The Motley Fool's CAPS investing service is great way for investors to work together to beat the market -- and maybe get famous while they're at it. Among its features, CAPS lets users blog about their picks, investing strategy, market view, yesterday's lunch, or whatever floats their boat.
As the CAPS blogosphere continues to grow, players are adding more great content every day. To make it easier to find some of the gems out there, I've dug through the past week's posts to find some of CAPS' best insights. Of course, with room for only seven posts here, I can't possibly cover all of the great stuff in the CAPS blogosphere. So when you're done here, I highly recommend heading over to CAPS and checking out what some of the other investors have to say.
Microsoft: Back with a vengeance
Well, that sure is a bold statement, particularly when bashing Microsoft
July 2008 pick: Bolt Technologies
The free CAPS "newsletter" set up under the name EldrehadsPicks by CAPS standout TMFEldrehad continues to forge ahead. So far, 60% of the monthly picks are beating the market, by a total of 135 points. Though picks like NVIDIA
Two industries in the land of make-believe
TMFDeej deftly parlays his trip to an amusement park with the family to a commentary on the two industries that he thinks are living in "The Land of Make Believe." Separately, he takes a quick peek at the recent results Buffalo Wild Wings
Mortgage-servicing crisis coming...
Now that IndyMac went IndySplat, the FDIC is charged with finding a home for its $200 billion (yes that's a "b") mortgage-servicing portfolio. As iamamartin points out, some of the banks that would be the usual suspects in such an auction -- Washington Mutual
The hippies won!
TMFBigVice is all about the vice stocks. That means that the idea of a ban on cigarette sales in San Francisco in pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens would not be well received. Check out TMFBigVice's blog for a reaction to the hippies in the Bay Area.
Merrill's fuzzy math
They've gotten plenty of coverage, but CAPS blogger hptrades1 isn't so sure that recent moves by broker Merrill Lynch
Ags -- topping or pausing?
CAPS All-Star TMFSarahGen has been watching agriculture stocks like Potash Corp
And that's our roundup for this week. Be sure to check back next week for more great blogging action. In the meantime, why not head over to CAPS and add your two cents to the community pool?
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