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Don't Like Celsius Holdings? Try Cel-Sci Instead

I'm confused. Good news and an important price target of 90c took place on your post of Oct 14. The chart shows the stock going straight down from that moment on. Is there some problem with the science behind the calorie burning? Just how many calories can one reduce from their overall intake from say 3 bottles? ~stoney

Potential for a Short Squeeze in Akamai

Akami is going to $29 I'm not sure why. Great chart. Robert, I'm going to click onto "followers" but don't send any emails! It's because of that cool ocean behind you. You seem to have your priorities in order. Good stuff! ~ stoney

Chinese Solar Stocks Become More Attractive on First Solar Deal

Nice piece Dr D. ENER has been a most terrible stock for me, I love it madly and lose money on it each time. I've owned Trina in the past, was wondering if you had a take on Canadian Solar which is not Canadian. CSIQ.~ stoney

Not Buying Cel Sci's Swine Flu PR

Of course the swine stuff isn't irrelevant at all that's what got it back on it's feet yesterday. My take is the virus when it migrated may have picked up a resistance to an often used antibiotic. That would leave one maybe two bullets left to save someone's life. If we have a big outbreak at school time these stks will all double and you will be counting your money while warning others away. If you feel the swine stuff is irrelevant then send that money to a charity. The big question is how well CVM can direct or fool the virus to accepting the preferred treatment now, not so much in creating vast batches of a vax with a partner. I'm still researching the co.~stoney

Final Spike in the Bear Market Rally?

What a silly article Peter. Older hands aren't leaving the market they are breaking down the door to get in. Far ahead of ourselves? Are you serious, the whole breakdown from 10,000 was based on a great depression scenario and fear based selling combined with naked shorting of banks. We can at least get back to 10,000 for goodness sakes before you see any super spike. When you lift off an absolute puke low that's no spike, that's a reversion to the mean and that will take some time to play out. For now we have incredibly lean companies and big earnings and a jobless recover ahead of us.~ stoney

Shooting for 100% Return in One Month

Glen in your picture you appear to have something distasteful in your mouth. Must be those prior picks, oh baby I love this Fred Voetsch, I'll have to keep an eye out for him! Fred you are invited to take on the stonedinvestor's picks anytime, I left a few on this site today. I'd like to see something other than oversold financials being chosen as prospective 100% gainers Glen, this reads like you are watching Kramer and investing other people's money! yikes.~stoney

Could the Dow Sink Another 50% by 2012?

No doubt with near total economic collapse comes the worlds biggest wall of worry for stocks to climb. It is not until we truly feel " wow, it did work, all this stimulus has staved off a depression!" that stocks will go down again. Until then earnings will be viewed one of two ways; oh my god they have swung from a total profit to a total loss! Or, well that wasn't as bad as some said it will be. For this earnings cycle, I am fully in the Not That Bad Camp. What will get interesting is the number of companies that refuse to give guidance- will this lead to less speculation and a leveling out of returns? Or greater suspicion by the public- and a generation that moves on without the stock market? The bigger questions for 2012 is just who will be investing? Will this become an ever smaller club? Or can buy and hold work again? For every person who confidently comes on tv and says the obvious- buy and hold has not worked for the last ten years, there is an investor at home faced with a singled digit stock that used to be worth much more. If you gobbled up Ford at $1-$2 and you held to 2012 I wonder how you would come down on that argument? Perahps up 30- Times! It would seem now more than ever buy and hold SHOULD work, but no one is saying that- not a one, that's why I'm starting to think that way.~stoney

So, Jim, It Is (Has Been) a Depression After All?

Alex I'm not sure what constitutes a journalist these days but heavy breathing and armpit sweat, telling million to vacate the market in free fall while at the same time recommending a thousand bad ideas... that surely can't be it. I caught that bit of backward musing by Cramer and I had to laugh. If it were in a depression Cramer would have no show and we would be talking to each other on a soup line not on computers. By every metric this is a recession and I would wager a Double Dip one as the stimulus geeks us up through the summer. However it is also a tipping point in our selling our jobs overseas and this new economy of egge head thinkers and no manufacturing, the " consumption " model, all of that is happily out the window and although my net worth is half of what it was or worse, I hated living in the world of these bankers and their big meals out, the $300 wines, those suspenders and bloated chins all around me... the gaudy houses with the maxed out extensions on top of ugly 1980's buildings, the mega mansions, the boats, the SUV's, all being left on the side of highways and let adrift in waterways... all the excess is being wrung out of the system... & I won't miss any that... there's just one more stain of markets past we must be rid of now- Cramer and CNBC... I can still see fat bottom Maria dancing a jig at 14,000 and all the cheering and pushing of ideas then and now... now that fear sells, it's just the opposite- how low we will go? Is this the great depression 2? and money center breakdowns... CNBC's ratings are up as our fear is up- we should learn to dampen down or turn off both.~ stoney

Imperial Sugar: Shorts Take the Upper Hand, But Not for Long

I've been looking at this name too Mark. As more and more sodas go away from fructose and to " natural sugar " I believe there is a major trend here. Can IPSU capitalize on the unwashed pure refined aspect of sugar that Whole Foods and other natural food shops like to sell? Sugar is on the comeback trail and IPSU stands to benefit.
Thanks for the update- you may have pushed me in today!~ stoney

Wednesday Outlook: Commodities, Global Markets

David I'm not sure what the point is of telling us what happened yesterday and then calling Weds Outlook a bear reversal but good luck with that. Your point on TLT is that due to the promise of US buying bonds have reversed up when they should be going down?- that's how I'm taking the Chinese comment- you should flush these charts out a bit with better commentary. On the book you read by Walter McDougall’s “In the Throes of Democracy” I was wondering if there was any mention of Ivar Kreuger?- if so I would pick it up.
Thanks~ stoney

Arena Pharmaceuticals: Near Term Gamble May Be Worth It

I like ARNA & have been thinking about it. You mention the
good news for VVUS on Dec 11th. That good news gave no bump up and indeed VVUS tumbled from $6 to near $2!

So the questions are (1) is ARNA's drug better? (I doubt it VVUS folks lost 9-18 pounds as I remember vs 1 pound in the placebo grp. (2) Is ARNA'S management going to do a better job selling the results? And there I think there is some hope....

On the fence but leaning towards yes. ~ stoney

Preview from Europe: Markets Stuck in Neutral

Wow Mole this is fun to read. You have a nice style, I like the personal zingers in the news- always a fan of that. I like the set up for the day. Your piece loses steam around the EU stuff and dives off the cliff with Dr Doom, still there is talent here. After many years you will be the first person I put on Watchlist, whatever that is.~ stoney

Key to the Global Equity Market: Trend and Cycle Analysis of U.S. Retail

Buy BBBY yes or no?
Buy GES yes or no?
Buy URBN yes or no?
Buy TRLG yes or no?
Buy LULU yes or no?

I too have been focusing on retail. These are the ones that have made it to my final hot list. ~stoney

SEC Will Ban Short Selling: America's Leaders Break Down

Bill you seem to have hit the pipe before me this morning. What a crazy article I think you are saying we are about to have another 9/11 type terrorist attack aimed at our financial center... ala NY again. Indeed as many Russian and African email scams that go on are some of those folks betting against the US? Well are they borrowing the stock first? lol.

We need perp walks and suits in chains every large short sale that was not accounted for by borrowing the stock should result in formal SEC charges. This is not really about the stocks going down it's the reflection to the world that the banks are having a run on them and that perception is heightened by $2 values accessed on them by the market. What is true and fair value for all of these stocks and America, that is the question and when will all of this use of derivatives and 30 X leverage be policed for real? The very same friends you contacted in regards to short selling may have tucked their guns away for now because of the heightened observation of them and well they should but they are the one's who pushed the boat over the falls to begin with.
~stoney

A Look at the Beverage Retailers: Bring Back Ginger

I just came back from the beach & I drank a lot of Cherry Cream, Cream & Root Beer. Love the RB the best. Every once in a while I come across the larger bottles with the special mix more nutmeg. Gotta love real sugar. But what a huge mistake to roll out a diet line. Boo. For that we have Boylan. I'm having a weird feeling I should invest in this stock. ~stoney