Dan Amoss, CFA, joined Agora Financial from Investment Counselors of Maryland, investment adviser for one of the top small-cap value mutual funds over the past 15 years. As a buy-side analyst, Dan refined his value investing approach by meeting with corporate executives and sell-side analysts and writing proprietary research for the fund’s management team. Dan is the editor of Strategic Short Report.
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Nov 4th, 2009 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Options
Don’t be fooled into thinking that we’re out of the woods yet. “Junk stocks” are setting themselves up for a colossal fall in the coming months – and it’s going to make some investors incredibly rich. Here’s how you play this doomed industry for gains…
“Junk stocks” have dramatically outperformed the ...
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Tags: junk stocks
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Oct 8th, 2009 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
The pundits on CNBC and the nightly news are dead wrong about the economic recovery. And as Wall Street’s pros praise the economic strides they’re seeing, the market’s real fundamentals keep getting worse, while more and more regular investors are falling into the trap.
Here’s why the only way to make ...
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Tags: recovery, short selling
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Aug 31st, 2009 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Featured, Investing Strategies, Options
Don't let this stock market rally fool you -- all isn’t well on Wall Street.
And that financial malady is now traveling to Main Street as banks – including the latest FDIC rescue operation here in Baltimore on Friday – crumble all around us. Here’s what you need to know to ...
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Tags: banking
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Aug 12th, 2009 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Featured, International, Investing Strategies, Options
Everyone thinks they’re safe from the current financial crisis.
No one thinks they’re doomed.
I’m talking about the Canadians, of course.
See, lately, I've read a lot about the superiority of the Canadian banking system. And naturally, my contrarian instincts prompted a search for a way for you to make money as the ...
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Tags: banking, Canada
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Aug 10th, 2009 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Featured, International, Investing Strategies, Options
In the last 18 months, Strategic Short Report readers had the chance to make 432% when Lehman failed, 162% when Allied Capital came clean, and 220% on PNC Financial… This month my subscribers are poised to make money on the next bank drop.
And I’m going to give you a chance ...
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Tags: banking, Canada
Posted in Featured, International, Investing Strategies, Options |
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Jul 10th, 2009 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Featured, Housing, Investing Strategies
Investors in common stocks tend to ignore warning signs coming from the credit markets, often at their peril. Right now, the credit markets are broadcasting the following warning: The equity of overleveraged REITs is at risk of elimination or permanent impairment.
Yet the stocks of real estate investment trusts (REITs), which ...
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Tags: REITs
Posted in Featured, Housing, Investing Strategies |
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Jan 30th, 2009 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Commodities, Featured
This bear market has pushed the price of many good stocks to bargain-basement levels. In my view, the stock prices of many oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) companies are irrationally low. Many are valued like they are depleting assets (like energy trusts or master limited partnerships), when, ...
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Tags: E&P, Natural Gas, stocks
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Nov 17th, 2008 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Energy, Featured, Housing, Macroeconomics
The battle between credit contraction and government-sponsored inflation rages on. For several weeks, the forces of credit contraction have been winning.
There are fears that banks will never expand lending again, and that everyone with debt wants to pay it down as fast as possible.
I think these fears are excessive. They ...
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Tags: credit contraction, demand for debt, existing mortgage debt, Federal Reserve, rising inflation
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Sep 22nd, 2008 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Macroeconomics
“Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes her laws.”
— Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Let’s observe a moment of silence to mourn the slow demise of capitalism in the U.S.
Our government is now overtly manipulating the stock market. We have “crossed the Rubicon.” We can no longer ...
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Tags: capitalism in the U.S., naked short selling, regulation of short sellers, SEC short selling, short selling
Posted in Macroeconomics |
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Aug 27th, 2008 |
By Dan Amoss |
Category: Investing Strategies
“You know, you saw subprime go first, and then, on a slight lag, you saw home equity, and now in the lag, you’re seeing prime go. And it’s exactly the same loss factors. But remember, the components of where we are in the states…[are] very different. And we started doing ...
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Tags: Securities, sell short stock, short sellers, short selling stocks
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