Buy, Sell, Hold or Stay Away... Listening to Everyday Investors

Welcome to a new age in stock analysis: The era of the cumulative 'Average Trader' as an analyst!

For decades, Wall Street analysts have become the 'go to' source to evaluate stocks based on in-depth analysis, deep diving research, and established relationships at various levels of the companies they analyze.  It's not a perfect system, but it's the one we have... UNTIL NOW!

At the Investment Observer, we'll see if 'average' traders and investors can make great calls on 'hot topic' stocks as news and earnings hit the wires.  So that's our goal: To report on the opinions of everyday traders and investors and write about their predictions and how they play out against the market.

Simply done, when a company is 'in the news', the Investment Observer will work to get the impressions of everyday traders and investors.  Once we get their opinions, we'll watch the stocks for a week or two and we'll report back on how these 'average' investors did and we'll report these.  We'll even periodically update many of the predictions over time to see how the predictions played out over a short and a longer term.

We'll welcome your comments (though they will be moderated to make sure they're not offensive, spam-filled, or otherwise inappropriate) and we'll look forward to some great discussion!

Please remember though... The Investment Observer is NOT an analyst!  We are not giving stock-picking advice.  We are not providing a single rating on any issue and we are not recommending any specific action.  We may provide some key technical points as we see them, but we will ALWAYS encourage every investor and trader to look at what we post with nothing but a grain of salt and a need to always do their own due diligence to determine how they would like to go forward with any stock, bond, fund, etc...

Our #1 goal in this will be to add in a bit of dialogue between everyday traders and investors and, at the end of the day, have a bit of fun doing it!  Yeah, we said it, FUN... Believe it or not, running polls and analyzing charts is actually 'fun' to us and we hope this blog is fun for you as well!

So, here we go... Onward and upward with the Investment Observer!

Best wishes for great investing, however you choose to buy, sell, or trade!

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