Here’s my positions, in general order from largest notional position to smallest, though they all are about where I want them to be right now: Longs – Corning Cisco Nuance Celestica Cypress Riverbed Ciena Apple Microsoft DBA Visteon Google Nokia Adtran Shorts – GLD SLV LPS XLF LYV
We are probably now more than halfway th…
We are probably now more than halfway through with the earnings season, though next week will bring another barrage and there are a few laggard reporting schedules after that too. Here’s the earnings dates for all our positions: aapl – Already Reported on Apr 20th adtn – Already Reported on Apr 13th cien – June […]
It’s a flattish open, but the story of t…
It’s a flattish open, but the story of the day is the 15% drop, the crushing of RIMM. I’ve kept us out of RIMM and even had it as a short position in the Revolution Investing model portfolio last year before I started trading again where we rode it down from over $100 to some […]
There’s little action in our stocks toda…
There’s little action in our stocks today and that’s probably a rather bullish way for these stocks to trade, at least for the very near-term. After putting on 5-10% moves from their recent lows, most of our stocks are now consolidating at these levels. Technicians/technical traders will call that building a base. I call it […]
Here’s some new news on LPS: The noose i…
Here’s some new news on LPS: The noose is tightening around Lender Processing Services. Last week, various news outlets revealed that Federal banking regulators had issued consent orders against major servicers, MERS, and LPS. Kate Berry of American Banker pointed out that LPS is exposed to making payments to servicers: In addition to the 14 biggest mortgage […]
Subscriber question regarding my earlier…
Subscriber question regarding my earlier post about LPS’ continued problems and cited MERS as the source of those problems: “What is the relationship of MERS to LPS?” Answer: LPS runs MERS and is essentially in charge of servicing the mortgages in it.
Like most traders today, most of the pro…
Like most traders today, most of the profits on our sheets today come from our shortside bets. Things continue to heat up for LPS, which is now down about $4 per share in the last couple weeks. I expect to stay short LPS for a long time as I expect that someday the stock would […]
Things are heating up for Lender Process…
Things are heating up for Lender Processing Services…here are a couple articles detailing how bad LPS is losing in the courts. First, from David Foster of Height Analytics: As background, this involves The Wilsons (homeowner), LPS, and OptionOne. Fidelity is part of LPS, Cash and Goebel represent LPS, Simmons and Boles represent OptionOne. The court […]
Had a long trip home, but I got a great…
Had a long trip home, but I got a great night’s sleep and have been cranking since early this morning. A well-rested trader is one who thinks more lucidly. Most of our positions are still less than half of what I want them to be, but I’m mostly continuing to work on the short side […]
Look around — the stock markets and the…
Look around — the stock markets and the corporate economies they reflect are doing great (exactly what we’ve been positioning our portfolios for), but there are always crises in this world and there are always new crises coming along. The trick is to tell which crises actually matter and when they will matter. So which […]