The Mechanical Investor

An interesting post on when to buy stocks based on the day of the week. http://ripetrade.blogspot.com/2008/11/day-of-week-trading-edge.html An excerpt: Historically the best days of week to buy the S&P has been ( Monday, Wednesday, Thursday) the worst day of week to buy has been Friday and Tuesday. The average 1 day performance of the S&P on [...]

I was introduced to mechanical investing in 1999 with the Motley Fools workshop. I learned about how to use numerical based metrics to choose stocks, instead of picking stocks emotionally. Well 8 years later, it still is as emotional as every. With the tools that I have learned and the understanding of stock screens, it [...]