Author: Tom Konrad Model: Alt Energy Stocks Disclosure: No positions A truly sustainable economy would produce no waste: everything would be recycled or reused for some productive purpose. We’re a long way from that ideal today, but the rising cost of commodities makes recovering used material through recycling increasingly economic. Further, […]
Frank Voisin
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Covestor manager John French has worked in the IT industry for more than 20 years. Prior to that, he worked in Corporate Finance. His career has taught him the value of data consistency, regression testing, establishing rules and procedures, and change management, which he now believes are pivotal to managing financial […]
Manager: Ted Dumbauld, D5 Advisors Model: Oil and Gas Producers Disclosure: Short TNK For the Oil and Gas Producers model, manager Ted Dumbauld focuses on high dividend paying oil and gas producers while seeking to exploit the inefficiencies created when unsophisticated investors focus on dividend yields rather than fundamentals. Dumbauld recently […]
Investors in silver (NYSE: SLV) should be forgiven for being irritable – their investment has been a veritable roller coaster of late, reaching multi-decade highs before a stunning collapse last week. The Wall Street Journal has been covering the story, and looking back to the last time silver was this […]
Chuck Jaffe of MarketWatch recently wrote about the danger posed by the next ‘flash crash’ and how retail ETF investors often mistake limit orders for protection: The ‘flash crash’ turned the stock market on its ear during one violent trading day a year ago, but many investors are still vulnerable […]
Covestor manager Don Merrell is currently a real estate financial consultant based in Parker, Colorado. He was educated at Arizona State University and has held the position of Division President and regional CFO at national homebuilders. He has been investing since the early 80s – here’s how he got started: […]
Keshav Agrawal is a CPA with a background in accounting and finance. He has more than 10 years of experience in trading stocks and derivatives for his personal account. Keshav manages Covestor’s Holistic and Opportunistic model which looks for a combination of value, technical, growth, and long-term equity investment opportunities across a […]
Author: William Smith Models: Price Volatility Volume and Core Price Volatility Volume In the midst of the recent market volatility and account drawdown, I’ve received a few questions about my trading strategy. I’m happy to answer these questions any time, and of course they seem to be far more frequent during an equity […]
Manager: Patrick McFadden, M2 Global Model: M2 Global Disclosure: Long NBG, MNKD The current macro environment leads us to look for investments that we can hold with limited down side, while participating in upside both on an alpha and beta basis. Mannkind (NASDQ: MNKD) we view as Alpha and National […]
Another great sketch from Carl Richards: From Richards’ newsletter accompanying the sketch: Almost no one is happy with the state of their financial plans, or at least it appears that way based on what we hear in the media. For that to change, we can’t continue to do the same […]
Author: Peter Kurata Covestor Model: CANSLIM Disclosure: None In a first ever post-Fed meeting press conference, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said QE II will continue to be supported after June. This news helped sparked the market to move to a new highs. Inflation continues to creep in, and the Fed’s position […]
Author: Michael Arold Model: Technical Swing Disclosure: Long UDN When it comes to the US Dollar, I can see analysts in two camps: one group is calling for an immediate rally to work off oversold conditions. After that, they expect further declines. The second camp is looking for further declines […]