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On Friday, we laid my wife’s grandfather to rest after he spent 98 years making this planet and his community a better place. He was a great family man, business man and banker. After a time working the railroads, running a liquor store and other jobs durin and then
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Thursday morning I was catching up with an old friend of mine who’s presently an executive at a publicly-traded biotech firm who used to run his biotech hedge fund next door to my old tech hedge fund on the 40th floor of the Texaco Building in midtown. When I
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Markets are less volatile than they were a month ago, but there’s still little complacency out there. Netflix reported very strong subscriber growth and the company has long said 2017 and on is when they will get to “material profitability” and so it goes. 150mm total global subscriber base
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Q. I trust your judgement but I don’t understand how you turned more bullish suddenly. All the factors (noise) like Fed interest rate hike, China market, Oil price drop, Strong US dollar which are important to many in market haven’t changed much. Also if you ask who is
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I’m going to make a few trades here today. Remember when the DJIA was down 1000 and hit its August lows and I wrote: Just scale into some more long exposure while others are panicking. That’s exactly what I’ll be doing this morning as I nibble on
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I’m revisiting two stocks I’ve owned before, putting them back into the portfolio today. And I explain why I chose against adding a third name. I want to diversify the portfolio away from being so tech-centric and add a new Food Revolution name to the portfolio here. Trading
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It’s been two months since that morning when $DJIA was down 1000 points at the open and we were buying into the panic. The hardest trade to make that morning was to buy more. I was sitting in a doctor’s office in Albuquerque waiting for a specialist to
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Q. It seems stocks want to go up at the moment, What are the chances to test the previous low set in late August? Is it safe to begin adding stocks from here? A. Tough, tough questions you ask. The markets have had a nearly 5% straight up move since
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I’ve barely got my toe in the water as Axogen has spiked 15% since my note went out this morning, and, well, therein lies one of the biggest reasons that microcaps are so popular amongst the hypesters and scammers — it doesn’t take much to make a microcap stock
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There’s a lot of consolidation out there in the broader markets and in technology in particular and in semiconductor stocks specifically. Two of our own positions, EZCH and SYNA are up big in the last week on consolidation moves. EZCH is being bought by an Israeli competitor and SYNA
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Just barely more than one trading day ago, on last Friday, the $DJIA was at 16,000 again and many stocks were hitting new 52-week lows. Aren’t you glad you weren’t panicking into the fearful market sell-off when those employment numbers that were off by rounding errors Friday
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Q. I have a position in $BIIB as it has been hit hard the last year and is down 40% or so from its high. I feel it has a great pipeline and felt this would be a good biotech to start a position in while it was being punished.
