From David Brooks’ latest New York Times column: The psychologist Michael Morris points out that when the stock market is going up, we tend to use agent metaphors, implying the market is a living thing with clear intentions. We say the market climbs or soars or fights its way upward. […]
Daily Archives: April 13, 2011
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Author: Mark Holder Models: Opportunistic Arbitrage Long Only Disclosure: Long RDWR, CCIH, LNC March was another volatile month. The month ended on a solid note with the Opportunistic Arbitrage Long Only model ending with a 1.7% gain compared to a slight loss for the S&P500. Considering this model ended the month […]
Covestor model manager Fat Pitch Financials focuses on special situation stocks and is a value investor. George Silva runs the company and is an economist who did his undergraduate degree at Cornell University and his Masters at Yale University. George has twenty years of experience investing in individual stocks. Fat Pitch […]
Author: Robert Gay, GEARS Model: Earnings Surprise Disclosure: Long DAKT, COHU, SMP, FWRD, BMI, NANO, LLTC, MXIM, LOJN I created the Earnings Surprise Model to exploit the earnings surprise pattern in fundamental data. The components of the surprise pattern are rising sales growth, higher gross profit margins, high and falling […]
Capital Ideas manages Covestor’s Macro Plus Income portfolio. On April 6 and 8th, NXP Semiconductor NV (NASDAQ: NXPI) was added to the portfolio. NCP Semiconductor is a global semiconductor company and supplier to the electronics industry. We asked Capital Ideas manager CJ Brott if he could provide some insight into the decision […]