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Options Intelligence Report: Put Sellers At Isis Pharma Doubt Extended Downside After Drug Disappointment

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:35:41 GMT

Today's tickers: ISIS, DTV, SINA, XOM, SPWRA, AGO & SINA[More...]

Bret Barakett's Tremblant Capital Group Bets On Technology: 13F Filing Q1 2009

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:15:00 GMT

This is the 1st Quarter 2009 edition of our ongoing hedge fund portfolio tracking series. Before reading this update, make sure you check out the Hedge Fund 13F filings series preface. Next up, we have Tremblant Capital Group. Tremblant is a $3 billion hedge fund based in New York and is run by Bret Barakett, who is a former portfolio manager at Moore Capital Management (the hedge fund run by the great Louis Bacon, whom we also track). If the last name of 'Barakett' sounds familiar, its because his brother, Timothy Barakett, manages fellow hedge fund Atticus Capital, whose portfolio we recently covered. Taken from their site, Tremblant Capital Group's objective is "to achieve superior risk adjust returns[More...]

March 2009 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:21:10 GMT

It seems we had a pretty good month in March. For the first time this year, our net worth actually went up by a rather significant amount with the help from the big rally in the stock market. Excluding house and cars, we had a total of $486,449.83 on March 31, an increase of $40,196.76, or 9%, comparing to a month early.[More...]

Stocks I Bought Recently

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:20:00 GMT

I mentioned early this month that I bought 600 shares of Citigroup (C) on the day when the stock was traded below $1 for the first time ever. From where the stock is traded now (it closed at $3.08/share on March 18, 2009), it seems that my bet is a good one, even though I didn’t get my shares at the lowest price. And C isn’t the only stock I bought recently. In fact, I see the recent sharp decline of stocks as an opportunity to buy. Since February, I have added $4,000 new money into my Scottrade account and used to money to buy more stocks.In addition to Citi, I also snapped up 222 shares of Bank of America (BAC) last month when the stock was hammered by fears of nationalization. When Sirius XM Radio (SIRI) was rumored to seek bankruptcy protection in February, I bought 340 share with the $35 cash[More...]

Earnings Review: March 16, 2009

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:37:42 GMT

Late on Monday, Biolase Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: BLTI) announced that its fourth quarter loss widened to $5.29 million, or 22 cents a share, compared to a loss of $1.15 million, or 5 cents a share, in the prior year quarter.[More...]

Earnings Preview For Mar 16 - 20

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:27:00 GMT

Guess, Inc. (GES) could top expectations. FedEx Corporation (FDX) could disappoint. Adobe Systems (ADBE), Nike (NKE) and Oracle (ORCL) will also report. The earnings calendar is limited this week with just 93 companies confirmed to report. First-quarter earnings season will[More...]

Nice Rally Today Too Bad It Was On Below Average Volume

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:05:00 GMT

Today’s rally, while it probably made you feel all nice and warm on the inside, was still as cold as the grips of a long term bear market. Why? The leadership, silly. The leaders are all still coming from groups that reside in the bottom 25% of industry groups. When you have a real bull market from a bottom you can be FOR SURE that the top 25% of industry groups based on price performance will be leading the way. Right now, there is only one area of leadership, and I am sorry folks that is not going to cut it. That group is the education stocks which are being helped by the only recent IPO out there in LOPE. Besides that we really do not have any amazing group leading. Business Services is such a diversified area that while some stocks look great some look horrible. The facts of a bull market show that in a real bull market rally leading stocks in leading groups help lead the market higher. What we could have here is a bear market[More...]

Stocks Put In A Very Bullish Session Across The Board With One Big Problem: No Volume

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 04:54:00 GMT

Stocks put in a very impressive drive higher as another round of short-squeezing hit investors who were a little too heavily short coming into today. The reason why I would call this another short-squeeze rally is that, once again, volume has fallen on a day where the market rallies an extreme amount. If you are playing the indexes on an intraday or very short term basis, the volume is not important and all you will need to focus on is the price action. Then you either move with the trend and/or use support and resistance on price charts to implement your methodology. However, when it comes to wanting to build stock/option positions over a period of time and reap the huge rewards that come to those who invest with those, you need to see volume expand on the rallies and retreat on the pullbacks before you can feel confident to go all-in long with full margin. Until we find volume showing up on the rallies on the indexes, with pullbacks[More...]

Earnings Review: 12th November

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:06:00 GMT

Late on Wednesday, Crocs Inc. (NASDAQ: CROX) announced a third-quarter net loss of $148 million, or $1.79 a share compared with a profit of $57 million, or 66 cents a share in the corresponding quarter in 2007.[More...]

Selloff On Low Volume Keeps The Bears In The Drivers Seat

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:06:00 GMT

Today was another day of a low volume session where the markets open up higher and subsequently selloff all day long. By the end of the day everything was closing near the lows on low volume. The only good news to the session came at the end when a slight bounce helped take the indexes off the lows. This market might be taxing to a lot of people right now but I have to remind everyone that you can not give up in this market. If you give up in this market environment you can be sure that when the right moment comes and the market turns you will not be there to reap the rewards that the market gives. Just think back to 2000-2002. I remember after 9/11 when everyone was for sure that rally was the start of a new bull. Heck even I thought it might be. But as the rally went on there were not more and more “hot” stock charts setting up and breaking out. That was the warning that the rally might fail. However, so many people were for sure that[More...]

Sina completes sale of shares to holding company

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:45:00 GMT

HARTFORD, Conn. - Sina Corp., an operator of Chinese language Web sites, said Friday it has completed the sale of 5.6 million shares for $180 million to a Virgin Islands holding company.
New-Wave Investment Holding Co. Ltd., a British Virgin Islands company, was established and is controlled by Charles Chao, Sina's president and CEO, and other members of Sina's management.
Sina, based in Shanghai, said it will use the proceeds for acquisitions and general corporate purposes.

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Options Intelligence Report: Put Sellers At Isis Pharma Doubt Extended Downside After Drug Disappointment

Bret Barakett's Tremblant Capital Group Bets On Technology: 13F Filing Q1 2009

March 2009 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth

Stocks I Bought Recently

Earnings Review: March 16, 2009

Earnings Preview For Mar 16 - 20

Nice Rally Today Too Bad It Was On Below Average Volume

Stocks Put In A Very Bullish Session Across The Board With One Big Problem: No Volume

Earnings Review: 12th November

Selloff On Low Volume Keeps The Bears In The Drivers Seat

Sina completes sale of shares to holding company

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