Bull markets or long term upward price appreciation are the golden child.  They reflect the recoveries and expansions of the economic world.  Economic recoveries and growth push spending and investment forward and compound.  The simple act of spending and investing creates more of the same like that of an ant discovering a food source and … Read more

Trends and reversions or regressions to the mean are directional concepts within the stock market.  Understanding trends and reversions and how to make them work for you as an investor can be important. A trend is a directional movement of some type that takes time to develop, yet continues until saturation of the trend occurs … Read more

Within the investment research process you have to turn over a lot of stones to uncover as much as you can about the company you are interested in owning.  Every piece of information matters.  As it is hard to discover everything, leaving one stone uncovered can fail to reveal the one piece of the puzzle … Read more

Business growth generates ownership or shareholder value which ultimately translates into investment growth.  In order to find businesses that are growing you have to understand the basics of business growth.   The simplest way to understand this topic is by example.  Imagine someone is passionate about the widget business, and wants to start a widget business.  … Read more

There are numerous methods of valuing a company’s stock value.  When you peruse through all the articles and books it can be overwhelming.  So many different metric methods, and so many different people standing behind or referring to different methods that they use.  I stand in the value camp, and tend to use one value … Read more

Having a vision in life is important even for kids.  With COVID-19 my kids are schooling from home and have limited access to their traditional daily activities, so it can be difficult.   The outside variety of stimulations aren’t as prevalent these days. They will be back at some point, and that can be hard … Read more

As of this date 11-27-20 Tesla has been a visible flyer with respect to current price.  It currently trades at 19x its price to sales.  With so much controversy around the current price of the stock I thought I would use a simple metric to put this into perspective, so I ran some simple numbers … Read more

Having investment triggers that start your investment research are important.  It’s worth the time to list your triggers.  Doing so speeds up your search for the next great investment choice.  Every investment process starts with a trigger.  Everyone uses a trigger, yet most probably don’t realize it. Investment triggers are data or comprehension of an … Read more

I spend a lot of time searching for excellent long term investments that are priced at a discount to value.  Finding ideal business investments is time consuming and takes a lot of reading and analytical research.  Often you’ll wander down the path of what looks like a good potential investment only to come upon a … Read more

Real estate investing and stock market investing both have a common goal of achieving winning returns, yet both implore different processes that require unique mindsets and emotions.  Both investment assets have similarities in that they both require finding a quality investment, buying that investment at a fair price, and managing the investment for long term … Read more