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Subject: 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

Tips on using the Google stock screener

How to use the Google Finance Stock Screener

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

Operational versus financial information

Operations: the How and Why of markets ...

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

Truth, fact, and opinion

University library + Internet = open source info

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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US Politics

America grows with legal immigration

Legal immigration has resulted in solid growth of the US population, despite declining birth rates and an increasing number of old people. This is good news for investors in stocks and real estate. Illegal immigration appears to be less than 5% of legal immigration, and legal immigration is at an all time high.
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Government economic stimulus programs that have sent money directly to US households have resulted in more saving and less spending. Low interest rates have encouraged individuals to move from debt instruments into equities. More ...

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The collapse of the dollar and US bonds?

The extreme spending of the Obama government, combined with irresponsible bank lending policies promoted by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, portend rising interest rates, the collapse of the bond market, and the end of dollar supremacy. More ...

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Foreigners hold $16.8 trillion in US financial assets as a result of selling more goods to Americans than they buy from them. Since the 'deficit' is in dollars, the US has no problem in 'paying it off'. More ...

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