A Friday File Special: Dumb Leverage, Foolish Risks and the Speculations that help Make Investing Interesting

Checking in on my personal holdings and Irregulars suggestions

Some personal portfolio updates

I don’t have a compelling story to dig into today, so I’ll just share a couple updates and some of my thinking. Everything still seems to revolve around the Fed — will they raise rates? Will long-term rates get ahead of the Fed if they don’t? Will they have to try to find some new […]

Not really banks, but “sort of” banks, that’s what I’m going to write to you about today — and I’ve got a couple interesting ones that I own to profile for you today as they share the “Idea of the Month” spotlight. Banks in general are in everyone’s good graces again — the stocks are […]

I have a few updates for you this week — there was a little bit of earnings news in the Gumshoe Universe, and I did a little rebalancing in my portfolio to get cash levels up in anticipation of future buying opportunities… but first, the latest pitch for Chris Versace’s Growth & Dividend Report caught […]

What are the stocks touted by Shah Gilani for his Capital Wave Forecast?

Seeing where Frank Curzio landed and what gold stock he's pitching as the "Midas Code"... plus some more updates

Friday FIle chatter about Travis' portfolio, plus a solution to Keith Kohl's latest Oil & Gas Trader teaser

Checking out the "hidden strategy" teased by Chris Mayer's Capital and Crisis

Checking in on quarterly results and other news from some favorites, and a couple small buys

These are my notes and instant reactions from a presentation at the Value Investing Congress, the notes below might contain errors, paraphrases, incorrect quotes, or misinterpretations. Richard Lashley at PL Capital has been involved in proxy contests and shareholder activism with small banks around the country for about 18 years. Chris Mayer talked about him […]