InvestorGeeks

The Princes of Digital Media

by Chris

With growing legions of users watching TV programming on their own schedules, and ultra-high bandwidth soon being pumped to every home, the dawn of digital media convergence will soon arrive, and Yahoo! and Microsoft are well positioned (and priced) to give investors a real bang for their buck.

What’s this convergence thing?
So imagine this: you’re at work and you just realized that you missed your favorite show last night. But you’re not worried. You log onto the web and download last night’s episode in digital quality for under a couple bucks. Within minutes it’s on your media player, and after you get home, you plug your media player into your home TV, and are watching it without the need to sit through all those darn commercials.

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Know Thyself: Short-term vs. Long-term

by Jason

Frank presented some great short-term and long-term stocks in Tuesday’s post. It’s important when investing to differentiate between short-term and long-term plays. You should always know why you are buying a stock, and knowing when you plan on selling the stock (in the short-term or long-term) is an important part of that equation.

But what do you do if a company looks good in the short-term AND the long-term? I’m going to address this topic using one of Frank’s picks as an example: SIRI (Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.)

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Why we’re here

by Chris

I don’t believe it is our job to just provide stock picks.

What I do believe:

• I believe it is our mission to help educate a generation of geeks on how to build wealth and secure a worry-free retirement for themselves through investment and personal finance. No compromises, no apologies, no holds bar.
• I believe every investor should practice discipline, research, and a dialectic (dialouge based) approach to choosing investments. Wealth is built over a lifetime and I believe every investor should have the courage to encourage others to supress their desires to gamble.
• I believe that we must walk before we run and in the same manner we should expect lower returns as we learn how to successfully invest.

There are thousands of investments out there, from bonds, to stocks, to starting your own business. I want to cover all of them on this site, and every investor should think carefully about his full range of options. Every investors’ circumstances are different and every investor has a personality — a certain ability to take on risk, and a certain lifestyle he would like to lead. Not every investment is suitable for each investor, and it is every person’s duty to himself to figure out what kind of risk and effort he’s willing to make with his investments.

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Frank’s Picks

by Frank

So here I go. Sorry the post is up so late in the day, going forward we’ll try and avoid that. This all started with a post to a small group of friends that started a stock picking challenge of sorts. I’ll be encapsulating a lot of what was said over multiple posts, in this single post. Future posts should show a bit more coherence and eventually settle into some sort of style.

Below I’ll list the stocks I’d picked, and the price that I would have paid for them, when I first picked them approximately 3 weeks ago. I’ll do my best to group these into short term, and long term plays. Long term meaning, simply, that it may take you longer to see a return. Then I’ll close with a few random thoughts, and some comments on what to look for in my next post.

Long Term(5+ Years):

Bank of America - BAC - 42.00
Sirius - SIRI - 6.80
Yahoo - YHOO - 32.96
News Corp. - NWS - 15.59
Disney - DIS - 23.43

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