Recession Protection
As people become more jumpy when it comes to the market, I decided to take it upon myself to build a screen that we could use in order to protect ourselves in the event that we do enter another recessionary period. Now, I want it to be known that I don’t necessarily believe that another recession is imminent; rather, I just like being prepared for any situation.…
Figuring out Which Stocks to Stay Away From
With the recent integration with TradeKing finished, it’s time to actually use our free Equities Lab membership to actually analyze our holdings.
As you can see, here are my holdings as of writing this article. Now, a lot of these positions were taken on (randomly!) during our testing phase where we were more worried about the actual functionality of the software than how well our positions were going to perform.…
Listening to Death Crosses Could be the Death of your Portfolio
This week I decided to go through the process of looking over our old articles, and seeing if there were any that we might be able to improve with some of the new features that have been added to the program since their original publication.…
The Stocks you pay for
The other day I wrote an article discussing my distaste for penny stocks and for how they are marketed as “the next big thing”, ruining thousands of people’s financial lives. Well, if you can’t invest in penny stocks, what can you invest in? How about we invest in stocks that, at an extremely basic level, are actually worth something?…
Why Penny Stocks are never a Good Idea
When I was younger and first started learning about the stock market I was a bright eyed 13 year old that would have believed anything you would have told me, because, of course, adults knew everything at the time. That being said, now that I am an adult, I don’t think I’m any smarter.…
How often are stocks delisted?
People never really expect their investment to become delisted on the exchange. However, it happens a lot more often than you think. But how often is often?
Here is a general idea of all of the companies that have become delisted over the past twenty years.…
Is the Cut the Cord Movement affecting big Cable Companies?
The Cut the Cord movement has come about with the advent of the internet. As people are finding new means of entertainment, and new mediums to get the entertainment they received through cable, they have begun to cancel their expensive cable subscriptions.…
The Sharpe Ratio
Personally, a company’s or fund’s Sharpe ratio is incredibly telling of their overall performance – especially when you have a benchmark to compare it to. In one of our more recent releases we added this ratio as a standard piece of information that is given back to you in the backtest report.…
Finding New Stocks for Your Portfolio
Continuing with the theme of the real life applications of the Equities Lab Software, it’s time to talk about finding new positions to add to your portfolio. Especially now that we’ve cleared up our current positions – opening up some buying power.
Well, how are we going to find new investments?…
Ally Invest Group has Just Purchased Equities Lab Basic Accounts for all of their Members
We are excited to announce that over the past few months we have been working hard on integrating the Ally Invest Group API into our system. Now that we have completed that task, you can easily go into Equities Lab and use our software for all of your investing needs – from analyzing potential positions to executing trades.…