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Rio Tinto Targets 10% of World Potash Market

A little matter of a US Steel Workers strike is a matter for concern ... or don't the other posters read anything but good news that supports their pollyanish view of POT?

Happy Days for Panera - Cramer's Mad Money (7/23/08)

I wish I could simply block all blatherings about Cramer The Toilet Bug regardless of what stock he is manipulating. People should realise that the jerk is gaming the market for his own benefit. Cramer tries to have his infantile mindless minions drive a stock price up which he then shorts. He tries to have the same mindless sychophants drive a stock down after he has sold so he can buy it back. If Oprah had any brains she would get in the game and recommend stocks the same way.

Apple Investors Nervous as Earnings Call Approaches

Apple Heavy - IMPLIED profanity!!!! YOW!! THAT is a real howler. You must be one dogmatic, narrow minded, sanctimonious, piece of ... ummm ... work ... Yeah that's it! Piece of work! Why don't you drag your Heavy over to where the other anal retentives are cooperating in a constructive manner by chanting soothing non-informative blather that you seem to need. BLEH!

Suncor, US Bancorp and MasterCard: Using a Stop Loss When Investing

Laying on your back in a park on a fine summer day watching the clouds move by and looking for images of bunnies, boats, and horsies is much more pleasant. Looking for PREDICTIVE price patterns in a price chart is a fools game intended for those that are clueless about the price generation process. Nonetheless - have a nice day and thanks for playing!

Using the Magic Formula With Dividend Stocks

For those that are interested the so called "magic" formula is:

Formula
Establish a minimum market capitalization (usually greater than $50 million).
Exclude utility and financial stocks
Exclude foreign companies (American Depositary Receipts)
Determine company's earnings yield = EBIT / enterprise value.
Determine company's return on capital = EBIT / (Net fixed assets + working capital)
Rank all companies above chosen market capitalization by highest earnings yield and highest return on capital (ranked as percentages).
Invest in 20-30 highest ranked companies, accumulating 2-3 positions per month over a 12-month period.
Re-balance portfolio once per year, selling losers one week before the year-mark and winners one week after the year mark.
Continue over long-term (3-5 year) period

DUH!

Why I'm Cutting Some Fertilizer Exposure

I have no reason to read your "blog" anymore. Clearly you are clueless. Have a nice day.

20 Guidelines for the Individual Investor

"Calisdad" is bothered by faceless internet users that take "shots" at people they do not even know .... yadda yadda ..."

HA! Anybody that has the arrogance to think that they NEED to dispense their investing "wisdom" to the masses via an unsolicited blog has advertised for scrutiny and derision if they spout nonsense. I suspect that "calisdad" is a relative of Gorski. However, I agree with other posters that the blog was a waste of bandwidth. If one is going to express an opinion then one should have something to say

Solution to the Global Petroleum Crisis

Nonsense. The blogger displays a lack of understanding. The largest cause for the oil price spike is The Fed trashing the value of the dollar with unnaturally low interest rates. The reason they are doing this is because of the latent (but growing) and serious effects of The Shrub's inability to halt the exploding Federal Deficit. As long as the dollar continues to be anemic oil prices will remain high for HOLDERS OF DOLLARS. Oil is priced in DOLLARS.

The Hindenburg Omen: Crash Signal In Play

NONSENSE!!! You cannot apply "Shannon Information Theory" to time series like financial data. The first and most simple reason is what is called autocorrelation. The probability of an event is NOT independent of previous events. This "application" of what is meant to be a rigorous scientific methodology is typical of the clueless. "Scientific" creationism comes to mind as another example. What is next? Applying wavelets (because they 'sound' scientific and kewl) to financial data? When your only tool is a hammer - all the world is a nail.

Inside the iPhone: Who's Making What

Buy the rumor sell the news. It is the historically profitable way to play AAPL .

PotashCorp and Mosaic: Get Your Orders Ready

NONSENSE!! There are so many reasons why looking for "predictive" price patterns in a chart is a losing exercise that I do not know where to begin. Looking for patterns in clouds as they float by is at least relaxing. Change the time scale and you change the "pattern". What would become of all this chart baloney if stocks traded 24 hrs/day and there were no open and close prices on which to draw the little lines? Would stock values be different? Would their price movements change behaviour? I think not but the "charts" sure would. Believe this crapola at your own risk.

Lowest P/E Ratios in the Nasdaq 100

The problem with GRMN is that all of their functionalities can and will be imported into or imbedded into cell phones. Unless GRMN plans on getting into telecom they have a bleak future. Maybe they can develop some code or apps for the i-phone and forestall the inevitable.

Overbought and Oversold Stocks That Typically Reverse at Similar Levels

There is nothing significant about a 50 day moving average. In fact, a 50 day MA represents, merely, what was happening with the price TWENTY FIVE DAYS AGO. Further, standard deviations have meaning ONLY with data that is independent and "normally" distributed. Stock prices are irrefutably NOT independent. This sort of "analysis" only reinforces the dictum: "When your only tool is a hammer; all the world's a nail".

No Uptick Rule: A Convenient Scapegoat?

My respect for your opinion dropped a couple of notches when you associated yourself that Toilet Bug Cramer. Why contaminate yourself by mentioning that self-serving ego maniac? sad ... very sad

Is Anyone Benefiting From Global Inflation?

Traditionally, the only people/entities that benefit from inflation are those who have a lot of debt (for obvious reasons). Inflation thus benfits The US gov or (in principle) the US tax payer.