GEO Investing

This article presents a case study on Evan & Sutherland (OOTC:ESCC), a micro-cap in which information arbitrage has been a recurring theme. Information arbitrage (“InfoArb”) is one of the biggest opportunities in the microcap investing space. It exists when information […]

Summary It appears that ESCC is close to resolving issues surrounding its pension obligation liabilities. If pension obligation issues are resolved, significant upside exists for the stock price. The company reported strong 2013 full year results, including EPS of $0.20 […]

Evans & Sutherland (OOTC:ESCC) engages in the production and sale of visual display systems used primarily in full-dome video projection applications, dome projection screens, and dome architectural treatments in the United States and internationally. Reasons for tracking: We believe ESCC […]

When a stock of yours is doing well, one of the hardest things you will face is deciding if you should make a decision to take short-term profits, especially if you strongly believe the stock has much more potential in the long run. But it gets even worse. Sometimes we make decisions to hold onto stocks longer than their expiration dates because of the “what if it goes up” thoughts that creep into our minds

You want to hold it, but on the same token, you are not being fair to yourself when your discipline promotes a making-money strategy. 

Now, I could have just as well started this post…one of the hardest decisions you’ll have to contemplate as an investor is to let a stock with great potential sit in your portfolio for a very long time. You have faith, after your hours of due diligence, that it will give you great annualized returns in 5, 10 or 20 years, but what if it doesn’t happen on your timeline?  Would the capital that would have been made available with a more swing-style trade be better deployed in another investment? And should you even preoccupy yourself with these thoughts?