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Foxconn is one of the biggest contract manufacturers in China and it’s running into some troubles finding profitability despite making gadgets for the Apples, Nokias and other big smartphone/tablet vendors of the world. But before you write off the app/tablet/smartphone revolution because of Foxconn’s bad
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It’s a flattish open as we remain catalyst-less until we fully enter earnings season in the next couple weeks. Here’s a list of my longs and shorts so far: Longs- 1. Apple 2. Ciena 3. Celestica 4. Cisco 5. Cypress 6. DBA 7. Corning 8. Google 9. Microsoft
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I bought some Nuance and that’s about it into the close. Is the week already over?! It’s important for investors and traders to acknowledge the broader macro-economic cycle and how it can affect your portfolio. And more to the point, with government helping fund most of the biggest
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I’ve bought some common stock in Celestica, Cypress and Nokia, as planned. I’m as nervous as any other trader about the downside possibilities if this Japan nuclear crisis gets any more extreme than it already has — if you even believe that the governments aren’t downplaying the contamination
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Yesterday after the market close I said that if we had had a down 2% day I probably would have bought more stocks yesterday. Well we have that 2% close down day this morning as the world wakes up two more nuclear headlines out of Japan. I am indeed looking
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Nice intraday rally continues as the emotions and worries over Japan’s disaster today start to fade and traders look to position themselves into the weekend. The shorts have had a huge week, and are feeling great about double digit gains in many of their most-hated positions. And that propels
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I just bought some Celestica and some slightly-in-money Celestica calls dated a few months out. Careful with the call options in this name, which even though the premiums aren’t bad, there’s just not a lot of liquidity or offers out there for these. Use the common stock if
