Please read the Infoblox (BLOX) earnings call transcript yourself. There is great information, and it will make this article go smoother. I am discussing it and some points I found interesting, but it is packed full of information and this article is by no means complete. I am also talking about broader topics than just…
Quantitative Funds Suffer During Panics
It has been a long time since my last post. Sorry for the gap, but big life changes and all that. Pretty much the whole last year has been a bit crazy. Recently, I’ve gone outside my normal universe of investment to consider some mutual funds. While I do not have any specific recommendations relevant…
What is a Put Option? – Beginner Series
Following up from the “what is a call option” article we turn to what is a put option. This one should be even shorter, because if you have read the “what is an option” and the bit on calls you should have a thorough understanding of options at their basic level. One thing that I…
What is a Call Option? – Beginner Series
Following up on the epic saga that was “what is an option” I present something more narrowly focused with put options forming the next article’s topic. The prior article mentioned what a call option is in pretty specific detail, but I thought I would go over it in a vacuum for the sake of sanity….
What is an Option? – Beginner Series
I tend to trade options pretty heavily in order to use leverage and not commit too much capital. Following up on my “what is a stock” article, I thought I would go over options again. I wrote an article explaining options before, but my writing style has evolved since then and so I thought I…
What is a stock? – Beginner Series
Welcome to the new beginner series that I decided to start after realizing there were a lot of people who were not aware of even the basics, such as the definition of a stock. You have to start somewhere. It seems fitting to start with the definition of a stock, because there is a subtlety…
GrubHub (GRUB) Potential Buy After IPO Cooldown
This is not analysis of GrubHub (GRUB), because the company is an IPO. I need to hear management after at least their first earnings report before I really dig into a stock. This is just something to put on the watchlist for the future. GrubHub is something I started using a little later than my…
Unsimplifying Diversity in Investing
Normally I am a big fan of simplifying investment concepts, because I think that people who peddle investment information try to hold onto their relevance by making topics more difficult than they have to be. Big investment companies talk about the massive number of metrics they look at without telling you that most of the…
One Year Lived Preview – Shut Up and Do It
Generally on investment sites you read a lot about ways to try and make money, but one of the things that gets pushed to the wayside is the point of it all. Once you have all that money what are you supposed to do with it. I know a lot of people are doing it…
Does a Dividend Strategy Make Sense if you are Young?
The answer is definitely yes. Long-term dividend stocks using a dividend reinvestment program (DRIP) can be a fantastic strategy for someone who is young. I did not find this question too surprising, though once I am done answering it you will realize that basic math has already told us that dividend stocks are for the…
