The Foolish Workshop: The 1998 Archives

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The 1998 Foolish Workshop Archives

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December | November | October | September | August | July | June | May | April | March | February | January

12/31/98 -- Results and Review
12/30/98 -- Overtime Work That Really Pays
12/29/98 -- End-of-Year Margins
12/28/98 -- Trading Time
12/24/98 -- Reasonable Runaways
12/23/98 -- A (Non-)Financial Health Screen
12/22/98 -- A Margins Best Buy
12/21/98 -- Land of the Giants
12/18/98 -- Community Gives Back
12/17/98 -- Plowback Ratio
12/16/98 -- Comparing the Returns
12/15/98 -- CKE Revisited
12/14/98 -- Bits & Bytes
12/11/98 -- New Screens?
12/10/98 -- Annual Trading vs. Buy and Hold
12/09/98 -- Investing for the Long Now
12/08/98 -- Margins of the Week
12/07/98 -- UG Rebound
12/04/98 -- "Beta Testing"
12/03/98 -- Have a Plan
12/02/98 -- Back to the Books
12/01/98 -- Dozens Update

11/30/98 -- Put the Tax Man on Hold
11/27/98 -- Leftovers
11/25/98 -- On the Proper Use of Lampposts
11/24/98 -- Rising Margins Meet SSS
11/23/98 -- Keystone Update
11/20/98 -- Changes to the Workshop?
11/19/98 -- Plowback Revisited
11/18/98 -- The BSP 30 vs. the Dow 30
11/17/98 -- More Margins Maybes
11/16/98 -- Tech Power
11/13/98 -- Learning Together
11/12/98 -- Compounding Makes a Difference
11/11/98 -- Ground Rules for Beating the S&P
11/10/98 -- Margin Goodies
11/09/98 -- UG Monthly Update
11/06/98 -- 50% a Year???
11/05/98 -- Value Line Ranking System
11/04/98 -- The Golden Rules?
11/03/98 -- More Margin Treats
11/02/98 -- Dozens Update

10/30/98 -- The Best of the Foolish Workshop
10/29/98 -- What Size Cap is in Style?
10/28/98 -- The ABCs of the S&P
10/27/98 -- Looking for Margin Goodies
10/26/98 -- The Data Dilemma
10/23/98 -- My Favorite Model
10/22/98 -- What's In A Workshop?
10/21/98 -- The Perfect Database?
10/20/98 -- Watch for Falling Margins
10/19/98 -- Thank You Mr Greenspan, Maybe.
10/16/98 -- Investor Psychology
10/15/98 -- Bears and Relatives
10/14/98 -- Dow Stock Basics
10/13/98 -- The Challenge of Cyclicals
10/12/98 -- The Ideal Holding Period
10/09/98 -- Numbers and Spark5
10/08/98 -- Do You UG?
10/07/98 -- Is Four Enough?
10/06/98 -- Margins Theorem Summary
10/05/98 -- Fifth Grader or Skilled Trader?
10/02/98 -- Updating the Dozens
10/01/98 -- My Favorite Margin

09/30/98 -- I Screen, You Screen
09/29/98 -- Margins Screen and Even More Losers
09/28/98 -- Taking the Plunge
09/25/98 -- Headline - Shifting Models?
09/24/98 -- Screens and Dreams
09/23/98 -- The "Dirty" Dozens
09/22/98 -- More Looks at the Losers
09/21/98 -- Happy to Be a Fool
09/18/98 -- Margins Screen on the Losers
09/17/98 -- The "Good" Dozens
09/16/98 -- The Workshop Toolbox
09/15/98 -- Fall Into the Gap
09/14/98 -- Holding Firm in Tough Times
09/11/98 -- More on the Margins Screen
09/10/98 -- Building a Better Mousetrap?
09/09/98 -- Feedback and the BSP
09/08/98 -- A Margins Screen Theorem
09/04/98 -- Fundamentally Strong
09/03/98 -- Sparfarkle's Spark5
09/02/98 -- Workshop Screens
09/01/98 -- A Look at Margins

08/31/98 -- Workshop News
08/28/98 -- Farewell, But Not Good-Bye
08/27/98 -- A Dozens Wrap-Up
08/26/98 -- Portfolio Maintenance
08/25/98 -- Controlling Fear
08/24/98 -- DowMan's Farewell
08/21/98 -- Calculating Sharpe Ratios Correctly
08/20/98 -- Calculating Sharpe Ratios
08/19/98 -- Keystone Annual History
08/18/98 -- Dozens Domination
08/17/98 -- A Mock Mutual Fund
08/14/98 -- A Monthly RS-IBD Model
08/13/98 -- A Monthly Keystone
08/12/98 -- RS Dozen Still Soaring
08/11/98 -- Keystone Doubling the S&P 500
08/10/98 -- UG Losing Streak
08/07/98 -- The Big Ticket Screen
08/06/98 -- Mechanical Modeling Continued
08/05/98 --Mechanical Model Mania
08/04/98 --Motley Math Continued
08/03/98 --Motley Math

July

07/31/98 --New Dozens Purchases
07/30/98 --Dozens Holding Up Well
07/29/98 --UGly July
07/28/98 --Workshop Screen Variations
07/27/98 --Takes a Licking and...
07/24/98 --New World-Beating Dozen
07/23/98 --Two Doubling Dozens
07/22/98 --Retirement Strategies
07/21/98 --Bits n' Bytes
07/20/98 -- Consistency and Diversity
07/17/98 -- Partial Rankings Available
07/16/98 -- UG and New Tax Law
07/15/98 --Looseness of Industry Groupings
07/14/98 --Dizzying Dozens
07/13/98 --Reservations About Sell Stops
07/10/98 -- Variations on Official Screens
07/09/98 -- Relative Strength & Market Cap
07/08/98 -- Dozens Models Still Soaring
07/07/98 -- A Dow/Value Line Model?
07/06/98 -- June's UG Loss
07/02/98 -- Proposed Tax Changes
07/01/98 -- Fund Performance Calculations

June

06/30/98 -- The Dozens at Mid-Year
06/29/98 -- Big Winners & Losers
06/26/98 -- Sheard Blue-Chip Fund
06/25/98 -- America's 100 Largest
06/24/98 -- A Plowback Ratio Update
06/23/98 -- Impressive Dozens Outperformance
06/22/98 -- Industry Group Performance
06/19/98 -- Keystone Keeps Rolling
06/18/98 -- UG Holding Firm
06/17/98 -- Keystone Dozen on the Move
06/16/98 -- Price/Sales vs. Price/Earnings
06/15/98 -- Reasonable Runaways
06/12/98 -- Expanding the Keystone Field?
06/11/98 -- Leveraging Keystone
06/10/98 -- Reverse Relative Strength
06/09/98 -- RS Dozen Rebounds
06/08/98 -- Raw Relative Strength
06/05/98 -- More Data Delays
06/04/98 -- May UG Closes Out Flat
06/03/98 -- Keystone Pension Plan
06/02/98 -- Updating Dozens Additions
06/01/98 -- Ranking Reasonable Runaways

05/29/98 -- New Dozens Purchases
05/28/98 -- The Retired Fool
05/27/98 -- Dismal Dozen Days
05/26/98 -- Raw Relative Strength
05/22/98 -- Picking Keystone Cherries
05/21/98 -- Beauties and the Beasts
05/20/98 -- Plowback Ratio, Part 2
05/19/98 -- The Plowback Ratio
05/18/98 -- Formula90 Rolling Along
05/15/98 -- Balancing the Dozens Strategies
05/14/98 -- Rebalancing with the Dozens
05/13/98 -- Keystone Doubles S&P
05/12/98 -- Unemotional Growth Up 34%
05/11/98 -- Dow 70,000 Is Coming!
05/08/98
05/07/98 -- A Half-Dozen Dozens
05/06/98 -- The Cheeze Stands In
05/05/98 -- Reasonable Runaway Rankings
05/04/98 -- Avoiding Fringe Trading
05/01/98

04/30/98 -- Dozens Ports Buy #5
04/29/98 -- Unemotional Growth Streak Continues
04/28/98 -- Keystone 5 Gains Momentum
04/27/98 -- A Review Rebuttal
04/24/98 -- A Bits & Bytes Update
04/23/98 -- Dozens? How About Quarters?
04/22/98 -- A Different Dow Angle
04/21/98 -- O'Shaughnessy's Reasonable Runaways
04/20/98 -- A Dozens Update
04/17/98 -- Batting Seven for Eight
04/16/98 -- Lessons Reinforced by Cendant
04/15/98 -- Early Speed for RS Dozen
04/14/98 -- Keystone's Large-Cap Power
04/13/98 -- Holding Periods for UG
04/09/98 -- Pre-Holiday Keystone Update
04/08/98 -- The Formula90 Dozen Model
04/07/98 -- Pesky YTD Return Calculations
04/06/98 -- SuperSonic Relative Strength 12
04/03/98 -- UG Scores Nice Quarter
04/02/98 -- America's 100 Largest
04/01/98 -- A Keystone Update

03/31/98 -- Dozen Addition
03/30/98 -- A Bits & Bytes Retrospective
03/27/98 -- Unemotional Growth Climbing Steadily
03/26/98 -- Keystone Passes S&P 500
03/25/98 -- Formula90 Smokin'!
03/24/98 -- Another Relative Strength Test
03/23/98 -- Sharpe Ratio Misconceptions
03/20/98 -- IFG Continues to Struggle
03/19/98 -- The Consistency of Keystone
03/18/98 -- A Double-Dozen Update
03/17/98 -- Low PSR History
03/16/98 -- Value Line System History
03/13/98 -- An IFG Comparison
03/12/98
03/11/98 -- Dow Racers in Neutral
03/10/98 -- Dow Dozen Starting to Move
03/09/98 -- Keystone History Update
03/06/98 -- Seven Screens out of Eight
03/05/98 -- Formula90 Dozen's Impressive Opening
03/04/98 -- Keystone History Update
03/03/98 -- Deep-Discount Fare Wars
03/02/98 -- Launching March's Keystone

02/27/98 -- Unemotional Growth Rebounds
02/26/98 -- A "Dozens" Overview
02/25/98 -- The Dow Racers
02/24/98 -- Margin -- The Other Side
02/23/98 -- Keystone Dozen Update
02/20/98
02/19/98 -- Outline Your Portfolio
02/18/98 -- Early Returns Upside Down
02/17/98 -- Rebalancing the Keystone Dozen
02/13/98 -- Workshop Roundup
02/12/98 -- Keystone Dozen Reprise
02/11/98 -- Bits & Bytes Update
02/10/98 -- Large-Cap Statistics
02/09/98 -- Keystone Dozen Update
02/06/98 -- A Weekly Recap
02/05/98 -- Keystone-of-the-Month
02/04/98 -- 18-Month Holding Periods
02/03/98 -- Relative Strength Day
02/02/98