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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
The following letter is a contributing factor behind NFLX’s 75% decline from recent highs that touched $300; although simultaneous announcements of spinning off the DVD division into a stand alone company called “Quikster” and the company’s decision to raise prices by 60% (although they back tracked from this) have created uncertainty in a stock that [...]
December 20th, 2011 | Posted in Bearish Looks, Discretionary Traders, Proprietary Trading, Tech Stocks, Technical Analysis, Technology, 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
Back in May, dear Capitalists, Marketwiz came public with an aggressively bearish pound on the table. Those of you that embrace and absorb the rare but valuable posts that come from this site and its sister site at LinkedIn where the same conversations are posted in Proprietary Traders Worldwide, readers were told to get long [...]
August 24th, 2011 | Posted in Bearish Looks, Behavioral Finance, Discretionary Traders, Economy, Geo-Political Danger, global macro, Market Neutral, Proprietary Trading, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
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July 17th, 2011 | Posted in Algorithm Development, Discretionary Traders, Forex Trading, Proprietary Trading, Technology, Trade Ideas, Trading Platforms | Comments Off
I’ve been dying to release this post since Monday of last week when CXLT was trading at 25 cents but I refrained for a number of reasons. In order not to breach my obligations to one of my site syndicates, this is all I’m going to say. Groupon and her twin Living Social, along with [...]
July 9th, 2011 | Posted in Behavioral Finance, Bulletin Board, Metals & Mining, Proprietary Trading, Trade Ideas, Trading Discipline | Comments Off
Let’s look at Skype’s acquisition by Microsoft 10, 20, even 50 years from now. The first thing I noticed was the cancellation of: “Skype Me Now” Moreover, Skype remains downloadable for Android regardless of the acquisition and iPhone is still on the boards as well. No proprietary moves thus far but it’s the top of [...]
June 25th, 2011 | Posted in Behavioral Finance, global macro, Google, Microsoft, Politics, Proprietary Trading, SEO, Social Media Marketing, Tech Stocks, Technology, Telecommunications, Trade Ideas, Trading Discipline, Web 3.0, Yahoo! | Comments Off