Here are a few of the new managers we’ve added to the Covestor community. Bill Smith is a business man with an affinity for numbers. He has a 20-year history in trading and has used a quantitative analysis method to trade equities for the past decade. This method helps him […]
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According to a release today by the National Association of Realtors, sales of existing homes during the month of July dropped 27.2 percent. Total home sales are now at their lowest level since 1999, and single-family home sales are at their lowest since 1995. The home buying tax credits that […]
Covestor model manager Ryan Lee’s Long-Term Conservative model has a five year time horizon and takes a conservative approach to investing. When reviewing potential companies to add to the model, Lee looks for returns on invested capital, cash flow, debt and company growth. His goal is to buy at a […]
On Friday, the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association (ELFA) issued a press release showing that their monthly confidence index for the equipment finance industry had increased slightly in August. In July, the index was at 57.6 and in August it rose to 58.2. Even in light of this increase, 73% […]
U.S. markets were mixed today after a slew of mixed economic news and indicators this week curbed investor optimism and reignited fears of a double dip recession. Concerns over a double dip recession weren’t just contained to U.S. investors; Bloomberg.com reported this week that former Office for Budget Responsibility Chairman […]
Braver Wealth’s model, Diversified, uses ETFs in its allocation strategy. The fund’s objectives include preserving capital. This week, Braver Wealth added iShares Russell 2000 Value Index Fund (IWN) to the model. IWN was designed to mimic the performance of the Russell 2000 Value index and does so by investing 90 […]
Creating a model that outperforms the S&P 500 requires vision, discipline and the ability to recognize positions that will and won’t support the goal. This week we spoke with William DeShurko of 401 Advisor about his Value Plus model which has been outperforming the S&P since May. Covestor Live: In […]
This week we introduced you to Kevin Stewart’s Top Internationals model. He may be a new manager to Covestor but that doesn’t mean he hasn’t been busy. Stewart added Wynn Resorts Ltd (NASDAQ: WYNN) to his model this week. WYNN has resorts in both Las Vegas and China. On their […]
The Department of Labor’s report on last week’s unemployment numbers sucked the life out of investors today. The report (which you can find here) shows that there was an increase of 12,000 new unemployment claims filings, bringing the total filings for the week to 500,000. This is the highest number […]
Last month we talked about Jonathan Tunney’s MergerArb model here. This week, he made another change to the model by adding Playboy Enterprises Inc (NYSE: PLA), right on the heels of a buyout offer from Friend Finder Networks, Inc. the parent company of Penthouse magazine. PLA founder Hugh Hefner has […]
In their Stealthy and Nimble model, Ninja Trades uses a proprietary model to screen stocks that have strong fundamentals and technicals. Ninja Trades takes an opportunistic approach and evaluates potential additions by price to earnings and book ratio as well as enterprise value to EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, […]