Smart Links from February 9th 2014

Word Science of Social Media is an infographic created by ShortStack which analyses the titles for highest social media sharing.  The infographic is broken down by Twitter, Facebook and Blog and displays the words in title that get that most shares.  A good read if you want to increase your social media shares. Value Investing goes Back to the Future discusses the apparent change in thinking of value investors (according to Barron’s Conway).  In recent years value investors were concerned with bankruptcy risk and book values but it appears that might have changed to forward-looking metrics like p/e ratios....

Critical Change within Value Investing?

Last month Barron’s published an article by Brendan Conway named Value Investing goes Back to the Future.  In the piece, Conway goes on to try to establish the premise that value investors have changed from using historical prices or backward-looking measures to more risky forward earnings or forward-looking measures. What exactly is value investing? Value investors buy attractively priced stocks, but there are backward-looking measures, as well as forward-looking ones. Lately, the forward measures are winning, and that fact tells an interesting story about what’s driving investors. When value investors start to use forward-looking measures, I immediately begin to...

5 Links to read for January 20th 2014

How Momentum Investors Create Narrowing Breadth – As momentum plays run out, investors pile into a smaller pool of stocks thus creating a narrowing breadth of options until no more options are available. No Silver Bullets in Investing – By James Moniter thanks for PMJar.com – A single silver bullet option is not available in investing no matter how much investors try to find it. How To Create Your Own Cryptocurrency – Have you thought about how to create your own Bitcoin?  Well, it’s really not hard to create a new cryptocurrency, but it’s much more difficult to make it successful....