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Security Analysis Security analysis refers to the analysis of tradeable financial instruments called securities. These can be classified into debt securities, equities, or some hybrid of the two. More broadly, futures contracts and tradeable credit derivatives are sometimes included. Security analysis is typically divided into fundamental analysis, which relies upon the examination of fundamental business factors such as financial statements, and technical analysis, which focuses upon price trends and momentum. Quantitative analysis may use indicators from both areas. [Wikipedia: 2009]
Google Finance
By John Schroy, on September 26th, 2010 |

The Google Finance stock screener covers about 7,000 stocks on the NYSE, the AMEX, and NASDAQ. The screener has about fifty selection criteria, each with a high-low limit, plus selection by 12 economic sectors and 3 trading markets.
The Google stock screener has five advantages that distinguish it from some competing screens. It allows maximum and minimum numerical criteria, bar graphs of criteria distribution, and close integration with Google Finance.
Post Modern Security Analysis
By John Schroy, on September 12th, 2009 |

The Crash of 2008 suggests that understanding the operational details of capital markets can be as important as traditional Graham & Dodd security analysis.
This article, Part Nine in the series on Post Modern Security Analysis, discusses Capital Market Taxonomy as applied to market operations and the use of a semantic wiki in collaborative research.
Post Modern Security Analysis
By John Schroy, on September 9th, 2009 |

In security analysis, it is important to get the facts, before forming an opinion. Effective collaborative research calls for rigorous separation of the fact-gathering from the decision-making stages of the process. This article shows how fact-gathering of open-source information on the Internet could have saved investors from the Madoff calamity.
This is Part Eight in a series on Post Modern Security Analysis.
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