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Blog Consolidation Note

David Pinsen — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:40:47 +0000

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 an idea for monetizing a group investment blog focused on small stocks, an idea that I haven’t gotten around to pursuing. Two blogs is probably one and half blogs too many for me by my lonesome. I have diluted myself a little here.

So, here’s what we’re going to do: I’m going to do all my blogging here on Steam Catapult for now, my investment blogging and non-investment blogging. I’ll keep Shadow Stocks parked for now. I may post my new short ideas on Short Screen’s message boards, but if I do that, I’ll at least link to them from [Steam Catapult]

So, in short: just go to Steam Catapult to read my musings about assorted topics, including investing, as the spirit moves me.

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Technical Analysis

David Pinsen — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:24:34 +0000

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Wall Street II trailer

David Pinsen — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:41:17 +0000

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

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More portfolio pruning

David Pinsen — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:52:54 +0000

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 of the biggest positions to the smallest:

AYSI.OB
USEG
BPT
NNLX.PK¹
KSW
TIRTZ.OB
HBM.TO
BRK/B
PNDMF.OB
TINY
HEM.TO
MO

AYSI.OB comprises about 45% of that, followed by USEG at about 12%, BPT at about 10%, NNLX.PK at about 5%, and then downhill from there.

¹Just picked up a few shares of this today. More details on this in the next post.

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Stopped out of USG

David Pinsen — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:23:46 +0000

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 single-digit gain, but my M.O. so far with shorts has been to aim for double digit gains while limiting losses to single digits.

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Star Trek: TNG and Portfolio Armor

David Pinsen — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 02:18:43 +0000

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. Related posts:Free trials of Short Screen and Portfolio Armor For financial professionals, later today. More details on Steam Catapult....Pricing Note [...] Related posts:

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Adding to the OTM put basket

David Pinsen — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 23:55:00 +0000

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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