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Has Jim Cramer Crossed the Line with Sirius XM?

Hit Cramer where he lives, stop clicking on all related links that he is benefiting from you reading whether you like it or not. He is the only winner when you read his site and CNBC can get all the complaints in the world on him and all they will think is GOOD, he is getting attention. So silently ignore him, yes including the writers, stop ranting on his comments and let him fade like the festering boil on the backside of investing that he and his company is. OK, time to practice the above, do not reply to this, you can do it.

Cramer Continues to Dig a Sirius Hole for Himself

Wouldn't it be refreshing to see Cramer or someone else start posting exactly WHO is shorting SIRI large volumes of shares on a daily basis so that some of this speculation over debt blah...blah... could be substantiated without so much opinion. Why is there insider transparency but no transparency (without a huge amount of work) to determine who the puppetmasters of the stock market really are. Daily volumes are not enough. Clear and accurate explanations are needed.

Ford Includes Sirius in Long-Range Plans

While the Internet could have uses for a vehicle such as VOIP or messaging, the other technologies for more driver centric needs such as GPS mapping and Satrad have the coverage issue resolved by design. Any effective coverage from Internet will have to come from the likes of telephone carriers, likely from 3G technology (ala the new iPhone). The 3G service will need to be subscription based and you can bet they won't be giving minutes away or putting up cell towers to cover every place a vehicle could go. There are also technical issues with handoffs and service continuity that will need to be resolved. I'm betting that SatRad combined with personal devices such as the iPhone will fulfill the need for some time before fully functional integrated Internet vehicle systems will be practical or affordable. Then there is that sticky and expensive issue of paying for content regardless of the delivery technology.

Sirius XM Radio Analyst Roundup

An investor only looses when they walk away from the table and accept a loss. Anyone that thinks the stock fairy is going to keep their position positive is a bit naive. If a person were to walk away at say 2.5 and have lost from a position of 7 that person would be just what the big short-sellers are looking for an impatient sucker that trades on short term gut reactions, but if that person still thought that the fundamental product of SIRI was going to prevail in the end, they could jump back in to the amount they bailed out on at a major discount at 1.38. Can you say, "If I multiply shares I make money on small stock gains" and "losses are only losses if I let them be so" ? It could go to a buck, so what, it is a temporary paper loss unless that person were to be short-sighted enough to again sell at a loss in which case that person doesn't belong in this or any other stock, they belong at a Casino.

Sirius XM Radio Analyst Roundup

Nice recap article Tyler, you do a good job of presenting the facts on SIRI. It is safe to say that even the "experts" really have no idea what is going to happen with SIRI. I find many posts by critics of the company unfounded given that this is new territory in a market with every bit as much long term potential as a Microsoft or Cisco. It is even more laughable to find the me-too analyst wannabes on many blogs, including frequent offenders on this one being self professed experts and holding themselves in such high esteem. Why are they still writing blog comments if they are sooo highly educated and clarvoiant I wonder, could it be that the only people that really have a game plan are the executives at SIRI, very likely. Are the executives at SIRI looking to cash in tomorrow, NO. They are building what is the direct competitor to the dominant player in the market, Clear Channel aka the NAB. It is likely that it won't be an overnight success but I'm putting my money, a lot of it continually, on the prospect of long term success. To those who sold short, there is still a sale on SIRI and you can get back in at a bottom floor price like the big boys in the institutions are doing.