Position Card for 3/10/10

This week has started off slightly rocky, as the markets are currently consolidating and many stocks are indecisive.  To me, we have the potential to go either way - if I had to pick a camp, however, it would be the bulls.  My boy @RaginCajun from iBC is thinking the way I currently am, seeing that his latest post is titled, "100+ Easy Points to Go."  The rest of this week should be extremely interesting, with the main Economic event I will be watching coming out tomorrow at 10:30am ET (EIA Petroleum Status Report).

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Friday A.M.T. Review for March 5th, 2010

"Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability." - Roy L. Smith

Here is the "Friday Review" video, that will review my investing and trading efforts for the last week, based off of comments in last weeks "Airelon's Market Tactics".

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Position Card for 3/5/10

This past week was indeed a wild one, as I kick off the month of March +2.69%.  Basic Materials continued to run the market up 5.2% for the week, with the Industrial Goods sector taking second (+4.6%) and the Financial sector scooping up the Bronze (4.0%).  As I tweeted less than an hour ago, if Monday continues to push higher into the afternoon, I will most likely begin to take profits from my current positions to free up cash for a possible pullback.

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S.E.C. Charges Psychic With Securities Fraud.....I feel so much safer!

Have been taking some time off from blogging as I focus on doing more of what pays my bills and less of what is great fun and enriching but some what  superfluouos.  Recent events just sort of dragged me back kicking and screaming. 

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Providing Liquidity

The creation of stock.ly has caused me to develop a profound interest in vc backed pre-ipo companies. Some of the most popular names in this space is Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Zynga, Tesla Motors, just to name a few. One aspect that has had me utterly intrigued is how one values these companies. Valuation is very important for several reasons.

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The Evil Inflation "Monster" and Accompanying "BLS Boogeyman"

"We live in the golden age of data.  You can convince yourself of anything, and there is enough data out there now, in anything right now, to find a statistically signficant relationship proving absolutely anything in either direction for anything you want." - Paul Kedrosky

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Hops- volatile & expensive: downside for SAM?

It’s been a long time since I blogged, but BarbarianCap struck a thought process in my head that I wanted to explore and put on paper. In his latest blog post, Barbarian walks us through his own inflation metrics he tracks. One section of his metrics glosses over beer prices and this sparked a discussion in the chat bar about beer prices.

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More On Inflation

As I mentioned in an article not a long time ago, inflation has been a favorite topic for barbarians ever since Rome started debasing its precious metal coins. I just wrapped up my annual inflation tracking survey and I would like to share the results with you, along with some commentary.

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Going Postal: My Mission to Bankrupt the U.S. Postal Service

I plan to bankrupt the U.S. Postal Service with extreme prejudice.  And paper companies, too.  This is not just a passive/aggressive way to get revenge for all the verbal abuse I've taken from New York post office employees.  This is what I call the "Digitization of Everything."

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Position Card for 3/1/10

Welcome to March!  If you read this month's first TMO prior to the market open today, you should have been completely prepared for the action that occurred and you most definitely should have taken advantage of a couple of breakouts.  The market definitely looks as though it could go higher, and until I think otherwise, I will continue to catch bullish breakouts.

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A Morningstar Swing Trade Strategy that Performs Well in all Markets

As an active trader, I manage risk largely through position sizing. In other words, my "casino money" comprises 10 % or less of my total portfolio. The remainder of my portfolio is very conservatively managed.

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Happy Hour #45

JohnWelshPHD stopped by Happy Hour Friday to school all of us in biotech stocks. He is a great guy and a great trader. We cover a ton of companies including MDVN, IMMU, ALXA, ANDS, SQNM.

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Has Verizon Purposefully Pushed Palm to the brink?

Hear me out on this.

Back in July of 2009, Verizon was talking about coming out with its own App Store for smart phones.  Did they? I don't know, and I don't feel like looking into it.

 Here's what I do know:

- Anecdotal evidence suggests that Verizon Stores have been pushing the Droid and not the Pre

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Friday A.M.T. Review for February 26th, 2010

"Ride your winners, and keep your losses small" - Market Mantra   "When you are staring at a trade, where you are sitting on profits three times greater than your risk?

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Position Card for 2/26/10

Although I vowed not to do so yesterday, I decided to enter three positions going into March Monday.  The madness is soon to begin, but what side will find themselves going insane by the end of the new month?

I ended February +2.95%, even with the difficult week I just had.  So far I'm increasing my P/L month to month, as February's statistics were much better than my -0.95% loss in January.

The positions I'm taking with me into the weekend are as follows:

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