Archive for October, 2011

I was buying an item the other day and the merchant gave my credit card to his assistant to make a copy of it. I immediately refused, not only that, I stated that he is not allowed to make a copy of credit card because it is in Visa's terms that they're...

Following this week's drop of around 12%, which drove down AMZN $30 from around $236 to $206, one has to wonder: how much is Amazon worth? And is Amazon really worth $94 billion at the current price? Or is worth less? To answer this question, let's...

October 26, 2011 | In: Opinion, Technology

Will Netflix Go Bankrupt?

NFLX is stuck in a downward spiral since July of this year. Let's look at NFLX chart since then (courtesy of Google finance): Figure 1: NFLX chart for the last 6 months. NFLX had a high of $304 back in July of 2011. Today NFLX is trading at a bit less...

October 24, 2011 | In: Trivia

What Is CNN Stock Ticker?

CNN is one of the largest news channel in the US, and most likely the largest in the world. Since CNN is that important, it must have needed investors' money in order to expand, and thus it must be a public company, and thus it must have a stock ticker....

The year 2011 is almost over, and those who bought stocks (especially bank stocks) at the beginning of the year lost a lot of their investments. Stocks, with the exception of few (such as AAPL), were not a good investment for 2011, for many reasons that...

October 18, 2011 | In: General

Where Can You Buy Stocks?

One of the questions that I always get from new investors is: "OK, now I know how the stock market works, how stock prices are set, and I want to join the game! But, I still don't know where I can buy stocks!" The answer to this question is easy: "Just...

I have discussed RIM many times before, stating that the company is doomed, long before everyone else thought that it was. However, I have never discussed, in details, why the RIM is losing market share. Here's why I think RIM is consistently losing...

October 13, 2011 | In: Trivia

What Is the Most Traded Stock?

Following my little post on the most traded ETF, I was curious to know which stock is the most traded one on the US market. Well, immediately I suspected SPY simply because a volume of almost 300 millions shares/day is a lot (there are smaller mature...

Well, 2011 is almost over, there is now less than 3 months until 2012, so the title of the article should have been "What were the hottest stocks in 2011?"... In any case, here's what I think the hottest stocks in 2011 (note that a hot stock does not...

October 11, 2011 | In: General

Why Buy Stocks With No Dividend?

Often, new investors think why would anyone buy stocks that pay no dividends? After all, dividends are how you can make money out of stocks, no? Well, dividends are one way that you can make money out of stocks, there are other ways, mainly selling stocks...

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