Our current work-in-progress is some soul searching on the merits of Shark Tank Investing. Meanwhile, CVS Health swoons and dents (hopefully temporarily) Tin Cup and we revisit the best performing small cap/small company funds as sources of ideas.

Our Annual Stock Selection Challenge Issue. “A group of investors heeding the lessons of Graham, Babson and Nicholson has at least one leg up on the crowd and a better than average opportunity to generate exceptional returns.”

After a December To Remember, we're reminded to refrain from being surprised by price volatility. We remember the long term perspective, add Air Lease (AL) to Solomon Select and accumulate more AL shares for Tin Cup and press on.

The recent joint session with the American Association of Individual Investors and NAIC/Better Investing in Washington D.C. explored Founder's Wisdom and the lessons urged by James Cloonan and George Nicholson. Investing in Better Companies at Better Prices can deliver the potential for very rewarding results over the long term.

It's been four years since Mark and Ken started looking at the faster-growing Best Small Companies through the eyes of George Nicholson and the modern investment club movement. The selections have beaten the market for all four years (and 10 of last 13) while achieving a rate of return of 21.3% versus 9.7% for the Wilshire 5000 over that time frame. This month we screen for candidates, visit a fund or two that delivers small company performance results and add a fast-growing small company to ease the October pain for Tin Cup.

Don't sweat the sectors but the re-classification has affected companies like Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Disney (DIS), Netflix (NFLX) and others. Tin Cup tops the market for September, extending the winning streak to (14) months. The Hunt For Red Chip October continues in earnest ...

The tracking portfolio for our monthly series of webcasts known as the Round Table continues to generate exceptional returns (18.8% annualized since inception in July 2010). While our mission is to share actionable ideas every month -- there’s also a fair amount of educational content, discussions and exploring. We’ve recently been building some selling disciplines (Better Selling For Better Portfolio Management) and the results have been compelling. During the August session, we continued to fine tune the portfolio and test some guidelines. Despite best intentions ... A Red Wedding erupted.

Back to School. It's hard to believe but it's that time of year when we celebrate educators and outcomes. We'll revisit Smoothie investing, do some dashboard mechanics and launch more opportunities to learn and earn.

8 Years. Join us on Tuesday, July 31 (8:30 PM ET) as we celebrate the 8th birthday of the Round Table -- our monthly FREE webcast where we share our favorite actionable ideas and explore investing together.

A report on the results experienced by the Fave Five ... a complimentary mutual fund is added ... and Tin Cup has another market-beating month.

Summer is Coming. A little spring cleaning for Tin Cup to boost overall return forecasts ... Sweet Sixteen screening results based on the time-honored Triple Play and a closer look at the performance of the weekly Fave Five series.

Our annual look at a few things "Foolish" including a new fund, Motley Fool 100 (TMFC) ... some perspective on the efficacy of Value Line ... and another month of market-beating performance for Tin Cup.

Over eight years since inception, our Round Table tracking portfolio checks in at 18.8% -- beating the Wilshire 5000 by 6-7 percentage points. The February Round Table session featured our annual awards -- swept by Kim Butcher and the audience. 2017 was very very good for the Round Table selections.

It was a spectacular year for Groundhog Nation. Our contest participants brought home an average annual return of 30.6%! For context, the Wilshire 5000 (VTSMX) advanced a mere 22.4%. We have repeat champions in both the individual and group categories.

Breaking News: Tin Cup Tops $2,000,000 ... we'll take a look at the performance of our tracking portfolios and update the Manifest 40 -- your most widely-followed stocks.

Welcome to the time-honored community of QWARF. During a month where our Tin Cup demonstration portfolio was torrid and is approaching $2,000,000 -- we are reminded of the dimensions of discipline that guide our journey to investing success.

Another banner year for our annual Best Small Companies feature. How much banner? 31.7%. What are the most compelling smaller companies for 2018?

"Friends Don't Let Friends Be Average Investors." This month we're reminded of the power of community-driven investing and we make our preparations for small company discovery -- our annual quest for the Best Rapidly-Growing Companies.

In September, we'll go "Back to School" with our launch of the Turnout Tuesday series ... a session on Selling Better? and future sessions on topics of interest to long-term investors.

We’ve long believed that the collection of findings and recommendations in the Individual Investors Manual represent the wisdom of 50 years of successful investing with much of the content supplied by George Nicholson.