Month: August 2016

The Latest Top Selling Investment Books for August

Looking for more investing and stock market books to read while you are sitting on the beach during your vacation or while you are flying on a plane? Here are the latest books which cover stocks and investments, that have just been released. Interestingly, two of them are about Warren Buffett.

How To Be The Intelligent Investor Like Warren Buffett
by Rachel Maxwell
Warren Buffett is intelligent investor and he is undoubtedly the most successful stock market trader today. He is currently worth billions of dollars and his net worth is still on the rise. Many investors strive to be just like him, but sadly only a few of them are actually successful in emulating even a fraction of his success. What is the secret to Warren Buffett’s enormous wealth? Does he have superpowers that allow him to see into the future and take stock of his investments? The truth may actually shock you because it is much simpler than you think.The reason why Warren Buffett was able to amass as much money as he did is because he is a “intelligent investor” and it is recommended that you become one as well.What is a intelligent investor? Unlike other traders in the stock market, intelligent investor do not really pay too much heed in what is currently happening in the marketplace, they are much more interested in the actual value of the stocks.Value investor take into consideration the strengths and weaknesses of the companies they plan to invest in, and this requires a lot of analysis and not too much guesswork.

In this Warren Buffett book, you will learn the techniques and mindset that Warren Buffett uses whenever he goes into trades. Even though it is not really guaranteed that you will be met with the same kind of success, you are assured to get some valuable insights on how to invest your money properly and ensure that you actually make money instead of lose it.Here you will learn how to determine the true worth of a company so you will have an easier time determining whether or not it is worth it to invest your money in their stocks.Once you learn the basics of Warren Buffett’s value investing strategy, your entire view of the stock trading marketplace will change for the better.


Invest in the Best: Applying the principles of Warren Buffett for long-term investing success
by Keith Ashworth-Lord
This book concentrates on the investment style of Business Perspective Investing, as practiced by Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett. It takes the reader through the realisation that the thought process involved when buying shares in a company is no different to buying the company in its entirety.

Adaptive Investing
by Tony Pow
To be successful in investing, we have to adapt to the current market. We evaluate our tools (screens, scoring system and our way to time the market) consistently as they change consistently. For example, some screens work better than others in different phases of a market cycle. So are the fundamental metrics. Early Recovery (a phase defined in this book) provides the best time to make easy money. Today, ignore most testing results older than 2000 as the market are quite different than today. The better test results are 6 months (or 3 months for short term) from today as they resemble the market closely. This book should make you a better investor for advance beginners and fund managers alike. This book does not make you wealthy overnight. However, I have proven step-by-step techniques to time the market, find and evaluate stocks for profits from my experiences and other retail investors (not traders) like most of you. We do not have the Holy Grail in investing but we have something close to it: Select the fundamental (technical too) metrics and the screens that have performed well lately. To illustrate, if the screen or a fundamental metric such as Price/Cash Flow works in the last few months, there is a better chance it will work this month than not. 


How to Make Money with Global Macro
by Dr. Javier Gonzalez
GLOBAL MACRO is the study of the interrelations between economic policy, asset classes, politics, and war. In his idiosyncratic book, Javier Gonzalez shows how these elements weave an intricate higher-dimensional puzzle that affect our portfolios and our lives.With his innovative approach, readers are likely to interpret events around them in a new light, realizing new interconnections.

“How to Make Money with Global Macro” is Kindleberger’s “Manias, Panics, and Crashes” for speculators. (Kindleberger’s book is rather academic).
Traders and investors could find useful gaining a thorough understanding of global macro, regardless of whether their strategy is value investing, trend following, discretionary global macro, or other. Knowing how global macro might be affecting price or might affect it in the near future is crucial to making an investment decision.


The Investment Code: Ancient Jewish Wisdom for the Wise Investor
by H. W. Charles
Why are so many Jews Successful Investors that Accumulate Massive Wealth?  Jews are known to be the most successful and best performing hedge-fund managers, investors, and traders in the world. Out of the best 25 money managers since the advent of American Capitalism, 17 are Jewish! Some of those in the top 25 are very famous: George Soros, Steven Cohen, James Simon, David Tepper, John Paulson, Carl Icahn, Daniel Loeb, Leon Cooperman, Israel Englander, David Einhorn, Seth Klarman, and Bruce Kovner.

Groundbreaking research has found that one of the key components to the success of the Jews is their religion—Judaism. The Tanakh, a Jewish religious text, contains codes and messages secretly hidden within its pages—decoded by the Talmud, it offers practical guidance that can be applied to your investing and business practices.

The Investing Code contains the time-tested secret wisdom found in the Tanakh that has worked to help the Jews accumulate wealth generation after generation. It can be applied by anyone today to attain wealth through wise investing practices.



Illusions of Wealth: Actively Manage Your Investments or Expect Losses in this Volatile Economy
by Doug Eberhardt
In order to keep your wealth from being an illusion, you must possess the ability to adjust your portfolio as the economic and investment climates change. Buy-and- hold strategies can work with some assets, but should not be the way forward for all your holdings. Applying the common sense of this book can grant you control of your future and your wealth.

First, it is important to have a foundational understanding of our monetary, economic, banking, and Federal Reserve systems. That is the basis on which you build your portfolio, and this book is designed to make it easy to comprehend, as technical as it may seem. You’re driving blind in the investment world without this knowledge.
From there it’s a matter of choosing the right advisor by asking the right questions—which you will find in this book. Or, you can acquire the confidence to manage your investments yourself, using the insights provided here. Many will skip over the foundational sections and go straight to the Investment section. I understand this desire to “tell me what to do” and you’ll find this section thorough in helping you maintain your wealth and profit moving forward.
What are the economic conditions on the horizon that can affect your wealth? Why do you invest the way you do? Is it because someone told you to invest that way? Who do you trust for investment advice, and why? Are they any good? How much do they make from their recommendations to you? Did they protect your portfolio during the last financial crisis? Is another financial crisis around the corner? How have you structured your portfolio differently to protect your wealth if we were to experience another economic downturn?
Inadequate education failed to teach us how to invest, so we relinquish control to advisors who may or may not have our best interests at heart. This book is written to bring you the awareness, confidence and insight necessary to conquer the future panics, crashes, and crises that will inevitably arise, and teach you how to profit whether the market is rising or falling. But most importantly, it is written to stand the test of time for generations to come, fulfilling the void left by our educational system. Isn’t it time you took control of your financial future?


Wall Street Smarts: A Guide to Finding Your Inner Investor
by Miles Goodwin
In the dizzying world of investment opportunities, finding a successful personal strategy is a daunting task. But the more you can understand yourself, the better chance you will have finding something that works for you.

In Wall Street Smarts, author Miles Goodwin presents a remarkable compilation and review of some of today’s best books for individual investors. Important works, such as The Art of Speculation by Philip Carret, Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Philip Fisher, The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton G. Malkiel, and The Nature of Risk, Stock Market Survival and the Meaning of Life by Justin Mamis, provide profound wisdom and insight to enable you to learn how to successfully invest your own money. In addition, the book contains a risk tolerance quiz designed by Dr. J. E. Grable of the University of Georgia and Dr. R. H. Lytton of Virginia Tech University, Professors of Financial Planning, to help you learn how your “inner investor” shapes your investment decisions.
Divided into twelve easy-to-understand chapters, this remarkable resource compiles the best information from these books and breaks down a host of investment fundamentals and strategies, providing a comprehensive look at the various concepts you need to understand to be successful.
So if you want to learn more about investing and how to handle your money yourself, crack open this book, dive in, and discover what works best for you! If you have never discussed finances and Wall Street with your children, this book is a great starting point.



Enjoy!!!

Corporate Earnings Announcements for Week 3 of August

Looking for some interesting moves in some stocks this upcoming week? Check out the companies that will be reporting earnings this week.

If earnings exceed analysts’ expectations, the stocks can shoot up. If the numbers underperform, the stock can tank. Then again, occasionally, stocks don’t move the way you would have expected.

Anyway, many traders use earnings plays for trading strategies. Also, option traders look for high implied volatility of stocks for for option selling strategies.

Here are many of the enormous number of stocks reporting earnings this week:

Monday

ALRM

AU
DAVE
SYY
 
Tuesday
 
AAP
BHP
COTY
CREE
HD
URBN
Wednesday
A
AEO
ADI
CSCO
SPLS
TGT
Thursday
 
AMAT
DV
GPS
WMT
 
Friday
 
DE
EL

FL

If you like interesting stock lists like this, be sure to check out many of the free stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

What is CRISPR and Why Should Investors Care?

If you happened to see the cover of the July 4, 2016 cover of Time Magazine, you would have noticed that the cover article was about CRISPR. If you have never heard of CRISPR, I suggest that you keep your eyes open for future features about CRISPR in the media. (Will we see a feature about CRISPR on 60 Minutes?)

So what is CRISPR? CRISPR stands for “clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats”. Before you eyes glaze over and you skip the rest of this article, let me tell you what it means in very simple terms. It is a technique for editing and splicing DNA much more quickly, simply, and less expensively than previously done in the past. This is a revolutionary technique that could lead to the potential to cure any genetic disease.

According to the free list of CRISPR stocks here at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com, there are several publicly traded companies that have jumped on the CRISPR bandwagon, both big and small. Obviously, the CRISPR technology industry is at its very early stages, so there are risks involved with some of the purer plays, none of which are currently generating earnings.






Editas Medicine (EDIT) is a Cambridge, Massachusetts based genome editing company, focusing on treating patients with genetically defined diseases through the development of a proprietary genome editing platform based on CRISPR/Cas9 technology. The company, which sports a market cap of a bit over $800 million, has $229 million in cash, which works out to about $6.51 in cash per share. It carries a debt load of $11.65 million.

Intellia Therapeutics (NTLA) is another pure play CRISPR stock, and is currently collaborating with Novartis (NVS). Intellia is developing in vivo projects which target liver diseases, including transthyretin amyloidosis, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, hepatitis B virus, and inborn errors of metabolism; and ex vivo relating to chimeric antigen receptor T cell and hematopoietic stem cell product candidates. The stock has a market cap of $700 million, cash of $64 million, and is debt free.

Cocrystal Pharma (COCP) is the most speculative of the group, carrying a market cap of $314 million.   This debt free company has over $10 million in cash. Cocrystal is working on CRISPR/Cas9 technologies for developing cures for hepatitis B virus and the human papilloma virus.

CRISP is a narrow field in the biotechnology arena, but it may become the fastest growing and most significant of all the biotech industries. To see a list of over a dozen CRISPR companies, go to WallStreetNewsNetwork.com link here.

Disclosure: Author owns COCP.

By Stockerblog.com

How to Invest in the Olympics

The 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro had its opening ceremony yesterday, August 5, 2016, and will run until August 21. There will be over 207 nations participating with more than 10,000 athletes. The United States has already received its first gold medal for the women’s 10-meter air rifle event.

In 2008, the Summer Olympics had the largest global viewership, and the highest peak viewer share in the world of any television broadcast. With that track record, if 2016 comes even close to that, it will been a boon to the companies connected with the Olympics.

Investors that are looking for a way to play the Olympics have several companies that they can choose from.

First, you have the airlines. United (UAL) is the official airline of the Olympics. LATAM Airlines (LFL ) serves the South American market and will be bringing a large number of passengers to Rio.

In terms of clothing and apparel, there is Ralph Lauren (RL) which made the Olympic outfits. Nike (NKE) is a proud sponsor, and we will be seeing many Nike shoes in several events. Under Armour (UA) is not an official sponsor but has made the uniforms for the US gymnastics teams, and should benefit from the publicity. Finally, there is Dick’s Sporting Goods (DKS), which markets various types of athletic apparel and exercise equipment. It is an official sponsor.

Next there is the media. The Olympics are being broadcast on the NBC television network, which is owned by Comcast (CMCSA). Media General (MEG) will have the Olympics aired on 13 of its NBC affiliates.

Last but not least is Visa (V), an official sponsor, which is handling the Olympic payment system.

Hopefully, some of these stocks can provide a gold medal for your portfolio.

You can see an investment motif of Olympics Stocks at motifinvesting.com. If you like interesting stock lists like this, you should check out many of the free stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

Disclosure: Author didn’t own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

Corporate Earnings Announcements for the Second Week of August

Looking for some interesting moves in some stocks this upcoming week? Check out the companies that will be reporting earnings this week.

If earnings exceed analysts’ expectations, the stocks can shoot up. If the numbers underperform, the stock can tank. Then again, occasionally, stocks don’t move the way you would have expected.

Anyway, many traders use earnings plays for trading strategies. Also, option traders look for high implied volatility of stocks for for option selling strategies.

Here are many of the enormous number of stocks reporting earnings this week:

Monday

 
AGN
ARNA
NILE
HTZ
MAIN
BID
TSN
WBMD
 
Tuesday
 
AMSC
CECE
CHTR
COH
EXC
GWPH
LSCC
MWW
SCTY
VRX
DIS
YELP

Wednesday
BUFF
RL
SHAK
SLW
WEN

Thursday
 
BABA
HIMX
M
JWN
NVDA
PBR
RT
JET

 
Friday
 
AYA
BAM
JCP
JHX

If you like interesting stock lists like this, be sure to check out many of the free stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Second Week of August

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called ‘Buying Dividends,’ also commonly referred to as ‘Dividend Capture.’ This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only in bull markets, and can work in flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the technique during bear markets.

In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can’t sell the stock until after the ex date. The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks.

WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, and the yield.

American Electric Power AEP 8/8/2016 3.2%
IBM Corp IBM 8/8/2016 3.5%
A. H. Belo Corporation AHC 8/10/2016 5.8%
Boeing Co. BA 8/10/2016 3.2%
Collectors Universe CLCT 8/10/2016 7.0%
Duke Energy DUK 8/10/2016 4.0%
Spectra Energy SE 8/10/2016 4.5%
Wal-Mart Stores WMT 8/10/2016 2.7%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found at wsnn.com. (If you have been to the website before, and the latest link doesn’t show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com or WSNN.com. Most of the lists are free.

Dividend definitions:

Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Monthly Dividend Stock List

Record date: the day when you must be on the company’s books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

Book now available: Buying Dividends Revised and Expanded

Book now available: Stock Market Trivia Makes a Great Gift!

Don’t forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.

10 Ways to Survive an Upcoming Catastrophe Part 2

12 More Must Have Survival Products

If you missed the article last month that I wrote called 10 Ways to Survive an Upcoming Catastrophe, you should really check it out first.

When you see the news about Brexit, the election, the economy. the candidates, the toppy stock market, the terror attacks, and the shootings, you may be a little concerned. Which is why I wrote about products you may want to stock up on, in the event you have no electricity, natural gas, heat, Internet, or water.

Since I wrote that article, I have received many suggestions of additional survival items that you may want to consider. Here they are.

1. SurvivalSPARK Emergency Magnesium Fire Starter with Compass and Whistle
This is a cool tool The whistle and compass are added bonuses.

2. Cyalume SnapLight Red Light Sticks
These are great because they last for twelve hours.

3. Emergency Survival Mylar Thermal Reflective Cold Weather Shelter Tube Tent
I mentioned the mylar thermal blanket in my previous article. But to compliment that, you should get this mylar tent.

4. Safe-T-Proof Solar, Hand-Crank Emergency Radio, Flashlight, Beacon, Cell Phone Charger The fact that this runs off both solar and hand crank is a great feature. I don’t have this yet but I’ve heard great things about it and I plan to make this my next survival product purchase.

5. Potable Aqua Water Purification Tablets
Have you ever had giardia? You don’t ever want to get it, unless you enjoy spending a week in the bathroom. This will purify water, so you won’t get it from spring or river water.

6. Build the Perfect Bug Out Bag
Do you think you may need to skip out quickly? Get a Bug Out bag, fully stocked. Keep it in your trunk.

BOOKS

7. 100 Deadly Skills: The SEAL Operative’s Guide

8. Prepper’s Long-Term Survival Guide

9. Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival

FOOD

10. Mountain House Biscuits and Gravy

11. Mountain House, Raspberry Crumble

12. Mountain House Just In Case… Essential Bucket

Hopefully, you will get these survival items but won’t need them. They should be considered cheap insurance.

10 Ways to Survive an Upcoming Catastrophe

Check out the mail that I’ve received in just the last few days. This is just a small sample of what I receive on a regular basis. Look at the headlines:

“Does this chart foretell the end of Western Civilization?”
“America’s Day of Reckoning”
“Bloodbath 2016”

Many investors are worried about the fallout from Brexit. Many investors are worried about who is going to win the election, and what will happen to the economy. as a result Many investors fear both the leading Republican and Democratic candidates. Many investors are worried that the stock market has been rising for too long. So is a major catastrophe just around the corner? If so, what’s a person to do?

If you are really concerned, there are certain supplies that you can stock up on, that can help out in the event that there is a real catastrophe. Imagine no electricity, natural gas, heat, Internet, or water. Here is a list of items that you should consider stocking up on.

1. LifeStraw Personal Water Filter
These water filters are great. This straw filters out virtually all bacteria and almost all parasites, without the use of chlorine, iodine, or any toxic chemicals.

2. Chainmate CM-24SSP 24-Inch Survival Pocket Chain Saw With Pouch
This lightweight and portable saw with carbon steel teeth can cut through wood fast.

3. Emergency Mylar Thermal Blankets
I like to keep one of these in the glove compartment of all my vehicles. These waterproof rescue blankets reflects 90% of body heat.

4. Jackie Portable Extra-large Head Windproof Waterproof Matches
The best feature about these matches is that they can light during a rainstorm and windstorm.

5. Emergency Power USB Hand Crank SOS Phone Charger
If there is still cellphone service, you could find this very useful.

6. Survival Seed Vault Non-GMO Hardy Heirloom Seeds
You will need to grow your own vegetables for food. These non-GMO non-hybrid vegetable seeds are in a can for long term storage, with 20 varieties of vegetables.

7. Cyalume SnapLight Green Light Sticks
I really like these. They can stay lit for up to 12 hours. These are not the cheap party light sticks, they are high quality sticks made in the US.

8. Multi Tool Set
This has a wrench, pliers, knife, two hexagonal sockets, and three screwdriver bits.

9. Mountain House Just In Case Freeze Dried Food Bucket
To survive, you have to have food. This bucket contains 12 pouches (29 servings) of freeze dried food, including beef stroganoff, chicken teriyaki, beef stew, lasagna, noodles and chicken, and granola with blueberries.

10. Survival Hacks: Over 200 Ways to Use Everyday Items for Wilderness Survival
Finally, how about a survival guide. This is currently the highest rated survival book on Amazon.

Hopefully, you will order these resources but never need them. Think of the cost as cheap insurance.

Corporate Earnings Announcements for Next Week

Looking for some interesting moves in some stocks this upcoming week? Check out the companies that will be reporting earnings this week.

If earnings exceed analysts’ expectations, the stocks can shoot up. If the numbers underperform, the stock can tank. Then again, occasionally, stocks don’t move the way you would have expected.

Anyway, many traders use earnings plays for trading strategies. Also, option traders look for high implied volatility of stocks for for option selling strategies.

Here are many of the enormous number of stocks reporting earnings this week:

Monday

 
AMC
CKEC
CNA
CUTR
DNB
FDC
FTR
MIC
SOHU
TST
GRA
WMB
XOXO
 
Tuesday
 
AHC
AET
Y
AIG
WTR
CAR
AVP
CZR
CERN
CRAY
CVS
DVN
EA
EPC
ETSY
FIT
FMS
GNW
H
KAR
LOCK
PFE
PBI
PG
STX
SODA
RGR
ZEN

Wednesday
DDD
ALL
AWR
AWK
NLY
APO
AVID
BIO
BYD
FUN
CHDN
CLX
CROX
D
FSLR
GDDY
HLF
ICE
JACK
MET
OXY
RIO
SHOP
TDOC
TSLA
TWX
RIG
TRIP
FOX
WU
Thursday
 
ATVI
APA
ABTL
BATS
BCE
BBW
CHK
CHD
DUK
FEYE
FTD
K
KMPR
NUS
GOLD
SEAS
SSYS
TTWO
TASR
TK
TEVA
PCLN
TIME
TRUE
VIA
WEB
WTW
Z
ZNGA

 
Friday
 
AINV
XRAY
MGA
RBS
VA
WY

If you like interesting stock lists like this, be sure to check out many of the free stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com.

Stocks Going Ex Dividend the First Week of August

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called ‘Buying Dividends,’ also commonly referred to as ‘Dividend Capture.’ This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only in bull markets, and can work in flat or choppy markets, but you need to avoid the technique during bear markets.

In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can’t sell the stock until after the ex date. The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks.

WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend in the near future. The list contains many dividend paying companies, lots with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the ex-dividend date, and the yield.

TD Ameritrade AMTD 8/2/2016 2.2%
Berkshire Hills Bancorp BHLB 8/2/2016 3.0%
Sierra Bancorp BSRR 8/2/2016 2.7%
CONE Midstream Partners LP CNNX 8/2/2016 5.8%
Discover Financial Services DFS 8/2/2016 2.1%
Heritage Financial Corporation HFWA 8/2/2016 2.8%
Matson, Inc. MATX 8/2/2016 2.1%
Intel Corp INTC 8/3/2016 3.0%
Johnson Controls JCI 8/3/2016 2.5%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found at wsnn.com. (If you have been to the website before, and the latest link doesn’t show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out some of the other high yield stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com or WSNN.com. Most of the lists are free.

Dividend definitions:

Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Monthly Dividend Stock List

Record date: the day when you must be on the company’s books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks at two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

Book now available: Buying Dividends Revised and Expanded

Book now available: Stock Market Trivia Makes a Great Gift!

Don’t forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.