Monthly Archives: May 2007

Questions For The New Graduate

May 31, 2007 – 6:21 pm

The questions for you, the new graduate, depend on what you just graduated from. If you’re a new college graduate, the question is “why did you do that?” If you’re a new high school graduate, the question is “have you thought about NOT going to college?” Relax, I’m not going to blow a […]

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Record Closing High on the S&P 500

May 30, 2007 – 7:17 pm

Big woop. The index is still about 1.5% away from the all-time intraday high, and let’s not even talk about the Naz. One could argue that the broad market index has been pretty much slowed since the close of Friday the 18th, moving only 8 points (half a percent) in the last 7 […]

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Cindy Sheehan Has Her Moment of Clarity

May 29, 2007 – 5:35 pm

Cindy Sheehan has had a Moment of Clarity, realizing, among other things, that her son died for nothing, that the system she bought into, and whose values she inculcated into her children, is a bald-faced lie, and that the system is beyond fixing, a “paradigm that is now, I am afraid, carved in immovable, unbendable […]

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Barron’s Buying Opportunity on Jones Soda

May 29, 2007 – 7:40 am

Apparently, Barron’s, a publication that I do not choose to subscribe to, put out a negative piece on Jones Soda (JSDA) this weekend. I will use this as an opportunity to add in some more shares, buying the gap down, limit 19.30. This will make JSDA my biggest position.

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Undeniable Short Setup, One More Time

May 28, 2007 – 5:24 am

A couple of weekends ago, I detailed 104 stocks that met the “undeniable short setup,” described as “a week with (1) light volume, (2) a six-week high, and (3) a close below the open.” I guess a two-week time period is a good evaluation point for a setup that takes six weeks to form.
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