Summary
- Forget about internals, fundamentals or technicals. This is about ideas.
- Do you view "the dip" as a risk or as an opportunity?
- Turning a stodgy stock into a winning stock.
Courtesy: Swoon Reads
Over the years I've authored a number of articles for Seeking Alpha. I pride myself on writing about those areas that others don't write about. I try to provide readers with a different perspective and avoid, religiously, the "same old, same old".
I particularly avoid giving specific stock advice... you know... buy, hold, or sell. Instead, I try to provide readers with IDEAS. That's right, ideas. Ideas that they can add to their quivers to be brought out when they feel the time is right.
So, this article won't be full of charts and graphs of financial numbers like P/E Ratios, EBITDA, burn rates and cover rates. It won't talk about extraction costs, depletion allowances, Global Warming and the Permian Basin. Not any mention of trend lines, Fibonacci, moving averages, crossovers and such. No, it won't have any of that. In fact, it will barely talk about Exxon Mobil (XOM).
The reason I don't need to talk about all that "stuff" is pretty simple. It doesn't really matter. Not that it doesn't matter in the sense of picking a stock ... it doesn't matter in the minds of those article-fishing. Most readers are more interested in finding confirmation of the decisions they have already made or are contemplating. Readers tend to accept only that which agrees with them and reject that which runs counter.
It has always been my belief that by supplying ideas, it's easier to pave the way for readers to add to their knowledge base. It is always my hope that the reader can come away with something of value for the time they invest reading.
