Raw Greed’s One Year Anniversary

Posted on October 31, 2006 , filed under Stocks | Print This Post

This is a bit late, but on September 21st, 2006, Raw Greed celebrated its one year anniversary. Since September 21st, 2005, Raw Greed has published 306 articles, mostly comprising fundamental stock analysis and recommendations. Raw Greed has continued to keep its focus on a small number of sectors and stocks. Over the course of the year, Raw Greed has undergone a number feature introductions including a portfolio tracker, a predictions tracker and news function to keep track of all the interesting articles that I’ve been reading.

There is something unique about reading Raw Greed. Since Raw Greed is focused primarily on fundamental analysis, instead of technical analysis, you get a personal interpretation of the information I’m reading. I tend to see that the majority of stock blogs are more focused on technical trading and are geared toward a short-term mentality. I believe there is something that is difficult to learn from technical analysis and that is, business instinct. Without any business instinct, things could turn disastrous for a successful technical trader faced with a boisterous market suddenly impacted by a downturn such as the .com crash.

My business instinct was developed through experiences outside of stock trading. This instinct helps to gauge the markets direction and economic risk. When picking stocks, no one can be correct all of the time, but it’s important for you to be correct most of the time. Solid business instinct will help contribute to improving your stock picking ability. I recommend Raw Greed readers to only follow bloggers, analysts and financial journalists that have demonstrated success. Raw Greed is both a collection of articles that I’ve written and a track record of my stock picking performance. I follow articles written by people like Doug Casey from Kitco.com about gold or Robert Kiyosaki’s Yahoo Finance articles on general economic trends and investment ideas. These are well respected and established businessmen with solid track records that I hope to emulate in some ways. There is too much information available for analysis, so I believe it is important to gather yourself a team of people and resources to develop your instinct. I recommend David Jackson’s Seeking Alpha as a great place to start online in finding blog authors that match your investment style. Over the course of the next year, I will continue refining my stock picking ability and I plan to add new features to Raw Greed.

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