Fat Pitch Finder Spreadsheet Version 0.2
Last year, I put together a stock analysis spreadsheet to help me to track a list of wide moat companies that I’m interested in investing in for the long term. I finally have finished updating that...
View ArticleClass in Session: Equity Valuation with Professor Damodaran
I just discovered that Professor Aswath Damodaran is teaching his equity valuation class this spring and webcasts of his classes are available free online. I discovered the new webcasts when I was...
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Enhanced Annual Reports Feed
Annual reports are one of the most important documents for value investors to review. I often read the 10-K version of these documents since they are freely available at the SEC website. To help me...
View ArticleTop 5 Hacks for Intelligent Investors
Today, I’m going to share with you my top five favorite investing hacks. These are not just tricks of computer programming. What I’m talking about here are tips, tricks, and tools for getting...
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Zacks Elite Targeted Value Stocks
I’m currently enjoying a free trial to Zacks Elite and Research Wizard. I remember seeing Zacks being advertised all over the place in the mid-90s, but I hadn’t really looked at the service for quite...
View ArticleFool Boards Free Again
I was surprised to discover that the Motley Fool Discussion Boards are once again free. I can say that much of my early financial education came from lurking and occasionally participating on these...
View ArticleThe Wall Street Journal is Free Today
The Wall Street Journal Online is free today. I just found out about this, so I thought I would share this opportunity with you. If you find any great value investing news while reading today’s...
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Amazon Kindle – A Value Investing Tool?
This week Amazon (AMZN) announced its entry into the ebook reader market. Their product is called the Kindle. It is described as a wireless reading device. It uses a revolutionary electronic-paper...
View ArticleFree RSS Feeds for Company Filings on EDGAR
Joe Ponzio’s F Wall Street Blog just announced a great new feature. You can now generate company specific RSS feeds for SEC filings. All you need to do is look up a company’s CIK Number by doing an...
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Official SEC XML Feeds
Thank you SEC! It’s not often that I feel compelled to thank a federal regulator, especially around tax time, but I am really excited by a new feature of the SEC EDGAR database. This weekend I spotted...
View ArticleSEC Interactive Data Conference Call
I had the privilege today to participate in the first ever SEC conference call for bloggers. The topic of today’s call was interactive data using the XBRL standard. XBRL stands for eXtensible Business...
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Who is Searching for Value Investing
I am always curious as to what my fellow value investors are doing. A new tool by Google (GOOG) called Insights for Search has given me a new way to find out more about value investors by looking at...
View ArticleFirstrade Triple Sign-up Bonus
Looking for a new broker for the new year? Firstrade, the official broker of Fat Pitch Financials, might have the deal for you. They are currently running a triple sign-up bonus. Here’s what they are...
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Value Investors on Twitter
The fastest growing form of communication on the web right now has to be Twitter. I’ve been using the service for about a year now, but I’ve only started seeing value investors using Twitter within the...
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Exploring Wall Street Survivor
The following is a paid review: I’ve been check out Wall Street Survivor this past week. Wall Street Survivor is a free fantasy stock market game where you get to trade real stocks in real time using a...
View ArticleValueWiki Acquired by Wikia
Yesterday, Wikia announced the acquisition of ValueWiki. I was actually involved in adding content to Valuewiki when it first came out back in 2006. I was real excited to hear that founders, Jonathan...
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Monitor Upgrade Time – Widescreen LCD?
I’m probably one of the last investors to still be using a CRT monitor. I’ve seen some traders set up with 3 or more LCD monitors at their workstations. My old 21 inch CRT is finally starting to show...
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Inflation Adjuster Android App
I just published my first mobile app! It’s called Inflation Adjuster and it works on Android devices. Inflation Adjuster is a quick and easy to use tool that calculates the dollar price equivalent...
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Value Investing Research Group on Mendeley
I just started playing around with a an online reference manager and social network for researchers called Mendeley. I’ve found it to be a great tool for organizing my PDFs and online links to academic...
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Portfolio123 and StockScreen123 Switching Fundamental Data to Compustat
At the end of the day today, Portfolio123 and StockScreen123 will be switching data providers. The company is making the bold move of switch from Thomson Reuters to Compustat for its fundamental data....
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