Radu Haraga

The Google Phone, Unlocked (Confirmed and More Details)

Good news, it was time for some competition to move in the market. IPhone does not have yet competition on the market of smart phones - and this is not because it is a fantastic phone, but because it is very easy to use and offers lots of features.
The question is - how will Apple react to this? Will we see a seriously upgraded unlocked IPhone as a competitor to Google's phone? I can't wait :))

Consumers Cherrypicked Black Friday Bargains - Brown Shoots, Anyone?

The results are disappointing, I also wrote an article on this one. It is true that the economical environment is not helpting, yet the retailers' sales are disappointing even for them, after the huge pumping of discounts they did recently...

The Black Friday Sales Are A Bit Red

Hello Chris, good points. The direction of the spending is still downwards and indeed there is no much support for the forced optimism showed by some analysts who try to make us buy this weak market....

The Dubai Default and Oil Prices

Hello everybody and thanks for the comments. I agree that Dubai itself has few oil reserves, yet it has huge assets in the field. I agree that most assets could be now financial or real estate, yet Dubai is a small country with lots of internal and external assets which have to finance a debt one way or another. What do you do when you can't pay your debts? You sell whatever you want to sell from your existing assets to service the debts, including more (small) oil reserves.

Even the confusion of Dubai with UAE or other oil rich countries from the region will push the oil prices lower, since most investors associate still Dubai with the Gulf region and with its dependence on natural reserves. So I am still seeing a downward trend for the oil in the short term. By the way, the flee from commodities already decreased the commodities linked currencies (mostly CAD) and the oil price...

Is the Other Oil Shoe Dropping?

Interesting comment on the oil shoe dropping because it's no longer priced in USD. However, the demand for this commodity remains there, no matter the currency of denomination, so maybe a bitr of technical analysis could tell us where the trend is leading... not sure about this though...

Book Review: Far From Random by Richard Lehman

Hello Alan, nice review and an interesting book, maybe I will take some time toread it, good to have more book works here on seekingalpha :)

GE Is David Hartzell's Highest Conviction Holding - Here's Why

Hello David, an interesting and quite complex analysis of GE in this article. I don't agree though, I'll try to write a short blog on this one (comment would be too long)...

Book Review: Trading Systems Explained

Hi there, thank you for the comments (except for the spam, of course, maybe the seekingalpha editors find a way to stop this meaningless polution). I found the book easy to read and quite interested as a technical, graph-based analysis method. It can also give you a false illusion that you can replicate the author's method safely... which does not happen. So "proceed wtih caution" :)

Will Commodity ETFs Really Go Up?

And I was not even trying to advertise this :(


On Mar 15 12:50 PM analyste de boston wrote:

> Did anyone else laugh at the opener "I was recently reading Gary
> Gordon's article on ETFs..." ?
>
> Prattle.
>

Will Commodity ETFs Really Go Up?

Hi there Ron,

I meant this is very possible in the incoming future to see a rise in the raw materials prices, even probable. Noone can predict when and for what raw materials. Some analysts point at the oil, others at the chemicals, others at the foods/cereals. This is why ETF's are good at limiting the risk (and also the goods of course). So yes, my conclusion is that they will go up, I just cannot figure out when - before or after the economy will take off?