Rita sent me this link to Ben Stein’s article this past Sunday in the New York Times entitled “Sound Investing and Peaceful Sleep.” Ben has got the right idea. I loved watching him on the Fox Saturday morning business shows, especially when they would ask him for his stock prediction. He always chose a […]

A quick update on Cramer’s Stocks of the year:
Taking equal amounts at the beginning of 2007 of these nine stocks:
His 3 value companies, Altria (MO), Haliburton (HAL), Goldman Sachs (GS)
his 3 growth companies, Apple (APPL), Cisco (CSCO), NYSE Group (NYX)
his 3 speculation stocks, Savient Pharma (SVNT), Rite Aid (RAD), Level 3 Comms (LVLT)
as of last […]

Blodget wrote a nice article on why you should Put your guru to the test… AND HOW TO DO IT.

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Frank Barnako has beaten me to the punch and has started evaluating Cramer’s Stocks of the Year already.
Weirdly though, Frank calculates the performance of Cramer’s picks including several days BEFORE Jim even mentioned the stock. Heck, I can pick stocks that have already gone up too.
Anyway, Frank calculates that Jim’s three speculative picks are up […]

Cramer said on his show yesterday to buy Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO) today between 10:00AM and 11:00AM. Holy precise prediction, Batman! Looks like a lot of people took him up on his offer, as you can see in the accompanying chart. The price stepped at that hour, then fell after all the buyers left.

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Cramer gets us really excited about the stocks he features on his show. Unfortunately, they don’t always work out immediately. For example, these ten stock that he featured on his Mad Money show in March 2006 are down an average -39.5%. So… the logical thing to assume is that now that they’ve taken their correction, now that they’ve had a pullback, combined with the fact that JC liked them recently… it must be TIME TO BUY!

And here they are: (click article link)

I took all (well most) of Jim Cramer’s February 2006 stock picks from Mad Money, ran them thru the grinder (the Excel stock quote plug-in to be exact) and came up with the average performance of all his featured stock picks from that month. Click to see the result and full details…

Last Thursday on Mad Money, Jim Cramer introduced an index of luxury goods firms in order to track if the economy could be in for a recession. Read on…

Could this be your chance to get ahead of the Cramer Crackle? Read on to find out today’s play…

How do you know when it is time to sell one of your winning stocks? I’ve plugged some numbers and assumptions into a spreadsheet to try to find you the answer…

Time to take a look at your taxable account to see if you see any parentheses or horizontal lines…

Random Ramblings. On show 22 I mentioned that with the Vonage IPO coming out soon, what will that mean for eBay? Well the answer came today…

So what happens if you take the stocks from the MagicFormulaInvesting.com and run the Rule #1 formulas against them? Click the headline to see the results!

Of all of the stocks featured on Mad Money last week, only one meets the Margin-of-safety test from Rule #1. Click the header to find out which one it is.

I mentioned on show 20 some of the stocks in the international ETFs that Jim likes. Here’s a compendium of some of them. Click the header of this post to read the full article.

An article in Business Week provided a list of 25 top candidates for a takeover. Of the ones in the list, here is what Jim Cramer had to say about the stocks….

I am thinking of making some shifts in the Cramer Portfolio, both in stocks owned as well as presentation. Read more about SLE, PCAR, and TLM…

I’ve done a 4-way mashup with the gambling stocks, Cramer, Rule #1, and IBD. Read the results.

Recognize any of these stocks? I have run them all through the Rule #1 formula and highlighted in bold the ones that are either under the Sticker price or it and the Margin-of-Safety price. Read on…

Here is a first attempt at mashing up some of the recent Jim Cramer picks with the Rule #1 metholology of finding stocks at a margin-of-safety price…