I just realized we passed my third blogiversary. I thought I would spend a few posts over the next month highlighting some of the odd 600 posts to look at what I consider to be important topics. Of course, we’ll take a look at some of the more idiotic, as well as insightful ideas on here.
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We started the blog chatting about some topics of true diversification as well as risk parity. A couple of good reads here:
“Engineering Targeted Returns and Risks” – Bwater
“The Biggest Mistake In Investing” – Bwater
“Risk Parity Portfolios” – PanAgora
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A reader emailed it asking about an old “Is it Time to do a Templeton” article and thought I would update this post from March 8th where we screened for stocks trading below $1 on the New York and American stock exchanges.
It returned about 300 stocks from a list of 2500, and we then sorted the stocks by # of insider buys. Since then the list had an average performance of 244% vs. around 55% for the microcap index. The list of names is below, and there was only one loser of -10%, and multiple 500% plus gains… :
ADK
CFW
DRJ
END
ETM
FOH
GLA
GMO
GSB
GTF
GTN
HH
IHR
NTN
OMN
OPK
ROX
RPI
TCX
XFN
