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Investing in stocks now seems idiotic

Published on March 5, 2009 By BitLizard

Well, I’ve often heard that when the stock market bottom occurs it will feel absolutely horrible to own stocks and even foolhardy to contemplate a new purchase. It certainly feels like that now. Its hard to summon the requisite optimism to even look at the market or even my stock screen at this point. But [...]

Trade day for Timely Value

Published on February 5, 2009 By BitLizard

Its been a full month of market experience for my fledgling model portfolio – Timely Value. As a refresher, the timely value model portfolio invests in companies with good return on equity while not being over leveraged. The timely part comes from our use of MSN Money’s stock ranking system. For a far more complete [...]

A good screen for uptrending markets

Published on January 6, 2009 By BitLizard

It all seems so long ago… that wonderful time when we all (or at least most of us) had positive stock market returns. During those great days I developed a stock screen that performed very well for me. Unfortunately, I also discovered that it doesn’t give you much of an advantage in a bear market. [...]