Welcome to Investing for Beginners podcast, this is episode 38. I’m Dave Ahern, and we have Andrew Sather here with us tonight. Tonight we’re going to have some, the fun we have a special guest with us tonight. So we’re going to be interviewing Maj and Maj is from Geo Investing.
 

* The differences between minor caps and small caps
* Defining information arbitrage
* The advantages of reading press releases
* How to confirm management statements
* The importance of footnotes in financial statements, especially subsequent events

 
 
that’s the name of his company, and he’s a very very interesting guy, and this is going to be a lot of fun so without any further ado, Maj would you take a moment and tell everybody about you and kind o fwhat you do and who you are where you from and all that kind of fun stuff.
Maj: excellent yeah well thanks guys for having me here. This is an opportunity; I love talking to other investors and learning new things and every day and hopefully be a little bit today from each other.
So you know Geo Investing was launched in 2007 when our tenth year anniversary geoinvesting.com and you know it’s you know it’s a site that we brought I co-founded with my partner Dan and you know we launched it with the intent to help educate investors about the advantages of investing and smaller capitalized companies. Small caps, minor caps you know and it to help understand how they can get an investing advantage doing that.
And you know in the increasingly competitive environment and you know we’ve been doing that and we it’s been an awesome ride, and we bring our products to our members through morning emails, through model portfolios, through a lot of proprietary research. And you know and our we call our investing call to actions which are what we’re buying and selling.
We do a lot of long stuff, mostly long stuff, but you know we pay attention to risk factors so once in a while you’ll be losing called portfolio protection and if we find some bad apples in the smaller capitalized space. We’ll talk about it because we think there are too many bad apples out there you know surprisingly since 2008 you can be less. But you know we’re out there to help protect our membership base and our subscribers from you know finding these value traps, unsavory management teams and you know we were a unique blend in that you know you resource is intense.
You know you’re either going to love us like this is crazy, and we’re very we disclose everything we do, and we know what this unique blend offers our members to be able to hey you know one of these guys doing this.
I’ve been doing this for almost thirty years now, so I want to experience, and I’ve made a lot of mistakes myself, and they get to learn from that, but it’s also for the investor who wants to do their research. you know we have a proprietary research of over 1,000 research pieces on needing honest on the space and I kind of make it akin, like I make acomparison with like the value line from like our caps you know value line is a great source that you I learned and did use when I knew first getting into investing.
Studying Peter Lynch and the kind of you know started my whole routine and what part of my routine when I was younger wow I wish that existed for really really small companies. The few quality ones out there, so that’s kind of what you know where we’re at these days.
And well I love our reasons we’re tracking a reason for tracking is like really quick. Again if you don’t have internet I’m you know quick five to ten reasons I like a stock we’re getting into it, and it takes the system I remember through our whol...