A portfolio of 8 stock picks from the edge

When I picked stocks for the 8 Stock Portfolio, I had initially short listed a group of 28 stocks. I eventually removed 20 stocks and decided to focus on a select group of eight. I wrote a series of posts about the 20 Stocks Left Behind explaining my rationale for eliminating the various names from consideration. After the historic events of last week and the tumultuous movements of the markets, I thought that now would be … read on »

I am going to continue the review of stocks that I had initially selected as candidates for the portfolio, but discarded for various reasons. But first, a few words on the long term plan for this blog. I've already made one post on each of the 8 stocks in the portfolio. These posts provide the general consensus negative view on the stocks and my counterpoints and reasons for buying the stocks. This has been followed … read on »