"In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." –John 16:33

Stock picking stuff for Rigo

Rigo,

This is the stock picking stuff I promised I would write for you on the internet.  A book was written by a guy named Joel Greenblatt for non-professional traders on how to invest in the stock market in a secure, but effective way.  In a nutshell he says to buy “good” stocks “cheap” and hang onto them for a year.  In his book he describes what he means by good (return on capital) and cheap (earnings yield).  I wrote a program that goes out onto the internet and ranks as many stocks as I can find according to their goodness and their cheapness.  I throw out the fad stocks (clothes, restaurants, etc.) and the financial stocks (banks, insurance companies, etc.), then pick two of the best to buy each month.  I am really not recommending that anyone use these stock picks–they just happen to be the stocks I, myself, am purchasing. The following are links to stuff I already wrote from oldest to newest:

November 30, 2006:  Robot, computer and investment stuff – Re-writing the program and how I did in 2006
December 6, 2006:  Blogging on life, homeschool, programming, writing, and investing –  More about the rewrite and how I did
December 28, 2006:  Homeschool education – A little on why I wrote the program
January 16, 2007:  First real stock purchase – The first time I put real money into the stock picks
January 29, 2007:  Stock pick update – I had a good start with my first pick – it went down later, but it was a pretty amazing start
March 15, 2007:  Stock purchase day – After the stock market tanks, I am still ahead of the S&P 500

This is a link to the place I keep the list of stocks as I purchase them along with the S&P 500 comparison stocks:

My stock purchases

This is a link to the book by Joel Greenblatt on which I based my program:

The Little Book that Beats the Market

This is our webpage:

Chapman Kids

This is where I blog every day:

Chapman Kids Blog

Current status:

  • Amount purchased:  $6000
  • Number of stocks:  5
  • Commission per trade:  $12.99
  • Service:  Etrade
  • Average time in the market per stock:  33 days
  • My picks return (including commissions paid):  +1.27%
  • Equivalent S&P 500:  -0.61%

If you have questions, you can post comments here and I will try to respond as best as I can.  It is OK if you want to use Spanish.

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2 Comments

  1. ‘This is where I blog every day:

    Chapman Kids Blog’

    To find this post, dad, You have to be on the website. Why would you post a link to a website you have already accessed while you could have just used the BACK button?

  2. Dad

    Because, it is just a general link to the blog, not to that particular post. If someone is reading it a year from now, they can get to the main blog for that day by clicking on that link.

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