The 50% premium being paid for OSIP by Astellas, which is roughly $52/share, was actually rejected by the board. The market is pricing the stock at $56, and I think the stock climbs another $10 from here. There will be another bidder.
The M&A attention is bullish for the sector. There are some good plays out [...]
After much consideration and several suggestions from Investment Capitalist readers, I’ve decided to open Investment Capitalist up for members to write their own content, post ideas, analysis and share their charts; in addition to my content which I will continue writing.
I would also love to comment on readers trade ideas and their technical analysis work [...]
30-year Treasury Yields are about to spike along with a dollar rally. I feel this is the catalyst to trigger a sustained pullback in equities, which will reflect our rising unemployment rate and all the stimulus plans that are slowly phasing out.
Equity Long/Short Market Neutral traders will have an edge in this market over Momentum [...]
Gold went over $1000 and sustained a rally to $1020. A dip to test, and re-test $1000 is likely. This magical number will continue to be used as the line at which bulls and bears continue to thrash each other relentlessly like a tug-of-war match in an Ultimate Fighting chained rink.
I’m watching the 70.50 level [...]
With all of the clutter and insanity due to groups turning into recruiting grounds and advertising forums for esoteric and mindless products, I was compelled to launch my own LinkedIn Group which is being emphatically embraced by the systematic and discretionary proprietary trading universe, to my delight.
I know many of you are Prop. Traders, whether [...]
The US Economy, according to the behavior of key market sectors, is on an absolute tear and within six to nine months, the data is going to be screaming “expansion” at a breakneck pace. Bond market behavior over the past several weeks suggested the same except the talking heads tried to rationalize it as “bond vigilantes” wreaking havoc on the President’s fiscal policies. A monkey could have rationalized better than them.
The SPX bottomed 3/6/09 at 666, and has never looked back, as the index galloped into the longest buying stampede in decades. Major indices are in the process of forming an intermediate “top” with insiders selling like mad. At the same time, many of the leading groups are breaking below their relative strength support levels. [...]
Game Plan – Market following “yields”. Watch 5 and 10y yields. Technician’s waiting for “right shoulder” will be left behind. Watch for start of retracement to test long-term support and confirm recent bottoms, but maintain bullish view until reversals are in.
Campaign – Most “Doji’s” negated. Dow INDU target 8940-9000. 8350 support. DJINET trg= 90. Energy [...]
There are several good stocks coming up on my radar. So I’m going to provide a quick list of my top choices:
HMIN – Huge hotel chain throughout China.
NPD- Enormous retail drugstore chain throughout China. Excellent growth and margin ratios.
CPSL- Specialty Steel
HIMX- Specialty Chipmaker
ACTS- Semiconductor Manufacturer
SVA- Biotech with H1N1 “hype”
QXM- Mobile phone handset distributor and network [...]
Game Plan – Ride bear squeeze while preparing for bear raid
Campaign – Reflexive strategies off Fibonacci levels
March 15
Let’s see how the week starts out. It looks like there’s room but perhaps a quick pullback early in the week? Or, we could see pent up retail demand trigger a gap up on Monday, which should be [...]
As reported by Institutional Risk Analytics, the following is a list of the 19 domestic banks taking part in the so-called SCAP stress test. These banks are likely to be under the “too big to fail” category. Thus, if they fail their stress tests, they will be receiving another injection of public funds:
Holding Company
JPMORGAN CHASE [...]
“Cuz I’m free fallin, now I’m free fallin, free falling…..”
General market theory suggests sharp sell-off’s need to be on high volume in order to culminate into a tradable bottom, ala the 10/10 and 11/20 lows. However, should the market make new lows on very little volume, as we have seen this past week, the implications [...]
