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Since the launch of the Kindle Fire, I am reading everywhere that Amazon will lose 50$ per unit. The reaction to this from some of the smartest guys on my stream is negative and questioning the strategy and the economics of taking losses on the hardware. Those who are bullish argue that Amazon will…
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Much to do today from those criticizing new debit card fees on the way from $BAC, $WFC, $JPM and others. While I applaud John Welsh for pulling money from a bank he was dissatisfied with, most will not act so assertively. People remain with the same bank for years and changing is a pain in the…
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I’m mostly posting this video because I love seeing the Orioles spoil the Red Sox season in one inning even though they finished the year at the bottom of the AL East. I also love that the guy filmed his tv with a video camera. But most of all I love how the Orioles…
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This morning I spent some time doing a webinar in conjunction with SFO Magazine focused on how to use StockTwits to discover trade ideas and great traders to follow. Thanks again to Michelle Gebhardt and the great SFO team for having me. You can watch it here:
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Good morning kids. On Wednesday, September 28 at 11:30AM Eastern, I will present a webinar entitled How StockTwits Can Help You Trade Better in conjunction with SFO Magazine. You will get the lowdown on how to find the best traders on StockTwits who share their ideas openly and how to zero in on the…
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Whichever the way the wind blows, Whichever the way the world goes, Is perfectly all right with me! – Smullyan When you don’t care about missing something, it makes it so much easier not to miss it. This is natural law or Taoist as Smullyan might say. Some are born understanding this while some…
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The above chart shows the long term global Google Trends for keyword gold for both search volume and news reference volume. The top table showing search volume is based on relative scaling meaning that the data is scaled to the average search traffic for your term (represented as 1.0). The spikes from mid 2008…
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I need a great name for this wine. My wife and I made a case of it last year with friends at California Wine Works and we finally bottled it recently. We will need to wait another year before we can drink it but I would love suggestions and even label designs. If we…
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Thanks to Lou Kerner at Wedbush for the permission to blog the excellent report he and Michael Silverstein put together. The latest Second Internet Research Report from Wedbush came out this past week and while the public markets were crashy some might have overlooked the critical data and analysis relating to the social web…
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Forensic psychologists have learned that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Those with a criminal history are most likely to run afoul of the law again. For technicians historic price behavior similarly provides clues to the future. Over the past month, 100s of $GLD charts have been posted to Chartly some…