Posted by 28 February 2005

Mark Cuban on (Naked) Shorting

Your boy Cubes (as the guys on PTI would say) just wrote a little dissertation about short selling on his blog. The post is mainly about naked shorting but also has comments about just plain old, legal, shorting as well. I basically agree with everything Cuban has to say. Here are some key points: I [...]

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Posted by 28 February 2005

Watchlist for February 28, 2005

It may not seem (feel) like it but the S&P 500 actually made a new closing high for the calendar year and it just a couple of points away from its 2004 high. So while the Nasdaq is still 5% off of its 2005 high there is a lot of money being put to work. [...]

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Posted by 27 February 2005

Chart Request: Google, Inc. (GOOG)

I just got a request for a chart of the ever-popular Google. Earlier this month I said I’d look for a long entry unless it closed under $200, which it did 3 days later. I’m decidedly neutral on GOOG right now as it sits in the middle of its 4-month range. The one play that [...]

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Posted by 27 February 2005

Chart Request: eBay (EBAY)

eBay is about to come out of an ascending triangle that it’s been forming for about 5 weeks. I guess one could just play the break, long or short, depending on which way it breaks but personally I wouldn’t want to be long eBay as long as it’s under its 50 and 200-day moving averages.

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Posted by 26 February 2005

Chart Request: NVIDIA (NVDA)

This is a stock that shook me out a couple of times last year. One of those stocks that I just knew was going higher but I couldn’t ever hold on to it. I’m glad that somebody nailed it though. Com sent the following request for a chart of NVDA: I’ve been long in NVDA [...]

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