Festival of Stocks Monday the Thirteenth Edition

Welcome to the December 13, 2010 edition of the Festival of Stocks. The Festival of Stocks is a blog carnival dedicated to highlighting bloggers best posts on stock market related topics. Fat Pitch Financials is the actual birth place of this online weekly event, so it is always a special occasion when I get the chance to host this roving event.

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Now that you are familiar with Fat Pitch Financials, let’s take a look at this week’s Festival of Stock participants. Here are this week’s entries:

Dividend Monk presents The Clorox Company (CLX) Dividend Stock Analysis posted at Dividend Monk.

Joshuamschu presents How To Enter A Stock Before It Moves Big posted at Growth Stock Investor, saying, “Setups for Profitable trading before the big move”

Dividends4Life presents Pepsico, Inc. (PEP) Dividend Stock Analysis posted at Dividends Value, saying, “PepsiCo, Inc. is a major international producer of branded beverage and snack food products. Linked here is a detailed analysis and commentary.”

Jeff Rose, CFP presents Risk Tolerance-Financial and Emotional posted at Jeff Rose, saying, “When making investment decisions — you should know what you can handle in terms of risk, financial and emotinal.”

Ian Braganza presents CECO Offers An Excellent Value Opportunity posted at Super Stock Screener, saying, “The author presents a compelling story about CECO, a stock trading well below its real value.”

The Financial Blogger presents TSX DIVIDEND YIELD, EX-DIVIDEND DATE AND MTD posted at The Financial Blogger, saying, “A look at the TSX dividend yield as of this moment.”

Intelligent Speculator presents Top 100 Dividend Stocks – December 2010 posted at Intelligent Speculator, saying, “What are the top dividend stock picks for December 2010?”

PT presents On Short-Selling Stock posted at Prime Time Money.

Jessica presents Stock Brokers for Beginners posted at MomVesting, saying, “Before you dash off to Wall Street, take a few more minutes here in front of your computer (dressed in your pjs and bunny slippers), and consider the types of stock brokers out there who can assist you with your leap into the world of investing in stocks.”

Chris Tompson presents 3 Ways To Make Money Online posted at Inspirest – Inspiring Entrepreneurship, saying, “Three great techniques for making money online.The benefit of making money via the internet is that you can work from anywhere in the world and while you sleep.”

Dividends4Life presents Owens & Minor, Inc. (OMI) Dividend Stock Analysis posted at Dividends Value, saying, “Owens & Minor Inc. is a leading domestic distributor of medical and surgical supplies to the acute care market, a health care supply chain management company, and a direct-to-consumer (DTC) supplier of testing and monitoring supplies for diabetes. Linked here is a detailed analysis and commentary.”

Tom @ Canadian Finance Blog presents Staying Away from Herds posted at The Canadian Finance Blog, saying, “The bond herd is today’s big herd. So is the gold herd. Yet smart investors stay away from herds, whether bulls or bears.”

That concludes this edition of the Festival of Stocks. Be sure an leave comments as you visit each of the blogs that participated in this week’s Festival of Stocks. They’ll appreciate knowing folks are reading their articles.

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