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Longs and Shorts
First, NO, I do NOT short, and never will. My short here, is a hold, if you are already invested. And, jumping straight to the chase, my HOLD is Harley-Davidson (HOG). Great company, good management, great stock. Just WRONG time to buy. Even in the midst of EVERY economic indicator that says to.
OIL, is beginning to regain it's ground in pump price. Ordinarily, it would be good for a HOG too, but not this time. continued
by Don Montcrief | Stocks: HOG,
GM Goes Bust
What used to be the largest corporation in the world is now bankrupt. This isn't exactly a surprise. Here's what I wrote in 2006: Whither GM?
In 1979, the British economy was in free fall. Inflation was spiraling out of control. The unions were demanding commensurate pay increases, and when they didn't get them, they struck. The country that had stood up to the Luftwaffe was failing apart. The garbage men went on strike and soon piles of "rubbish" dotted the countryside. Even the gravediggers went on strike and corpses were gruesomely left unburied. continued
by Eddy Elfenbein | Stocks: GM,
Odds Favor The Sideways Pattern For Weeks Now Will Give Way To The Downside
I know it seems like we haven't gone anywhere because we're still in the slow-moving expanding triangle pattern, which can be almost as frustrating as whip-saws. When we get into topping patterns like this, the movement is slower because they're the opposite of bottoming patterns, which are "V" shaped. As I tell you in today's video update, which should begin playing automatically at the bottom of the page, they take time and move in a "rounded" way -- it's not about instant gratification. continued
by John Lansing | Stocks: SPY,
Monkey-Fly
Think outside the box... Most retail customers buy butterfly's dirt cheap hand over fist trying to hit it big on these low cost trades. The real question most should inquire about is why are butterfly's so inexpensive?? They have very low probabilities of success!! The standard butterfly is simply "taking a shot" and should be utilized and viewed this way. So what now for the butterfly?? Do we abandon our long shot altogether?? Not likely. The butterfly can be used quite readily but we just need to tweak it to create some positive theta decay while taking a shot. A butterfly for a credit?? Enter the Monkey-fly (and yes we could not think of a better name for it, but we are amused). Take the traditional butterfly, seemingly harmless and easy to define the total risk. Step it up a notch and let us examine selling a vertical spread to finance the purchase of our butterfly. Take a look at the example below with the SPY trading at $82.65 we have created a define risk Monkey-fly with an embedded $1.00 wide vertical spread. continued
by thinkorswim | Stocks: SPY,
10 Stocks with Awful Fundamentals
The key to my investing philosophy is to focus on stocks with outstanding fundamentals. This means key variables like strong sales and earnings growth and a high return-on-equity. With earnings season fast approaching, you want to make sure that you don't own any stocks with lousy fundamentals.
In my latest issue of my free weekly eletter, What's Working on Wall Street Now, I listed ten stocks that have very poor fundamentals. continued
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