ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) Research In Motion (RIMM) will report earnings Friday, September 15. As usual, I will be most interested in finding out how aggressively RIMM has executed on its latest stock repurchase authorization that began in July.The … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) While the stock market was oversold, I focused on accumulating beaten-down, commodity-related stocks as part of my “commodities crash” playbook as explained in “Profiting from Physical Assets in a Resource-Constrained World – Rules and Picks.” … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) ReneSola (SOL) went from a tremendous 2010 – gaining 84% and as much as 206% – to a complete collapse in 2011. On the heels of several disappointing earnings reports this year, SOL has dropped … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) The shorts finally nailed AK Steel (AKS) (shorts are about 17% of AKS’s float). On July 26, AKS reported it will be squeezed by lower steel prices and higher input costs – especially iron ore. … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) For some time now, rare earth supply, demand, and prices have been hot topics of discussion and debate. While these elements are critical components in many high-tech products, they usually represent a very small part … Read more
July has continued a healthy recovering from the June lows for many stocks. However, some stocks have remained stuck in stock market purgatory. Today’s chart review shows two examples of this dichotomy. The extra bonus is that the stock in recovery mode, Caterpillar (CAT), has apparently topped while the stock stuck in purgatory, LDK Solar … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) ReneSola (SOL) has come a long way down since I highlighted it near its two-year peak in late 2010. The stock has lost as much as 65% since then. SOL has reported one disappointment after … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) After discovering that shorts ramped ahead of earnings for Research In Motion (RIMM), I decided to check in again on the short interest in Lender Processing Services (LPS)… {snip} Source: NASDAQ.com So LPS caught bulls … Read more
(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
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) GT Solar (SOLR) is one of the few companies, and just about the only solar company, that has survived the May-June correction in the general market. The stock has managed to stay on an uptrend … Read more