been one that will continuously teach all who participate that they know nothing and can predict nothing. The sooner you realize this truth, the sooner you can have a fighting chance in the stock market and not be seduced by the dark side. One must […]

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Financial Markets and World Wars

November 17, 2015 How do major geopolitical disasters and acts of violence play into the world’s financial markets? Does every act of terrorism, like most recently in Paris, make significant dents to the markets and investors? Each war from the World Wars to the Cold War have taught investors very different lessons. The important thing […]

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Cutting your Losses can keep you from getting Hurt

October 28, 2015 How does Charles Darwin’s piece of advice translate to the world of investing: It means that you better know when to sell your position in a stock when things change for the worst. It’s easy to fall in love and buy a stock for your portfolio, but it doesn’t matter how much […]

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The World of Amazon

October 20, 2015 When you decide to go the focused-investor route one of the necessary components to your job is to thoroughly research companies and act as though you are buying them entirely, just like a Warren Buffett type. Lately this company has been on my mind, so let’s take a moment to examine one […]

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Be Brave & Look for Green Shoots

October 6, 2015 It has been difficult to not be “negative” during the past 3rd quarter, but after Friday Oct 2nd we can start to feel some positive energy in the markets as we enter the 4th quarter. As of most recently, 40% of stocks on the NYSE are back above their 50 day moving […]

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Carl Icahn Warns of Danger Ahead

September 29, 2015 Every morning our firm sits together and has “coffee talk”, where we basically sip strong Louisiana coffee and go over topics of interest. Occasionally we talk about what dinner we plan on cooking that night, it’s a nice distraction from the recent gloom and doom of our industry. This morning we discussed […]

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