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AAA Companies in the S&P500 – Only 4 Left!

August 14, 2011

AAA companies in the S&P500 index are now numbered at just 4 following the rating downgrade of Berkshire Hathaway earlier in the year.  Amazingly, these companies and dozens of sovereigns are now rated higher than US Treasury Bonds following Fitch’s downgrade of US debt: The US Has Lost its AAA Credit Rating – Here’s What [...]

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You Should NOT Be Losing Sleep Over This Market Crash

August 8, 2011

Markets are in turmoil and may well be for the foreseeable future.  Over the past few weeks, we’ve had the confluence of a burgeoning debt crisis in the Euro region with the impending debt ceiling deadline looming.  The deal the President and Congress agreed to was not digested well by global markets or by one [...]

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ImmunoCellular Therapeutics (IMUC) Review

July 27, 2011

Today we’re going to take a look at an interesting prospect in the early stage Biotech world – ImmunoCellular Therapeutics (IMUC). Company Profile ImmunoCellular Therapeutics an oncology firm based in California whose lead candidate ICT-107 is entering Phase II for patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) which is a specific type of brain cancer.  IMUC’s lead [...]

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Portfolio Update – I Tripled the S&P500 – Again!

July 20, 2011

Wow, it’s been a long time since I’ve shared a portfolio update.  Since last update was in October (all portfolio updates here), it’s only fair to compare the performance of my holdings at that time from October to present versus the S&P500. So, if you held the same shares I did since last update (and [...]

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CytRx Corporation Stock Review

May 24, 2011

Today we’re going to take a look at an interesting prospect in the early stage Biotech world – CytRx Corporation (ticker: CYTR).  CytRx is focused on oncology drugs and has three primary drug candidates in the mid-late stage pipeline phases with prospects for various indications. Pipeline Review Here’s a recent snapshot of the pipeline indicating [...]

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Day-Trading is a Total Scam. Don’t Fall For the Pitch

April 20, 2011

I constantly hear radio spots for getting rich day-trading.  The claims on the commercials are so outrageous, I can’t even believe the FTC allows it.  If you listen to satellite radio at all, you’ll know exactly which ads I’m referring to; they play a repeating cycle virtually every commercial break.  They often start off with [...]

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Darwin’s Portfolio October Update – It’s a Winner!

October 20, 2010

I’ve been updating on my portfolio performance monthly (see updates here) by showing what an even-weighted portfolio of my long stock holdings would do against the S&P500 index, which most professional money managers fail to beat over time.  Thus far this year, both my long holdings and my total portfolio performance (includes options trades, shorting [...]

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Worst. Trade. EVER! …

October 18, 2010

CNBC is running a decent series this week on the Worst Trade Ever by various key industry leaders.  Warren Buffett’s story today was pretty neat.  He went into how he bought out a textile company early on basically due to emotion (the head of the company really pissed him off) and that company (Berkshire Hathaway! [...]

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Hindenburg Omen: Thank You Sir, May I Have Another?

October 14, 2010

Being a continuous doomsayer on markets and the global state of affairs is appealing to many.  It sounds cool.  It makes you seem like you know how the world really works and nobody else knows what the hell they’re talking about.  You’re calling out the media and that “Wall Street Machine” for their positive propaganda.  [...]

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Dividends = 43% of Total Stock Market Returns [Graphic]

September 6, 2010

Dividends accounted for 43% of the total return in the stock market over the past 20 years.  With the S&P500 as a proxy, almost half of the total return of 394% was due to these dividend payouts.  I’d heard anecdotally over the years that dividends accounted for various portions of total return, but this is [...]

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