Right off the top I should caution you all “don’t try this at home”, because I almost always lose money when I trade the short side of the market or an individual equity. That said, after my post earlier this week about taking some profits off the table in the face of what seems to [...] Continue reading →

  In the face of soaring complacency and optimism I am lightening up some equity positions and taking profits. To the left we see the VIX at near lowest levels since just prior to the onset of the GFC. With markets challenging their all-time highs, I would feel more comfortable with an ascending VIX, not [...] Continue reading →

I got a few comments from my “Tech Pair Trade of the Century” post awhile back along the lines of “Short AAPL? Good luck!” and “Long RIM? Good luck!”. So it was with interest I noted this week (13F week, when all the “big boys” file their 13-F’s with the SEC) that two very large [...] Continue reading →

On Monday Wallstreetwindow’s Mike Swanson sent me an email to tell me that he was going to open his Power Investor Inner Circle to new subscribers until midnight on Thursday night. I completely forgot to mention this at the time! I have been a subscriber to Mike’s list since 2005.  Believe me, I have tried [...] Continue reading →

When I heard about the Mitt Romney debate gaffe on “binders full of women” immediately going viral  (I didn’t watch the debate as the electoral process makes me near suicidal) I just knew that some quick thinking person was going to snag it instantly. That enterprising party was The American Bridge PAC who promptly redirected [...] Continue reading →

Briefly, RIMM blew out expectations today with 2.9B in revenues and an adjusted net loss narrowed to .27/share. Expectations were for .47/share loss on 2.45B in revenues. Blackberry sales were stronger than expected and the company added 100M in net cash. The shorts are getting crushed with the stock up as much as 20% in [...] Continue reading →

I just received a short report from Citron Research (another financially uber-astute easyDNS client ) which outlines a scathing short thesis for Web 2.0 real estate darling Zillow (Nasdaq: Z). After successfully predicting short side windfalls for Zynga, Groupon and yes, even Facebook but never getting around to actually shorting any of them, I have [...] Continue reading →