Recent content by MarkSA

U.K. Investors: Where do you go to find top notch (free) fundamental data for stocks on the LSE? For US stocks, i've become a fan of Reuters for comprehensive fundamental data. However, the Reuters U.K. stock data seems rather lacking in comparison to the U.S. Reuters stock data. For...

Hi folks, I'm an investor who lives in the U.S. All that i've ever dabbled in, aside from a few ADR/ADS stocks and international ETFs, has been U.S. equities. I've been lead to believe that it's more or less impossible for me to invest in single stocks residing in foreign markets unless they...

Recently, I decided to take a look at the inflation adjusted returns for the Dow industrials from 1928 to 2007. After doing the math, I thought: surely this can't be correct? By my numbers, once the Dow had been adjusted for inflation, it had increased at an annualized rate of roughly 1.5% a...

I'm trying to find a resource which lists the (fairly up to date) median or average price ratios for various indexes. The few i'm most looking for are the price ratios for the Russell 2000, 1000, and Midcap indexes. I'd mainly like to know the median PE, Price/Sales, Price/CFPS, and Price/FCFPS...

I'm trying to find a resource which lists the (fairly up to date) median or average price ratios for various indexes. The few i'm most looking for are the price ratios for the Russell 2000, 1000, and Midcap indexes. I'd mainly like to know the median PE, Price/Sales, Price/CFPS, and...

I would also be interested in this. Markets continue to correlate with each other more and more, and the notion of wide scale diversification is becoming less and less meaningful. For a person who seeks to hedge returns, it's becoming difficult to find different markets to invest in unless a...

The other day, I visited a gambling casino -- something that i'm not usually very inclined to do. I'm the type of person who will walk into a casino with $100 and leave with $90. If there is an opposite to a gambler, i'm probably one of the closest things to it. I generally veer sharply away...

The holding period is only one day (24 hours) with the sells and buys taking place at approximately the same time each day.

I think it boils down to timing and data availability. If you were able to receive the data and execute the trade before everyone else, I imagine it would be possible to 'beat the herd' before they run the stock price up. However, as an individual investor, we have an extreme disadvantage in...

How reliable would you consider a once daily trading strategy with good history based upon end of day, closing price data to be? (Wherein buy and sell trades are both executed at the close.) If such a strategy was, in practice, to be extended into different hours of the day, such as trading at...

I'm not a day trader, but I do believe that it's generally considered (very) unwise to hold penny stocks for long periods of time. From the casual reading i've done on this board, it sounds as if most of those who trade in the pennies rarely have a position lasting even a full day let alone an...

I have the 5 year chart pulled up for the company Alleghancy Corp. (Symbol: Y) on Yahoo, and it shows that the company has had 5 splits, roughly at the same time each year, at a 102:100 ratio. Now, i'm used to seeing the common 2:1 and 3:1 ratios, and even reverse splits, but what is the...

The best advice I can give is to take it into your own hands as entirely as possible. There is money to be made, but keep in mind that the stock market does not create money (ie: print out bills) -- the money merely changes hands in one form another. The amount of money in the stock market...

Thanks for the explanation. That clears things up a lot.

I recently became aware of Closed End Funds, and i'd like to test technical indicators out on some of them. The problem is, i'm not very familiar with how these operate. From what I can tell, they are fairly similar to ETFs as far as trading them goes. However, after googling the topic, I see...