THE MOST TIMELY DATA EVER! EDITION
12 MAY 2011
STOCKCENTRAL DATA MORE TIMELY THAN EVER!
Software Development Team Launches Enhancement
The software development team has launched a new and very exciting enhancement to the StockCentral data service.
In the past, price and data were updated in the StockCentral datafiles for Toolkit 6 and our other software programs once a week. Now, we update our datafiles each day with current prices as well as with any changes to the quarterly or annual fundamental data that Morningstar, our company data provider, reports to us.
As a result of this change, the data that you'll see in Toolkit 6 could appear up to a week sooner than it had in the past. Coupled with our shift to use preliminary company data that we announced in February, users should be getting data just about as quickly as possible following a company's release of quarterly and annual financials.
This change does not mean that data will appear instantaneously in your Toolkit 6 whenever a company issues a press release about its results. Morningstar's data collection is triggered by the filing of Form 8-K by the company (this form is used whenever "material news" about the company is made available to the public), and it can still take a week or longer for that data to make it into the data stream that Morningstar provides to StockCentral.
If in doubt about the company's most recent earnings, a quick check of the SEC website for Form 8-K filings, or a search on Yahoo! Finance for a company's news releases, will always turn up the most recent announcements. In addition, please note:
On to more of this week's headlines . . .
STOP LIMIT ORDERS
What's Your Advice?
This is one of those topics that your loyal reporter declares come in neither black nor white, but in many shades of gray.
"Our investment club wants to begin using 'limit orders' for some of our holdings," SC member William Gibbons posted in The Clubhouse. "Is this a good technique or should clubs avoid it?"
Some investment clubs swear by them, while others wouldn't touch them with a 10-foot pole. What about your club? What's your take on it? Head on over to The Clubhouse and get in on the conversation.
FINDING GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
The IAS: Time-Tested, Proven Market-Beating Performance
Times they are a changin'. Or are they? Or does it even matter? Since the Investor Advisory Service was founded in 1973 by NAIC/BetterInvesting, the world has changed in such profound ways that it would take a dozen issues of the Gazette just to name the biggest ones. Yet, despite the upheaval, some things stay the course.
Like the Investor Advisory Service. The proof is in the nearly four decades of performance figures. How can the Investor Advisory Service help you? Consider:
- The Investor Advisory Service has been named to the Hulbert Financial Digest's 2011 Investment Newsletter Honor Roll. This accolade is given only to the top-performing newsletters that can best the market averages in both up and down markets.
- According to Hulbert, an investor following the Investor Advisory Service's picks could have earned an annual 9.4 percent total return during the period from June 30, 1998, through Nov. 30, 2010, outperforming the Wilshire 5000 Total Stock Market Index return by more than three times during the same timeframe!
SC members can gain access to all these professional insights and ideas through the IAS — at half the regular price! Log in to the StockCentral website to learn how to save up to 50 percent on a subscription! But hurry! This is a limited-time offer.
TODAY'S ENTIRELY RELEVANT QUOTATION
"An investor without investment objectives is like a traveler without a destination."
— Ralph Seger, former longtime member of BetterInvesting's Board of Directors and co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Seger-Elvekrog, the money management firm behind the market-beating Investor Advisory Service.