February 15, 2007

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Last Updated on May 28, 2009 by stlplace

I found a new trend about the companies’ quarterly earning Conference Call lately. Usually a company will do the conference on the Internet and on the phone at the same time. But Crocs (CROX) and Heelys (HLYS), two shoe makers (I have shares for both), lead the fashion again by doing the call exclusively over the Internet. I hope they don’t srewed up the call by technical reasons. I do notice they have two servers so in case one server is busy, the analysts and curious investors like me can still connect.

It’s amazing to think how far Internet has been in the past 10 years. It definitely changed and continue to change the way we communicate, work and entertain, etc.

(Update 16Feb07) On the other hand, Mindray (NYSE:MR), which I have a few shares, is going to announce its earning solely on the phone.

Also, cnanalyst put together an earning report table for Chinese companies listed in US. Good job cnanalyst !!!

Ken Fisher’s New Book

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Last Updated on February 15, 2007 by stlplace

I ordered Ken’s new book The Only Three Questions That Count: Investing by Knowing What Others Don’t from Amazon last week, after reading the review from Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. The three questions are:

What do you think you know that you don’t know? What can you know that others can’t know? And, in a bow to the relatively new field of behavioral finance, what is your brain doing to trip you up?

I am at question 2 now. Interesting reading so far, though I would argue some of the thoughts are not new. As I read Phil Fisher, Peter Lynch and Warren Buffett’s. One take away is we should “Think outside of the box”. I think this is not limited to investing.