CNBC says Index boss warns investors will underperform ‘dramatically’ if they ignore sustainable criteria. Nasdaq - Long-term: Up - Intermediate: Up - Short-term: Up S&P - Long-term: Up - Intermediate: Up - Short-term: Up Russell 2000 - Long-term: Up - Intermediate: Up - Short-term: Up

CNBC says As stocks hit more and more records, there are signs traders may be getting way too euphoric. Nasdaq - Long-Term: Up - Intermediate: Up - Short-Term: Up S&P - Long-Term: Up - Intermediate: Up - Short-Term: Up Russell 2000 - Long-Term: Up - Intermediate: Up - Short-Term: Up

Here are the trends for the major indices today. Everything closed up and is trending up. Nasdaq - Long-term: Up - Intermediate: Up - Short-term: Up S&P 500 - Long-term: Up - Intermediate: Up - Short-term: Up Russell 2000 - Long-term: Up - Intermediate: Up - Short-term: Up

I thought it my be useful for myself and others if I list out the stocks in my portfolio and watch list. I have informal categories for each stock I own based on whether I'm looking to buy, hold, or sell. I'd like to make those categories a bit more formal in this post and going forward. The...

I'm reading the book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. In a section on the Agricultural revolution, Harari reminds us that while farming allowed human populations to grow, the quality of life for the average farmer was worse than the average hunter-gatherer. Farmers worked...

This post is inspired by a post by the user cyice on Stocktwits, who said: "when are the fundamentals of the stock ever going to take charge of its price". At $110 a share, Apple ($AAPL) is down around $20 or 16% from it's highs just over $132. The stock trades at a PE ratio of 13. Minus the $200B...

Last week, I made the case to purchase Zynga stock in anticipation of their August 6th Q3 report. (BTW, you'll be able to find the Q3 earnings report and conference call link on the Zynga Investor Relations site.) At the time, ZNGA was trading around $2.85 per share. Since then, the stock has...

Aside: I'm going to try to blog here when I do research for stocks I'm investing in and in particular when I am sharing ideas with my mother. Explaining an investment to my mother and to the blog here are remarkably similar processes... so two birds with one stone and all. Next up: Zynga (ZNGA)....

I'm bullish on Bitcoins, from a price perspective and also from a technology perspective. Like many out there, I'm kicking myself for not jumping on the bandwagon sooner. I remember when they were $5 and I was first reading about them. I remember when they were less than $1 per coin, and my office...

My Mom asked me about Bed Bath and Beyond recently. She used to be a store manager there. She sold her stock a while ago (missed that big up swing) but thinks there may be a buying opportunity now. I also owned some way back and sold after a small gain, missing most of the big 2-3 year rally here....