One Initiative, Five Wins

TMFSpiffyPop — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:41:19 GMT

Question asked by a first-time poster at Motley Fool Stock Advisor this morning: I have $20,000 to invest and I wish to add $300 each month to it. What are some suggestions for growth of this for the benefit of my grandson, age 19.

There's no one answer to this question. It's a great question. Part of what makes it great is the sheer stewardship and love that underlies the question. Congratulations to you, and to him for...

This... Is... Jeopardy!

TMFSpiffyPop — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:18:57 GMT

Motley Fool fans,

Watch the game show very carefully on Monday, April 27th. ;)

Fool on,

David

The scene at Ford's Field: Emblematic.

TMFSpiffyPop — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:26:42 GMT

[The following was written December 4, 2008, and published here. Given all that has happened both in the financial world, AND (how ironically...) in the hoops world -- creating a rematch of these very same teams in the very same venue, but this time for the national championship! -- I decided to reprint in full. Nothing below has been tweaked or changed since publishing 4 months ago... even though the world has changed -- a bit!]

"And Here's the Pitch!"

TMFSpiffyPop — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:33:34 GMT

Small note: I would love for my fellow Fools as consistently as possible to pitch each pick you make on CAPS. Even if it's a basket of stocks in a sector, write one pitch with your sector-based thinking and then for each other stock just link to that pitch.

If you're like me, you find an individual's thinking at least as interesting, if not twice as interesting, as the pick itself, and it enables you better to understand why they're doing what they're doing...

A decoupling, making me near-term bullish.

TMFSpiffyPop — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:51:38 GMT

I don't often make market calls or try to "read the tape" for sentiment, but I do think something meaningful happened Wednesday, when US bank stocks lost another 5% (which is a really large drop), while the S&P 500 rose more than 2%.

To me, the market has seemingly traded down extremely sympathetically, if not outright arm-in-arm, with the health of the banking industry. And rightly so: Banking runs through, supports, feeds, and also partly re...

CAPS's Three Million Picks and Counting...

TMFSpiffyPop — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:19:16 GMT

Earlier this month, our community made its 3 millionth CAPS pick. This is a milestone number, not because we ever had such scale targeted by such-and-such date as the CAPS team. Nope -- just a milestone because it's a big round number that deserves to be recognized.

Ever curious about the minutiae, I asked our database team to pull the pick at that date and time. For the record, the three millionth pick was made on February 2nd on or about 1:09 PM East...

Gardners on Larry King Live tonight.

TMFSpiffyPop — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:12:28 GMT

I think it's to talk about the economy and the markets, but we shall see. They say it's a 9-segment show and we're on segments 5, 6, and 7 -- and I expect they'll take some calls too. We're looking forward to it. --David

Better Member Profiles -- your thoughts?

TMFSpiffyPop — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:02:12 GMT

I'm part of a team looking to improve our member profiles -- what I might call your "member home page" -- here at the Fool. Long-time Fools know that they have their discussion boards profile, they have their CAPS profile, and then they make other contributions across the Fool (e.g. article comments) that don't link back to anything. What we'd like to do is streamline the experience and ultimately have one spot you go to see my profile, and/or contribute to your own.<...

Obama recovery plan: thumbs up/down... and why?

TMFSpiffyPop — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:23:26 GMT

I'm soliciting Fool Community input for a potential TV appearance of mine next week and I already got some very thoughtful responses to my first question. Here's my second (and final one):

What are your thoughts on President-elect Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan? Is this a plan that can realistically turn our economy around? Why/why not?

It is a political question at heart, but I'm hoping for the same quality of non-politici...

What's your take on the current American economy?

TMFSpiffyPop — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:05:24 GMT

What's your outlook for the economy over the next few years?

I'm going to be on TV next week on this topic, and I already know my opinions and what I'm going to say. But I think it would be a neat touch if I were able to hear -- and perhaps even mention -- what YOU think, what YOU would say. And thus the purpose of this short blog.

If you were on TV next week, asked, "What is YOUR take on the current American economy and the ...

WR Hambrecht compliments YOU.

TMFSpiffyPop — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:28:25 GMT

Don't know how long the present main page of Hambrecht will look this way, but for a fun surprise (even to us), click into: http://www.wrhambrecht.com

Why do I say "YOU"? Because The Motley Fool is the world's greatest investment community, and if you look really hard into the word community, I think you will find a Y-O-U.

Thanks, Fools. Onward.

--Dav...

The scene at Ford's Field: Emblematic.

TMFSpiffyPop — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:00:40 GMT

I saw something at Ford's Field tonight that struck me as so totally emblematic, I had to share it with you. I'll get to that scene in a second. First let me set things up:

In my Rule Breakers intro last month, I laid out the case for doubling up on your winners, not down on your losers. Taking cues from a lesson learned from great management-mind Peter Drucker, I advocated -- as I think I always will -- putting your time and resources into g...

28/56

TMFSpiffyPop — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:41:40 GMT

An amazing stat:

Yesterday, the Wilshire 5000 gained 4%.

Over the past 56 trading days dating back to September 15th, that made the 28th day that the Wilshire moved 4% or more (17 negative, 11 positive).

Over the past 25 years, there had been 25 days in which the Wilshire moved 4% or more.

In two months, we have had more big days than the previous quarter century.

You ...

A Fool's Errand

TMFSpiffyPop — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:59:59 GMT

We have a truly wonderful opportunity here at The Motley Fool, as Fool employees. Every month, one of us is given two weeks off to do... whatever the heck we want. For every complete year you have worked at The Fool, you get one gumball in the machine. At our monthly company-wide meeting, we put a nickel in the machine (so to speak), and a gumball drops out. That person, over the next four weeks, is required to spend two of them completely and fully out of the office. That's th...

It's been a while.

TMFSpiffyPop — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:52:22 GMT

Much has changed since my previous blog, written in March of this year. The now-classic Bear Stearns denial link -- while very true and I still think very classic -- has been superseded by any number of failures since. It's tiring to even think about building the list of the didn't-get-bailed-out, the did-get-bailed-out, the would-like-to-be-bailed-out, and the do-not-ever-deserve-to-be-bailed-out. So tiring, I won't even bother.

Further, all of the problem...

The Soon-to-be-Classic "Bear Stearns Denial" Link.

TMFSpiffyPop — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 01:08:52 GMT

http://www.bearstearns.com/sitewide/our_firm/press_releases/content.htm?d=03_10a_2008

One week ago, the CEO of Bear, Stearns stated (in a short press release linked above): "Bear Stearns' balance sheet, liquidity and capital remain strong." Does this enter the hallowed pantheon of such statements, next to the Web link t...

"Our Supercomputer Loves These Stocks"

TMFSpiffyPop — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:49:54 GMT

Following up on my February 1st article at Fool.com referenced in my previous blog post, I wrote another one today that I think will be of interest to CAPS Fans:

Our Supercomputer Loves These Stocks
http://www.fool.com/investing/h...

200+ Recs....

TMFSpiffyPop — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 03:12:19 GMT

Just a small note of personal celebration (particularly appropriate for a low-key environment like my blog). My article written February 1st on Fool.com, The Greatest Secret of All, passed the 200+ Recommendation level. It's the first time I've written for our free main page for quite a while, as I have understandably focused almost all my efforts in three places: Stock Advisor,

Did Anyone Notice...?

TMFSpiffyPop — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:29:51 GMT

Anyone yet notice that last night in our newest software release we added back graphs to all our tickers, whenever you hover your mouse over one? Pretty slick if I do say so myself -- great job, CAPS team. Also, I believe we also made it so that every time, without fail, that you encounter a ticker anywhere on the site, you get this intelligent hover-over experience. That is a CAPS first, as in the past the hover experience was inconsistent from one environment to the next acro...

Rule Breakers Picks Top Two Nasdaq Stocks!

TMFSpiffyPop — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:01:38 GMT

This article details the big market movers in 2007.
They missed one interview commentator for it, though -- anyone from our Motley Fool Rule Breakers team. That's because Motley Fool Rule Breakers, in 2006, picked both of the Nasdaq 100 stocks that would wind up ruling the roost as the #1 and #2 per...

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One Initiative, Five Wins

This... Is... Jeopardy!

The scene at Ford's Field: Emblematic.

"And Here's the Pitch!"

A decoupling, making me near-term bullish.

CAPS's Three Million Picks and Counting...

Gardners on Larry King Live tonight.

Better Member Profiles -- your thoughts?

Obama recovery plan: thumbs up/down... and why?

What's your take on the current American economy?

WR Hambrecht compliments YOU.

The scene at Ford's Field: Emblematic.

28/56

A Fool's Errand

It's been a while.

The Soon-to-be-Classic "Bear Stearns Denial" Link.

"Our Supercomputer Loves These Stocks"

200+ Recs....

Did Anyone Notice...?

Rule Breakers Picks Top Two Nasdaq Stocks!