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Insider selling by millionaire and billionaire corporate insiders is already rising, but it is about to go through the roof. Forget the politics and forget the morale left behind as a result, and...
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average was all set to see an 11,000 print this morning. After the strongest September gains in most of our lives, the psychological level would have been a nice a...
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Exchange traded funds cover almost every strategy that the retail investor can imagine. If you can’t find an ETF, there may be a futures contract out there to trade an instrument. As if the...
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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-B) is not a stock that most investors have traditionally thought of as a stock which can be influenced by stock options. After all, stock option trading in the...
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Investors would much rather see insiders of companies buying up stock rather than selling it. That is particularly true in a stocks like MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. (NYSE: WFR) where the...
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Tesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) has seen a strange trading pattern since its IPO first came to market in June. The quiet period has now ended and the analyst pool has begun coverage of the...
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SandRidge Energy Inc. (NYSE: SD) is moving from a case of being grossly oversold to a case where the situation is becoming almost obscene. The stock is getting crushed after its earnings report...
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Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) might be one the greatest investors of all time and he may have recruited 34 billionaires to donate up to half of their wealth. ...
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BP plc (NYSE: BP) finds itself in an odd situation with stock options trading versus its pending earnings announcement Tuesday and the imminent departure of Tony Hayward as CEO. While shares have...
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There are many big movers today in the day trader and active trader alerts. Stocks on the move are ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ: ARMH), A-Power Energy Generation Systems, Ltd. (NASDAQ: APWR), Alkermes,...
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If you are a fan of initial public offerings for the actual securities exchanges out there, the CBOE IPO terms have been set and the deal is not getting much closer to pricing. An SEC filing out...
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SIRIUS XM Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) is one of those stocks that you either love it or you love to hate. The company’s earnings showed $157.8 million in adjusted operating income and CEO Mel...
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This weekend’s edition of the Unusual Suspects would have probably been all about earnings, earnings, earnings. Friday’s SEC-Goldman news changed that. Our cast of characters for this coming...
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Trying to count options contracts in shares of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) is nearly impossible, and this was copied from trade blotters with snapshots of 12:12 to 12:18 PM EST. The notion...
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Patriot Coal Corporation (NYSE: PCX) had a stellar trading day, with a gain of more than 10% which moved the shares above $20.00 for the first time since January 20. The reason for today’s run...
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