Ryan Collins

Profile:
Ryan Collins is a veteran internet entrepreneur and financial services expert. Ryan attended Texas Tech University where he earned his BA in Finance and BA in Petroleum Land Management. He began his career in the Oil & Gas sector as a lease broker and financial analyst with Pioneer Natural Resources USA (PXD) and later with Brigham Exploration Company (BEXP). Ryan has since founded several ecommerce companies including Texas mortgage company Lone Star Financing, LLC. Currently Ryan has been successfully parlaying his dot com capital into the financial markets. Ryan has managed asset accounts for the last 5 years for a private client base with a primary focus in energy stocks, commodities, and uncovering start-ups poised to outperform. With a long standing history and mutual respect for Stocknod.com founder Jason McGuire, Ryan gladly came aboard in early 2008. Ryan has been instrumental in Stocknod’s website architecture and user experience. Ryan works closely with Jason and his development team on a daily basis to insure the current Stocknod technical algorithm is moving with the perpetual market changes. Follow market advice and energy picks at Ryan’s Blog.

 

Investment Philosophy:
A buy-and-hold investor, he does not let short-term market volatility dictate his decision-making. buys stock in companies when he thinks that the company has strong finances, competent management, and the business is understandable. Collins follows a value approach to investing by purchasing primarily large-capitalization stocks at large discounts to his assessment of their intrinsic value. In valuing companies, Ryan Collins looks at the present value of future cash flows. He tries to own securities that have been priced by the market at significant discounts to their intrinsic value by his multi-factor valuation analysis. He is focused on cash earnings, not accounting-based valuation measures. Since rendering his services for the Stocknod community, Ryan’s portfolio has been averaging returns over 27% annually.

Jason McGuire

Profile:
Jason has been a financial advisor for the last 10 years and gained high recognition for his outstanding performance for designing pricing applications for Fortune 500 companies. Jason attended the University of Texas where he earned his BA in Finance, and also received his MBA from the University of Houston. Jason has 12 years experience in the financial industry, focusing on pricing applications and both asset and portfolio management. Combining both his technical financial background and his software knowledge, Jason was able to develop the industry’s first automated online technical analysis software. With the development of Stocknod.com Jason has been able to visualize his life long dream of creating profitable, reliable and easy to use technical software. All of this high level experience provided Jason with a deep understanding of the financial services industry and subsequently the confidence to follow through with his vision of automated technical stock analysis software with the trading metrics he knew to be successful. This vision was finally realized with the launch of Stocknod.com in early 2007. Jason likes to refer to Stocknod as a perpetually beta website as to always adapt our member’s services to an actively changing market place. When not working, Jason enjoys spending time with his two daughters and new baby boy, wife, and two dogs. He is also a 2nd degree black belt in martial arts.

Investment Philosophy:
Jason does does not believe in the traditional buy and hold strategy.  One quick look at the return of the S&P 500 over a 10 year period explains why.  From December 1998 to December 2008, the S&P500 lost almost 30%.   As an avid swing trader, Jason looks for companies with good fundamentals and excellent technicals.   He finds industries doing well under certain economic conditions, and then sifts through companies to find the gems in the industry.  Jason looks for strong performance relative to other companies, competent management, and excellent prospects for future earnings.  He looks for stocks trading at steep discounts relative to his assessment of their intrinsic value.  In valuing companies, Jason McGuire looks at the present value of future cash flows. He is focused on cash earnings, not accounting-based valuation measures.

David Yang

Profile: David Yang got his BA in computer engineering from Beijing information Science&Technology University and then received his master degree in MIS from Beijing University of aeronautics and astronautics. He started his software development career at the Bank of China and then provided consulting services to different industries mainly in financial and retail. With over more than 15 years hands on experience in successful software development, David strongly believes that technology plays an active and powerful role in financial investments and significantly improves the return on investment.He developed leading software for banks and financial companies to analyze massive amounts of stock and mutual fund data using technical indicators and data models before he joined stocknod.com in 2008.

Investing Philosophy:
David Yang invests in a wide array of investments ranging from fairly traditional value stocks to more esoteric investments like distressed debt, liquidations, and foreign equities or bonds.  Yang doesn’t mind “doing nothing” on occasion depending on the pulse of the markets.  He is completely unperturbed by the idea of sitting on the sidelines holding cash whenever investment opportunities are scarce. In fact, in 2005 and 2006, nearly half of his portfolio was held in cash. Investing, he cautions, is more than just producing absolute returns. Too often investors focus on that one easy number “return” and ignore the risks incurred to generate that number.