Somebody at CNBC has decided to hype the fact that Apple’s (AAPL) $8.81 drop today is the worst one-day decline since autumn 2000. I guess that’s true if you’re looking at points but I’d argue that you should look at percentages. Alternatively, one could look at market cap. Based on that measure […]

There seems to be a lot of controversial over the concept of R-Multiples. I’ve been seeing people complain about them for months now and I’ve been meaning to write a post about “R”. I really wanted to do it last week but I’m glad I didn’t get to it because this week a […]

I answered this question earlier today and thought I’d expand on it on the site:

Here are some questions about the “My Path to 100 R in Profits from Day Trading: April 26, 2006” overview:
You said “It took too long to get to 100 R. I should be double that by now.”
Q: Is this a joke, […]

I’m always amazed at how often I hear people say that they can’t afford “expensive” stocks. When they say “expensive” they really mean high-priced, as in price per share as opposed to truly expensive based on P/E ratio or some other valuation metric. So these same people would be all over the stock […]

Looks like Gordon Gekko beat me to the punch. A comment that was left the other day sparked me to write about a pet peeve of mine — people focusing on stock price & number of shares (smoke & mirrors) instead of dollars & percentages (the true equalizer). I’m still gonna write that […]