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      <title>Xcel Energy - Barchart's Chart Of The Day</title>
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        <![CDATA[works on my computer]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:20:02 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[works on my computer]]>
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      <title>Buy Bristol-Myers Squibb On The Pullback</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1327761/comments?source=feed#comment-17634421</link>
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        <![CDATA[I like to let profits run until the is momentum weakness.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:11:06 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[I like to let profits run until the is momentum weakness.]]>
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      <title>Buy Bristol-Myers Squibb On The Pullback</title>
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        <![CDATA[Define &quot;above your acceptable level&quot; please]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 09:52:54 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Define &quot;above your acceptable level&quot; please]]>
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      <title>Buy Bristol-Myers Squibb On The Pullback</title>
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        <![CDATA[I never use price targets on any stock but closely monitor the 50 day moving averages and watch if a stock drops 10% off its recent high.  Using that criteria I think your exit might have been a little premature.<br/><br/>My goal is to have a portfolio of stocks that are all trading above their 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages -- That makes me a happy camper.]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:07:21 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[I never use price targets on any stock but closely monitor the 50 day moving averages and watch if a stock drops 10% off its recent high.  Using that criteria I think your exit might have been a little premature.<br/><br/>My goal is to have a portfolio of stocks that are all trading above their 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages -- That makes me a happy camper.]]>
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      <title>Buy Bristol-Myers Squibb On The Pullback</title>
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        <![CDATA[2.7% at present]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:49:12 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[2.7% at present]]>
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      <title>Get Out Of Bonds!</title>
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        <![CDATA[If you plan to hold every bond to maturity then no problem.  Bad thing happen to good people so if a change in your financial plan might cause you to liquidate some bonds you never know what you net will be,<br/><br/>On you comment on timing strategies - I have found the 50/100 day MACD Oscillator to be a very good timing device for overall market moves.<br/><br/>My personal sell discipline of 10% or the 50 day moving average on individual holdings has proven over time to be very effective]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 11:19:31 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[If you plan to hold every bond to maturity then no problem.  Bad thing happen to good people so if a change in your financial plan might cause you to liquidate some bonds you never know what you net will be,<br/><br/>On you comment on timing strategies - I have found the 50/100 day MACD Oscillator to be a very good timing device for overall market moves.<br/><br/>My personal sell discipline of 10% or the 50 day moving average on individual holdings has proven over time to be very effective]]>
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      <title>Get Out Of Bonds!</title>
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        <![CDATA[You are correct only if you hold all your binds to maturity and never sell one.  If you need to liquidate you have no idea what price your bonds will bring in the future.  Right now it looks like less]]>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:26:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[You are correct only if you hold all your binds to maturity and never sell one.  If you need to liquidate you have no idea what price your bonds will bring in the future.  Right now it looks like less]]>
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      <title>5 Mid Cap Picks</title>
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        <![CDATA[Yes we both do]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:03:02 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Yes we both do]]>
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      <title>Kevin Wild Offersw A Free Newsletter</title>
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        <![CDATA[No AlphaKing is owned by Kevin Wilde a very good friend of mine]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:02:29 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[No AlphaKing is owned by Kevin Wilde a very good friend of mine]]>
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      <title>Herbalife: Have You Picked A Side?</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1141001/comments?source=feed#comment-14367381</link>
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        <![CDATA[When Titians clash the villages should run for cover]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 13:51:25 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[When Titians clash the villages should run for cover]]>
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      <title>Herbalife: Have You Picked A Side?</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1141001/comments?source=feed#comment-14318411</link>
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        <![CDATA[I also enjoy the entertainment but will only by the beer and hot dogs to watch the show on this one]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:03:46 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[I also enjoy the entertainment but will only by the beer and hot dogs to watch the show on this one]]>
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      <title>Herbalife: Have You Picked A Side?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Is that how you are playing Apple?  I think your strategy would work far better on Apple tahn on Herbalife]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:55:37 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Is that how you are playing Apple?  I think your strategy would work far better on Apple tahn on Herbalife]]>
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      <title>I Challenge Warren Buffet</title>
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        <![CDATA[I intend to, but so does Warren]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:50:40 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[I intend to, but so does Warren]]>
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      <title>Kratos: Security for Your Portfolio</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/192047/comments?source=feed#comment-13997741</link>
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        <![CDATA[no]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:50:03 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[no]]>
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      <title>Is There An Apple Disconnect?</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1100921/comments?source=feed#comment-13997731</link>
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        <![CDATA[Dspapp - Thanks for reading my article so closely -- I meant to sat Revenue will increase by 15.20% earnings will increase by 17.40% -- Thanks again for catching my error]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 08:49:37 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Dspapp - Thanks for reading my article so closely -- I meant to sat Revenue will increase by 15.20% earnings will increase by 17.40% -- Thanks again for catching my error]]>
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      <title>Is Facebook An Investable Stock?</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1107921/comments?source=feed#comment-13631271</link>
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        <![CDATA[I want to address your misconception - You are totally correct.  You should not buy a stock JUST BECAUSE Wall Street Analysts recommend it.  Consider this:  I find a stock that I think is a real dog and I want to short it.  Before I push the sell button I take one last look.  Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs all upgrade the stock from neutral to strong buy and I see short sales have been coming down in the last month.   We live in an auction stock market.  Now we have 3 major brokerage firms with 30K to 40K brokers calling several million clients talking about the upgrade.  At the same time the readers of Seeking Alpha, Barchart, MSN Money, Yahoo Finance and Google Finance and many, many readers of other on line sites all reading of the stock's upgrade by several major firms.  Do you really believe that stock will continue to go down in the short run?  <br/><br/>The inverse is also true:  I want to go long a stock and 3 major firms downgrade to under perform and the same brokers and investing sites are spreading the news of the downgrade.  Do you think it will go up in the short term?<br/><br/>Analysts recommendations are just 1 of several dozen indicators I use that collectively give me a picture of the overall investor community's optimism or pessimism about a stock.<br/>No one indictor tells me what to do, but collectively they will have me on the right side of the market]]>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:18:01 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[I want to address your misconception - You are totally correct.  You should not buy a stock JUST BECAUSE Wall Street Analysts recommend it.  Consider this:  I find a stock that I think is a real dog and I want to short it.  Before I push the sell button I take one last look.  Merrill Lynch, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs all upgrade the stock from neutral to strong buy and I see short sales have been coming down in the last month.   We live in an auction stock market.  Now we have 3 major brokerage firms with 30K to 40K brokers calling several million clients talking about the upgrade.  At the same time the readers of Seeking Alpha, Barchart, MSN Money, Yahoo Finance and Google Finance and many, many readers of other on line sites all reading of the stock's upgrade by several major firms.  Do you really believe that stock will continue to go down in the short run?  <br/><br/>The inverse is also true:  I want to go long a stock and 3 major firms downgrade to under perform and the same brokers and investing sites are spreading the news of the downgrade.  Do you think it will go up in the short term?<br/><br/>Analysts recommendations are just 1 of several dozen indicators I use that collectively give me a picture of the overall investor community's optimism or pessimism about a stock.<br/>No one indictor tells me what to do, but collectively they will have me on the right side of the market]]>
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      <title>Is Facebook An Investable Stock?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Actually I'm no relic.  I find the best method is a combination of both fundamental and technical analysis]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:17:15 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Actually I'm no relic.  I find the best method is a combination of both fundamental and technical analysis]]>
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      <title>Is Facebook An Investable Stock?</title>
      <link>http://seekingalpha.com/article/1107921/comments?source=feed#comment-13608001</link>
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        <![CDATA[Please read the first paragraph of the article.  The premise is an investable stock is a stock in which you have enough information to make an educated decision.  When FB was an IPO you did not have enough info and all investors could do was make a wild guess as to its valuation.]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:07:17 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Please read the first paragraph of the article.  The premise is an investable stock is a stock in which you have enough information to make an educated decision.  When FB was an IPO you did not have enough info and all investors could do was make a wild guess as to its valuation.]]>
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      <title>Is Facebook An Investable Stock?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Rohan 1666 - I guess you just did read the article before you made the comments -- I didn't say to invest, what I said was you needed a certain about of knowledge about a stock before you invest.<br/><br/><br/>Where was I before??   <a rel='nofollow' target='_blank' href='http://bit.ly/RBwxve'>http://bit.ly/RBwxve</a>]]>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:52:33 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Rohan 1666 - I guess you just did read the article before you made the comments -- I didn't say to invest, what I said was you needed a certain about of knowledge about a stock before you invest.<br/><br/><br/>Where was I before??   <a rel='nofollow' target='_blank' href='http://bit.ly/RBwxve'>http://bit.ly/RBwxve</a>]]>
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      <title>Is There An Apple Disconnect?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Funny you ask what is keeping the stock down.  My first pass by the editors was that they said I didn't include enough negative information.  I stuck by my guns and they published the article almost exactly as I orginaly wrote it.<br/>My models do not include capitalization however I try to stay away from stock that don;t trade at least 100K shares a day -- investors need to be able to get out quickly]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:18:17 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Funny you ask what is keeping the stock down.  My first pass by the editors was that they said I didn't include enough negative information.  I stuck by my guns and they published the article almost exactly as I orginaly wrote it.<br/>My models do not include capitalization however I try to stay away from stock that don;t trade at least 100K shares a day -- investors need to be able to get out quickly]]>
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      <title>Gun Stocks Are Falling</title>
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        <![CDATA[Just a reminder that this article was written BEFORE the Sandy Hook tragedy]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 10:41:10 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Just a reminder that this article was written BEFORE the Sandy Hook tragedy]]>
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      <title>Gun Stocks Are Falling</title>
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        <![CDATA[This is a TA article.  The stocks are falling.  Wait till the support level is reached before buying in again.  Don't grab a falling knife.]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:06:21 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[This is a TA article.  The stocks are falling.  Wait till the support level is reached before buying in again.  Don't grab a falling knife.]]>
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      <title>Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Is Still A Buy At This Level</title>
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        <![CDATA[Numbers not emotion should guide your investments]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:54:48 -0500</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Numbers not emotion should guide your investments]]>
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      <title>Pfizer Has A Pipeline Of Products</title>
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        <![CDATA[and reserves to pay if they loose]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:58:06 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[and reserves to pay if they loose]]>
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      <title>Pfizer Has A Pipeline Of Products</title>
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        <![CDATA[thanks]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 15:20:06 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[thanks]]>
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      <title>Amazon Pulling Away From The Station</title>
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        <![CDATA[No but he has a following who can influence the momentum of a stock]]>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:23:46 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[No but he has a following who can influence the momentum of a stock]]>
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      <title>Watson Pharmaceuticals Is A Buy</title>
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        <![CDATA[I have no idea where they got that Value line has P/E at 12.5 with trailing at 13.6]]>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:34:37 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[I have no idea where they got that Value line has P/E at 12.5 with trailing at 13.6]]>
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      <title>Chesapeake Energy Flounders</title>
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        <![CDATA[This is one of the reasons the company is getting out of natural gas and into liquid oil]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:27:58 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[This is one of the reasons the company is getting out of natural gas and into liquid oil]]>
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      <title>Chesapeake Energy Flounders</title>
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        <![CDATA[Maybe you didn't read this part of my conclusion:There are just too many problems to be worked out before any meaningful projections can be made about future revenue and earnings numbers. This is a speculative stock, not a stock of conservative investors to buy. Speculators should watch the stock price and turtle charts to see when the short sellers have placed their cover orders ( which may be soon):]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:24:32 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[Maybe you didn't read this part of my conclusion:There are just too many problems to be worked out before any meaningful projections can be made about future revenue and earnings numbers. This is a speculative stock, not a stock of conservative investors to buy. Speculators should watch the stock price and turtle charts to see when the short sellers have placed their cover orders ( which may be soon):]]>
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      <title>Starbucks May Perk Up Soon</title>
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        <![CDATA[I think GMCR P/E got way out of whack and needed to be corrected.  I recommend a 10/10/10 approach - Find stocks that have projections of at least 10% increase in Revenue and Earnings and have a P/E low enough to project a 10% total return -- There are plenty of those stocks around]]>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:29:00 -0400</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[I think GMCR P/E got way out of whack and needed to be corrected.  I recommend a 10/10/10 approach - Find stocks that have projections of at least 10% increase in Revenue and Earnings and have a P/E low enough to project a 10% total return -- There are plenty of those stocks around]]>
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