Two Battleground Stocks Hit the No-Buy Zone

One Energy Stock, One Medical Device Stock

Since I started the Red Flag Alert, I've been experimenting with various ways to source ideas of stocks to avoid...

As a quick refresher, I do these alerts after shaving spent decades building a reputation largely on reminding investors of the risk buried in the hype.

It's something I think about whenever I'm recommending a stock at Empire Financial Research. If anything keeps me up at night, it's worrying about how I might have been bamboozled by a bullish story – something many investors lose sight of when stocks seem to be going up.

Or when a stock has been so pummeled it has just naturally seems like a bargain, when it really may be a trap.

The primary idea here is that with thousands of stocks to choose from, there are likely better ideas than the ones that wind up in The No-Buy Zone.

One increasingly invaluable source has been monthly screens developed Kailash Concepts (KCR), a so-called “quantamental” research firm. By virtue of showing up on any one of those screens a company has …