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FACEBOOK IPO: They Missed The Boat. I’ll Pass

Darwin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:45:22 +0000

Friday, news broke that Facebook was preparing to file papers for an IPO possibly as early as next Wednesday. While just about everyone is ON Facebook, many people probably haven’t considered all the reasons this will be a bad investment for retail investors trying to jump in after the open. Here are just a few [...]

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Are You Selling Stocks Prior to the Aug 2 Debt Limit Expiry?

Darwin — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:18:21 +0000

Around the office, some of my co-workers are talking about how they just unloaded all their stock holdings and shifted into cash or bonds because of the impending Aug. 2 deadline to extend the debt limit. To do otherwise, assuming the government is unable to “prioritize” payments to bondholders (which would entail curtailing payments otherwise [...]

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Timing is Everything – Investors Who Sold at the Bottom Piling Into Stocks Now?

Darwin — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:39:24 +0000

With major market indices just about doubling in less than two years from the market bottom following the financial crash, retail investors are finally starting to pile back into stocks. Talk about timing, huh? I was blown away by my friends and colleagues who were proclaiming in 2009, “I’m out! I’ve had it! Wall Street [...]

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Hedge Funds Using Twitter Traffic – Can You Exploit This?

Darwin — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:05:30 +0000

There’s been a lot of chatter lately about sophisticated software that uses Twitter and other social networking chatter about particular stocks to predict future moves. This takes the Efficient Market Theory to a whole new level since usually news becomes public during the course of a press release, a posting to a website or a [...]

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Elliott Wave: Dow 1,000 Here We Come?

Darwin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:46:16 +0000

There are often obscenely optimistic, pessimistic or outright ridiculous titles to get clicks in major financial outlets and the vast majority of the time it’s complete bunk. From the book Dow 36,000 to predictions of gold prices at astronomical levels, it’s a game of one-upmanship to see who can devise the most outrageous theorem and [...]

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Should BP Fold and Suspend Dividend Payments to Shareholders?

Darwin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:44:23 +0000

There is a growing chorus of angry groups calling on BP to suspend its dividend payments to shareholders until this whole matter is settled and all parties affected are made whole, however that is ultimately determined. As any cause that has a tinge of populist support, politicians jump on the bandwagon. So, now various members [...]

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Darwin’s Portfolio Update: Almost Doubled the Return of the S&P500

Darwin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:34:09 +0000

In March, I had provided my first portfolio update in some time, so I figured I’d follow up with an April update. In that initial update, I laid out brief rationale and background on each purchase. Here, I’ll just provide returns from March 11 to represent return for the portfolio. Since the March update, an [...]

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PEG Ratio: Why It’s More Relevant than P/E for Stocks

Darwin — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:36:47 +0000

While many individual investors are familiar with the conventional Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio, the PEG ratio isn’t cited nearly as often but it really puts a stock’s valuation in the proper context. While a P/E ratio will tell you whether a stock is “highly priced” just based on a forward earnings expectations or trailing [...]

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Darwin’s Portfolio – The Full Monty

Darwin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:48:20 +0000

The Full Monty. My trading portfolio in all its glory. I used to update readers on my portfolio holdings and performance at Everyday Finance, but that blog was recently locked up in unceremonious fashion by the Blogger team at Google, so until that is resolved, there may be some cross-content over here at Darwin’s Finance. [...]

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Business Development Companies – Excellent Overlooked Investment Strategy

Darwin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:56:17 +0000

A Business Development Company (BDC) is a niche investment category that even many high yield investors don’t have much familiarity with. While the large banks, energy trusts and real estate investment trusts (REITs) are widely known for their high yields, the Business Development Company opportunity goes widely unnoticed. Not familiar with BDCs? Well, think of [...]

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