HAST – Hasting Entertainment BUY 80-20 Portfolio
On April 7th I purchased 110 shares of Hasting Entertainment – HAST for $4.51/share including the $4.50 commission from Zecco the total comes to a total investment $500.60. This was for the 80-20...
View ArticleHAST – Hasting Entertainment – 80-20 Portfolio – SOLD
Just a quick update on HAST. I sold all 110 shares at $7.19 this morning for a total, minus the $4.50 Zecco commission, of $786.40. While the 57% increase on this investment in less than three weeks is...
View ArticleInvesting Regret
I had a dose of Investing regret the other day. I have posted about my terrific gain on HAST for the 80-20 portfolio. Right after I sold it at $7.17/share, the price dipped. But then it soared. Then it...
View ArticleAvoiding Confirmation Bias
As I have mentioned previously, one of the points of the 80-20 Portfolio is to incorporate some of the research of Behavioral Finance into an Investing Strategy. One of the behavioral traps we go...
View ArticlePareto’s Principle – A Name for an Old Rule
I have often referred to what I called the 80-20 principle, the common idea that 80% of the results come from 20% of the work. I have set up a portfolio to test the theory called the 80-20 portfolio....
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Real Returns are the only Returns that Matter
Recently, I was at the Motley Fool website. I use their CAPS as one the sources for common knowledge, like Yahoo finance message board. But that is another post. I like their breezy style and subscribe...
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Best Value Investing Screeners
When you are a small time value investor starting out on your investment road, you can’t afford to spend lots of money on expensive tools to help you evaluate companies, but there are some inexpensive...
View ArticleWarren Buffett’s advice in a Crisis
Given the downward trend in the market the past couple of weeks, I thought it was appropriate to re-quote some of Warren Buffett’s famous sayings that apply to time like these. We are, after all, value...
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Value Investing Ideas – Companies Passing my Custom Screens
New Chroma Investing Feature I promised that I was going to be adding more value investing features to this website. One of them is going to be a weekly list of companies that pass a few of my custom...
View ArticleGreat Value Investing Strategies – Piotroski’s F-score Investing
This is going to be a denser than usual article. If you want to skip the theory and go to the section that deals with the mechanics of the strategy, go ahead. But don’t skip this article. I have wanted...
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