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Tips, Tricks, & Techniques

 

A collection of useful items to improve understanding and advance the capabilities of your computer aided stock studies, contributed by the Directors of the BetterInvesting Space Coast Chapter (K043) and many others.

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Contents

How to Use This Site

Chapter Events

Newsletter

Editorial

Past Editorials

Chapter Contacts

Regional & National Events

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Articles:

FROM INTIMIDATION TO SUCCESS

What is an Investment Club

Doorway to Clubs That Welcome Visitors

Chapter Lectures on CD

General

 

Software Programs:

Investor’s Toolkit

Stock Selection Guide (SSG)

STOCKcentral Data for Investor's Toolkit

General

Setup and Data

Visual Analysis – Part I

Analyzing Management – Part II

PE History – Part III

Evaluating Risk to Reward – Part IV

5 Year Return – Part V

Portfolio Management Guide (PMG)

General

Data

Graph

Portfolio Evaluation Review Technique (PERT)

PERT Report

Trend Report Summary Report

Stock Comparison Guide (SCG)

Challenger

Output – Printing

General Toolkit Topics

Stock Prospector

Start

Criteria

Reports

Display

Link to Analysis Program

BETTERINVESTING Club Accounting (BICA)

Due Diligence

  • S&P Core Earnings - a metric attempt to counteract creative accounting.  A means to plot against earnings as reported by the company.
  • EPS Trends – Use these analysts estimates with a grain of salt but use them.

Reading (Suggested / Reviews)

Investment Club Specific Help

Useful Links to Online Web Sites

TT&T for Chapter Directors and Instructors

Power Point

Instructor Techniques

Computer Tips

BetterInvesting Chapter Business Cards

 

 

 

 

 

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General

 

Annual Report Analysis – How to acquire and use

 

Change Detection Notification – how to setup email notification when a website is changed or updated.  Use it for www.NAICspace.org

 

Faster Loading PDF Files – removing seldom used items speeds use

 

Financial Calculator – There is a quick and easy free one with every Stock Selection Guide (SSG) sheet for those satisfied with “slide rule” accuracy

 

Let Google Do the Math – a quick and valuable feature of the ubiquitous Google

 

Salesman Tricks – watch out how data is presented

 

Screening for Quality with Value Line – do this for free in your public library.

 

Searching within a PDF file – valuable for softcopy manuals

 

SpaceCoast-Chat – Chapter Mailing List, Multi-Way Email Communications

 

Taming Windows – That are too large for your screen

 

Track & Compound Annual Growth – all from in a single Excel workbook, update anytime

 

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Software Programs

Investor’s Toolkit

 

Stock Selection Guide (SSG)

 

 

General

 

 

Undocumented Features in Toolkit 4 & 5 – aka Rogue Keys

 

 

Undocumented Features by Jim Thomas

 

 

 

STOCKcentral Data for Investor's Toolkit

 

 

 

Stock Study Flow Chart – a suggested procedure

 

 

Preferences > Thresholds –Global and Individual

 

 

 

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Setup and Data

 

 

 

Toolkit and BetterInvesting’s Online Premium Service (OPS)

 

 

 

Updating Toolkit 5

 

 

 

Database Utilities

 

 

 

Internet Directory

 

 

 

Toolkit Libraries

 

 

 

Importing Value Line Data into BetterInvesting software

 

 

 

The SSG File – Read this before you download the Excel file.

 

 

 

The SSG File Defined – an Excel workbook

 

 

 

Missing Data at Year End – a quick fix

 

 

 

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Visual Analysis – SSG Part I

 

 

 

Starting Points for Projections – Last Annual Data, Last Quarterly Data, End of Trend Line

 

 

 

Preferred Procedure – Estimate future Earnings based on Sales history

 

 

 

Rates of Change

 

 

 

Earnings Stability – R Squared

 

 

 

Sustainable Growth Rate

 

 

 

Visual Analysis Chart

 

 

 

Read about Desired Growth Calculator – Expected growth as a function of annual sales

 

 

 

Desired Growth Calculator – This is an executable file – DG.exe; read instructions above

 

 

 

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Analyzing Management – SSG Part II

 

 

 

Toolkit Graphs

 

 

 

Return on Equity – Treatment by Ellis Traub for AAII Journal, July 2001

 

 

 

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PE History – SSG Part III

 

 

 

Relative Value

 

 

 

Forecasting PEs

 

 

 

Analyzing Historical PEs

 

 

 

Average Dividend Yield

 

 

 

Toolkit’s Funny Numbers - (the typed in ones)

 

 

 

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Evaluating Risk to Reward – SSG Part IV

 

 

 

Zoning

 

 

 

Upside/Downside Ratio – Risk/Reward Ratio

 

 

 

Potential Buy Price

 

 

 

PEG Ratio

 

 

 

Forecasting Low Price

 

 

 

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5 Year Potential – SSG Part V

 

 

 

Projected Average Return

 

 

 

Total Return - {Toolkit Version 4’s Unique Situation}

 

 

 

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Portfolio Management Guide (PMG)

 

 

General

 

 

 

Portfolio Management Guide

 

 

 

How to Email a Toolkit PERT Report

 

 

 

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Data

 

 

 

Place holder – for a future set of TT&Ts

 

 

Graph

 

 

 

PERT - A Graph

 

 

 

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Portfolio Maintenance Items

 

 

 

Annual Report Analysis

 

 

 

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Portfolio Evaluation Review Technique (PERT)

 

 

PERT Report

 

 

 

Accessing PERT

 

 

 

Using PERT

 

 

 

Portfolio Manager

 

 

Trend Report

 

 

 

Trend Report

 

 

Summary Report

 

 

 

Portfolio Summary Report

 

 

 

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Stock Comparison Guide (SCG)

 

 

 

Stock Comparison Guide – Compare up to 5 companies in the same industry

 

 

 

Selection of Alternative Data

 

 

 

Criteria Weighting

 

Challenger

 

 

 

Toolkit Challenger

 

 

 

EPS Stability [R2]

 

Output - Printing

 

 

 

ASCII Report

 

General Toolkit Topics