Tim Melvin is a writer from Windermere, Fla. In addition to writing about the markets, he manages accounts for family and friends. He has written serveral articles and collaborated on several investment books. Prior to striking out on his own he spent 20 years a stockbroker, the last 15 as a Vice President of Investments with a regional firm in the Mid Atlantic area. He specializes in deep value investing as well as special situations and activist stocks, and is the author of the Junior Chamber Course on Value Investing, as well as numerous articles in various publications on the subject of value investing, the stock market and the world around us.
| Apr 17, 2013 | 4:00 PM EDT
These energy stocks are already cheap and getting cheaper.
| Apr 17, 2013
| 11:33 AM EDT
Predictably I am starting to get the usual questions when the market falls and a whiff of panic is in the air. We need t...
| Apr 16, 2013 | 2:00 PM EDT
Gold and silver miners are getting close to maximum pessimism, and I have already started on the materials space.
| Apr 15, 2013 | 4:00 PM EDT
The risk levels look pretty high, so I'd get out of any overvalued and over-owned names here.
| Apr 12, 2013 | 2:00 PM EDT
It's the main fundamental the mechanical approach to investing lacks.
| Apr 12, 2013
| 9:23 AM EDT
My other observation about the reporting banks this morning is that no matter how pretty a box you put these reports in,...
| Apr 12, 2013
| 8:40 AM EDT
A quick run through the report shows that revenue and net income were down in most divisions of the bank. This is not ab...
| Apr 11, 2013 | 5:00 PM EDT
This intriguing model has turned up some pretty good stock ideas.
| Apr 10, 2013 | 1:00 PM EDT
A mechanical-value system overrides the human element and buys stocks I might have avoided.
| Apr 10, 2013
| 8:41 AM EDT
Given the overall weakness in the numbers of late this is not really a surprise to me. I think the economy is weakening ...