Brian in Montreal

Apple Earnings: What to Expect (And Who Not to Believe)

PS last month I went even more Old School and bought Puts since I was long at that time, that worked out. If you are long there's nothing wrong with a little protection sometimes, especially on a big positions.
This time I actually was considering sell covered calls, the call prices are mouthwatering with the VIX so high. Yes you lockin your potential gain if the stock heads north, but it's a pretty good gain over 3 weeks, and cushions any fall a long-term investor may take.

Apple Earnings: What to Expect (And Who Not to Believe)

"I also tried to point out that investors ought to ignore Kathryn Huberty's estimates and her meaningless downgrades of the stock. In September, she downgraded Apple two weeks in a row causing the stock to drop a cumulative 30 points or about 30% between the two downgrades. I still haven't figured out who is less intelligent: Kathryn Huberty or the irrational investors who continue to listen to anything she has to say."
I guess I'm more of a niave CDN, than somebody with 6 years of self-taught fundemental analysis, but it looks like those irrational investors have saved some old school coin.
Not long or Short, yet....I'm with Shulman on this one...I'll go old school and wait for more details, thanks.

Financial Crisis and the Top 5 Handset Stocks

Just commented on another article how much I like apple down here, with big cash position to boot. I may have to take a put position for the earning though, as good as they are it's never enough it seems.

25 Cash Cows to Ride Out the Storm- Barron's

I just love Apple down here, I'm more for big cash position than dividends, and I'll probably 2x put the earnings release (that worked last time). Maybe do that with a few this season, I know Fast Money doesn't want to get in front of the GE release this week. Everyone worries but why not pick the stocks you like and short the general market, or take a put position when you need it.

Friday Outlook: Commodities, Emerging Markets

It's getting chilly up here. Great charts, Scarey too. Even Gold and Oil got hammered, not good, especially if your Canadian or Australian.

In the Land of the Blind, PJB Is King of the Banking ETFs

Very interesting, Thanks.

Five Reasons RIMM Will Continue to Fall

NOK, why not use Motorola. Sure the smartphones will mature someday, but it's still a bit early to do this comparision. NOK is suffering because they didn't keep up with Rimm and Apple.

Moving the Deck Chairs on the Economic Titanic

Why does Wall Street have to over react to everything, this is like a child throwing a tantram and breaking all the toys, (Tech, Metal, Consumer goods,utilities,piggy banks). What happen tommorrow, do they take their ball and go home. I guess we'll have to let them sulk for a while.

Why I Bought AIG Last Week

I like Leh's comment, these stocks are like long term calls, you might even say out of the money. They may expire worthless, but if the don't you could have a winner, trick is not to put much money into option positions, treat it like a lottery ticket from casino (stock market) winnings, if you have any.

A Gigantic Buy - Cramer's Stop Trading! (9/23/08)

Econ 101 , yes, The Rich require an abundance of ......poor.....

Stock Prices Could Move 'Faster Than the Speed of Light'

Agreed, Crazy, as delicious as Financial stocks were today, there were about 300 million LEH reasons traded Friday to leave a very bad taste in almost every traders mouth.
Who didn't think LEH was worth more than Bear Stern's $10. Oh, that would be Paulson. NOW after that little lesson is a couple of days old, Banks are worth 10% more in the final hour of trading, OK , I'll back up my truck, right after Paulson. And why the Hell would anyone even buy gold when banks are so cheap ?

PS Don't forget to hit Sell after you hit Buy, or is it Buy after you hit Sell, I can't even remember what I hit at 3:59...I really need afterhours trading so I don't have so long to remember...

Playing for a Bounce?

williambanzai7 - Nice Tune ! So familiar these days isn't it ...

Some Housing Schadenfreude

One clarification HGD.to is gold miners down and HED.to is oil companies down. HBD.to is Bullion down. HOD.to is Oil down.
Also some of the more spector oriented funds are very low volume.
Just Canadian banks interest you it's HFD and HFU, which have decent volume. HMD.to has very little volume, but maybe have the most vulnerable companies to a global slowdown.

Some Housing Schadenfreude

HXD.to - TSE down Canadian etf, HGD.to Gold down , HAD.to agriculture down, HMD.to miners down to name a few. They may be what your looking for if you think Canada is in trouble. I think HGU.to gold up vs OIL down HOD.to is an interesting play, but I'm really a gold bug anyway. HXD.to would increase when the TSE top companies fall, good tool for Canadians worried about both banks and commodities.

Short-Term Correction in the Commodities Bull Market

and read Kitco.com J Nadler, pretty even handed in his comments. Saved me from betting everything on black or gold this summer.