Hello and welcome to our community!

[Walleye]

Hello, folks. I've been watching this site since about last July. I got into Cognizant on signals and I've ridden it out for the most part, but I did take 1/3rd of my position off the table yesterday even though the signals say stay in. Some research done by others on this site reinforced the homework I'd been doing on this company...so thanks for that! I'm not strictly a rule 1 investor, but I generally love the principles.

I've been reading a book by John Mauldin called "Bullseye Investing". It's a pretty good book overall that reinforces a lot of the rule 1 principles, but what's good about this book is that it comes from a Macro economic / world economies point of view and makes predictions about future trends. The funny part is that it was written in 2004 and he talks about the "current secular bear market". But the book is thought provoking.

[skoutas]

Okay, the webmaster shamed me into it. Hello, I'm skoutas a/k/a Greg. As we speak, I'm enjoying a Sierra Nevada "Stout". Beats Ginness. Brewed in the good old USA, Chico, CA. Unfortunately, it may not be a public company so that we cannot evaluate its MOS. Picked up Phil's book at an airport. Loved it. I set up Phil's spread sheets on excel only to lament the time it took to evaluate each company. Bingo, I came upon this website by accident. Great! Who could ask for more? The only problem is finding enough companies that qualify as a pick. Look forward to all your insite. Long live the site! I think I'm have one more Sierra Nevada.

[Gunnski]

Nice choice on the beverage! Start with a small basket of great companies & BE PATIENT! Be deligent with your watch list and focus on a mix of sectors.

[jp_dubya]

stumbled onto this site via google after reading and buying the book and another book, buffetology, the first and the second one. FORGIVE ME until I learn all the hip and happening abbreviations.

Forgot to pack the books when I redeployed, so they are sitting there useless to me. Bought the ebook on ebook mall, great deal, but firewall is blocking the Adobe DRM authentication. until I can find a deal and then arrange the purchase, and then have the info about where I am going be stationed...what a headache.
Will have to go on memory and what I can get from this site.
I am all for waiting for the 50% off price tag. With that and patience, I am sure that my returns will improve. My problems usually arise when I break discipline.
Questions. Has anyone read the book, "trouncing the dow" by Kenneth Lee? Uses a bit of a different formula to find the fair price. Curious how using this as another tool will help, or will analysis paralysis take over.
Until I can learn the scans correctly, I am stuck using the tools on reuters, kiplinger, msn, hidden gems...and the ideas here. Curious if I am too eager to park my money until a real deal rule 1 comes around, that looking for the fundamentally sound, technically timed,and then buying 'in' to deep in the money option spreads, short term, is too risky. I find them pretty often and do decent. Grabbed a 2.50$ spread that expires in June, 15/17.50 for 1.50$, in select comfort. scss. 66% should the stock finish above 17.50. actually bought back some of the short and resold on the next up turn, improving my return. that is rare. I find quite a few that appear sounder and are good for 4-5% for only 1 - 2 months. long question, sorry

inre to selling, if there is a reason to believe that the price is short term peaked, does anyone else look to sell calls or buy protective puts, provided the business is strong? I will be looking all over the forums for ideas to improve the "what" that I buy, I guess I just need to squeeze out a few more $ in the "how" I sell provided that it is a great time "when" to sell

[Pccblair]

Just joined this group after reading Phil's book over my December vacations after dabbling in some stocks over the previous year. First thing I did was test out one my well performing holdings - CTSH and was thrilled to find it was a wonderful company to own per Rule#1. Dumped the others as they fell short of Rule#1 criteria were going nowhere. Now I am on the look out for other s to own. Rule#1 makes a lot of sense to me.

[Beagle]

Hi!

I just read Phil's book, Googled Rule One and found your forum. It looks great!

I have been to a couple local InvestTools seminars and am hungry for more knowledge. Been investing for a few years, but still consider myself a novice.

Arf!

[Gunnski]

Welcome aboard!

[mitchman333]

Hello

Wanted to chime in as a Newbie from Rhode Island....

Finished up "Rule #1" book a while back, discovered this site about 3 weeks ago (great site). Just started the online investing recently - had quite a wild ride today (2/27 Correction)....

I guess the old saying is true, as soon as you get in the market - the market turns down.... ...but a PLUNGE... holy crap that sucks...

I'll keep plugging away.

[rfcox2000]

Hey guys.....

Totally new here and to investing in the market. I finished Phil's book about a week ago and am going through it again to make sure I am really understanding it. I currently invest in real estate and have been making great returns but it is a lot more work and I want to try this out.

By the way a huge thanks to all the devs of the MOS spreadsheet. It is amazing. I have been using it just to confirm numbers and I love it!

[Justin]

Glad to have you here!