Monthly Archive for: ‘October, 2011’
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How to Use Our Dual Class Share Arbitrage Module
Recent market volatility is generating an anxiety in the investing public that is almost palpable, and many are searching for ways to generate returns while managing down their exposure to equity markets. There are many ways to manage market risk in a portfolio; typically these …
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Turnkey Analyst Feature Updates
We're hard at work trying to add value to our application. Here is an update on some new features: Backtesting capability–we've set up a module in the application that allows users to backtest our current screen systems Dual-Class Share Module–want to trade on the spreads …
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Turnkey Research Note — ConocoPhillips (NYS:COP)
The ratio of a stock’s current price to its earnings over the prior year – the famous price to earnings ratio – is perhaps the most widely used of all financial ratios. Likewise, the price-earnings effect is among the earliest and most widely documented asset …
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Shorting the Magic Formula
I just got back from the Value Investing Congress–http://www.valueinvestingcongress.com/. The event was exceptional and very thought-provoking. While Einhorn’s annihilation of Green Mountain Coffee was impressive (here is Einhorn’s theme song), and Whitney Tilson’s outline of the opportunity in Berkshire Hathaway was compelling, the speaker that …
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Neuroeconomics Post! The Endocrine System and Shifting Risk Preferences
The Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu counseled us to “know thine enemy.” At Turnkey Analyst we are always curious about anything that affects our financial decision making, since we believe the enemy is often us. Recently I did some reading about a curious branch of neuroeconomics …