Gordon Gekko was famous for the line…’Greed is Good’. One of my fave lines in a movie – ever. Business 2.0 has a great article on Failure and start-ups . Hat tip Brad . In the end, if you have the right attitude, peer group, and insight, failure is good. If not, well…you become these …
From: February 2007
Was just the 'IDEA' of a Wallstrip Dow 13,000 show the Kiss of Death….Nah!
I bugged the Wallstrip crew to get a feel for the bullishness and they hit the street for a Dow 13,000 show last week. We wanted to know when! Funny stuff as usual from the citizens. Who knew that a 400 plus point drop in the DOW and a 9 percent decline in China awaited …
Buzztracker and Wallstrip
Alan Warms is working hard to create a deep topical Buzztracker for the Web. It’s way cool. He is developing the feature set that will allow deeper web research on a stock covered on the show and their key products. He is crawling a list of blogs a few hundred deep in the finance sector …
Finger CRACK – Research in Motion (RIMM) is Back on Wallstrip
It’s great. It has no peers for mobile email and design. The phone sucks. The 8800 is getting rave reviews from my friends (Cingular sucks and will always suck) . The phone will still suck. Oh well. It’s finger crack on Wallstrip ! Our manhhod can be challenged in a ‘crackberry’ typing race. There is …
Trading Curbs are for Wimps and I long for the Old Days
I mentioned earlier that Trading Curbs suck. Slows down the panic process and it’s like training wheels for idiots using leverage. If the Dow needs to drop 3,000 points to shake out weak hands, let it. If I am eating lunch…I don’t want to know. I don’t trust the other idiots in the market and …
Black Tuesday
It’s official. It’s Black and it’s Tuesday. I was in meetings today and missed the main action. I have now been out of the office on all the big Black days. I was wearing a black golf shirt though. My trend following friends at Blackstar just sent me this nugget: Today was the 3rd largest …
NING launches for Social Networks and Valleywag forgets Keri Murphy
I think it’s pretty cool . What do you think? Lindsay is kicking some butt in the ‘Hot News Babe’ Valleywag contest. Please remember to vote . In all the excitement of the markets and Lindsay’s romp, I forgot to mention that Golfnow’s Keri Murphy was dissed and not included.
Kissing profits GOODBYE
On horrible days like today for those long….At least you don’t look like me :) . No hiding the losses today for us trend followers. WHOOOOO MAMA. Nothing funny about people losing money especially when it’s your own. But Let’s face it, Chinese IPO’s a dime a dozen, and Brazil and Mexico ETF’s behaving like …
China clamping down on Speculation? The real news is the US Dollar reaction
It is now the largest decline in a decade. Big Woop. It’s a fart. The index was up way over 120 percent last year. No doubt, trend followers like myself are hurt on days like today. That’s why I have a dog :) . As I wrote this morninbg, it’s the move in Gold and …
China DID Blow a Top
Last night China was down 9 percent. The smart money has been selling. It’s good fot the shorts and great for CNBC. They have had nothing but Cramer to help with ratings. Now there is a chance that one of the old timers gets punched on the exchange floor. I may just watch today. Bob …