About Ryan Collins (http://blog.stocknod.com)
Ryan Collins is a veteran internet entrepreneur and financial services expert. Ryan attended Texas Tech University where he earned his BA in Finance and BA in Petroleum Land Management. He began his career in the Oil & Gas sector as a lease broker and financial analyst with Pioneer Natural Resources USA (PXD) and later with Brigham Exploration Company (BEXP). Ryan has since founded several ecommerce companies including Texas mortgage company Lone Star Financing, LLC. Currently Ryan has been successfully parlaying his dot com capital into the financial markets. Ryan has managed asset accounts for the last 5 years for a private client base with a primary focus in energy stocks, commodities, and uncovering start-ups poised to outperform. With a long standing history and mutual respect for Stocknod.com founder Jason McGuire, Ryan gladly came aboard in early 2008. Ryan has been instrumental in Stocknod’s website architecture and user experience. Ryan works closely with Jason and his development team on a daily basis to insure the current Stocknod technical algorithm is moving with the perpetual market changes. Follow market advice and energy picks at Ryan’s Blog.

Investment Philosophy: A buy-and-hold investor, he does not let short-term market volatility dictate his decision-making. buys stock in companies when he thinks that the company has strong finances, competent management, and the business is understandable. Collins follows a value approach to investing by purchasing primarily large-capitalization stocks at large discounts to his assessment of their intrinsic value. In valuing companies, Ryan Collins looks at the present value of future cash flows. He tries to own securities that have been priced by the market at significant discounts to their intrinsic value by his multi-factor valuation analysis. He is focused on cash earnings, not accounting-based valuation measures. Since rendering his services for the Stocknod community, Ryan’s portfolio has been averaging returns over 27% annually.