Jan 26th, 2012 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
This is probably my favorite special situation of all for its simplicity.
Joel Greenblatt wrote about it in his 1997 book You Can Be a Stock Market Genius. Greenblatt, at that time, was a relative unknown. But his Gotham Capital had put up 50% average annual returns for 10 years. The ...
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Tags: Investing, Strategies
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Jan 3rd, 2012 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
It hasn’t been an easy environment to invest in. Fundamentals seem not to mean anything. The market paints with a super broad and emotional brush. Everything seems to go up and down at the same time.
It’s fascinating to see how people cope with the volatility. Their choices and behavior lead ...
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Tags: Investor Education, Penny stocks
Posted in Featured, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks |
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Dec 9th, 2011 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies
Insiders call it the “magic drug”... but it’s not a pill you swallow. It’s not something that your doctor will prescribe. It’s a special solution being injected right now into thousands of oil wells across America.
It frees up massive amounts of crude oil from deposits on dry land once thought ...
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Tags: Commodities, Penny stocks
Posted in Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies |
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Oct 20th, 2011 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Emerging Markets, Featured, Investing Strategies
I’ve been a long-time watcher of Japan. When I started writing newsletters for the public in 2004, it took me my third issue to get to Japan. The country has long fascinated those with a taste for cheap stocks — like me. But it’s been a long time in waiting ...
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Tags: Foreign Markets, Japan
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Jul 19th, 2011 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies
The earliest historical references to the oil in Alaska come from the 1850s. Hardy Russian explorers and fur trappers traipsing about mountain ranges and sea passages noted oil seeps around what’s called Cook Inlet today.
The oil-rich inlet is named for Captain Cook. He stumbled on this 180-mile inlet on his ...
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Tags: Investing, oil
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Jun 29th, 2011 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Featured, High Growth, Investing Strategies
“The center of aviation has now moved officially from Europe and North America to the Asian markets. It’s the biggest market today and it’s going to grow at the fastest rate, and unless something very unusual happens, it will continue to be the largest market.” –Vice President of Marketing for ...
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Tags: airlines, Investing Strategies
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Jun 6th, 2011 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies
“The world has changed. It is a more fragile and less stable place.”
The speaker was Joshua Friedman, the co-chief at Canyon Partners, which manages $20 billion. He was speaking at Grant’s Spring Investment Conference, which I attended in early April.
Friedman used the imagery of the old bell curves. There is ...
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Tags: Commodities, Natural Gas, Optionality
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Jun 2nd, 2011 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
He may be the best investor you’ve never heard of. Beginning in 1975, he delivered to his investors a compound annual return of 15.2% for the next 33 years! If you’d put $10,000 with him and left it there, you’d have had $1 million by 2007.
Peter Cundill is his name. ...
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Tags: Penny stocks, peter cundill
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May 16th, 2011 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Commodities, Featured, Investing Strategies
In the 1850s, hardy Russian explorers and fur trappers traipsing about mountain ranges and sea passages noted oil seeps around what we call Cook Inlet today. These are the earliest historical references to the oil in Alaska.
Over the next hundred years, a variety of fortune-seekers — lone prospectors, private wildcatters ...
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Tags: Alaska, Commodities, oil
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May 9th, 2011 |
By Chris Mayer |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies
One of the vulnerabilities in today's market is that profit margins are near peaks. Investors tend to like companies with fat profit margins, but high profit margins are like honey pots that attract competitors. They are rarely sustainable for long.
But what is more important for stock prices is not the ...
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Tags: Investing, Investor Education, Technology
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