Archive for February, 2008

Is Hershey the Value Play of the Year?

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

A great question appeared on TickerHound the other day that really caught my eye. One of our members asked: “Is Hershey going to be the biggest value play of the year? This has to be something Buffett would be licking his chops over - and not just because the chocolate is ...

Finance is Personal

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

From personal experience I know how difficult it is to make even the most basic personal financial decisions - choosing a bank, a credit card, a loan, a broker, etc. - it's downright nerve racking!  Even after you make a decision you go over it in your head a thousand ...

A Systematic Approach to Shorting Stocks

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

The article you see below was not written by me or anybody else at TickerHound. In fact, while you would never know it from the quality of the article, it wasn't written by any "professional" investors or money managers. No sir, the article you're about to read and ...

Yahoo To Reject Microsoft?

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

Considering our technical problems yesterday, it’s rather ironic that I had planned to write an article on two tech companies – Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO). As I’m sure you know these companies have been making a ton of headlines this week.  After both found themselves unable to successfully ...

Psychics, Fortune Tellers and Investment Advisors

Friday, February 1st, 2008

You may be looking at the title of this article and scratching your head wondering: what do Psychics, Fortune Tellers and Investment Advisors all have in common? Well, for one thing they all try to predict the future in one form or another. Psychics and Fortune Tellers supposedly use some ...