Profitable Investing Tips

Investment and Panama Canal Expansion Delays

In late 2012 we wrote that FREE: BENZINGA Pro – Register for a FREE, Two-Week Trial seldom has a major construction project had such as wide ranging effect on investment opportunity as the Panama Canal expansion. Panama investment and the Panama Canal expansion are easy to understand. But there are wider ranging connections to investment […]

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Beware of Marijuana Stocks

Now that Colorado has legalized marijuana for recreational use, should you jump in with both feet or beware of marijuana stocks. We are, by the way, discussing investment in marijuana related businesses and not your own recreational use! Is there money to be made investing in marijuana stocks? Fundamental analysis of these stocks is, well, […]

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When to Sell Stocks

When the market has been on a long term rise it is often wise to consider when to sell stocks. Even buy and hold long term investors need to get out of stocks that have run their course. In retrospect, fundamental analysis of saddle makers, wagon makers and carriage makers at the start of the […]

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Current Gold Prices

If you are one of the folks who habitually buy gold bullion as a hedge against inflation, current gold prices are a little disconcerting. Investing in gold was all the rage in the first years of the century as gold rose from $300 an ounce to $1,900 an ounce. After peaking in 2011, gold has […]

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Stock Picks for 2014

Smart people like the folks at Barrons are talking about there being too many bulls and not enough bears in the market today. This is a natural response to a broad based 30% rise in the stock market over the last year. Many investors were hurt badly during the 2008 market crash and are absolutely […]

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Target Security Breach and EMV Cards

As many as 40 million credit and debit cards were compromised recently when hackers breached security of Target Corporation, TGT. Target customers are changing pin numbers, canceling cards, and using cash. We are thinking about investment opportunities related to this fiasco, the connection between the Target security breach and EMV cards. What fundamental analysis does […]

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Gold Investments

The right time for investing in gold (or anything else) is when the price is low and not when it is high. We published an article nearly four years ago in which we noted that what goes up commonly comes back down. At the time gold was peaking at $1,888 an ounce. Today gold investments […]

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Make Money Investing

The first order of business if you want to make money investing is fundamental analysis of the investment opportunity. In the years after the 1929 stock market crash that ushered in the Great Depression investors learned the concepts of intrinsic value and margin of safety. No longer was investing in the stock market akin to […]

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Invest in Oil Shale

Over a year ago we suggested that one look at investment in sustainable fracking technology. Recovery of petroleum from oil shale deposits has allowed the USA to reduce its reliance on foreign oil to the lowest level in more than twenty years. Today the USA imports forty percent of its oil, down from sixty percent […]

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