This month has been a bit hectic. For one, school is in full swing. While my schedule is not as hectic as other times, I still have my fair share of homework and projects to take care of. I also have to start to prepare for what I am going to do post-graduation. Secondly, I have become a regular contributor at Gurufocus.com.  I have been a regular forum participant for almost 3 years now and I thought their new writers program would allow me to gain some exposure. I’m also using Gurufocus as a place to write about individual stocks. Whether it be here or Value Investing Pro, I have tried to do my best from talking about individual stocks. For one, I like to keep my best ideas for myself.  Secondly, I find value investing to be more about the process of waiting for fat pitches than looking at every stock.

Value Investing Pro

One thing that I have gained from Gurufocus is a tick up in traffic over at Value Investing Pro. With the extra traffic, I also re-gained my motivation for blogging on a regular basis again. I was becoming a  bit unmotivated with my blogs and traffic was seriously starting to tail off.  Anyway, the extra traffic has re-motivated me to get these puppies updated on a regular basis and with that has come a surge in subscribers through RSS and my Youtube Channel. I have big plans for Value Investing Pro, which will probably happen around July of next year. I want traffic to stabilize a bit and I have some smaller projects to launch before I start launching the major fireworks.

Joel Greenblatt Week

Last week was unofficially Joel Greenblatt week. There were two great appearances which are must sees if you follow the magic formula system like I do. Check out both appearances below.

Joel Greenblatt On CNBC

Joel Greenblatt On Bloomberg

Value Investing Stocks: Where are they?

One thing I like about a rising stock market is the % gains. But, I also hate the fact bargains are a bit tougher to find. I have found a couple in the mega caps, but the true fish are in the microcap arena where most mutual funds are simply too big too fish there. While the  market’s run up is nice, I’m becoming very cautious. For one, I’m looking around my neighborhood and I honestly don’t see signs of a recovery. Secondly,  I believe the market has risen too much, too soon. If the market does fall, I’m sitting on some cash, about 25%. Not so much because I’m fearful of a falling market, but I simply haven’t found too many ideas. As a matter of fact, in the past 3 months, i have found 1 bargain that I would seriously put money into.

Warren Buffett U

A while back, and I seriously mean a while back, I started a Warren Buffett site. I simply lost motivation, but now “im feelin it”. I’m restarting things this week. So if you’re interested in Warren Buffett head on over at Warren Buffett U. I  was even going to restart the site’s Youtube Channel but uploading the same thing to two different channels becomes a hassle.  I follow Warren Buffett on a daily basis so I don;t have anything to lose. I have the domain so why not give a try for at least 3 months. If the site gains traction, I will continue updating, if it doesn’t o’well, I can’t say I didn’ t try. That’s pretty much how I got started in this online business, I throw stuff at the wall and I see what sticks.  I still have work to do their, but you get an idea of how the site will look.

Besides being free, the best feature has to be the ability to click on a row of data and being able to chart the data with a click. This is definitely a step in the right direction as Gurufocus tries to become more than a “Guru Holdings ” website. As with most product releases, I expect for the new feature to be buggy. Nevertheless, the ability to see 10 years of financial data and ratios for free is worth sticking around as management fixes the bugs.

Disclaimer: I do not own Gurufocus.com