http://www.quitecontrarian.com Contrarian Investing and Living Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:56:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We are in the process of moving to a new hosting provider, and a new platform.  We had a number of technical issues with our previous host, and decided it was time for a change.  We've also switched to Wordpress as our publishing platform, for its flexibility and elegance.  We're ... http://www.quitecontrarian.com/moving.html Please click here to visit the home page. http://www.quitecontrarian.com/index.html Zecco.com announced some changes to their commission structure this weekend. For those of you not familiar with Zecco Trading, they are an innovative new brokerage that offers commission-free stock trades, and provides a uinique social networking platform where traders can share data about their real-money trades. Zecco's plan was to ... http://www.quitecontrarian.com/zecco-trading-new-commissions.html Warren Buffett recently released his annual shareholder letter for 2006. I read his letters every year, and so should you, whether you're a Berkshire investor or not. Hidden in this year's letter was an ominous message about the outrageous fiscal excesses our country has perpetrated in recent decades. ... http://www.quitecontrarian.com/warren-buffett-debt.html George S. Classon's timeless classic won't tell you how to pick the latest breakout stock, nor will it teach you any fancy trading strategies. In fact, it has little in the way of specifics or modern strategies on anything. None of that changes the fact that the Richest ... http://www.quitecontrarian.com/the-richest-man-in-babylon.html Christopher Browne's The Little Book of Value Investing is a fine introduction to the logic and philosophy behind value investing. Written in plain, accessible language, it is an excellent resource for the beginning investor who wants to learn the secrets of achieving long-term investing success. It may also ... http://www.quitecontrarian.com/the-little-book-of-value-investing.html The newsletter will be back up soon.  Thanks! http://www.quitecontrarian.com/thank-you-sbi-zinehtml.html One thing you will never see on this website is a claim like the following: "Stocks Ready To Soar! Hot News Alert, Huge Profits 1000%+! Stock Near Explosive Breakout!" So when this ridiculous claim appeared in one of our adsense areas, we immediately banned the advertiser. There ... http://www.quitecontrarian.com/stock-marketing-scamshtml.html Single stock futures are a relatively new product, and are yet not widely known, but they should be. They are an excellent investing tool. So what are they? Single stock futures are similar to the more familiar futures contracts on indices like the S&P500 or the Dow. They ... http://www.quitecontrarian.com/single-stock-futures.html Today we launch a new series of articles and a model portfolio entitled "Short the Spammers." I have long claimed that investors would likely do far better selling short any stocks mentioned in unsolicited ads they receive than buying them. It's time to put the theory to the ... http://www.quitecontrarian.com/short-the-spammers-tubr.html