Investment Strategy
I wrote an article on FA Trader that examines Kohl's stock. Its stock is down massively like most retailers this year, but it has been one of the best-managed in this environment with good uses of capital, good experimentation, and among the highest operating profit margins in the department store landscape. A deep value high yield opportunity, … [Read more...]
There is a common perception among investors that over the long term, small cap stocks outperform large cap stocks. In exchange for more risk, you get more reward. As it turns out, this is mostly untrue. The best small cap stocks offer more explosive upside potential, but as a group they don't really outperform large cap stocks. This article … [Read more...]
Cryptocurrencies are one of today's hottest asset classes to invest in. Bitcoin in particular has soared in price from pennies to thousands of dollars per unit in just a few years. But is it all a bubble, like the Dotcom era or tulip mania? Or is this just the start of something bigger, or even revolutionary? Price is what an investor pays, … [Read more...]
This article provides a brief overview about investing in bonds and then dives into some potential trouble areas in the bond market. I read thousands of emails from my readers, and one of the key themes I see is that people are concerned about the next stock market crash, and perhaps rightly so. By many measures we have high stock valuations in … [Read more...]
The core of my investing approach has been focusing on ETFs and blue chip stocks for fifteen years now, which I then augment with some trading in other asset classes around the edges. More specifically, I complement my blue chip stocks with international ETFs, cash/bonds, precious metals, a few small stocks, and occasional option trades. For … [Read more...]