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    • ON: Sun Oct 12th 00:37 AM
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      How Oversold Are We?
      Glad Aubrey McClendon lost his fortune in CHK - he bankrolled the uber-sleazy Swift Boat campaign against Kerry in 2004.

      Instant Karma's gonna get you... ;-)
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    • ON: Thu Oct 2nd 00:33 AM
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      Solar Rises As Senate Adds 'Tax Extender' Legislation to Bailout Bill
      pretty ironic that this thing would've been left in the gutter if the u.s. economy wasn't tanking!

      fingers are crossed that the house approves the measure. i bought in big on solar yesterday in anticipation that the senate would vote "yea".

      and they did!

      so...good for my portfolio AND the environment.

      just the way i like it.
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    • ON: Tue Sep 30th 23:03 PM
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      Play the Bounce to Hedge Your Longs
      I've had about 1/4 of my portfolio(s) hedged form time to time in shorts (generally puts). While this has mitigated the downside somewhat, I've still gotten whacked.

      I don't know how people who are all long are doing. Not well, I guess. This market sucks. It's made me a better trader...but I'd rather invest in fundamentals.
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    • ON: Tue Sep 30th 03:17 AM
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      Coal Prices Set to Go Up
      Obama's energy policy specifically states his support for clean coal.

      Look it up.

      Boy, listening to you Republicans whine without checking facts is seriously annoying.

      With regards to the prognosis for coal (or more specifically, coal stocks), I think only technical trading at this point suffices as sound investment advice.

      Check out the chart for JRCC...and set your in/out points accordingly.

      It's not difficult.

      Right now the markets are a mess.

      Fundamentals are out the window.
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    • ON: Mon Sep 29th 20:37 PM
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      Looking for Hope
      Keep God out of this. I didn't believe in him yesterday...and I believe in him a lot less today.
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    • ON: Sun Sep 28th 00:33 AM
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      Obama vs. McCain: Who's Better for Dividend Investors?
      15% or 20% - what does it matter if the Republic burns?

      The Republicans can vote for McCain. If he wins, they can stay in their gated communities until this country turns into a banana republic - with 1% controlling all of the wealth, and everyone else getting screwed.

      And ronslim, your jab that Obama is a Marxist is pathetic. In any other country Obama's economic policies would be considered almost right-wing.

      You want Marxism? Wait until enough people wake up and realize that the Republican party only PRETENDS to help the middle-class while actually screwing them over so they can transfer America's wealth to their rich buddies' tax-free offshore bank accounts.

      As a member of the "investment class" I'm all for the free-market, but I sure as hell won't vote for McCain and 4 more years of criminal greed.

      Obama/Biden '08.
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    • ON: Thu Sep 25th 01:08 AM
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      AIG: Details of Its Punishing Bailout
      Somebody help me out here. I'm confused by the equity dilution.

      So AIG is giving 80% of its common to the government? If so, how is giving stock to the government "dilution"? Or it's issuing 80% more stock to the government on top of it's common?

      Thanks in advance.
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    • ON: Tue Sep 23rd 23:15 PM
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      5 Failures of SEC Chairman Cox
      Republicans have been in control for the last 8 years (and don't give me any bunk about Democrats controlling Congress for the last two with their not-even 1-point margin of "Republican" Joe Lieberman in the Senate).

      Any Republican who won't take the blame for his party driving this country into the ditch isn't worth talking to.

      Stand up. Be a man (or a woman). You guys blew it - badly.

      Now go to your room and let Obama/Biden restore the dignity to this country.
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    • ON: Fri Sep 19th 02:05 AM
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      Hedge Funds May Have Gone Too Far
      If the this latest market insanity hasn't proven that the Republican mantra "free markets above all" isn't a sham, I don't know what will.

      Who's your daddy now, Mr. Republican? It ain't the free market. It's the FED!
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    • ON: Thu Sep 18th 19:55 PM
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      Managing Risk: A Probability Model
      Great article. Relatively new to options spreads. This made a lot of sense to me. Of course, one needs a fair amount of cash to deploy this kind of strategy...still working on that. ;-)
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    • ON: Thu Sep 18th 19:16 PM
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      GS, MS: Do Wall Street's Independent Brokerages Have a Future?
      thanks for the comments, chris. it's tough to get perspective in this market. too much information. much of it rumors. appreciate the attempt at a concise roundup.
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    • ON: Sat Sep 6th 02:17 AM
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      The Commodities Basket Trade
      Article should be retitled "The Commodities Basket-Case Trade"!!
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    • ON: Wed Aug 27th 01:32 AM
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      Solarfun's Huge Run: Time To Lock in Solar Profits
      User 76581 --

      I'm speculating that since a lot of the daily market drama is driven by hedge funds...and since these hedge funds use an army of computers to make automatic technical trades...that's why you saw today's drop on solar stocks...they ran up to value "x", the hedge-funds grabbed their profits, and now they go down...but the fundamentals are still the same...so the overall TREND-LINE should be up...

      Again, this is pure speculation on my part. But i think it's the Quants (the algorithms the hedgies derive from their quantitative analyses of the market sectors) which drive these up and down prices.

      Black box trading.
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    • ON: Wed Aug 27th 01:32 AM
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      Solarfun's Huge Run: Time To Lock in Solar Profits
      User 76581 --

      I'm speculating that since a lot of the daily market drama is driven by hedge funds...and since these hedge funds use an army of computers to make automatic technical trades...that's why you saw today's drop on solar stocks...they ran up to value "x", the hedge-funds grabbed their profits, and now they go down...but the fundamentals are still the same...so the overall TREND-LINE should be up...

      Again, this is pure speculation on my part. But i think it's the Quants (the algorithms the hedgies derive from their quantitative analyses of the market sectors) which drive these up and down prices.

      Black box trading.
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    • ON: Tue Aug 26th 04:49 AM
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      Solarfun's Huge Run: Time To Lock in Solar Profits
      I normally don't comment in the negative, but this article really irked me. How the author managed to link Obama/Biden with SOLF is beyond me...if there's any politician to reference it's the Governator (Schwarzenegger) in CA...who's state inked a big deal with SPWR recently.

      Sorry, Kevin, this isn't analysis. It barely event qualifies as drunken bar chatter.

      Solar Co's are growth stocks. Oil may go down in the short term, but in the long-term it's up up up.

      And as an aside, it's truly pathetic that the majority of Americans think we can drill ourselves out of our energy crisis. We need to conserve and develop alternative/renewable fuels.

      And yes, I am voting for Obama/Biden.
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