Investing playbooks

How I read a 10-K in under an hour, which multiples are actually informative, and the accounting red flags that matter more than any price chart.

1. 1.How AMERISAFE's 8-K Reveals Insurance Quality8 min
2. 2.Accruals Quality: How to Spot Earnings That Aren't Real7 min
3. 3.Altman Z-Score: A Bankruptcy Predictor That Still Works8 min
4. 4.Balance Sheet Deep Dive7 min
5. 5.Cashflow Waterfall: From Operating Cash to Free Cash7 min

Trend, volume, support, and signal design. The subset of technical analysis that has survived decades of out-of-sample testing, and the parts I still ignore.

1. 1.54 New Paper-Backed Alpha Families: Wave-7 Expansion7 min
2. 2.39 New Alpha Families: Wave-6 Alt-Data Expansion14 min
3. 3.AMD Trending on StockTwits for the 40th Time This Year: How to Read Zero Information8 min
4. 4.Advanced Chart Analytics: Autocorrelation, Seasonality7 min
5. 5.Chart Benchmark: Relative Strength Is Where the Alpha Lives7 min

Position sizing, drawdown control, portfolio risk budgets, and the specific rules I run to keep single trades from killing a whole account.

1. 1.GEV on the Yahoo Trending List Tells You One Thing. ATR Tells You Everything Else.7 min
2. 2.IV Rank, IV Percentile, and Skew7 min
3. 3.Portfolio Attribution: Where Your Returns Actually Come From7 min
4. 4.Portfolio Audit Trail: Every Decision7 min
5. 5.Portfolio Credibility7 min

Earnings reports are the highest-density information events of the year for any stock. Reading them well: before, during, and after, is where a disproportionate share of the edge lives.

1. 1.CME Group's 8-K Is Not a Press Release: How to Read an Item 2.02 Filing8 min

Options aren't lottery tickets and aren't magic. They're exposure: to price, to volatility, to time, to dealer positioning. This pillar is how I actually use them, and what I refuse to do with them.

1. 1.Boeing on the Trending List: Why Put Skew Tells You More Than the Direction7 min