Andy's Two Cents

Notes and thoughts from our director.

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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How a Fed Rate Hike could be Good for Stocks

September 16, 2015 Wells Fargo Securities Equity Strategist Gina Martin Adams discusses Fed policy her outlook for stocks. She speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” (Source: Bloomberg) Gina and our firm believe the fed rate increase could be very positive for equities, mostly due to uncertainty being removed which has been one of the focal discussions plaguing […]

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Our Investment Philosophy

September 9, 2015 The following principles guide how we invest our clients’ (and our own) assets. We concentrate in our best ideas. We believe common sense requires that you invest in your best investment ideas. Although this approach generally results in investment performance that is out-of-step with the broad market, we believe it should result […]

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Gypsy fish of the Great Atlantic Ocean

August 26, 2015 Jesse Livermore is one of the great traders of our time, yet few people know about him. He was nicknamed the “Speculator King” and began his journey into substantial wealth at the young age of 15 in the bucket shops of New York City. At his peak in 1929, Livermore was worth […]

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Are you a “Know-Something” Investor?

August 10, 2015 Tren Griffin is the senior director of strategy at Microsoft corp. during the day, but in his spare time he transforms into a voracious writer and reader about business and investing. As of September he will be publishing a new book focusing on the ideas and practices of Berkshire Hathaway’s very own […]

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How the Fear & Greed Index Works

July 28, 2015 As Warren Buffett famously says “Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful”. This is the guiding premise behind behavioral finance. As much as the stock market is made up of trading algorithms and valuation ratios, it is also highly sensitive to investor sentiment aka “irrational emotion”. If […]

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