DangDang Continues Sliding Despite Promise of Insider Buying

(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) You know something is broken when the CEO of a company promises to spend over $1M of her own money and the stock still falls over 20%. This is the current problem with China DangDang, … Read more

links for 2011-06-27

Silver's price rise clouds outlook for solar panels | The News Journal | delawareonline.com Soaring silver prices are hampering the solar industry's ability to compete with fossil fuels. Panel makers consume about 11 percent of the world's supply of silver, used to conduct electricity in solar cells…High silver prices may provide a competitive advantage to … Read more

Short Interest in RIM Climbs Again

(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) An apparent downward shift in short interest was part of my premise in speculating that Research in Motion (RIMM) could experience significant upside after its last earnings call. It turns out that shorts increased almost … Read more

Chart Review: These Giants Must Not Fall – PG, CLX, and ORCL

On June 20, famed money manager Doug Kass tweeted a stock market warning: “once again the strength in consumer non durables (pg pep cl clx k gis etc) are a market warning sign.” So what happens when these stocks start to break down along with so many others? Is their weakness suddenly a harbinger of … Read more

T2108 Update – June 24, 2011

(T2108 measures the percentage of stocks trading above their respective 40-day moving averages [DMAs]. To learn more about it, see my T2108 Resource Page.) T2108 Status: 29% and neutral. VIX Status: 21. General (Short-term) Trading Call: Hold. Commentary When I finally decided to start generating posts dedicated to T2108, I thought I would produce a … Read more