Archive for December, 2011

• Mystery Chart: Bullish or Bearish?
  Posted by ppearlman on December 28th, 2011 at 10:40 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  Would you buy, hold or sell this chart? Share on StockTwits

• Quote of the Day: O.H. Mowrer & The Neurotic Paradox
  Posted by ppearlman on December 28th, 2011 at 3:22 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  The similarities between mankind’s innate tendency to behave irrationally in markets and neurosis always astounds me. Mowrer nails it here some 60+ years ago in [...]

• Guest Post: The Individual Nature of Risk Aversion
  Posted by ppearlman on December 28th, 2011 at 11:12 am, Comments: No comments yet

  This is a guest post by my friend Fred Viole at Ovvo Financial Systems. He’s doing important work in behavioral economics. Please take a few [...]

• Still Holding Boston Beer Co from the IPO
  Posted by ppearlman on December 27th, 2011 at 11:58 am, Comments: No comments yet

  I still own shares of $SAM from the IPO. It was 1995, I was in grad school and the company asked customers to send in [...]

• Man, How Good Were The White Stripes…
  Posted by ppearlman on December 23rd, 2011 at 1:28 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  turn it up… Share on StockTwits

• Quick Take on Yahoo Here: Rumors and Tumors
  Posted by ppearlman on December 22nd, 2011 at 8:48 am, Comments: No comments yet

  Ok. So the game appears to be afoot again. There are reports from multiple sources that the $YHOO board will meet again today to consider a [...]

• Thriving in a Tough Tape II: Judo and Using the Weight of the Market
  Posted by ppearlman on December 21st, 2011 at 8:39 am, Comments: 1 comment

   This is the second part of the Thriving in a Tough Tape series. You can find part 1 here. …the master of Judo never relies [...]

• What’s Your Favorite Stock for 2012?
  Posted by ppearlman on December 20th, 2011 at 2:58 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  What’s your favorite one stock for 2012? Please reply in the comments section of this blog post and include a rationale. I may pick one [...]

• Institutional Journalism and the Race to Zero
  Posted by ppearlman on December 17th, 2011 at 10:27 am, Comments: No comments yet

  As cool as the pale wet leaves  of lily-of-the-valley  She lay beside me in the dawn.  -Ezra Pound Tweeting to a large audience from @StockTwits, [...]

• The Relative Negativity of a Flattish Open
  Posted by ppearlman on December 7th, 2011 at 9:29 am, Comments: No comments yet

  Quick Note: Seems like there is a bunch of negativity on the stream and the tv this morning even as the futures appear to indicate [...]