InvestorGeeks

Reading List for the Investing Master

by Peter

By the time I was 20 years of age I knew about Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett and Philip Fisher and was a big fan of Malcolm Forbes Sr.. I would do spreadsheets by hand and can you believe it on paper! It was not until 1990 that I converted to my first PC so I had a good 15 years of reading books in order to learn my trade.

Earnings Guidances: Stay Or Go?

by Vince

Is it possible to predict the quarterly earnings for a business, or a giant multi-billion dollar conglomerate accurately down to a single/narrow cent-per-share figure? A large number of investment analysts out there sure think so! After all, who wants to be the sucker who can only give you a broad earnings range, when “I” can give you the exact figure, so “I” must be better. So pay “me”, and hire “me”! And may god strike it down if that company misses “my” estimate by even one cent! It’s not “my” estimation error, it’s their fault! (Returning back to normal) I’m sorry, I don’t know what came over me just now!
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But can you hear the analysts tooting their own horns as they predict earnings? And when did companies think it was a good idea to help these overpaid statisticans along with corporate guidances? Is it a good idea? I’d love to hear from you, but I’ll first share my perpsective!

Become an Investor Geek: New Authors Wanted

by Jason

In honor of Labor Day, we are offering to employ between 5-10 new authors. If you are interested in becoming a contributing writer for our site, please:

• Send your name, e-mail address, phone number, and blog URL if you have one, to contact {at} investorgeeks * com.
• Include a brief summary (no more than 200 words) on why you want to be an InvestorGeek.
• Also include hyperlinks to 2 articles you’ve written.

We will try to get back to you within three days of receiving your application. So while we will be accepting applications until 11:59PM on Monday the 18th of September, if you apply sooner you’ll hear back from us sooner.

If you specialize in a particular topic, let us know. We are specifically looking for writers to help round out our real estate and entrepreneurship topics. We are also very interested in bringing on active traders (day traders, swing traders, etc) and people who are making their living through their investments (retired investors, real estate agents/brokers, etc) to discuss their work. If you do not expect to cover one of these topics, please apply anyway. Because first and foremost we are looking for excellent writers with a passion for investing, people who would like to help us build our investing community. Is that you?

What’s in it for me?

• If you have your own blog, writing for InvestorGeeks is a great way to drive traffic back to your site.
• Becoming an Investor Geek will bring you together with other passionate investing writers who will become a resource for you to bounce writing and investing ideas off of. You will become a better writer. You will become a better investor.
• We share our profits with our authors. Despite our claims of offering “employment”, the current take for the average InvestorGeeks author is not enough to live on. However, one month’s wages might buy you dinner (this is a bit of an improvement from our offer of “a beer” per month last time we were calling for authors).

We felt our first call for new writers was very successful (thanks, guys), and we hope to find some great new people to help us grow. Good luck to all who apply.

Keep Tabs on All Our Investor Geeks

by Jason

I’ve thrown together a few tools you guys can use to keep tabs on us. Subscribing to the InvestorGeeks feed is the first way, but we also do a lot of writing outside of the site.

At Rollyo.com, you can use our custom-configured InvestorGeeks_Authors search engine which will search through a list of all the investing and personal finance blogs our authors maintain. This is a great way to get the InvestorGeeks take on MSFT or find articles by InvestorGeeks authors on 401ks.

The next tool comes courtesy of FeedJumbler.com. Once again I’ve compiled a list of all of the blogs maintained by InvestorGeeks authors (this time including non-investing related blogs) so you can keep tabs on our every move. You can subscribe to the feed using your favorite feedreader by visiting the InvestorGeeks Combined Feed.