Bradley Associates: Due Diligence

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Before anyone at Bradley Associates can make recommendations to our clients, we need to carry out our due diligence on the components of prospective portfolios.
Bradley Associates cannot recommend a particular stock, corporate bond or IPO without first assessing the security at the deepest possible level.
Due diligence is absolutely vital to making a sound investment. Due diligence carried out by Bradley Associates verifies any business opportunities that survives our initial screening stage. For capital investments, as few as 10-15% of proposals presented to Bradley Associates make it past our initial screening stage to the full due-diligence process, and only 10% of those will go on to receive funding.
Bradley Associates: Technical Analysis
To use plain English terms, the technical analysis carried out at Bradley Associates looks for the following in the price action of a security:
• Order
• Rhythm
• Patterns
We will assume that the price of the security at any one time is based on the market’s perception of it.
We strive to look at all information pertinent to such as:
• Annual results
• Profit margins
• Earnings
• Rumors of merger or acquisition
Just like other markets (like real estate or supply and demand of commodities or services) patterns in the financial markets can be identified and studied.
History has shown us that these types of strategy have earned some very profitable results. Hindsight is never wrong. You may see a pattern as clear as day, but the problem with this is that it may be one pattern within hundreds of different products. Spotting these different patterns on a daily chart can take years of study to spot. For the average investor without the tools available that we at Bradley Associates can access, this can amount to the proverbial ‘looking for a needle in a haystack’.
Bradley Associates: Fundamental Analysis
It is important that our analysis of a product takes into account complex fundamentals. Our analysts at Bradley Associates implement complex fundamental analysis. These complex fundamentals drive markets in both the short and long term.