When is a dividend not a dividend?

The latest thing ¡°conservative¡±\rbrokers are preaching these days is to buy stocks\rthat pay dividends. Everyone likes dividends. I\rknow I do, but when Wall Street tells me something\rI am automatically su ...

(1) Stock Market is Tough Place to Make Any Money \rConsistently

NASDAQ or SP&500 averaged about -6% per year for 5 years \rbetween 1999 and 2003. Many individual investors who made \rkilling in the internet bubble period got wiped out durin ...

Buy high and sell low -- It's not a typo.

Millions of investors guarantee their failure by selecting mutual funds and stocks based on quarterly or annual performance records. Do you chase performance? You might be buying high and selling l ...

When you become interested in a stock\ror mutual fund you can call your broker and he\rwill send you reports on how the company is doing,\rwhat their management is like and what might be\rthe projected earnings for the company and how the\rindustr ...

As an investor you will want to check\rout any equity before you buy it. Many investors\rgo to Morningstar which is one of the largest\rproviders of mutual fund information in the world.\rIt is assumed that their information is correct.\rAfter all ...

Every day I see in the financial\rsection of newspapers how to forecast what the\rmarket will do in 6 months, 12 months, several\ryears. ¡°Ten stocks that will double in the next 6\rmonths.¡± Right! I have trouble trying to forecast\rwhat it will do ...

After some forty years of banking and investments, I retired in 2001. But since I do not golf, I soon found retirement to be very boring. So I decided to return to the investment world after ten months. However, those ten months were not a comp ...

Among the largest forces that affect stock prices are inflation, interest rates, bonds, commodities and currencies. At times the stock market suddenly reverses itself followed typically by published explanations phrased to suggest that the writer ...

(1) CHK stock price $16.74, NAV $32.5

CHK is my favorite oil or natural gas stock. Here is updated Net Asset Value (NAV) table from CHK July 2004 earning release:

Table CHK PV-10 per share NAV vs Natural gas price

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A colleague of mine just returned from a scuba diving trip in\rCozumel, which just happens to be one of my favorite places to\rdive. Anyway, she was telling me about an unexpected difficulty\rshe encountered while swimming around the corral reef d ...

Financial markets provide their participants with the most \rfavorable conditions for purchase/sale of financial \rinstruments they have inside. Their major functions are: \rguaranteeing liquidity, forming assets prices within \restablishing propo ...

The Dow Theory