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The words risky and dangerous are often used interchangeably in the trading world, but there is a substantial difference between the two: Risky stocks are those stocks that you believe in, while most of the market doesn't. Risky stocks are typically...

Google took a surprising decision last Thursday: Eric Schmidt will no longer be the CEO of Google as of April of 2011 (which means he still has just a little over two months). Eric will be replaced by Larry Page, a Google co-founder. In less than a...

Currently there is so much excitement among investors about the potential of social networks. But are social networks a good investment? To answer this question, let's examine the social networks, and other related web products that emerged (and maybe...

When I first started trading, I didn't know what shorting was. Shortly afterward, when I was buying stocks, I saw, under the list of choices (I wanted to use the word options but I don't want to confuse readers) that I have, something called "Sell Short"....

...and possibly earlier! Take a look at the following chart, courtesy of compete.com: Facebook vs Google - Year over Year While Google's US traffic has decreased by almost 1.8% year over year, Facebook's US traffic has increased by a whopping 21%....

I learned 2 things since I first started trading: 1- What goes up will go down (and vice versa). 2- BAC can be a dangerous stock. I sold all of my BAC shares by the end of last month, at around $13.30. Almost a week later, the stock went up a buck,...

January 19, 2011 | In: Energy

Is RIG Overvalued?

RIG, as I've stated before, is one of my favorite stocks. A month ago, I argued that it was undervalued, along with other offshore drilling stocks, but is it still undervalued? Is it not, at the current price of over $80, a bit overvalued? Let's...

We currently live in an age of IPO fiesta when it comes to social websites. Everyone wants to go public, some even want to go public without really going public. Who cares if the company is making money or not, or if the company needs the money or not, or...

It's been a long time since I traded AAPL, a stock that I think is overvalued, yet still "swallowable", at the current price of around $350 (an all time high). But now that Steve Jobs is about to take a medical leave, is the $350 price tag for this...

January 7, 2011 | In: Financial

AIB: All the Way to a Penny

Even in this fresh start of the year, where most financials are going up and breaking new highs on very high volume, AIB is determined to resist this upward trend, and continue its decline, all the way to a penny. The last time the stock saw a value above...