It's that time of the year again, where everyone is closing the previous year (financially) and preparing for the tax season. As stock investors, we know that we have to pay taxes on our capital gains from our stock trading. In this post, I will explain...
2011 has ended, and many companies that were good are now bad - really, really bad! Now we all know the main reason of why good companies go bad: incompetent management, and by management here I mean top level executives, as in CEOs. But who were the...
January 11, 2012 | In: Lists
In this article, I will list the top 10 most hated stocks in American markets, and why they're hated... The list is ordered alphabatecially, and not by the hate level.
1. AIG: AIG is the most treacherous stock every. You follow the trend and you buy...
We're now in the beginning of January 2012, and the January Effect is now set to take place: stocks that should not go up will go up, merely because those who have sold them back in December will buy them back in January. The January Effect will...
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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...
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...
I have written before about Netflix, thinking the stock was way overvalued at $132 a share. Of course, whoever reads the article now will laugh, since the stock is now trading at $210!
Do I still stick to what I've said before? Absolutely, I think now...
Many beginners in the stock market, as well as would be part-time stock traders, want to know who sets the price of stocks. They think that there's an entity/organization who is responsible of setting the price of a stock. Now while stocks in the US are...
I have listed yesterday the top 100 stocks with the highest short interest ratio, and in the post, I've briefly discussed the concept of a short squeeze, I would like to discuss it more. I will start with the definition of a short squeeze, and then I will...
Before writing this post, I would like to stress the point that a good company does not necessarily mean that its stock is good, but a good stock is definitely the sign of a good company (PS: I don't think NFLX is a good stock).
Now what are the...