It is hard to believe that 25 years have passed since your Editor turned down Fifth Avenue from 17th Street in Manhattan on what had been a beautiful Tuesday morning in Manhattan only to see that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. Having arrived a few minutes […]

Investment research can draw on a variety of free investment data sources. Whether you are testing a factor strategy, estimating intrinsic value, analyzing market history or building a investing project in Python code, the data source you choose can affect your conclusions. Fortunately, investors and researchers can access a wide […]

Every investor remembers the winners. In my career, which started in 1987, Al Frank (the first Editor of The Prudent Speculator) and I (John Buckingham, the Editor of The Prudent Speculator from 2002 after Al passed away until 2026), I’ve been fortunate to have knocked it out of the park […]

It has only been a week and Jeff Sommer, the usually pessimistic New York Times Sunday Columnist took Labor Day Weekend off, so we won’t know if his August 30th optimistic piece, entitled “What if This Market Rally Is Just Getting Started,” was a one-time deviation from his typical fare, […]

The biggest danger for DIY investors is not a lack of intelligence. It is a lack of process. Without rules, investors often buy after prices have already risen, sell after prices have already fallen, concentrate too heavily in familiar companies or mistake activity for progress. This risk can catch institutional […]

We may be past the “official” dog days of summer on the calendar, but it was a blah week for the equity markets with the average stock retreating modestly and Growth cutting into Value’s lead in the performance race since last Halloween. And with many traders seemingly still in the […]