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 on October 30, 2011. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip} Today, I am going to try again to make the case that LPS is potentially turning around. Here are the main points and observations: Short interest is down 34% from … Read more
This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) December 10, 2010 Netflix (NFLX) closed at $194.63. CEO Reed Hastings scolds famous investor Whitley Tilson for shorting Netflix stock in “Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Responds to Whitney Tilson: Cover Your Short Position. Now.“: {snip} … Read more
This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) In the middle of the trading day on October 25, First Solar (FSLR) abruptly announced the departure of CEO Rob Gillette: {snip} This terse statement lacking background information sent FSLR’s stock reeling into a one-day … Read more
This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha. Click here to read the entire piece.) Solar stocks have been in freefall since last peaking in the Spring. There was some lingering hope that demand would pick up in the fourth quarter as companies rushed to take advantage of fading subsidies, … Read more
Now that the stock market is in bear market territory and the ECRI has pronounced the U.S. (and indeed the world) is at the edge of another recession, we should expect to see a rapid increase in rumors of company bankruptcies. Many times, the stock market’s instant reaction to sell first and ask questions later … Read more