Category: Investing

Contest updates

Thanks again to those of you who voted for Portfolio Armor for iPhone in the StreetApps Challenge. We’re over 50 votes (52 right now), so I owe you guys a 1990s flashback post. I’ll try to get that one up by EOD tomorrow, travel permitting. If you haven’t voted yet, you do so by clicking [...]

Bad day for AYSI

I mentioned this on Short Screen earlier today:
I mentioned last week that I bought a few more shares of this company at $1.75 ( http://shortscreen.com… ). The company filed a disappointing quarter today, with a steep sequential drop in earnings, to 2.1 cents per share, from 6.4 cents per share in the previous quarter. Gross [...]

One that got away

A friend who works in the industry had spoken positively about Trubion Pharmaceuticals a few months back, and I added it to my watch list, figuring it I might buy after a significant market correction. After the close today, the company announced it was getting bought out by Emergent BioSolutions. It was up ~50% after [...]

Another tech IPO boom?

Fred Wilson, who I think has taken more vacations in the last year than Michelle Obama (off the top of my head, for Fred: Buenos Aires, Vail, Paris, someplace in Italy), hopes the Skype IPO will be the one to “get things going again.” Maybe. But when early investors (the smart/lucky money) are selling, someone [...]

A stripper’s lament

Sorry for the recent dry spell here. The dieting & exercising had me a little tired last week (dropped another 5 lbs, after dropping none the previous week) and I wasn’t too motivated to blog. I started to write a “pox on both their houses” post about the set-to-expire Bush tax cuts, but lost interest [...]

Links and thoughts for 7.30.10

A few more thoughts and links, but first, if you haven’t had a chance to vote for the Portfolio Armor iPhone app in the Thomson Reuters StreetApps Challenge, please take a few seconds to do so here. I know some of you reading this haven’t voted yet, so get to it. Thanks a lot.
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A few thoughts and links for 7.29.10

A few thoughts and links, but first, if you haven’t had a chance to vote for the Portfolio Armor iPhone app in the Thomson Reuters StreetApps Challenge, please take a few seconds to do so here. Thanks a lot.
– Batesian Mimicry Explanation of Business Cycles. Fascinating post by Eric Falkenstein. Worth reading in [...]

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