“Mrs. Wheeler, why is this important?” — I may have enjoyed math myself, but I know a lot of people have not, and when I ask around there are a few common answers. Either math is boring, hard, or does not appear important. That last answer stuck with me because I remember how since I was young…

“Price is what you pay; value is what you get” — Warren Buffett — Stock valuation is an important topic and a crucial part of any worthwhile fundamentals-based approach to stock picking. Sadly, it is often overlooked in strong markets. When you purchase shares you actively buy into a business: a complicated machine of inputs and outputs that are tweaked regularly in a world…

I finally understood why I loved science but hated learning it. I only loved knowing and understanding it. — Someone once told me “If you dislike doing math in school, then maybe engineering isn’t for you.” It was a short-lived conversation, but it spoke to me because it rhymed perfectly with what I was all about. A life lived for someone else is a wasted life, happiness should always…

When I first got interested in stocks I spent every waking hour studying them. I read books, articles, research papers, and anything I could get my hands on to give myself every possible advantage against the other players in the market. Over the next years I learned many things, many…

There is an important line of reasoning related to money-making. If too many people have discovered a method, it probably does not work anymore. This is possibly why net-net stocks are so profitable. I was surprised to learn about this phenomenon. How could stocks with these characteristics have existed for…

Rock-Paper-Scissors is a game famous for being played by not only children, but people of all ages. Here you will learn how to write a simple Java program to play the game against a computer. Whether you are fairly new to programming or not, this presents a useful project to…