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Forty Stocks For The Long Haul

I saw this series of articles - titled “Forty Stocks For The Long Haul” - and thought it should be immortalized. They were all published on Monday, September 15, 2008. Hopefully I’ll remember to check in on these at this time next year, and the year after, etc. They are looking at these from a […]

Stock-Screen-A-Palooza

I generally like spreading these screener runs out over the course of a month, but the vacation time has resulted in these being stacked near the end of the month. Oh, bother.
The GARP acronym stands for “growth at a reasonable price.” In order to weed out the list, I insist on a high […]

Asset Allocations for October 2007

It’s been well over a month since I did my most recent purchases, and two of them have hit their trailing stops. I think it’s about time to revisit what I should be long based on a simple model of trend-following applied to asset allocations using ETFs.
One tidbit, it appears that, in […]

Fantastic Resource for Back-Testing Stock Ideas

I have found an excellent resource for computerized back-testing of trading systems based on the AAII weekly database, and that resource is Keelix.com. For those capable of understanding pseudo code and aping unfamiliar syntax, it should be relatively self-explanatory. If one is additionally familiar with the data available from AAII, then doing the […]

Breakout + Pullback = Good Risk/Reward

There are roughly similar patterns in USO, IEZ, and OIH. I am currently long a 15% approx. weight in IEZ.