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Monday February 18, 2008 — Condor Options
The Volatility Edge in Options Trading: New Technical Strategies for Investing in Unstable Markets
Jeff Augen (FT Press: 2008)
Books on options trading generally come in two varieties. First, there are the bloodless, esoteric academic treatises that reach truly substantive and innovative conclusi...
Monday February 18, 2008 — StockWeb
I'd like to publish several stock screeners which are free of charge (for all bold marked tools you can find link on the left under Stock screener section).Let me start with my favourite one which is provided by Finance Yahoo. Basically Yahoo offers two kind of screening based on funadamental anal...
Monday February 18, 2008 — Stock Market Beat
This article is a reprint of my February 11, 2008 RealMoney column
After Cognizant Technology Systems (CTSH) declined sharply upon reporting its third quarter results, I said the stock was looking like a high-growth value trap. Since that article, the stock has declined 5.3%, though Friday’s 15% r...
Monday February 18, 2008 — Stock Market Beat
This article is a guest post by Heather Johnson.
The stock market can be thoroughly intimidating, especially to those who have little experience buying and selling stocks. Investing is an even more daunting enterprise to those who have had a small taste of beginner’s experience, which more often...
Monday February 18, 2008 — StockWeb
Tuesday:Economic: NAEarnings: Fossil (FOSL), Marvel (MVL), Holly (HOC), Wal-Mart (WMT), OfficeMax (OMX), RTI Metals (RTI), Crocs (CROX), Hewlett (HPQ), Nutrisystem (NTRI), Ultra P (UPL), Whole Foods (WFMI)Wednesday:Economic: CPI Core (.3%, .2%), Housing Starts Permits (1.0M, 1.03M), Weekly Crude...
Monday February 18, 2008 — Todd Sullivan's - ValuePlays
The latest estimates have "unlocked" iPhones costing Apple over $1 billion in lost revenue the next 3 years. Apple's (AAPL) ATT (T) tie-up in the US is for another 4 years meaning the company will continue to not realize monthly revenue, estimated at $120 annually per subscriber from phones "unlo...
Monday February 18, 2008 — Cleantech Blog
by Richard T. StuebiThe McKinsey Global Institute -- the think-tank offshoot of my alma-mater, the management consultancy McKinsey Company -- recently released a study claiming annual global investment of $170 billion between now and 2020 would cut greenhouse gas emissions in half, while producin...
Monday February 18, 2008 — Todd Sullivan's - ValuePlays
Wal-Mart (WMT) reports tomorrow and other than the results, there are a host of other questions begging for answers.First the numbers:Estimates are for a profit of $1.02 on revenue of $106.91B. On February 7, Wal-Mart reported disappointing January same store sales and forecast its February same s...
Monday February 18, 2008 — Condor Options
1 - Subprime Explained - Google Docs
Funny explanation of the CDO/bond insurer/subprime mess.
(tags: banks insurers cdo subprime mortgage)
2 - BAE: secret papers reveal threats from Saudi prince | World news | The Guardian
Saudi Arabia’s rulers threatened to make it easier for terrorist...
Sunday February 17, 2008 — StockWeb
GDP grew by 6,9% in last quarter of 2007. For the whole year 2007 change is 6,6% up. Numbers are above analyst estimations which varied between 6,3 - 6,5 %. Improvement was dragged by higher employment (on year to year basis 1,9 % more employed people). Big impact has public health insurance refor...
Sunday February 17, 2008 — Todd Sullivan's - ValuePlays
ConocoPhillips-(COP)= 14.6% Cooper Industries A-(CBE) = 19.0% Genco Shipping Trading-(GNK) = 28.8% HNI Corp-(HNI)= 10.3% Heartland Payment System-(HPY)= 20.0%Honeywell Int'l-(HON)= 10.0%IPC Hldgs Ltd-(IPCR)= 10.0%ITT Corp-(ITT) = 25.0% Wolverine World Wide-(WWW) = 22.2%EnCana Corp-(ECA) = 100.0%C...
Sunday February 17, 2008 — sabrient
Best Performing Filters: January 2008
Best Performing Filters: January 2008
These are the best performing Sabrient filters -- by style within
each market cap -- for the month of January 2008 (for the February
newsletter).
Click here for filter definitions.
LARGE-...
Saturday February 16, 2008 — Condor Options
If you’ve ever used the thinkorswim desktop platform, you may have noticed the little ‘Spread Hacker’ tab in the software. This isn’t a feature that gets talked about much, but it’s fun to play around with. While this may or may not be the original intent of the fea...
Saturday February 16, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
We are reducing our recommendation on UBS AG (UBS) to Hold from Buy. As pre-announced on January 30, 2008, UBS posted a fourth quarter net loss of CHF12.5 billion, the result of CHF15.6 billion write-down in its US residential mortgage portfolio. More importantly, UBS released details (so...
Saturday February 16, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
While Diamond Offshore's (DO) fourth-quarter 2007 earnings came below our estimates (due to high costs and lower jackup utilization), the company announced another $1.25 per share special dividend, after paying a similar $1.25 per share in the last quarter and $4 per share earlier in 2007...
Saturday February 16, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Ambac's (ABK) core 4Q07 operating results were a negative $6.39 per share. The reported net loss was $3.3 billion or a negative $31.85 per share, due to significant writedowns of $5.2 billion on its credit derivatives portfolio. The inability to attract new business (due to rating downgra...
Saturday February 16, 2008 — Condor Options
1 - VIX and More: The VIX, VXV and Volatility Expectations
Launched three months ago, the VXV chart finally has a critical mass of data that makes it easier to identify trends. My interest, however, is not so much the VXV in a vacuum as it is compared to the VIX. Hence the VIX:VXV ratio, which i...
Saturday February 16, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
We continue to rate the shares of Marriott (MAR) a Hold following the release of Q4 financial results. Although we find Marriott's current valuation significantly more intriguing following the pullback of approximately 30% from the highs reached in the spring of 2007, we do not anticipate...
Saturday February 16, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Agrium, Inc. (AGU) is growing through acquisition and incremental expansion of existing operations. The proposed UAP acquisition is likely to drive revenues and profits for Agrium on the back of an expanded product line in the major business segment. On February 13, 2008, Agrium announced...
Saturday February 16, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Alexion Pharmaceuticals (ALXN) develops novel anti-body therapeutics targeting the severe disease states, including autoimmune and cardiovascular disorders, inflammation and cancer. Alexion is a one-drug biotech firm and is currently riding high on the performance of Soliris (eculizumab),...
Saturday February 16, 2008 — sabrient
SixStocks This Market Wants . . .
Here aresix stocks that have the qualities the current market is rewarding:
Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NYSE: NLY)
Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALM)
Collagenex Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: CGPI)
Converted Organics, Inc.
(Nasdaq: COIN)
DRDGOLD Limit...
Saturday February 16, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
While quarterly results in 2006 and 2007 have been above expectations, Strayer Education (STRA) management's guidance for 2007 and 2008 portends continued double-digit growth in EPS. However, single-digit enrollment trends at mature campuses and a rise in the bad debt expense ratio (as th...
Saturday February 16, 2008 — Todd Sullivan's - ValuePlays
Mcmoran Exploration Co (MMR)= $ 8,083,000Celadon Group Inc (CLDN) = $3,831,000Jk Acquisition Corp (JKA) = $3,459,000Amicus Therapeutics Inc (FOLD)=$ 3,169,000Emerson Electric Co (EMR) = $2,108,000Wachovia Corp New (WB)=$ 1,832,000Rofin Sinar Technologies Inc (RSTI) =$1,648,000Unifi In...
Saturday February 16, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
As the only remaining major independent player in the market for Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) used in PCs, NVIDIA (NVDA) is well positioned to benefit from increased graphics requirements with strong momentum in its GeForce products. NVIDIA reported better-than-expected Q4 results and ...
Saturday February 16, 2008 — Zacks.com: Analyst Blog
Ingram Micro, Inc.'s (IM) fourth quarter sales and earnings were ahead of our estimate and the consensus estimates. Even so, management's guidance for the first quarter was well below the market expectations. Despite the company's soft guidance, we think that Ingram Micro will still be ab...