Rule One Investing Blog

A big part of the Rule 1 method is learning when to buy and sell the company. I haven’t traded much in the past 1.5 years and haven’t been watching the signals. Well, I stared again around late august and have been monitoring my AAPL and CWTR stocks off and on. [...]

As I mentioned back in Feb 29th I bought the apple stock (AAPL) at $129.10.  It’s now sitting at $204 which is a good amount of ROI so now I’m watching the signals and looking for my ‘out’ point.
I will start updating the site again as I have a feeling I’m going to be selling [...]

Sorry for the long delay in posting.  I realize that I started this blog all gung-ho spent all my money then had to wait.  That’s the tough part about rule one investing, waiting.  Waiting for the indicators to turn the ‘correct’ direction be it up or down.
Now I’m back to posting.   Interestingly enough I’ve [...]

Lowes (LOW) released it’s fourth quarter report today with some interesting news. Normally when a company releases a statement saying “lower then last years quarter earnings” the stock decreases. However, because the market has drastically undervalued these stocks they expected even worse news. Therefore, the “lower earnings” were better then expected, according [...]

In the Book Rule #1, Mr. Town describes a method to find stocks that have meaning to you. He names the method the three circle exercise. The idea is you put things you’re passionate about, talented at and spend money on, in three circles.
You then analyze what is overlapping in each circle [...]

In my last post about re-analyzing the PE of LOW it occurred to me that I don’t 100% understand PE. In the Book Rule #1 , Phil Town briefly explains PE and how it’s calculated. Let’s start how it’s exactly calculated
PE = Current Price/ Earnings Per Share (EPS)
So if a stock has a [...]

The online stocks seem to be dropping in price as of late. Is the big Google next? Could it be set for a re-valuation of the stock price? Here are some events that have happened this week.
Yahoo Search and other products disappoints and has weak 2008 sales outline – [...]