About
Stock-Value.com aims to:
- educate investors on stocks & the stock market
- promote value investing as a profitable, safer way to invest
- provide tools for stock valuation & screening useful to the value investor
Please quickly gloss-over the Terms & Conditions of Stock-Value.com as it’s really not that interesting.
How does Stock-Value.com operate?
In the process of reading about, learning and practicing valuing investing for myself, I hope to share with you insights and methods that I find useful and profitable. Through sharing what I’ve learned I test my own knowledge while giving others a chance to question & challenge my reasoning. This will enhance my understanding & help me become a better investor. If Stock-Value.com gains any appreciable traffic I will attempt to earn some income through advertising & partner revenues and via service fees from time-saving/decision enhancing value investing tools aimed at reducing the required “time to judgment” on value stocks making it past the screening process.
Why build Stock-Value.com?
Investing is no longer what it should be. Investing should be a way to take part in sound businesses, to share in their growth and profit as they succeed in producing & selling valuable products and services. Through marketing, misinformation & hype, investing has turned into a “get rich quick” scheme. Instead of financing great businesses with great management in pursuit of profits, we are led to believe that it is the stock market itself that will generate us handsome rewards. This is a perversion of the truth. The stock market is simply a mechanism that allows low cost part ownership in businesses at arms length with the ultimate goal of promoting economic growth. Attempting to profit from random stock price movements without care or knowledge of the underlying business will likely return you nothing, while bleeding you through transaction fees. Have a look at zero-sum games in the field of economic theory and you’ll begin to see how day-trading is like two caged dogs fighting over a bone. One gains while the other loses. How are we bettered by this? And are you sure you’ll always be the top dog?
Who is behind Stock-Value.com?
My name is Ben Lam and I’m seeking to shed some light on investing & stock markets, subjects which are filled with too much noise and not enough clear actionable information. My areas of study in university were Economics and Computing Science at Simon Fraser University near Vancouver, Canada. Even though I passed my Canadian Securities Course and applied to business & finance jobs during university, Internet programming work managed to sideline any glamorous career in finance. Maybe this site is my way of making up for lost time.
Academics, authors, and investors who have influenced my thinking and the content of this site include:
Although I only ever had a single course under Doug Allen at SFU, the bizarre, yet commonplace situations we studied in his class opened my eyes into how useful economics can be in explaining everyday behaviour. These days economics has even become fashionable with best selling books such as Freakonomics vaulting the dismal science onto the limited real estate of coffee tables everywhere.
What are you doing still reading this? I can’t be that interesting. Let’s go analyze some undervalued stocks…
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