understanding stocks

CANSLIM

This is an acronym for the characteristics of picking winning stocks! Created by William O'Neil, here is what it stands for:

C: current quarterly earnings per share
A: annual earnings increase
N: new products, new managements, new highs
S: supply and demand
L: leader or laggard
I: institutional sponsorship
M: market direction

Are your stocks CANSLIM?  And yes, there is an explanation of each one of these attributes, so if you have any questions, just ask!

Jane Eyre

Up to Chapter 14

I guess we all struggle with wanting more from life.  More than what our present situation dictates.  Jane is already restless, having spent a short while, some three months, as a governess in Lowood, her mind is dreaming, her vision is expanding.  As a reminder, for ALL my followers, she left the boarding school where she lived from the time she was ten years old.  She is now a confident eighteen.  She left because she felt a yearning for something different, something new.  This sensation is stirring yet again within her.

"...I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character than was here within my reach." (p.114)

The household that she now stays at is called Thornfield Hall.  The owner of the house, Mr. Rochester, has just arrived, he is stern, abrupt, and demanding.  This doesn't seem to phase Jane. Something tells me that there is much more to come between Mr. Rochester and Jane.

Jane Eyre

Up to Chapter 10.

Little Miss Jane Eyre has quite a feisty personality.  Her youth and mental immaturity fault her in not being able to tame it.  In her 12 years of life she has lost both parents, lost her uncle, endured emotional and physical abuse from her foster mother and family, and most recently has lost Hellen, who she befriended at boarding school.  She has endured great loss that only a developed individual can conceptualize.  Cast aside by her "foster' mother and enrolled in an all girls boarding school, she is beginning to flourish. All you need is one human to believe in you and encourage you - for Jane, this was Miss. Temple.  Kind, strict but fair - Miss. Temple has opened her spirit and has given her hope to develop into a deserving and productive human being.

Leave it to a classic to offer some meaningful insights. The hype that is created about new ideas in recent times - it was already said, somewhere, some place, in one of the classics and much more eloquently:

"If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends" (pg. 70)

So - in modern day language -  just believe in yourself and the rest will follow!