There are few stocks that I haven’t blogged about in a while. These aren’t big positions for me and they don’t interest me much now. They aren’t conviction picks for me now, just stocks I bought a few years ago and I had mostly held onto1 since then. I went through my accounts late Wednesday [...]

Back on January 19th, when the Dow closed above 10,700, I posted this on the Short Screen message boards,
Had limit orders in for puts on two companies I found on Short Screen’s screener. One idea behind my Short Screen put basket is that when the market corrects, I expect financially-distressed stocks will fall further [...]

The company announced today that it expected its pretax profit for its fiscal first quarter 2010 (which corresponds to the fourth calendar quarter of 2009) to be about $2.24 million (or about 12.9 cents per share). Looks like this could be about 8 cents in after tax profits for the quarter.

There has been some caterwauling lately about the relative paucity of press releases by Alloy Steel International (OTC BB: AYSI.OB) on the stock’s Yahoo and Investor Hub message boards. Some of this caterwauling seems to have been emanating from disgruntled former shareholders who dumped the stock after the company’s 10-k , which featured lower-than-expected Q4 [...]