I learned the game of hearts the summer I travelled through Europe and Israel during the summer of ’89. My friends Abe and Dan taught Rob and I the game and we were addicted. I was fascintaed by the ability to ‘shoot the moon‘, the ability to leave everyone else holding the bag. If I …

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I have wanted to write the perfect post on investing for beginners from day one of this blog. It would be so good that experts alike would point to it. I would be flown around the world and only release my thoughts to people that ‘walked across coals’ and paid $100,000 for a weekend. My …

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Today, it sits at a $245 billion market cap and doubled it’s bottom line since 2007. It is not front page news. What will it take to get there: 1. A few breaks of course (maybe Apple screws up), but more likely they out innovate on software and even hardware. 2. The government will have …

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Ivan and I are hard at work figuring out the right home and style for ‘Momentum Monday’ as we try to take up the presentation a notch.. I love the set we now have but there is still lot’s to do to get comfortable around the length of time, the amount of stocks we should …

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The subject of growth in startups is up for discussion recently with Paul Graham starting and now Fred Wilson adding to it. They are both must reads and you should bookmark them.   Of course, these are not the definitive and only voices on the subject, but with their track records and focus, they are …

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In October 2009, I had some advice for Twitter. Since I don’t have much time for sports anymore, I keep my mouth shut about it and stick to pestering the CEO’s of Companies I am passionate about, from an investing, management and competitive standpoint. The best part of blogging about my investments is how I …

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It’s Ally Bank. WTF? Apple is stupid. Investing in nice products? Building stuff in China? Idiots. Ally Bank is cool. No sweat. Couple of phones, a few Yahoo ads… Shazam! Banking with Ally Means super awesome 2 year CD rates of…you guessed it…1.14 percent. Sign me the f#@k up for that goodness. Obviously the good …

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Today, we are excited to announce a new feature that will make messaging more meaningful and make the streams more interesting and alive at just a glance. The StockTwits Social Sentiment Indicator is a toggle on the StockTwits message box that allows signed in contributors to communicate their view (Bullish or Bearish) on any specific …

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Two Score and 7 years ago I was born in Toronto. Jesus. H. Christ. That’s just old. Don’t get me wrong, mr brain feels young. Yesterday, my son and I were playing with wax and fire at the Rosh Hashannah table and I was teaching him how to fake fart. But, once I took the …

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Maybe QE three will be the top, but it looks like we steamrolled the shortsellers once again. I now wonder if QE4 hits the markets before the iPhone 6! This spring and summer as the ‘pundits’ were long $FB and the bank CEO’s were gushing for 100 percent long equities. I became cautious (not short) …

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