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Trade Alert – Sandy’s continued aftermath, PTSD, blessings and two trims

I gave a 50 minute speech to the Philadelphia Institute of Internal Auditors last Tuesday. I was probably more nervous about giving a speech to 600+ internal auditors than I was doing any national TV show. Out of my element, I guess. I talked about no amount of quantitative easing,

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Trade Alert – Thanking some gives and booking some face gains

Let’s thank some gives today as we head into the holiday weekend. I’d mentioned the other day that Turkey Week is usually a mostly-up-market/bullish time, and such seems to be the case so far this week. Facebook’s finally back to where it was after the most

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Trade Alert – Bidding below for fruit but not booking the Facebook yet

Yesterday I wrote this: Apple’s slow bleed of death continues — can you believe it was at $350 earlier this year though? I’m waiting to add the next tranche until either the slow bleed of death stops or until we get a major capitulation by the longs on a

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Trade Alert – Eden’s Apple and more FB analysis

Facebook traded flat in the pre-market and then opened up about 2% above last night’s close and hasn’t looked back. There stock is up 12% in the closing hour. Nearly a billion shares have hit the market today, meaning that nearly $20 billion of equity hit which of

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Trade Alert – A tranche buy and an FB update

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. – Isaac Asimov Yesterday I’d postulated that the Facebook lockup expiration might very well turn out to be a “Buy the news” event, and today the stock is up nearly 10% and about 15% since I stepped in to

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Trade Alert – In 3-D

Long-time Revolution Investing subscribers know that my ranch was hard hit last summer by the Little Bear fire that raged through central New Mexico in June.  I was incredibly fortunate that my home, loved-ones and animals were unhurt, but it was nonetheless very traumatic.Today, I started smelling smoke again,

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Trade Alert – More scaling, but don’t be a daredevil

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying. – Anonymous Bulls got no mojo. The selling pressure continues to swamp the bids and the markets just keep fading lower. Apple’s down after trying to open higher, and I think we’ve got to let it

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Trade Alert – Monsters and fruit

You’ve probably heard the old saying from Keynes that “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” Here’s a snapshot of how irrational things probably are right now and why we need to continue scaling into our highest-rated stocks like Apple. Monster Drinks reported a

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Trade Alert – Two buys into the panic

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly. – Oscar Wilde Ugly day post-election. Oh, and there’s panic about the EU debt crisis in the headlines again. Shocker, eh? The DJIA opened down 100 plus and has

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Trade Alert – Letting go of a tree and updated analysis on F5

Selling A Router Stock and Looking for Greener Pastures Back in September I heard from a lot of you who had dreaded trimming some of your shares in Apple before the release of the iPhone 5 and because the stock had continued ascending you felt like you had “missed the

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(Small) Trade Alert – Election markets analysis and the answer to who’s more scared

Election election election. Every headline, every markets analysis, every supposed economic analysis, every segment on CNBC are all about the election and how its might or might not affect all of the above. Will the election be a tie? Hanging chads! Electronic voting fraud. Voter harassment. This is actually the

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The economic, trading and investing impact of Hurricane Sandy (And Trade Alert – Trimming some LPS puts)

First things first. My thoughts and prayers go out to all those affected by Hurricane Sandy. As human beings, that is the first thing on all our minds and hearts. As professionals, we have to analyze what it means to our portfolios, if anything. There’s an old economic theorem