Archive for the 'Hedge Funds' Category
In late December, early January, there was widespread talk about the potential earnings hit Netflix (NFLX) was destined to take as they prepared to enrage their customers by implementing two huge changes. The first was an across the board membership price increase, which didn’t include streaming-only memberships, and the second had to do with the [...]
February 1st, 2012 | Posted in Behavioral Finance, Discretionary Traders, Hedge Funds, Internet Stocks, Proprietary Trading, Technical Analysis, Technology, Trade Ideas | No Comments
Back in May, dear Capitalists, Investment Capitalist, where one may find quite a few more articles that can lead to “actionable positions and analysis” if read by the astute, skilled market operator. I can’t tell you what to short or when and at what price. I’m not a market timer, nor a big fan of technical [...]
September 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Bearish Looks, Behavioral Finance, Discretionary Traders, Economy, Financial Sector, global macro, Hedge Funds, Market Neutral, Politics, Technical Analysis, Trade Ideas, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
On March 19th, 2008, I made a little long term play when I called the bottom of the market at the very time and price right here on the blog, with a few well-timed follow ups, like this one. By the time we posted this article about the 11 top financial stocks to own for [...]
August 28th, 2011 | Posted in Algorithm Development, Behavioral Finance, Discretionary Traders, Economy, Emerging Markets, global macro, Hedge Funds, Market Neutral, Politics, Proprietary Trading, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
I was recently asked about the role of Angel Investors in this brave new world of capital markets post “D-Day”, which I refer to when talking about the collapse of 2008 in capital markets and the ongoing rewriting of the new rules. We can call it BD for before death, and AR for attempting rebuild. [...]
August 28th, 2011 | Posted in Economy, Google, Hedge Funds, Social Media Marketing, Tech Stocks, Web 2.0, Web 3.0 | Comments Off
I can only say an unnamed but deeply connected source that is not a conspiracy nut but a major hedge fund manager that owns a $14 Billion hedge fund, who once mentored me, and we still keep in touch, told me the following. He even said he was one of the first approached for the [...]
May 27th, 2011 | Posted in Google, Hedge Funds, Microsoft, Social Media Marketing, Yahoo! | Comments Off
Here’s an excerpt of a Skype conversation with a friend in Russia, clueless as to what I’m even talking about, but perfect oratory for blogging off topic for once, non market chatter, only about the catastrophe that just occurred. I’m upset the LA Lakers were beaten 4 games to zero while they were the defending [...]
May 9th, 2011 | Posted in Ethanol, Financial Sector, Geo Political Re-posts, Geo-Political Danger, global macro, Google, Hedge Funds, Journal Entry, Market Neutral, Politics, Proprietary Trading, Trade Ideas, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
To become better traders, we look to our historical notes on crucial dates. This write-up revisits a post from April 20th, 2010 entitled “Global Financial Panic or Major Buying Opportunity in Stocks”. Most trades involved familiar companies and their trading patterns. Others came from scanning IBD’s Top 100 List during the panic, running the top 25% [...]
March 6th, 2011 | Posted in Algorithm Development, Behavioral Finance, China Stocks, Discretionary Traders, Financial Sector, Geo Political Re-posts, global macro, Hedge Funds, Journal Entry, Proprietary Trading, Technical Analysis, Trade Ideas, Trading Discipline | Comments Off