ONE-TWENTY TWO: Trading Financial Markets
Exploring the poetry in financial markets for students of money and economy since the year 2000.
For only the second time in its nine days as a publicly traded company, Facebook (FB) closed at a higher price than the high of the previous day. Sure, it is only a few pennies. But for a stock getting sold nearly non-stop since its IPO, this counts as progress. More importantly, FB printed a … Read more
(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. You can follow real-time T2108 commentary on twitter using the #T2108 hashtag. T2108-related trades and other trades are posted on twitter using the #120trade hashtag) T2108 Status: 27.6% VIX Status: 22.0% … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on April 24, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) This post is a follow-up to one I wrote last week titled “Time to Buy Zynga Ahead of the Facebook IPO.” In that post, I provided a very rough upside price … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on April 19, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) {snip}…selling in the stock is accelerating as Zynga wipes out all of its post-Facebook gains and retests its $10 IPO price. If Facebook is a $90B company, then Zynga’s 12% share … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on March 19, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) I still believe that a bottom is coming for housing in 2013. Some areas of the country, like the Silicon Valley area of Northern California, have already left a bottom far … Read more
Zynga (ZNGA) has established itself as a resilient IPO so far. After an IPO on December 16, 2011 at $10/share, an open at $11, and a high of $11.50, ZNGA quickly sold off as low as $7.97 on January 9, 2012. From there, the stock rallied in almost a straight line, receiving a turbo boost … Read more
(This is an excerpt from an article I originally published on Seeking Alpha on February 13, 2012. Click here to read the entire piece.) When Facebook filed its IPO papers with the SEC on February 1, the news lit a rocket under almost all things internet. Stocks across the industry got revalued just because Facebook … Read more
Resist the madness of the crowd – investing psychology – MSN Money …what is required to make money is not a change in the business, but rather a change in the perception of that business. And if you are lucky enough to get both, you can benefit from a double whammy, as the earnings and … Read more