GoochyPuppy

AutoZone Cash Conversion Cycle: A Competitive Advantage?

@a.palmer jr: -- If it quacks like a duck...

Why You Shouldn't Hold Leveraged ETFs Long-Term

Duh!

Opportunity Knocking in the Form of a VIX Spike

Let it swing... the VIX will undulate like the rest of the market and both long and short Vega positions can be profitable if hedged and swing traded.

Why Apple Is Worth $80

Hmmm....

Reversal of the 'Apple Rule'

It will be very interesting, in the next few minutes, to see how the analysts and after-hours market absorbs this impact.

Market Valuation Update: Getting Expensive

The question is: Are FUTURE earnings ESTIMATES getting ahead of the true recovery time frame?

Using the Direxion 3X Daily ETFs, All 22 of Them

The leverage is really convenient, especially on the short ETFs.

Municipal Bond Fund ‘Swan Dive’

Tax free muni's at over 6% (before tax advantages), are a tremendous value for scaling into with a 5 to 10 year time frame.

Institutions Buying Bank Call Options in Advance of Earnings Reports

More profit to big investors and the rich, on the backs of the taxpayers.

In Earnings Season, Who Cares About the Unemployment Rate?

Wealth transfer is going exactly as planned. Create unemployment to lower the cost of wages across the board, resulting in a short term improvement in net earnings that will not be sustainable with future lowered demand. But short term results always trump long term consistent results in a speculative market where big money is also the "smart" money.

Equities: A Return to Normalcy?

What is "normal" is that the crooks on Wall Street, big finance, military complex, and health care, and prisons, continue to devise more ways to transfer wealth from the middle class to the rich, as well as increasing the numbers of poor and destroying the world's environment.

2009 is a sucker's rally that will wipe out the savings of more average people than any bear market or crash since the Great Depression.

This rally will prove to be the largest wealth transfer in the history of Capitalism, and the national debt incurred will continue to plague the middle classes through taxes, and the poor through cut social services for decades.

September Performance Busts Leveraged ETF Myth

Ditto. Leveraged ETFs are powerful hedging instruments in properly managed portfolios. They are very appropriate when used by informed traders, but not appropriate for the majority of retail buy-and-hold investors.

Palm: Is the End Near?

@Paul: Microsoft has no interest in WebOS or phone hardware. They still cling to the hope that Windows will run ... everywhere.

Technology ETFs: How Exposed to the RIM Effect?

Any extreme price movements in a stock (good or bad) are cause for a concern, unless your ETF collection is very well timed.

J. Crew Shares Are Overvalued

No s**t, Sherlock.