Investing Education Stories
Typically in funds or within your own portfolio, there are three main categories, which include equities, bonds, or cash. Many people fail to realize cash is a position and it is important it is utilized properly. When the market is roaring, you may want to see minimal cash because funds should be invested.
over a year ago at Macroaxis By Nathan Young |
There are many different products on the market that have underlying holdings that support the product, such as ETF’s and mutual funds. When looking at these funds, you can see the holdings and what makes the product, giving you an idea if this is a good fit. However, it is important to note the holdings turnover and how long the fund manager holds onto the stocks.
over a year ago at Macroaxis By Nathan Young |
When looking into new investments or reviewing your current holdings, the main item you are looking at is return. You ultimately want to know what the stock or product will return to you. In the short term or if you trade, return is not necessarily as important because you are capturing the day to day movements of the company. However, looking at the long term, you want to know how the equity has performed, and that is when you will want to look at the one year and three year return.
over a year ago at Macroaxis By Nathan Young |
When looking for indicators, many people may not use the Parabolic SAR, but it could become a useful tool in your trading arsenal. SAR stands for stop and reverse and is used as a trend indicator that follows the current trend. If the trend is down, the SAR will be plotted above the candles and if the trend is up, the SAR will be plotted below the candles.
over a year ago at Macroaxis By Nathan Young |
Executives are certainly the most profiled person in the company as the decisions and performance of the company and others rest on their shoulders. Of course they are not aware of all decisions being made if they are in a large corporation, but they still will ultimately be responsible for them, good or bad.
over a year ago at Macroaxis By Nathan Young |
This data point is certainly a complicated one because you can look at it in either a statistical light or a matter of fact light. When you look at a company that is struggling, you can certainly tell by just how things are and by something simple as cash flow if they are going to succeed. Benjamin Graham, the most well known person of value investing searched for these types of distressed companies, but that is a story for another day. As stated here on Macroaxis, probability of bankruptcy should not be confused with the actual chance of a company to file for bankruptcy protection.
over a year ago at Macroaxis By Nathan Young |
Similar to standard deviation, this is a way to gauge how far a data point is from the mean or where is should be speaking in loose terms. The mean deviation is the mean of that data you are analyzing’s absolute deviations around the mean of your data, or the average distance from the mean. So, similar to standard deviation, it is telling you where the data should be and when to be alert that is has gone too far from the average or mean.
over a year ago at Macroaxis By Nathan Young |
When looking at stock and companies, there are many ways to go about finding what their worth and their value, and a great place to search is by finding their current valuation. This data point could be in the form of enterprise value, which is probably the most common. Ultimately, the valuation of the company should give you an area of what the price of the stock should be, giving you a probably price target.
over a year ago at Macroaxis By Nathan Young |
When looking at equities and other return metrics, a popular one many glance as is year to date returns, which is exactly what is says. Year to date returns is quick measurement that you can compare against others across the board. This data point in itself provides value, but it should not be relied upon because it does not tell the whole story. The year to date returns could be slowed or lower for reasons such as acquisition costs hit, which for the short term appears bad but the long term it appears great.
over a year ago at Macroaxis By Nathan Young |
Many of you I’m sure have either looked at mutual funds and ETF’s or invested in them for various of reasons. It could have been you enjoyed the returns and low expense ratios, but have you ever looked and reviewed what the funds hold. Equity position weight is the weighting of the equities that make up the fund that is being invested in. For example, when you look at a fund that tracks the S&P 500, you would expect to see that fund have similar weighting to that of the S&P 500, and you can review this for yourself.
over a year ago at Macroaxis By Nathan Young |