Archive for December, 2009

• Happy New Year…Let's Keep it Simple in 2010
  Posted by Howard on December 30th, 2009 at 11:16 pm, Comments: 24 comments

  Life is difficult. That’s how ‘The Road Less Travelled ‘ starts out and that is pretty much the whole story. I accepted the ‘Life is [...]

• My Decade…Economically Speaking
  Posted by Howard on December 30th, 2009 at 12:08 am, Comments: 47 comments

  Paul Krugman of the New York Times is calling this economic decade ‘The Big Zero ‘. It was a decade in which nothing good happened, [...]

• 'Too Slick to Succeed?'…Not In America Baby!
  Posted by Howard on December 28th, 2009 at 11:41 pm, Comments: 3 comments

  Ponzi schemes are at all-time highs according to the Associated Press . Ponzi schemes, named for infamous swindler Charles Ponzi, are extremely simple: Investors attracted [...]

• Overheard on StockTwits: $AMZN and $AAPL Win, $T FAIL
  Posted by Howard on December 28th, 2009 at 2:57 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  Each day we dive into the StockTwits stream and pull out the morning pearls of wisdom.  Here’s what we found today:

• The Top 100 Ticker Symbols of 2009 on Stocktwits
  Posted by Howard on December 28th, 2009 at 9:22 am, Comments: 12 comments

  Data, data, data…that’s the drumroll of the new web. Soren has been hard at work behind the scenes at Stocktwits, looking at the data, organizing [...]

• The Year 2010…The 10 is for Page 10
  Posted by Howard on December 27th, 2009 at 8:35 am, Comments: 43 comments

  Everyone is out with their predictions for 2010 $twentyten and as usual, mine are just to assume most trends will continue. I like Amazon, Apple, [...]

• To Think….We Used to Smoke on Airplanes
  Posted by Howard on December 26th, 2009 at 5:25 pm, Comments: 2 comments

  It seems like yesterday that my dad would get all hopped out about being in the last row before the smoking section, something many parents [...]

• Ally Bank…Smart, But Too Slick.
  Posted by Howard on December 25th, 2009 at 10:10 am, Comments: 12 comments

  I want a new bank system and fresh ideas and at first glance ALLY could be offering it. It is impossible to have missed their [...]

• The Everyday IS Christmas Portfolio – Long Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL) and Gold (GLD)…Short US Government (Church)
  Posted by Howard on December 25th, 2009 at 9:41 am, Comments: No comments yet

  No need for a long blog post, just look around today and you will see the trade and trend that will persist in 2010. Have [...]

• When I was a Kid…
  Posted by Howard on December 24th, 2009 at 12:25 am, Comments: 13 comments

  Our Grandparents had TWO World Wars and a depression. You had to walk 7 miles through snowstorms to buy a BOOK. My generation has Alan [...]

• Overheard on StockTwits: DICK Bove is Kim Kardashian
  Posted by Howard on December 23rd, 2009 at 11:00 am, Comments: No comments yet

  Each day we mine the StockTwits stream and pull out what people are talking about. Here’s today’s Overheard on Stocktwits:

• Happy Holidays from Stocktwits
  Posted by Howard on December 23rd, 2009 at 1:32 am, Comments: 9 comments

  We laughed, we cried, we survived. If you killed it in 2009, you deserve the accolades.  If you survived 2009 and can smile, you are [...]

• Overheard on StockTwits: Emerging Weakness and a Market Hororscope
  Posted by Howard on December 22nd, 2009 at 4:47 pm, Comments: 2 comments

  Each day we wade into the StockTwits stream and pull out the pearls of widsom. Here’s what we found today:

• Hey Internet (Google, Twitter, Facebook)…There is NO Such Thing as 'Open'…Just 'Open Enough'
  Posted by Howard on December 21st, 2009 at 10:17 pm, Comments: 18 comments

  The whole ‘Open’ internet meme has always been something I try to avoid because I believe it’s a circle jerk. If you have an open [...]

• Overheard on StockTwits: Santa Rally and New Leadership
  Posted by Howard on December 21st, 2009 at 11:03 am, Comments: 1 comment

  Each day we jump into the StockTwits stream and pull out the morning greatness. Here’s what we found today: