Category: Shorts

Revisiting an Altman Z”-score pairs trade

Back in January, on the old blog, I mentioned this Altman Z”-score pairs trade:
As of Friday’s close, Short Screen showed an Altman Z”-Score of -0.13 for Trico Marine Services (Nasdaq: TRMA) and an Altman Z”-score of 9 for Oceaneering International (NYSE: OII). Recall that Z”-scores below 1.1 indicate financial distress and risk of bankruptcy, [...]

Short Screen prices going up for new members

Effective as soon as my developers implement the changes (most likely, within the next day or two), the premium membership fee on Short Screen is going up from $14 per month to $30 per month for new members. Current members will be grandfathered and continue paying their current membership fee.

Short Screen updates

On Steam Catapult, a summary of recent changes to the site.

Comment contest winners

Comment contest winners are listed on Steam Catapult (Philippe, you’re one of the winners, so be sure to click over there).
Sorry for the paucity of posts here recently. I was thinking of buying another speculative stock this week, but held off on that, so I didn’t post about it. Perhaps I will add a short [...]

iHub’s Matt Brown pleads guilty to securities fraud

Details on here on Steam Catapult.

Free trials of Short Screen and Portfolio Armor

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

That didn’t work

“That” being shorting Brigham Exploration Co. (Nasdaq: BEXP) at $13.11 on 1/28. As I mentioned at the time, shorting BEXP was sort of a pairs trade in that I was already long U.S. Energy Corp (Nasdaq: USEG), which is participating in a series of oil wells with BEXP in the Bakken formation. After the close [...]

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