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It's Not a 'Cloud', It's a 'Brain'

When the smart phone screen can appear as a larger surface then that device will be truly useful. Focusing one's eyes constantly on a tiny image in the palm of your hand narrows the consciousness and denigrates the broad sensory experience that biologic creatures are designed to experience.

Time to Get Conservative? 50 Ideas for a Summer Sell-Off

Writing calls on stocks that pay dividends is a loser. Sweep programs in the broker's shop will call your stock away every time to get he dividend if the stock is a winner. The double commissions kill and you lose the expected dividend. You keep the losers and break even on the winners.

Palm: Is This the Best You Can Do?

But look at the price of PALM stock! It has appreciated over and over in the last six months on the basis of the promise of the PRE. Now that the PRE has been introduced and is obviously a bomb, the PALM stock price keeps going up. Fundamentals are so important to the market.

Palm's Pre: Likely to Break

Palm has been a fantastic short ever since it hit 5.00!

Dividend Paying Stocks: You Only Have to Be Lucky Once

All dividends are not equal. When paid out of depreciation cash flow that should be reinvested by the company in its business the shareholder is simply getting a return of capital not a return on capital.

Options Trader: Tuesday Outlook

Right now the stock market induces acid reflux disease. If we could just do what Phil is telling us to do everything would be all right.

Options Trader: Monday Outlook

The most recent spike in oil looks like short covering. Until the shorts come back into the oil market it is clear sailing to the upside as index funds and other investors stake their positions. Commodities are where the action is and oil is at the epicenter. The ETF/ETN industry has a marvelous array of products aimed at John Q. Investor. Money will flow in that direction.

Options Trader: Thursday Outlook

The "who owes who" fiat money of the European "union" may have tough sledding if the Constitution lite Treaty is rejected by folks who know the truth about this jerry built, over-regulated, economic carnival man.

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

And the US dollar is stronger while our financial house of cards comes tumbling down. Is there a disconnect here?

June '08: A Stock Picker's Environment

What number of trillion dollars is invested in money market funds? Isn't this money looking for higher return? Preserving capital by earning 3% interest in a 6% actual inflationary environment is not exactly the best strategy. Buying a little POT seems to be a far better alternative use of the money.