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Popped into a Pier 1 Imports yesterday and it was a little nicer than the last time I was there back in the day. Here’s Aaron perusing the baubles and shmaubles. Still though $PIR remains a chachkee store So it is so much more intriguing to check the recovery in the stock since it…
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Earlier this week, I attended Ritholtz’s Big Picture Conference. Its my favorite event every year because the quality of the speakers is high, the audience is smart but Barry doesnt take it all too seriously. Among the speakers, Michael Belkin, hipsterquantgenius & author of the Belkin Report, dropped this chart on page 41 of the…
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Sat down with James Altucher yesterday to discuss the Vringo ($VRNG) vs Google ($GOOG) case. As I pointed out yesterday, main stream media is under covering this story while market participants are focusing on it like crazy.
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It is incredible that I am still not hearing much about the $VRNG vs $GOOG story in the mainstream financial press. I guess they don’t get it or they believe that $VRNG is too small of a company or whatever. Meanwhile, the level of social momentum in this name on StockTwits has been truly…
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On StockTwits, @FitzStock2004 holds court on $AAPL. He has been dead on which may or may not continue but you have to hand it to him and, if you are involved, watch what he is saying and showing us on the StockTwits Charts Stream. Behind the attitude and bluster (and he’s got plenty of…
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This Sunday morning at 10AM ET, I will discuss social media and trading at the T3 Live Super Conference at the Marriot Marquis in Times Square. Social media tools are being employed by market participants around the globe in order to gather and process information faster, share trade ideas, vet strategies and learn. I will teach…
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At the Value Investing Congress, the big media stories involve who the big guys are smacking down – Einhorn talking short $CMG or Buckley short $SPLK. But some of the smartest themes unfold without the sex appeal, like landholding companies $HHC, $ALEX and $BPO. These are great misunderstood stories and I was lucky enough…
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People recall the beginning of the Iraq War in the Spring of 2003 in many ways but few at the time thought of it as the bullish sign post it turned out to be. Essentially the SP500 doubled from the start of the war to the peak 5.5 years later. That’s the way it…
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My pal Eric Jackson wrote a sharp piece comparing Facebook & Twitter over @ Forbes. Eric has been negative $FB since before it was in and right as Spring rain about it. Most recently, Eric riffs on how Twitter is already bigger than $FB and he focuses on mobile ad revenue and Twitter being the…