ISSUE 1
3 JANUARY 2007
EXTRA! EXTRA!
Attention ladies and gentlemen and all our ships at sea, the StockCentral Gazette is hot off the presses! With today's inaugural issue, the StockCentral Gazette becomes your first source for StockCentral news and feature updates, as well as on topics ranging throughout the entire fundamental investing world.
What's the latest discussion in the forums? Which thread topics are hot? What's the skinny on the new StockCentral features? We'll keep you in the know, so you can get the most out of your subscription.
On to today's headlines...
25 TOP STOCK PICKS FOR 2007... AND BEYOND
GURUS VIE FOR PORTFOLIO SUPREMACY
This reporter doesn't know much, but he's relatively sure that 5 stock gurus x 5 stock picks each = 25 stocks that you need to know about for the new year. ICLUBcentral prez and financial raconteur Doug Gerlach headlines the expert panel, which also includes Danny Matthews, Mark Robertson, Ralph Seger, and Ellis Traub. Each of these five heavyweights has put together a quintet of stock picks into their own portfolio, and a new pick will be revealed every day in The Classroom with links to the discussions in the specific Stocks-By-Ticker forums. Let the best investor win, as they say.
The five contestants will be around to defend their choices and explain their methodology, so don't hesitate to ask questions, offer your point of view, and stubbornly insist that you know better by commenting and uploading your own stock analyses.
For the full details and the picks so far, visit the contest thread in The Classroom.
STOCKCENTRAL TAKE STOCK DEBUTS
ST. NICK DENIES INVOLVEMENT
The holidays brought many gifts to young and old (this reporter is sporting a brand new tweed overcoat with matching fedora, compliments of the Missus), but StockCentral members found an extra special present waiting for them on one cold December morning -- Take Stock.
Free for all members, StockCentral Take Stock (Beta) is the web-based version of ICLUBcentral's Take Stock, a simple yet powerful tool for Instant Stock Analysis™. Just type in a ticker symbol and --Presto! -- you'll get an instant qualitative snapshot of the company. From here, you can easily drill down to understand the reasoning behind the analysis and generate a comprehensive Technamental Stock Study Worksheet (TSSW).
Learn more and start instantly analyzing stocks under the Take Stock tab.
IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD,
JUST THE END OF THE TAX YEAR
ACCOUNTING MAVEN PREPARES TO SAVE US ALL
When he's not road-trippin' across the Lower 48, Ira Smilovitz moonlights as a tax genius. He's offered to spend the week of January 15 discussing investment club accounting and tax principles with StockCentral members, and this reporter is thanking his lucky stars (and you would too if your investment club books looked like a refugee camp for mergers and spinoffs).
Ira will post his thoughts and answer your questions starting Monday, January 15 in The Classroom.
THIS WEEK'S TIDBIT OF INVESTING WISDOM
"Don't Gamble! Take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."
- WILL ROGERS
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