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- New Junior Gold Miners ETF Launches: As Volatile As It Gets
- Dan Pritch submits: Van Eck has launched a new ETF focused solely on smaller sized gold miners and explorers than the predominant gold miners ETF GDX. This new Juniors ETF will trade under the ticker GDXJ. According to Investors Business Daily, here are some key stats: ...
- External links 2009-11-12
- Latest Outrage: Citi Increases Salaries to Circumvent Bonus Restrictions
- Dan Pritch submits: It was divulged today that Citigroup C, a zombie bank that required massive government bailouts to stay afloat, will be increasing the salaries of select employees by as much as 50% to circumvent the bonus restrictions placed on it when TARP funds were disbursed. What Citi...
- External links 2009-06-25
- Natural Gas ETF Anomaly - Is It Time to Exploit?
- Dan Pritch submits: After briefly catching Cramer's rant Wednesday night against the Natural Gas ETF [[UNG]] and its potential to manipulate the true price of natural gas upwards given unplanned investor inflows, I figured I'd investigate a bit further to see if he was on to something. While he...
- External links 2009-06-18
- Oil's Trending Up, But Speculators Aren't to Blame
- Dan Pritch submits: I read with skepticism an editorial in a prominent paper Monday entitled Stop the Speculators, about how we should blame "Big Wall Street Banks" (a direct quote, as juvenile as it sounds) for the price of rising oil. This is essentially a reprint of every populist...
- External links 2009-06-16
- Sucker's Rally? Decide for Yourself
- Dan Pritch submits: In March, when equities started to rally substantially off their unprecedented lows, there were many prominent doomsayers espousing the view that the longs were a bunch of ill-informed schleps in it for a "Sucker's Rally". The most vocal of the esteemed economists is Nouriel Roubini, who...
- External links 2009-05-19
- Gene Patenting Will Hinder Biotechs and Drugmakers from Curing Maladies
- Dan Pritch submits: I read with interest this article outlining how a company and university have patented two human genes linked to breast and ovarian cancers. Now, the ACLU is suing Myriad Genetics MYGN on the grounds that it is unconstitutional [to patent genes] and will inhibit innovation. I...
- External links 2009-05-14
- Goldman's $60 Million Settlement - Why Is Goldman Getting the Blame?
- Dan Pritch submits: I saw this article Monday from CBSMarketwatch detailing a $60 Million settlement reached between Goldman Sachs GS and the Mass. Attorney General to account for Goldman's role in the securitization of subprime mortgage loans and found myself wondering...why? I understand the anger on the street...
- External links 2009-05-12
- Swine Flu Stocks Fizzle Out After Impressive Open
- Dan Pritch submits: When I initially posted about swine flu stocks and investments likely to benefit from the worsening news out of Mexico and the US this past weekend, I anticipated some additional follow through from Friday, but nothing like what we saw at the open Monday. Some of...
- External links 2009-04-27
- Apple Volatility at Earnings Trade
- Dan Pritch submits: As similarly outlined in my Lesson in Volatility prior to Google Earnings article last week where a quick $810 could have been made overnight with no cash outlay (unmitigated risk on either side was assumed though!), the same play would have worked out nicely for Apple...
- External links 2009-04-24
- How I Hedged My Gas Prices
- Dan Pritch submits: As I had posted in my more detailed article on how to hedge energy prices for everyday consumers, on Thursday I finally got around to personally hedging my gas price expenditures. While I had listed 8 different ways you could do this, I took the simple...
- External links 2009-06-26
- Finally, Home Price ETFs Start Trading
- Dan Pritch submits: I had posted recently on an upcoming set of ETFs that would allow you to trade on the Case-Shiller home price index, which is meant to mimic the largest metropolitan areas in the US and be "generally representative" of the US housing market. Even though you...
- External links 2009-07-01
- The Carry Trade: Making This Trend Your Friend
- Dan Pritch submits: There's been a lot of press lately about the Carry Trade, and like all catchy trends in the investing world, by the time it's a routine fixture on CNBC and blogs, the smart money's been made and retail investors are left holding the bag when the...
- External links 2009-11-05
- My Options Play on Apple
- Dan Pritch submits: For some time now, I'd been employing covered calls as a means to generate income in a down/flat market. More recently, with markets rallying 60% from their lows, the Apple AAPL covered calls have come home to roost. For a detailed background and example of how...
- External links 2009-10-22
- Why I Like Netflix's $1 Million Challenge
- Dan Pritch submits: I read with interest this article highlighting how Netflix NFLX awarded the $1 Million Netflix Prize and announced a second $1 Million Challenge. The challenge was to achieve a 10 percent improvement over the accuracy of the Netflix movie recommendation system, which internal engineers have been...
- External links 2009-09-22
- High Yield Investments in a Crummy Economic Environment
- Dan Pritch submits: Investors and consumers seeking high yield income from savings and CD instruments are having a tough time of it right now in this low interest rate environment. As banks are lowering the rates they pay on savings and money markets to next to nothing and as...
- External links 2009-08-20
- SPY Option Hedge Strategy
- Dan Pritch submits: Given the market's recent 50% runup from the March lows, it's probably not a bad idea to hedge your trading portfolio a bit with some options, right? (Read this article on How Stock Options Work for a refresher/beginner's lesson). The problem for traders and retail investors...
- External links 2009-08-13
- Why Credit Cards Are Gouging Customers - Because They Can
- Dan Pritch submits: I couldn't help but laugh when I got the latest nonsense from a credit card company. Apparently, because they're "suffering so much" whaaa right now, they have no choice but to impose even more severe penalties on consumers than those that previously existed. Here's...
- External links 2009-08-12
- Sirius Monthly Cost Increase - Is It Worth It?
- Dan Pritch submits: I received a letter in the mail this weekend from Sirius SIRI indicating that my bill would increase by over 15% from here on out due to a "U.S. Music Royalty Fee". This is an increase of $1.98/month on top of the $12.95 per month I...
- External links 2009-08-02
- If Goldman Rules the World, Why Not Buy Shares?
- Dan Pritch submits: Goldman Sachs GS has been at the center of several global conspiracy theories, especially since the financial meltdown. I had previously highlighted a heavily anti-Goldman website and their legal maneuvers meant to quell dissent. On Tuesday I came across this article and set of videos published...
- External links 2009-07-08
- Apple: Impressive Earnings, Surprising PR Gaffe
- Dan Pritch submits: While Apple AAPL had some impressive earnings Wednesday (this volatility play pre-earnings would have worked out nicely like it did last week for Google GOOG) given the current downturn slamming so many other stocks, Apple had the misfortune of falling prey to a PR gaffe on...
- External links 2009-04-22
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