how do you organize research you do about for example a specific stock? Are you using any software/websites that helps out keeping track and making it easier to get an overview of data, news articles, your own thoughts about the stock at different times? At the moment I am just organizing data / news articles etc I find about stocks I am interesting in, into a Word document, which is not ideal.
I don't use it for stocks specifically, but I recommend you try the browser extension diigo: https://www.diigo.com
The only fundamentals I use are whether they pay dividends or not, I buy dividend stocks and sell short non-dividend stocks, and whether they have options by certain volumes I require. For me all the data is a coin flip if it is true or not.
It is my beliefs that company data can be massaged to give any company a better display to the public. As years go by, each year some companies lied about what their financials were, just a matter of which get caught. It takes a great deal of time to see if some five million dollar machine that was written off was actually bought. Enron most likely one of the larger companies lied, worldwide.com, and the largest was Madoff. http://theconservativeincomeinvestor.com/2015/08/25/lying-companies-and-faulty-stock-analysis/ http://www.investopedia.com/articles/financial-theory/11/detecting-financial-fraud.asp
%% Yes TR7,i use a notebook + printed charts/charts; investors.com. BUT i ignore most of the news; but i do like to use crayons to color+ mark it up, especially 4th quarter LOL
So you are making a statement that the fraction of companies that are lying so high as to make any fundamental data a coin flip. It sounds a little bit like a conspiracy theory, don't you think?
Do you think CEO's/CFO's want stock price to be high or low? And if they receive stock options, which would you prefer? Do you think the average investor knows how to dig into financial statements in depth? Except for what I choose to have programmed for automation, I don't use the rest of it, my opinions.