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Weekend Linky Dinks-Are There Any Shorts Left?

UpsideTrader — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:23:35 +0000

The SPY etf has been trading since 1993. According to the boys at Bespoke it has only been up more than ten days in a row once, and that was accomplished in 1995 when it went 12 in a row. Although...

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The Morning Morsel-Watching 1150

UpsideTrader — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:02:57 +0000

JP Morgan and Citi are being accused of being complicit in the Lehman collapse this morning, Ernst & Young is also being mentioned because of some possible funky accounting. The Enron scandal...

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New Long

UpsideTrader — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:20:08 +0000

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The Morning Morsel-Action in the Oil Patch

UpsideTrader — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:05:05 +0000

British oil giant BP made its first foray into Brazil by injecting $7 billion for assets owned by Devon Energy (DVN). PBR has had tremendous success there and BP wants a piece of the pie. It’s...

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The Morning Morsel-And the Award For Best Line in a Drama Series Goes To “Extended Period”

UpsideTrader — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:00:27 +0000

Back in the early 80’s when I was just a wee lad, a very wise man told me that the market is driven by rates and fighting the guys in the Ivory Tower that set interest rate policy is a losers...

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Been Busy Working on the Boat

UpsideTrader — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 23:15:18 +0000

A French ship building company and one of Monaco joined hands to build this yacht with enormous dimensions: the WHY 58×38. (58 meters long and 38 meters wide). It’s...

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Weekend Linky Dinks- Higher We Go as the Financials Break Out

UpsideTrader — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:16:07 +0000

Sweet week for the bulls, we saw takeovers in MIL and OSIP, Apple exploded higher just when everyone thought it might find a new home in the 180’s, Europe went to the back page which helped ,...

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The Morning Morsel-Shorting the Euro Over Dinner

UpsideTrader — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:44:36 +0000

You may have heard about the ” idea dinner” at a tony Park Ave townhouse by now. Hedge fund heavyweights in attendance were names like Soros, SAC Capital and Brigade. The topic of...

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Weekend Linky Dinks- Beware the Ides of March?

UpsideTrader — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:27:13 +0000

U.S. stocks on Friday capped their best month since November with modest gains, lifted by some improvement in U.S. economic data, though worries about consumer spending and sovereign debt kept a lid...

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The Morning Morsel-Gotta Love the Volatility

UpsideTrader — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:55:34 +0000

Legend has it that the shorts are “usually right”, after all they do more homework. Right? Jim Chanos was shorting Enron when the clueless bull market geniuses in their ivory towers were...

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