Load Up On Coins (and DVDs) with Coinstar (CSTR)
Only a few stocks are worth a smart investor’s attention. In this market, where weekly swings instill weekly fears, it’s more important than ever to be selective. That’s one of the reasons we’ve been careful about recommending equities. With ETFs, at least your risk is usually...
Long On Liquidity and Short On Profitability
Bonehead move of the 1st Quarter goes to the FDIC. They placed a negative rating on a bank located in Massachusetts due to the fact that it was not lending enough. You heard that right, the FDIC slapped East Bridgewater Savings with a rare “needs to improve” rating after evaluating the bank under...
Pairs Trading the Consumer: Long WMT – Short JWN
Part of our job at Invest With An Edge is to give you some useful investing ideas you may not hear about on CNBC or see online. Whether we repeat trading mantras like the “January Effect” or discuss more obscure tactics, we aim to educate. Today we will review a method many sophisticated...
The Amazing Disappearing Billionaire
According to Forbes magazine, which diligently monitors these things, nearly a third of the world’s billionaires have disappeared since last year. The people aren’t gone, just their money. Or at least enough of it to put them back in the company of mere centimillionaires, those with a...
Ten Million Subscribers Can’t Be Wrong (NFLX)
On any given day, many stocks advance and many decline. Lately it’s been much harder than usual to find companies that are going up. Finding stocks worth owning is not much easier than finding a needle in a haystack. That’s why we’ve mostly recommended cash and cash alternatives...
Sneak Peak – Netflix (NFLX) Joins Frugalpalooza
Our feature pick of the week is a long-side candidate. Frugalpalooza is coming to the masses, and today we give you the inside track on our latest idea. (Note – we typically release our Pick-of-the-Week candidate in our weekly email. If you are not on that distribution list, click here to...
Deflation v Inflation
The most frequent question we receive regards inflation. We think that massive government stimulus packages, bank bailouts, ramped-up fed lending facilities, and other similar plans from governments and central banks in Europe and the U.S. will ultimately cause hyperinflation. The derivative question...
Not a Touchdown, Timmy!
What an appalling day. Our U.S. Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner (aka Turbo Tax Timmy – I like that moniker), tells us how the Treasury is fully on the crime scene today, with additional capital injections and some sort of murky public/private program to buy toxic assets. All this noise sounds...
BLUD on Video – with Frugalpalooza as Special Guest!
Our Pick of the Week at InvestWithAnEdge.com is Immucor (BLUD). Every now and then I like to try out my Logitech camera and scare viewers with my mug shot, as well as my bad hair!:) Immucor looks awfully good on paper, especially with the technicals matching the fundamentals…a rare thing...
Blood in the Street? Go with BLUD
One of the things we like to discuss at Invest With An Edge is how some sectors perform well while others struggle. You can profit by buying into stronger sectors and avoiding weaker ones. We’ve built a successful trading strategy based on that simple concept. You can see this in January,...
