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James Boric

James Boric began his finance career by successfully picking winning stocks. With time and experience, James realized his goal- to figure out how an average, everyday investor with little capital could become wealthy. The trick, he discovered, was to look to the quickest moving, most exciting and lucrative group of stocks in Wall Street history — small-caps.

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A $95 Million Company to Pay Close Attention To

Feb 23rd, 2006 | By James Boric | Category: Commodities, Investing Strategies, Penny stocks
Every day, I spend between 10-12 hours scouring the market for lucrative stock opportunities. I run growth screens, fundamental screens and insider buying screens -- all to find the best stock ideas for you. Occasionally, I find some interesting companies that are just a bit too risky to recommend as ...read more


India Reminiscences: India… a Country of Contradictions

Feb 16th, 2006 | By James Boric | Category: International, Macroeconomics
James Boric gives us some Reminiscences of his and his colleagues' recent visit to India. For the last 10 days, Greg Grillot, Karim Kahemtulla and I trekked all over India. We visited Delhi, Agra, Bangalore and Mumbai (also known as Bombay) -- in search of investment ideas, business contacts and real, on-the-ground ...read more


Long-Term Small-Cap Investing: Pansies, Wusses and Shortsighted Investors, Listen Up!

Feb 9th, 2006 | By James Boric | Category: Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
James Boric explains why Small-Cap Investing is something you need to be in for the Long Term, not the short term, using the company General Maritime as an example. You’ve gotta be tough to be a small-cap investor. Pansies, wusses and shortsighted people should not even consider investing in companies with ...read more


Water and Sugar Companies: Two Massive Opportunities You Can’t Afford to Miss

Feb 2nd, 2006 | By James Boric | Category: Commodities, International, Investing Strategies
James Boric discusses two valuable commodities, Water and Sugar, and reveals some Companies that may be worth taking a look at. Listen up. This could easily prove to be the most important Sleuth alert I write to you for the next year -- possibly longer. Two massive profit opportunities are developing ...read more


End of the Small-Cap Rally: The Lifeline of a Firm

Jan 26th, 2006 | By James Boric | Category: Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
James Boric warns us of the upcoming End of the Small-Cap rally, and tells us how to judge which small-caps are worth keeping and which aren't. "Access to capital and cost of capital could be considered the lifeline to a firm." -- Satya Pradhuman, Small-Cap Dynamics From the late 1990s until recently, small-cap companies have ...read more


Small-Cap Predictions: The Golden Rule of Investing

Jan 19th, 2006 | By James Boric | Category: Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
James Boric explains why he pays no attention to Small-cap Predictions, and why you shouldn't, either. Here we go again. All the small-cap naysayers are coming out of the woodwork like termites that have had their fill of rotted wood. Once again, no one thinks our beloved small-cap friends can beat ...read more


Insider Trading Strategy: If You Put a Gun to My Head…

Jan 5th, 2006 | By James Boric | Category: Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics
James Boric discusses the Insider Trading Strategy -- keep an eye on what company insiders are doing, and follow their lead. "When several insiders are buying the company's stock at the same time, it's a positive." -- Peter Lynch If you put a gun to my head and told me I had ...read more


LeapFrog: LeapFrog Hysteria

Dec 28th, 2005 | By James Boric | Category: Investing Strategies, Technology
After visiting his family over Christmas, James Boric comes back with a new company to investigate: LeapFrog. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I hope this Sleuth finds you and your family in great spirits. I flew back home to Cincinnati to spend time with my family this past weekend. It was ...read more


Online Broker Reviews: Online Brokers Part II

Dec 22nd, 2005 | By James Boric | Category: Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics, Technology
James Boric continues his Reviews of Online Brokers. On Dec. 7, I provided you with a list of 10 of the most popular online brokers on the market. The idea was to show you what options you have as a small-cap investor when it comes to choosing the right broker -- ...read more


ROIC: Wall Street’s Road Kill

Dec 15th, 2005 | By James Boric | Category: Investing Strategies, Macroeconomics, Penny stocks
James Boric discusses how to separate the squirrels of the small-cap market from the roadkill: look for companies with a high Return on Invested Capital, or ROIC. For 26 years, the symbol for Ralph Wanger’s small-cap Acorn Fund -- which averaged 17% from 1970 to 1996 -- was a squirrel. Not ...read more