Wall Street All Stars – The Aleph Blog

Helping Institutions and Ordinary People Invest Better by Focusing on Risk Control

Posted on 26 October 2011 by David Merkel

I have been contributing material to the website Wall Street All Stars.? Mostly I have contributed two things:

They scrape my RSS feed.
I post some of my best articles from the past, with commentary that brings it up to date.

You can find my contributions here.

I can give all my blog readers and twitter followers a free six month subscription to WallStreetAllStars.com. Simply go sign up on?http://www.WallStreetAllStars.com/?and then shoot an email letting us know you subscribed to support@wallstreetallstars.com and?we’ll rebate you the $49 monthly fee each and every month for the first six months — that’s worth almost $300.

Most of the writers at Wall Street All Stars are former contributors to RealMoney, and other properties affiliated with TheStreet.com.? I think it is a credible team, and might eventually rival TSCM, minus Cramer.

But my involvement will be limited to the public side of the site for the most part, because my clients deserve my best ideas.? I am not out to sell them.

David Merkel is an investment professional, and like every investment professional, he makes mistakes. David encourages you to do your own independent "due diligence" on any idea that he talks about, because he could be wrong. Nothing written here, at RealMoney, Wall Street All-Stars, or anywhere else David may write is an invitation to buy or sell any particular security; at most, David is handing out educated guesses as to what the markets may do. David is fond of saying, "The markets always find a new way to make a fool out of you," and so he encourages caution in investing. Risk control wins the game in the long run, not bold moves. Even the best strategies of the past fail, sometimes spectacularly, when you least expect it. David is not immune to that, so please understand that any past success of his will be probably be followed by failures. Also, though David runs Aleph Investments, LLC, this blog is not a part of that business. This blog exists to educate investors, and give something back. It is not intended as advertisement for Aleph Investments; David is not soliciting business through it. When David, or a client of David's has an interest in a security mentioned, full disclosure will be given, as has been past practice for all that David does on the web. Disclosure is the breakfast of champions. Additionally, David may occasionally write about accounting, actuarial, insurance, and tax topics, but nothing written here, at RealMoney, or anywhere else is meant to be formal "advice" in those areas. Consult a reputable professional in those areas to get personal, tailored advice that meets the specialized needs that David can have no knowledge of.