Theme 1: Long China. (Down 44%) Hindsight is 20-20, but we obviously picked the wrong time to ride this bubble. Here's how our original $125,000 has fared: Theme 2: Long Japanese Yen. (Up 320%) We're currently sitting in cash, waiting for a good entry ...
Today marks the one year anniversary of the all-time closing high set in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. On October 11th, 2007, the DJIA set an Intra-day high of 14279.96. One year later, we are off 35.8% (as of midday Thursday). Since this current ...
Why are our banks failing? Obviously, it's the result of unrelenting traders shorting the companies for personal gain. How can any bank survive when so much money is betting against it? Surely being over-leveraged to the tune of 32:1 in many cases has ...
But taken in smaller chunks, there are definitely periods of time that being a bear would have been substantially more profitable: Why I think the U.S. is in Recession: Will the next two quarters deliver the necessary negative GDP growth to ...
Last week, Fed Chief Ben Bernanke promised to make "substantive and timely" interest rate cuts to deal with slowing growth in the US. Although I hate to act on rumors, there are plenty of traders that think the Fed may make a move early next week, to ...
Did you follow the abysmal market performance this week and watch your hard earned capital slowly (or rapidly) melt away? It amazes me how many professional analysts and money managers acknowledge the rapidly approaching U.S recession, then offer ...
I'm going to add Landec Corp. (LNDC) to our portfolio a little early as I like the price right now. This stock will be purchased for the portfolio at the opening price today, Monday, December 31, 2007. I've been watching this one for awhile, and it ...
Like many investors, I want big returns over short time frames. This led me to over-analyzing technical indicators in an attempt to make a quick buck. I've made hundreds of trades that just had no fundamental basis to them at all. My blog, The Monthly ...
When I think of a shipping company involved in the oil business, I think of large tankers full of oil, moving it between the producers and the consumers. Until I conducted further research, I assumed Tidewater (TDW), listed in the shipping industry, ...
For those of you following Hercules Offshore (HERO), you already know that they "provide shallow-water drilling and liftboat services to the oil and natural gas exploration and production industry in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and internationally. Its ...
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