Recently, I've realized that my typical day involves constant encounters with indicators. For example, when the alarm clock rings, it's an indicator that it's morning and time to get up. I am checking the phone and once again paying attention to the indicators: battery charge and network signal level. I figure out in just one second that such a complex element of...
In the 21st century, financial and information technologies have reached such a level that we have an absolutely barrier-free environment for making investment decisions in the stock market. Brazilian investor does not need to live in the USA to buy shares of American companies. No need to be on a phone call with a broker or sit at a computer to make a stock...
Replay is one of my favorite features on TradingView. It allows you to go back in time and see what the indicators were showing at that moment in time. You can also "replay" the chart (along with all indicators) forward at a set speed or gradually - one value per click.
You can find this function in the top menu of your chart window:
By clicking on "Replay"...
Investment books are often full of lengthy explanations of how to buy stocks while selling them is unfairly little discussed. There is a view that the best time to sell a stock is "never". That is, you should pick a company so perfect for investment that you won't want to let it go. I strongly disagree with this.
Certainly, you should pay special attention to the...
In one of my first publications on TradingView, I shared my stock investing concept of buying great companies during a sell-off . Of course, this idea is not unique. In one way or another, the masters of value investing - Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffett - have talked about it. However, the seemingly simple statement requires an understanding of how to find a...
The other day I came across an interesting article about the work of the Swiss company Glencore International AG in the 1990s. This company specializes in trading raw materials, and at that time it was actively trading with the countries that had left the USSR. None of those countries had foreign currency, and trust in local currencies had not yet appeared, so it...
In my previous post , I told you about the general approach behind the creation of the Fundamental Strength Indicator and what it looks like. In this guide, we will consider the methodology for its calculation and several examples of fundamental analysis of companies, performed using the indicator. But I would like to start with a story.
One day, when I had...
A new series of my publications will be devoted to the guides for the indicators that I use in my work. I'll start with the Fundamental Strength Indicator .
To understand what it is for, let's imagine that you are the manager of a long-distance running team, and you need to recruit a team of excellent athletes. However, you don’t even know the names of these...
In my previous post , we started to analyze the most popular financial ratio in the world – Price / Earnings or P/E (particularly one of the options for interpreting it). I said that P/E can be defined as the amount of money that must be paid once in order to receive 1 monetary unit of diluted net income per year. For American companies, it will be in US dollars,...
In one of my first posts , I talked about the main idea of my investment strategy: buy great “things” during the sales season . This rule can be applied to any object of the material world: real estate, cars, clothes, food and, of course, shares of public companies.
However, a seemingly simple idea requires the ability to understand both the quality of...
In the previous post we learned what financial ratios are. These are ratios of various indicators from financial statements that help us draw conclusions about the fundamental strength of a company and its investment attractiveness. In the same post, I listed the financial ratios that I use in my strategy, with formulas for their calculations.
Now let's take...
I hope that after studying the series of posts about company financial statements, you stopped being afraid of them. I suggest we build on that success and dive into the fascinating world of financial ratios. What is it?
Let's look at the following example. Let's say you open up a company's balance sheet and see that the amount of debt is $100 million. Do you...
In the previous post we started to analyze the Cash flow statement. From it, we learned about the existence of three cash flows - operating cash flow, financial cash flow, and investment cash flow. Like three rivers, they fill the company's "lake of cash" (that is, they go with a "+" sign).
However, there are three other rivers that flow out of our lake,...
Today we're going to start taking apart the third and final report that the company publishes each quarter and year - it's Cash flow statement.
Remember, when we studied the balance sheet , we learned that one of the company's assets is cash in accounts. This is a very important asset because if the company doesn't have money in the account, it can't buy raw...
The famous value investor, Mohnish Pabrai , said in one of his lectures that when he visited Warren Buffett, he noticed a huge handbook with the financial statements of thousands of public companies. It's a very dull reading, isn't it? Indeed, if you focus on every statement item - you'll waste a lot of time and sooner or later fall asleep. However, if you look at...
In the previous post , we began looking at the Income statement that the company publishes for each quarter and year. The report contains important information about different types of profits : gross profit, operating income, pretax income, and net income. Net income can serve both as a source of further investment in the business and as a source of dividend...
Today we are going to look at the second of the three main reports that a company publishes during the earnings season, the income statement. Just like the balance sheet, it is published every quarter and year. This is how we can find out how much a company earns and how much it spends. The difference between revenues and expenses is called profit . I would like...
With this post, I am concluding the analysis of the company's balance sheet. You can read the previous parts here:
Part 1 - Balance sheet: taking the first steps
Part 2 - Assets I prioritize
Part 3 - A sense of debt
Now we know that every company has assets on one side of the balance sheet and liabilities and equity on the other side. If you add liabilities...
