Friday, December 09, 2005

13 Most Unconventional Investments

Investing requires a lot of spunk and the ability to see things when none can see it. Ridicule is an occupational hazard when investing with vision, and failure a necessary event.

Back in the late 1950s, Warren Buffett and his friend Tom Knapp cornered the market on 1954 Blue Eagle 4-cent airmail stamps. They found out that the 400,000 stamps were nearly worthless—plus the sheets kept sticking together. Buffett sold much of the lot at 10% of face value.

Read about the world's 13 Most Unconventional Investments.

Sunday, December 04, 2005

The Importance of the Number Three

The number three shows up very often in technical analysis of stocks. Major bull and bear markets have three important phases. There are three kinds of gaps, the commonly known reversal patterns, such as the triple top and 'head and shoulders' have three peaks. There are three major classification of trends: major, secondary, and minor); and three trend directions (up, down and sideways). Among the generally accepted continuation patterns, there are three triangles–symmetrical, ascending and descending. THere are three principal sources of information–price, volume and open interest.

For whatever reason, the number three plays a very prominent role throughout the field of technical analysis.

Excerpted from Technical Analysis of Financial Markets, by Joesph Murphy

[Author's Note] Interestingly, there are three persons in the Christian Holy Trinity (Father, Son and Holy Spirit), and three persons in the Hindu Holy Trinity (Brahma, Vishnu, and Mahesh)











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