Kris Tuttle

Expecting a Sell-Off: 35 Ways to Protect for Less

If you are concerned about the general market but still wanting to stay long the individual stocks that are most attractive one could short the closest index: SPY, QQQ, SMH to provide a cushion. If they underlying stock selection is good then even if the pullback doesn't come you should stay in positive territory. Then you can adjust your short position in the index as you see fit. Covered calls are also okay but they cut both ways and you can still lose quite a bit of capital with them. Unless you set up a stop loss with a buyback of the (much lower) call options at a certain threshold.

Graft for Enterprise Software in Massachusetts: Two Sad Histories Intersect

I always knew that field sales forces were very expensive ways to do business but I didn't even factor in the graft expenses!

Maybe they were buried in "allowances for doubtful accounts."

Ha!

Notes from Brocade Communications' Shareholder Meeting

Very good and helpful post covering this meeting. Would like to see more of this type and quality level on SA.

Business Intelligence: An Interview With IBM's Rob Ashe

You need IBM GS to implement their BI now because I think they have a stack of about 527 different software products that are used to make it happen!