Useful Links for week of January 13th 2014

It’s becoming more difficult to find investments that are worthy of buying at current prices, so in the meantime, it’s never a bad idea to keep reading useful information.  Below are a few hyperlinks that I have collected over the past week that I found interesting and/or useful that I thought would be useful to others. Stock Grader Stock Grader wanted to sort companies by the Quality of the company and their earnings.  The result was a simple sorting of companies using dividend adjusted book value and volatility to determine the quality of the company.  More simply, it’s just...

2013 Year End Review

The year 2013 is now complete, and the stock market overall had a very good year and so did my investments.  I wanted to write-up a few of the mistakes that I made throughout the year and include a top 5 post list.  I’ve come to appreciate the publicizing of my mistakes because it requires that I review my decisions and to have a public record of the mistakes so that I do  not make the same mistakes again. Mistakes made during 2013 Do not attempt to invest in areas that are outside of your knowledge – I attempted...

Feedly – Google Reader Replacement

By now anyone that is a Google Reader user has heard the news.  Google will sunset Google Reader on July 1, 2013.  I know that a lot of investors use RSS feeds to keep track of the vast amount of information that is released, and everyone up to now has used Google Reader as their RSS reader.  For me, I use it to keep track of blogs, company filings, news on portfolio companies, S-1 filings, 13D filings etc…  It’s a central source for me to review all of the released information in one location so that I can easily...