Aristides Capital

Russell 1,000 Stocks with the Highest and Lowest Short Interest

Shorting is allowed because it promotes economic growth (you populist idiot). When prices are inefficient, capital is allocated stupidly; shorting helps prices to move closer to where they should be, which helps keep new capital flowing to the companies who deserve it, not to the next corn-based ethanol.

Quitting the Hedge Fund Game - Mark Sellers

"Moneychangers?" "Bloodsuckers?"

Nice class warfare. If you are looking for a Utopia with no hedgies or Jews, I susggest you move to Zimbabwe, and please, by all means, take your four daughters with you.

P.S. Most hedge funds are quite small. Mine manages money mostly for doctors who used to serve in the Air Force. And my entire life savings is invested in it. If you can explain to me what is unamerican or bloodsucking about helping people to be able to retire, please do. I get paid for the returns I generate because it takes both a lot of guts to start your own fund and a lot of smarts to generate alpha.


On Oct 11 10:19 AM raising4daughters wrote:

> Right on, roger maxims. The moneychangers and corrupt civil servants
> in the Repblicrat Party got their seats in the game of musical financial
> chairs.
>
> If we aren't there yet, anger will turn into apathy and indifference.
> Then and only then will we have a bottom, but we need WAY more blood
> returned from the bloodsuckers like Sellers.
>
> As for the corrupt civil servants, anyone that votes for a single
> incumbent is a fool and deserves whatever comes to them.

The Magic Formula's Top 11 Dividend Stocks

I like Citigroup preferred. They give you a large number dividend, and Uncle Sam makes it magic!

The Magic Formula's Top 11 Dividend Stocks

hahahahahahah. rofl! dude, the people who think the markets are efficient are the ones who don't exploit the inefficiencies. :-)

"every serious academic study..." ? what planet are you on? have you read a finance journal in the last 5 years?

passive indexing, to the extent that it works at all which is not that well, only works due to the efforts of those who work to actively discover prices.

keep indexing; I'll settle for my incentive allocation :-)


On Nov 12 03:40 PM Mark Matson wrote:

> Shame on you - anyone who knows anything about investing understands
> that there is no magic formula for stock picking. To make matters
> worse, every serious academic study shows stock picking is a failed
> method of investing. Even the great Benjamin Graham recanted on his
> death bed saying paraphrased that markets are efficient and stock
> picking is gambling. Articles like this encourage investors to overweight
> their portfolios in individual holdings. Stock picking of any kind
> is speculating and gambling. Wake up, you do the investor a huge
> disservice. -Mark Matson

SunPower's Class B Shares: Lower Valuation, Greater Voting Rights

If one were to be buying Sunpower today, they'd have to be a cave-dweller to be buying SPWRA when the B is nearly at a 10 point discount.

(on the other hand, the cave-dwellers seem to be out in force :-)

Oritani Financial: Ready to Break Out as Financials Bounce

This is the single-most overvalued bank since Softbank! It's a piece of **** at this price. Try Parke Bank (BKBK) if you want a Jersey bank with better execution metrics at half the price. (Disclosure: long PKBK; short ORIT).

Kirkland's, Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

There may have been a problem with the queue on this call which accounts for the low number of analysts. I, for one, had a question that did not get asked. Management was good about returning my phone call after the conference.

Top Bond Investors Show Interest in GSE Capital Raising with Treasury Involvement

Individual investor dudes, please don't be long FNM. Your kids need to eat and go to college. Consider an index fund. When the option vols are above 100, it's a good sign you should be leaving that stock to the pros to play with.

(Disclosure: long FNM preferred, short FNM, long FNM calls)