Andy's Two Cents

Notes and thoughts from our director.

BF/Anderson Technical Update 09.09.2016

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BF/Anderson Technical Update 09.02.2016

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The Masses are Wrong

August 24, 2016 Yesterday afternoon Andy Anderson spoke to 10 individuals at an investment club about their current feelings towards the overall Stock Market. Two said “bullish” and eight said “fearful/neutral”. As technical analysts of the market who use charts and balance sheet numbers to determine our interest in owning a company’s stock, we sometimes […]

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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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