I picked up a few shares of this company today, Nanologix (Pink Sheets: NNLX.PK). I alluded to this company in a post on the old blog back in December (“The limits of ‘buy what you know’”). As I mentioned in that post, a fellow AYSI shareholder (“Barry B”) brought this company to my attention. He [...]

More stop limit orders were triggered since my first post about portfolio pruning, so the detritus of old positions I had in PFE, FTO, FIG, and another stock or two got shaken out. Now I’m down to owning 12 stocks, but I may have fewer than 10 soon. Here’s what I have now, in order [...]

For financial professionals, later today. More details on Steam Catapult.

For a loss of 6.8%. I mentioned in a previous post that I had shorted USG (NYSE: USG) at $12.45. Initially, I had set a stop buy order a little less than 10% above that price, but when the stock dropped below $12, I tightened up my stop. I could have covered there for a [...]

First, John Authers in the Financial Times: How baby boomers lead bear market by the nose. In that column, Authers refers to a Barclays study about stock market bubbles, the gist of which was that equity market valuations were driven by demographics. Barclays found a strong correlation between cyclically adjusted P/E ratios and the ratio [...]

I used a Star Trek: The Next Generation reference in an e-mail to my technical consultant about Portfolio Armor, and ran with that theme in this post on Steam Catapult: Star Trek: TNG and Portfolio Armor.

I mentioned on the Short Screen message boards a little earlier that I picked up some of the $12.50 strike SEP 10 Puts on Stone Energy Corp. (NYSE: SGY) today at $1.30 each. According to the Altman screener on Short Screen, SGY is one of the 50 most financially distressed companies among those with share [...]