Tweet A lot of people know I am not a huge fan of market analyst ratings. Early on in my exploration of the market I thought I wanted to be an analyst as I thought that these people were paid to do great research and really dig deep on companies. I really enjoyed my time as an industry analyst over at Ferris Research and thought that stock market analysts had similar roles. I understood they were financed by the companies they were analyzing, but never thought that the lack of integrity because of that financing would be so poor. Obviously I never went that route. Instead I dump the money I save up into the investments I research through my ESPP and more sophisticated transactions. Usually this ends up being in areas of … Read entire article »