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Real Name: Edward Croft
Occupation: Company Director, Entrepreneur, Other
Interests: Commodities, Stocks
Twitter: edcroft
About Me:
CEO at Stockopedia where I weave code, prose and investing strategies to help investors beat increasingly corrupt stock markets. I've a background in the City and asset management but now am more interested in programming finance tools for the web. Traditionally investors online have had very poor access to the best statistics, analytics and strategies for the stock market and our aim is to set that straight. Why can't there be total transparency not only of who has been buying stocks but why?
High Quality fundamental information has been prohibitively expensive in the past and often annoyingly dull. People these days don't just want to know the PE Ratio and look at a balance sheet. They expect a layer of interpretation over data. And ideally they want data to be visualised. That's our sole goal... to bring these tools to individual investors around the globe.
The other big bugbear of mine is the quality of information that often spreads by word of mouth. People get shepherded in to low quality stocks time and time again due to nothing but a catchy story like "China is huge, this company makes China widgets". Without true fundamental backing for a stock stories are just that... thin air... and as Warren Buffett says - "Its only when the tide goes out that you find out whose been swimming naked".
I post my day to day thoughts and ramblings on twitter - do join me....
Web Address: http://www.twitter.com/edcroft
Yesterday's announcement that the $5bn Jarden Corporation was making a bid for ICAP Securities Exchange tiddler Sprue Aegis wouldn't have threatened many headlines, but hidden within this story and the share price breakout are plenty of pearls that investors can learn from. Sprue Aegis is the kind of company that the City neglects to its regret but that private investors are so able to take…
We've just been setting up our stall in preparation for the Master Investor Conference in Islington tomorrow. It starts at 9am and runs through the afternoon so there's plenty of time to come and visit us on the stall where we'll be running live presentations of the Stockopedia engine's capabilities all day. I'll personally also be running a 25 minute presentation from the new 'Rising…
Last year I noted that blending a strategy designed to include cheap stocks with rising stocks could be the 'ultimate market strategy'. The evidence that Value & Momentum are excellent bedfellows is utterly compelling. The two strategies are complementary as value tends to prosper when momentum lags and vice versa. Given that the returns to value and momentum are fairly uncorrelated investors in both can…
I'm sure that it can't have escaped most people's attention that the price of Bitcoin has absolutely soared in recent weeks. The price of the innovative, cryptographically secured, digital currency has burst through some newsworthy levels - reaching $100 per bitcoin last week while the total value of all bitcoin in circulation reached a net value of $1 billion shortly after. Since Easter the price…
Anyone who has read our book "How to Make Money in Value Stocks" will be well primed in the idea that buying cheap stocks is a strategy that beats the market. This is hardly surprising. If you can buy productive assets on sale you ought to do no worse than even. What is surprising is the extent to which these stocks in general outperform. Benjamin…
Thanks to all who joined the webinar and listened to me go hoarse for 50 minutes. It was the first one we've done and I hope we covered some interesting topics. Unfortunately we forgot to press record for the first 3 minutes ! But we'll get what we have up and online soon.
Here's a piece I wrote on diversification a while back . http://www.stockopedia.co.uk/content/the-5-ways-diversification-can-kill-your-portfolio-returns-63448/ A study of 60,000 private investors showed they only own 4 stocks on average and underperform by 4% per year. Also those 4 stocks tend to be in the same sector. The points you raise Mark are v. v. v. important for people to understand - too few do. Greenblatt stated that IF…
Hi CP, A post like this suggests to me that in spite of all the efforts of the hive mind on the internet, there's still too little structure to help people get started in investing and 'over the hump'. We ourselves here have written a ton of blog posts about subjects like the ones you mention, but still they are too hard to find ;-(…
Crikey - I've always been an advocate of the Peter Lynch ethic - that you should buy, use and test the products of companies you own shares in. I did that for RCG Holdings (LON:RCG) and had an appalling time - couldn't get back into my computer ever again ! Similarly for Globo (LON:GBO) I remain skeptical of the Go! Enterprise platform as the iPhone…
Good work holding Sprue Aegis Phil. Funnily enough Sprue Aegis has been being ranked 99/100 on the Stockopedia composite rank system (second best in the whole system) - have a look at the list here - http://www.stockopedia.co.uk/screens/composite-rank-published-8005/ We have been getting great feedback about the rankings - have to find a way to incorporate them on the stock reports- http://www.stockopedia.co.uk/share-prices/
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