Sources and Opportunities

Profitable ideas are often far between but there are a few places to look:

SEC.GOV
SEC server with built in search features. Search for key phrases. Examples:

- "Plan of Liquidation"
- "Plan of Merger"
- "Tender Offer"
- "Going private transactions"

Some forms to keep track of:
- SC 13E3 (Very profitable, Going Private Transactions)
- DEFM14A (Definitive voting material for mergers ie risk arb)
- SC TO-C and SC TO-I (Relating to tender offers)
- Form 10 (spin-offs)

These are the easiest "free money" opportunities to identify for the individual investor.

Also, typically any reference library will have a copy of value line. Value line is great for quickly putting together a portfolio of undervalued equities. Value line also has historical 10 year financial statements (I ignore the projections).

SJG

Prospectus

Alright. So this is the new blog... I'll be posting anything of interest to the individual investor. The goal here is to expand the base of knowledge currently available to the small-time investor. Specifically, I will discuss instances where the individual investor may have a definite advantage over their larger institutional counterparts.

Of course, I am only learning myself and I must first acknowledge that I am not smart enough to predict the future. Therefore, all discussions on this blog in no way are recommendations.

Secondly, I will have to respectfully disagree with my teacher who liked to say, "There 's no free lunches guys."

That being said...Let's make some moniesss.