The Streets of San Francisco Issue
24 July 2014
Discuss Candlesticks at Candlestick
MoneyShow Kicks off Aug. 21-23 in San Francisco
It's back-to-school season, time to sharpen pencils and prepare to learn. This is also a good time of year to refresh your investment outlook after the summer. The MoneyShow San Francisco Aug. 21-23 provides the perfect opportunity to get inspired and learn new insights from some of the nation's foremost experts.
The lineup includes ICLUBcentral president Doug Gerlach, who on Aug. 21 will present his seven-step method for picking successful stocks. On Aug. 23, ICLUBcentral CEO Kamie Zaracki will discuss mastering fundamental stock analysis. Don't wait to make your plans! Click here to register for free.
During this three-day event at the Hilton Union Square, more than 50 financial experts will come together to discuss news, trends and investment strategies in a series of high-power workshops and presentations.
Discover Toolkit's Hidden Compartments
Get the Most from Toolkit 6 in Webinars
One of the richest stock analysis tools available to individual investors, Toolkit 6, is supported by a lively community of users and experts. Join us for our monthly free webinars, where ICLUBcentral's Doug Gerlach illuminates how to unlock the power of data available in this tool. Each webinar provides tips, tricks and helpful information — as well as answers to users' questions — in an educational and entertaining webinar.
Join us for the next Toolkit 6 User Group webinar, slated for Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014 from 9 p.m. EDT to 10:15 p.m. EDT. Click here to register for all upcoming webinars.
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5 Easy Pieces
Simple Rules for Successful Investing
Building a successful stock portfolio is not rocket science. The key is following a few basic rules and making careful decisions. Maintaining discipline over the long haul is also essential for long-term success. But the basic concepts of successful investing are surprisingly simple:
- Find suitable candidates. Using the power of your computer and stock-screening tools, identify stocks that meet the test of quality and value. StockCentral maintains a Roster of Quality Companies and Stock Screener, while MyStockProspector, available from ICLUBcentral, is our core tool for this purpose.
- Analyze your prospective stocks. A variety of tools are available here, too, to help break down the massive amount of investment data available on the Internet, making it easy to understand. StockCentral offers several tools, such as Take Stock, and ICLUBcentral's flagship Toolkit 6 helps you find the important elements of quality, value and growth in each prospective company studied.
- Compare what you see. Is the stock you're interested in among the best in its industry? To compare the stock to its peers and find the averages for its industry group, use one of StockCentral's tools including the Sector and Industry Average Browser and the unique Ratio Analyzer tool.
- Share information. You're not alone out there. StockCentral's stock-analysis tools allow you to share stock study files with other investors and download their stock studies as well. Connect with other investors through StockCentral.com to maximize the time you've spent analyzing and comparing prospective stocks to make sure you're on the right track.
- Manage your holdings. Even if you're following commonsense long-term investing principles, on occasion you may need to sell stocks as conditions change. Stay atop the performance of companies and sectors with our tools to track quarterly changes in profitability and price. The Offense and Defense Reports in Toolkit 6 greatly simplify this task.
If you're seeking deeper insight about the economic environment and fundamentals about specific companies, Investor Advisory Service is here to help with the legwork. Click here to subscribe to IAS.
TODAY'S ENTIRELY RELEVANT QUOTATION
"Technology has not finished its work; it has barely started. … For one thing, technological progress has an unusual dynamic: It solves problems, but in doing so it, more often than not, creates new ones as unintended side-effects of the previous breakthroughs, and these in turn have to be solved, and so on."
— Joel Mokyr, economics professor at Northwestern University