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Today I developed a new tool to identify potential investment opportunities.  The idea is to use Google Insights for Search to identify increasing popular awareness for a product.   Then I compare the trend of increasing searches with the stock price of the relevant company.

In the above picture, I compare the interest in “IPhone” vs Apple Inc.’s stock price in a five year basis.

The tool can be accessed here: http://www.blogmybrain.com/stock_apps/GI/

At the top of the page there is a 24 month comparison.  At the bottom of the page there is a 5-year search history.  All you have to do is click on the “5y” button in the stock chart to compare it to the 5-year search history.

admin :: Sep.09.2009 :: Investment Tools :: No Comments »

Since the U.S. economy has been very turbulent for the past couple of months, I decided to create a tool that will give me a better insight than the speculative commentaries by wall street “analysts”.   Since the government has a huge census database on inflation, employment, wages, etc, I decided to utilize such data and create intuitive graphs to draw insights on the economy.

After a weekend of programming, I finished making The Graphical Economy.

The line graphs will display the time series data, making it easier to spot interesting trends.   You are all welcome to use it and give me feedback.  But please understand that it may contain bugs and data issues.

admin :: Aug.04.2008 :: Investment Tools, Computer Science, Finance/Investment :: 1 Comment »

A visual representation of information is much better than plain data.  A picture is worth a thousand words.   During my recent trading experience, I’ve found that many of the factors that affects the stock price are not captured by the technical indicators.   To improve my trading, I decided to make my own indicators that makes sense to me, and put them in a graphical presentation. 
  
  
The program is available at:  http://www.blogmybrain.com/stock_apps/stockGA/analysis.php
  
  
You are free to use it and give me feedbacks by commenting on this blog entry.

admin :: Apr.21.2008 :: Investment Tools, Finance/Investment :: 4 Comments »

Recently as I am trading undervalue stocks, I notice that significant gain can be triggered by positive news on these stocks. Fundamentally strong stocks with beaten down prices and high levels of short interests can easily fall into a phenomenon called “Short Squeeze”. Short Squeezes happen when a bearish stock turns around, creating elevated prices that forces the shorts to buy to cover, which in turn takes the price even higher. In a way, it is basically a bearish “bubble”.

Since short squeeze often creates opportunities for huge gains. I decided to create a list of fundamentally strong and undervalued stocks and observe their short interest. This list would be automatically updated on a regular basis.

The Short Squeeze List

admin :: Apr.15.2008 :: Investment Tools, Finance/Investment :: 22 Comments »