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PAL and SWC are Good Short Plays 2008-03-07 00:27:34 SWC - Stillwater Mining Co. (NYSE) - (Closing Price - $18.37)
The prices of palladium and platinum recently spiked to all time highs due to power disturbances that resulted in rolling blackouts in South Africa. Speculators seized on this news to bid up palladium and platinum prices to ridiculous levels.
The stock prices of North American Palladium [...] Read more:Plays
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Greed, Fear, and Greater Fools 2008-03-06 22:09:21 COIN - Converted Organics (Nasdaq) - (Closing Price - $16.59)
I have referred to “greater fools” and the term “hope a dope” a couple of times and the company Converted Organics (COIN) is a perfect example of what I was talking about.
I came across Converted Organics on a day trading stock blog a few weeks ago [...] Read more:Fools
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Covad Communications: Risk Free Return Update 2008-03-03 20:28:20 DVW - Covad Communications
(Amex) - (Closing Price - $0.9376)
A few months ago I wrote a post about a relatively risk free 14% return you could get in Covad Communications. Covad Communications is being acquired by Platinum Equity in an all cash deal at $1.02 a share and the stock price of Covad Communications was [...] Read more:Update
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Good Time to Short Financial Stocks: My Pick BAC 2008-03-02 15:41:32 BAC - Bank of America (NYSE) - (Closing Price of Friday 2/29/08 - $39.74)
Financial
s have been one of the worst performing stock sectors over the last few months and I think the weakness in the sector is going to continue. The housing market is no where close to finding a bottom, the economy and job [...] Read more:Short
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Current Market Volatility 2008-03-01 16:15:18 The stock market has become very volatile and irrational over the last year. I contribute some of this volatility to the uncertain economic climate. However, in my opinion a big cause of the huge price swings in the market is the tremendous growth of hedge funds and their need to generate short term returns.
Hedge funds [...] Read more:Volatility
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Sectors to Buy and Avoid 2008-02-27 22:44:10 Small caps and technology stocks have taken quite a hit over the past few months and I think now is a good time to start looking for bargains in these sectors.
There has been a rotation out of these “riskier” stocks with the threat of a potential recession looming but the selloff has been overdone. Some [...] Read more:Avoid
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MCZ Q3 2008 Results 2008-02-20 22:44:42 MCZ - Mad Catz Interactive (American Stock Exchange) - (Closing Price - $0.82)
Mad Catz announced its fiscal third quarter 2008 results after the close yesterday and reported decent results. However, the stock sold off around 19% today because the company didn’t report an improvement in EPS and investors in the current market are extremely skittish and [...]
Payday Loans 2008-02-18 18:30:55 The economy is headed for a potential recession, we may already be in one, and the job market is starting to stall. In addition, the credit markets have become extremely tight due to the lax lending standards that have taken place over the last few years and are now resulting in defaults. Consequently, it is [...] Read more:Payday Loans
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The Net Fool 2008-02-16 10:32:47 For those of you who are interested in stock market advice and making money online you should check out TheNetFool.com. The Net Fool focuses on investing as well as reviews of GPT websites. GPT (Get Paid To) websites pay users to do certain tasks. The Net Fool offers new posts on the stock market on [...]
MicroCap Speculator 2008-02-11 21:28:25 If you want analysis and commentary on microcap stocks you should check out MicroCapSpeculator.net. MicroCapSpeculator has analysis of stocks that trade over the counter and on the pink sheets, exchanges that I don’t cover, as well as microcaps that trade on the major exchanges. MicroCapSpeculator also features analysis of the gold market.
MicroCapSpeculator recently developed a [...]
Should the Fed Continue to Drastically Cut Interest Rates? 2008-03-16 22:53:58 Wall Street pundits are saying the Fed should lower interest rates by a full point at its next meeting. I think such a rash decision would be unwise and the Fed should actually think about keeping interest rates the same or lowering interest rates by a more modest amount, 0.50 at the most.
It seems the [...] Read more:Interest Rates
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BAC Cover Recommendation 2008-03-17 21:40:36 BAC - Bank of America (NYSE) - (Closing Price - $35.96)
Bank of America is down moderately since my initial short recommendation and I think now would be a good time to cover and take the gain off the table. I still think financial companies are going to see further weakness but they will most likely [...] Read more:Cover
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The Credit Crisis and Potential Shorts 2008-03-19 23:34:21 Financial companies have seen severe declines over the past year and they still have the potential to go down a lot further. The reason financial companies are on such shaky ground is because the risk of rising foreclosures and loan defaults has resulted in a really severe credit crisis. For those of you who don’t [...] Read more:Crisis
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The Fed Shouldn’t Bail Out Financials 2008-03-23 13:59:49 The Federal Reserve has pandered to Wall Street demands and drastically cut interest rates this year. The Fed has also used Depression Era rules to lend directly to investment banks. Now there is talk that the Fed may start to buy mortgage backed securities that other banks don’t want to touch. I feel the Fed [...]
China Automotive Systems Q4 07 Results 2008-03-29 18:39:19 CAAS - ChinaAutomotiveSystems
(Nasdaq) - (Closing Price - $5.73)
China Automotive Systems reported fourth quarter results on Tuesday March 25 and reported sound results.
China Automotive Systems came in with revenue of 37.71 million and earnings per diluted share of 0.09. Revenue for the quarter was up 36% year over year and up 21% sequentially. [...]
Free Stock Picks April Update Part 2 2008-04-03 22:41:30 Here are the rest of my current stock picks:
SILC – Silicom Limited
The stock price of Silicom Limited have been erratic since my initial buy recommendation but the stock price is currently trending up. Silicom is set to report first quarter earnings on April
28 and I expect there will be a run-up in price before [...] Read more:Stock
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Free Stock Picks April Update 2008-04-02 23:27:01 I usually don’t write about my stock recommendations unless they report quarterly earnings or some other important event happens (press release, news event, etc). However, I am going to start updating all my recommendations at the beginning of each month to keep you better informed on how each stock is doing and report on any [...] Read more:Stock
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Any Stock Suggestions? 2008-04-09 21:58:29 Every month or two I will have a post dedicated to stock suggestions.
If you know of any stocks that are undervalued or overvalued feel free to mention the company and why you think the share price will go up or down.
I would be particularly interested in any company that is quickly growing earnings and has [...] Read more:Stock
SWIR Announces Acquisition of CradlePoint and Share Buyback 2008-04-08 22:09:15 SWIR - Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ) - (Closing Price - $18.43)
Yesterday, Sierra Wireless announced it agreed to buy privately held CradlePoint Inc, which develops and supplies wireless networking products, in a cash and stock deal worth about 30.2 million.
The company expects the deal to add to earnings by the end of 2008, excluding restructuring and integration [...] Read more:Acquisition
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Should You Short Stocks? 2008-04-13 21:05:15 If you are an experienced investor shorting stocks should be part of your investment strategy. Short
ing allows you to profit when a stock goes down in price. In a declining market, such as the current one, it is a lot easier to make money shorting stocks than buying stocks.
When you short a stock you are [...] Read more:Stocks
How To Enter A Short Order 2008-04-15 23:03:25 I received a comment on my previous post about how to short a stock through a broker so I will describe it here in case other people are confused.
When you go to enter an order you probably have a few options to choose from. I use Scottrade and I have the following options to choose [...] Read more:Short
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DTLK Q1 08 Results 2008-04-16 22:30:35 Datalink announced Q1 08 results today and reported nice results.
Datalink reported 47.73 million in revenue and diluted earnings per share (EPS) of 0.04. Revenue was up 17% YOY and EPS was up from a loss of 0.06 in Q1 07. Datalink also reported its highest gross margin since the fourth quarter of 2004. The company [...]
Wikinvest.com 2008-04-20 20:50:23 I came across Wikinvest.com recently and I think the website has the potential to be a great place to find information about stocks. Wikinvest is a “wiki” website (like Wikipedia) where regular people contribute the information to the site.
Wiki websites that don’t have a lot of contributors aren’t very good but Wikinvest already has a lot [...]
New Stock Recommendation: Aixtron (AIXG) 2008-04-21 21:12:30 AIXG - Aixtron (NASDAQ) - (Closing Price - $14.22)
Stock
s that are related to “green” technology have been some of the biggest gainers over the past year. However, a lot of these stocks (think solar companies) have already had tremendous run-ups in price and they are trading at very lofty valuations.
I have found a “green” company [...] Read more:Recommendation
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