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Eight Trading Superstitions

Every profession has its own idiosyncratic superstitions. In honor of tomorrow being Friday the 13th, I thought this would be a good time to discuss this topic.

Hot Links: Pete Rose, Harvard & SpongeBob SquarePants

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Rally notwithstanding, insider buying down big, insider selling triples.  (PragCap) What on earth is going on at TheStreet.com?  (ZeroHedge) Harvard sold at the bottom.  (Forbes) Matt Taibbi’s Yankees prediction doesn’t quite pan out.  (Clusterstock) Europe to be powered by the Saharan sun.  (NewScientist) Justifying hedgie insider trading is like defending…

The Top 10 Investor Traps According to the NASAA

For 90 years, the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) has been committed to protecting and educating individual investors.  The other day they put out a list of what they believe to be the Top 10 Investor Traps, and I thought they’d done a pretty good job of summarizing some of the major pitfalls that…

Breakfast Links: Housing Bottoms, Car Wars & Pigs in the Hamptons

Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Major firm strategists move around their year-end S&P 500 targets, as if anyone cares what they think anymore.  (BIG) I agree with this one, farewell Geneva asset management biz…do some actual work.  (Minyanville) Bank failures accelerating.  (TBP) Ezra Klein on the new Menu Labeling trend.  (WaPo) Henry Blodget explains the…

TRB Quoted in Crain's NY

Pretty cool stuff… Crain’s NY has written extensively about the bankruptcy boom and what it means for the abundance of restructuring talent we have here in NYC.  They quoted me on my thesis that the lawyer crowd has replaced the finance crowd in many of our best steakhouses. Here’s the piece, from the New York,…

Rise of the Silver Surfer

I have a new sector, a new weapon in my arsenal, an area of the market that I’ve ignored for over 10 years due to the lack of quality pure-plays. I’ve been trading and investing in various gold ideas forever, but a lot has changed with the white metal, and now I’m happy to report…

Market Recap: Punks Jump Up…

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxBvUqLs_eU] The Reformed Broker, AKA Kool G Wrap, here with today’s Market Recap… The Chrysler bankruptcy had virtually zero impact at the open and the Dow quickly gained a triple digit head of steam.  As the day wore on, however, stocks faded and profits were taken.  Speculative juices vanished and as Brand Nubian said, Punks Jumped…

The Ener1 Situation is Exactly Why We Suck

I haven’t made many recommendations for clients in alternative energy stocks because a lot of the names that look commercially viable just seem too far away from profitability or are subject to drastic margin erosion (solar stocks, anyone?). I guess I’d rather be late but at least be involved in something proven. I read about…

Obama Throws a Lightning Round! BUY BUY BUY!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AspJFkzgwq0] “Buying stocks is a potentially good deal if you’ve got a long term perspective.” President Barack Obama, March 3rd, 2009 OMG, the President of the United States just called a bottom in the stock market!  Talking about Price to Earnings multiples and everything! After Obama made the above statement, Henchman Rahm Emanuel started flickering…