Archive for the 'Hedge Funds' Category

The Immaculate Reign of Netflix as the Future King of Streaming Media

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 [...]

A Posteriori Analysis of Global Markets, Written A priori.

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 [...]

APPLE, BAIDU, BAC, C, WFC, DIS etc…

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 [...]

Advice for New Companies and Entrepreneurs

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. [...]

Microsoft Invented Google, Facebook and Linux? What if?

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 [...]

Lakers Embarrass While Bynum Brings Shame

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 [...]

Revisit Old Trading Notes to Learn From

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% [...]