Common Cents Investing

Welcome to Common Cents Investing.  I know a bare minimum about investing, I'm sure.  I'm an engineer by trade, I've never been to Wall Street, and I've never worked in the finance industry in any capacity.

I do, however, have a bit of common sense.  I can also multiply, divide, and perform some pretty decent addition and subtraction.  Oh, and I have the internet.  Now, as I mix all those together, I plan to make some money off of it.

That's it.  Easy enough.  Sound interesting?

I plan to use this Common Cents Investing blog to organize my thoughts, record my transactions, and review how I behave in regards to managing a portfolio of 5 - 10 stocks.  I already do this to some capacity on paper, but I have an increasing need for attention.

So here's how it's going to play out.  I will go through a brief introduction to investing.  I will explain how to research a stock, analyze relative valuation, open a trading account (kind of), and ultimately purchase a stock.  Don't worry, even though it's investing, and I'm an engineer, I will only be using informal/conversational English, probably with some horrific grammar sprinkled in.

Stay with me.  After we have those conversational tools in our investing tool box, I will explain some long-term methodologies that I use for investing, which I have found increasingly effective.  I will explain my strategies for the 5 - 10 stocks I have in my portfolio, and I will record when and why I make transactions in these positions.  And you will (potentially) follow along.  Whatever you do with this information is irrelevant to me.  I just want the attention.

Here comes some limitations.  I by no means intend to represent myself as anything other than a novice investor.  I by no means recommend that anybody follow my investing methodology or recommendations.  I will fact check very little of the information I present.  This blog is for informational and entertainment purposes only and should not be construed as professional or expert investing advice.  Here goes nothing...go ahead...click the 101 tag...