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Aerospostale CEO bought shares

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Julian Robertson likes Canadian and Singapore dollar

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Staples, Inc. Announces New $1.5 Billion Share Repurchase Authorization and Third Quarter 2011 Dividend

Staples, Inc. (Nasdaq: SPLS) announced that its Board of Directors approved a new program authorizing the company to repurchase $1.5 billion of its shares. This program replaces the previous $1.5 billion program announced in June 2007 that had $295 million … Continue reading

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Income Statement

The most revealing aspect of the income statement is the trend over 5 to 10 years. Are revenue rising or falling? Are expenses staying in line with revenues? Are profits consistent or uneven? Is there a cyclical pattern to earnings … Continue reading

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Patience is required for Stock Investing

Patience is sometimes the hardest part of using value investing. When I find a stock that sells for 50% of what I have determined it is worth, my job is basically done. Now it is up to the stock. It … Continue reading

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Value investors are like farmers

Most people seek immediate gratification in almost everything they do including investing. When most investors buy a stock, they expect it to go up immediately. If it doesn’t, they sell it and buy something else. Value investors are more like … Continue reading

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Value Investing

There are many ways to make money in today’s market, but the one strategy that has truly proven itself over the years is value investing. Value investing consists of buying the stock of companies that trade for less than their … Continue reading

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Our Top Pick stock has share buyback program

When a company is buying back its own shares, it is a sign that the management views that the share price is too cheap and they are confidence that share price will appreciate in future. One of our top pick … Continue reading

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Our Hong Kong stock Top Pick is up 15%

Global stock market crashes starting from 9 Aug 11 after Standard & Poor had downgraded US long term debt. Many stocks are easily down 10% to 20%. Many investors are still depressed by the fall in their stocks. Economists and … Continue reading

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Singapore stock with strong share buybacks

In evaluating potential investments, we focus on the following characteristics: A company’s stock price and whether it is a significant discount to our estimate of underlying business value Free cash flows & intelligent investment of excess cash High level of … Continue reading

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Which Gold Stock to buy (part 2)?

On 13 February 2011 we had posted an article entitled “Which Gold Stock to buy?” in our blog. One of the way to access valuation for mining stock is to look at Price to book ratio. Average price to book … Continue reading

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Testimony from student in UK

  “Brendan lays out the approaches to investing in a very simple and easy to follow fashion. In some ways there’s nothing new about what he’s teaching, but it’s the fact it’s so concise, borne out by a long period … Continue reading

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Feedback from survey

Dear friends, Recently we had sent out survey requests to our existing students, ex-students and prospect students. From the survey results, there are 2 common points mentioned: 1. Our US stock picks are too expensive because the price of our … Continue reading

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Quality China stock trading at bargain level!

A lot of quality China stocks are listed in Hong Kong stock exchange. Problem is that they are often trading at very expensive valuation. When stocks are trading at expensive valuation, we as value investors would rather stay out, because risk reward ratio … Continue reading

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My fund has outperformed all major index

To find out if a person is a good investor, ask him to open an account at www.marketocracy.com. This allows him to create a virtual fund whereby he can buy and sell US stocks on a real time basis. His … Continue reading

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Most undervalued US Retail stock

US retail sector has been beaten down for the past months as they had underperformed in their revenue and earnings. Often it is situations like that we find investment opportunities. Recently we had discovered a stock that we believe is … Continue reading

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Stock with Strong Buybacks (Part 2)

On 2 May 2011, which is 2 months ago, I had sent out this article entitled  “Stock with strong buybacks“, click here to read. This stock has since gone up 13%. We believe it has more upside potential. Name of … Continue reading

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Why I build this site

Tactical Trading Academy is an online education academy that teaches students to trade forex and invest in stocks. I built this site because I had spent thousands of hours of my life reading trading books that didn’t provide me with … Continue reading

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