Archive for the 'Stocks' Category

07 Feb

Analyzing my first two trades

Since selling my Lowes stock I’ve been searching for another great company to buy. However, since I’ve completed my first two trades I thought a little reflection is necessary. First off, don’t get me wrong I’d love to own Lowes (LOW) forever. However, the big guys are weary about this industry right now. This is [...]

05 Feb

Sold LOWES – small profit

I’ve been watching the technical indicators carefully since analyzing and buying Lowes (LOW) stock. It’s not that I’m super worried about my calculations as my sticker price is in the range of $32-42. The stock is no where near these values, however, the market is so volatile right now that it could drop quickly and [...]

04 Feb

Exposing yourself to uncommon stocks

An easy way to expose yourself to stocks that you don’t really know exsist is to find a movers and shakers list. This is a great way to find a group of stocks that you may or may not be familiar with or are in a different industry then you typically follow. The drawback of [...]

02 Feb

Low stock under pressure

I woke up this morning to read this article here at Market Intelligence. This article states that Lowes stock is under pressure because of being downgraded from a “Buy” to a “hold.” But what does this really tell us about the company? Has the company released a earnings report? Are they laying off a ton [...]

30 Jan

Acceleware Foraging Into Oil Industry

The big news out of Acceleware today is they have a product for use with the oil industry.  This product should increase the productivity of the oil and gas industry as they’ll be able to determine the correct drilling locations faster.  From the press release: “Acceleware annouced the launch of its seismic data acceleration solution [...]

29 Jan

Re-analyzing LOW

I was looking over my MOS numbers that I calculated and realized that I may have over-estimated my sticker price. Looking back at my post about Rule One Analysis of Lowes the numbers used to calculated the MOS were as follows Equity = 14% (near typical growth rate) EPS = $1.98 Future PE = 22 [...]