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Blog Consolidation Note

I’m going to consolidate my investment-related and non-investment-related posts on Steam Catapult for now. As I noted in the comment thread of a recent post there (“I’m not as good as I once was”),
I started Shadow Stocks partly because I had negotiated a twofer deal with my logo designer, and partly because I had [...]

Technical Analysis

It’s worth checking out the comments about technical analysis in this thread on GuruFocus by a poster going by the name “Eboro”.

Wall Street II trailer

My favorite part is where Gekko gets his mobile phone back.

More portfolio pruning

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 [...]

Stopped out of USG

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 [...]

Star Trek: TNG and Portfolio Armor

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.

Adding to the OTM put basket

Taking advantage of the up day today, I placed limit orders for puts on a couple of stocks with Altman scores in the distress zone. One of those orders got filled today: I picked up a few contracts of the $5 strike AUG 10 puts on Republic Airways Holdings (Nasdaq: RJET) for $0.85 each.

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