TinyHacker » stocks http://tinyhacker.com Tiny Tips for the Common Geek Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:00:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Warren Buffett’s Annual Report to Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway http://tinyhacker.com/hacks/warren-buffetts-annual-report-to-shareholders-of-berkshire-hathaway/ http://tinyhacker.com/hacks/warren-buffetts-annual-report-to-shareholders-of-berkshire-hathaway/#comments Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:02:00 +0000 tinyhacker http://tinyhacker.com/hacks/warren-buffetts-annual-report-to-shareholders-of-berkshire-hathaway/ sshot-1

Wildly regarded as one the great financial thinkers, the Oracle of Omaha has managed on average a 20% annual gain over the last 45 years. His report to shareholders is an easy read and recommended reading for experts and novices alike.

Warren Buffett’s 2010 letter to shareholders

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Monitor equities on your desktop the easy way with AceStock. This app updates automatically and can quickly figure P&L if you enter your cost basis. You can even set audio/visual alerts if prices cross a limit.

AceStock v1.6.1

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StockFox allows you to capture Yahoo Finance quotes in either your statusbar or a tickerbar above your tabs. You can adjust the colors for up/down/unchanged issues and how often it updates.

StockFox v1.2.1 addon for Firefox

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AceStock, a tiny app, will monitor change in your portfolio and alerts you if predefined parameters have been breached. Handy if you choose not to log into your personal account at work.

AceStock v1.6.1

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If you live in the States, foreign markets trade overnight and so do U.S. futures markets. You may find it helpful to see if the next bubble has burst before you go to sleep.

Barchart’s U.S. futures page

CME Group’s Globex Commodity page

Yahoo world markets

Bloomberg futures prices

CNN Overnight

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Hundreds of easy to read definitions for the Geek that’s just beginning (and continuing) to invest.  What, you didn’t know what the Random Walk Theory was? Now you do.

Stocktradingtogo.com Definitions

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FreeStockCharts is an advanced real time charting site, offering news, quotes, portfolio monitoring, alerts and many other features not ordinarily found for free. You can scan and sort stocks and even link to your Ameritrade account. A very cool site for the capitalist geek.

FreeStockCharts

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