All Entries in the "Investing" Category
Intel: This Old Head is Still a Market Signal
When I left Corporate America nearly 6 years ago to trade full-time, a friend asked me, “Do you think you will be bored sitting around a computer all day without anyone to talk to?” I worked with a good group of guys – we would often go out to lunch together and there was always [...]
Sit-Out Power: The Secret of Champion Traders
I admit that I’m a fair weather blogger. When the Stock Market is rocking the ideas roll on my pages effortlessly, however when the market is “slapping me around” there are always other things to do. Typically fair weather fans or fair weather anything aren’t held in high-esteem. You are either with us or against [...]
Non Apple Shareholders Getting Antsy in Windowless Conference Rooms
In my previous life, I worked in sales for a software company. Our sales conferences were in some of the most beautiful places in the world. Knowing that we would be stuck in windowless conference rooms from sunup to sundown – we would always get to the location a few days ahead of time to [...]
A Simple Qualitative Tool to Add to Your Investing Tool Kit
A few weeks ago I watched an interview of Howard Lindzon, CEO StockTwits, on one of the financial channels. I have been using StockTwits for a couple of years, so I know the product fairly well. At the end of the interview, I said - Wow, Howard really nailed the elevator pitch. An elevator pitch [...]
Google Will Learn that Open Ain’t What It Used to Be
Google really kicked up the rhetoric this week openly declaring war on Apple. However, what Google, Microsoft, and rest don’t understand is – it is not about having a front facing camera, multi-tasking or any other “do-hickey” the haters scream about. It is the total “Experience.” When I received my iPad a few days ago, I sent [...]
I’m Betting on a Palm Take Under or Bankruptcy
Palm buyout talk has been the buzz since their dismal earnings report on March 19. Yesterday, it reach a feverish pitch after Bloomberg News reported that the company has engaged Goldman Sachs and Frank Quattrone’s Qatalyst Partners to find a buyer. Its stock price is up 50% over the last five days as investors get [...]
Will Google Be a Major Player in Mobile Computing?
If you are interested in investing in the mobile internet then Morgan Stanley’s Internet Report is a must read. The chart below is one of my favorite slides from the presentation. As far as I am concerned, it’s the money slide. I believe that serious coin will be made by simply grasping its thesis. The [...]
The Buy and Hold Fairy
I think that everyone who has ever bought a stock has dreamed of buying one for a few dollars per share and selling it down the road for many dollars per share. The good old buy it, hold it and sell it at the top strategy. In spite of a 40% pounding last year and [...]
Do 401K plans still make sense?
Millions of Americans, unbeknown to them, are trusting their retirement to the luck of the stock market draw. I recently talked about this in my post 401Ks: Main Street’s Friend or Foe? I just stumbled across a great article from the Wall Street Journal that adds data to my intuitive thinking. Boston College’s retirement research [...]
It is Time for Wall Street Executives to Meet Bubba
Stocks ended a strong two-week run with a thud on Friday. The week started off with news that AIG had given $165 million dollars in bonuses to the very same people that had virtually bankrupt the company and ended with the House passing a bill to tax those bonuses at a 90% rate. No need [...]
