Category Archives: stocks

a trader blows up

here is video from the guy at high probability blog. he took a long futures position and watched it blow up. warning, MUCH salty language ensues. i feel this guy’s pain.

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jim cramer again

i have been stuck at rio negro all day watching another shitty day for the market. jim cramer delivered another rant today. he calls out the financials. definitely worth a look.

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taking some pain

brett steenbarger has a post up talking about why he does his taxes by hand. i have done the same thing over the last couple of years, for the same reasons he describes. My favorite form of performance review is … Continue reading

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faux streaming realtime quotes

a number of finance sites now have updating prices that appear on their pages. it’s a nice application of technology, and it looks really cool to see numbers within a story flash green or red and change. but all the … Continue reading

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bad retail data

barry ritholtz reports that the actual sales numbers from black friday weekend are coming in, and they aren’t quite the ~+20% y.o.y. survey numbers that the NRF was pushing. from the wall street journal post: It’s easy to get caught … Continue reading

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senate subcommittee report on oil price manipulation

“Ironically, hedge funds trading oil are not doing anything very different than the large investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, or Morgan Stanley already do.  The proprietary trading desks of these and other large investment banks are … Continue reading

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more about stocks

a friend IMed me the other day asking why i feel compelled to publish information about what i am buying and selling. she is a finance professional, so i took her concerns seriously. that conversation was the impetus behind putting … Continue reading

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disclaimer

i added a stock disclaimer tab up there. read it, learn it, live by it.

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oil safari

here’s an interesting project  by paul salopek, a pulitzer prize winning reporter who traces a gallon of gasoline in a chicago suburb to its origins in the oil wells of the world.  (via bill cara).  no commentary here other than … Continue reading

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stock busters

sharesleuth, the new blog dedicated to finding stock scams has posted its first analysis of a company, xethanol (XNL) and it’s some entertaining reading!

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