Welcome to the May 11, 2009 edition of the Festival of Stocks. Festival of Stocks is a blog carnival that highlights current financial related content. This week covers a variety of topics, including fundamental analysis, trading strategies, and personal finance.

Stock Information

Verizon Is A Buy by The Penny Daily explores the telecommunication giant as an investment candidate.

Dividends Value performs a quantitative analysis of Johnson & Johnson.

Dividend Growth Investor analyzes Exxon Mobil.

Div-Net performs a dividend stock analysis on oil giant Chevron.

Education

Gambling, Speculation or Asymetrical Returns? at Bootstrap Investing examines a stock strategy likened to venture capital investing.

How to Get Started in Stock Trading and Investing at Pimp My Trade discusses some of the new realities for individual investors following the financial crisis.

Crisis investing: Company blunders at Monevator studies how to separate good companies with irrationally low prices from poor companies with rationally low prices.

Darwin’s Finance examines the importance of saving and investing at a young age.

Risk Tolerance vs. Risk Capacity at fivecentnickel explores the important of risk preference in asset allocation.

The Smarter Wallet examines using Fibonacci Retracement to predict movement in the market.

General

TalkMoneyBlog discusses How often should you remortgage?

Staying Invested but Taking some Gains Off the Table at MyWealthBuilder expects a correction and describes how to handle it.

Reviews

FinancialJoyRide reviews Pilgrimage to Warren Buffett’s Omaha by Jeff Matthews.

Essence of a Solid Discount Stock Broker at MoneyNing reviews TradeKing.

Another positive review of TradeKing at MoneyBlueBook.

Digerati Life reviews online broker Zecco in light of some unusual issues in early April.

Investing School reviews ShareBuilder, an online broker that facilitates automated investing.

CashMoneyLife compares budgeting software YNAB Pro and Quicken.