In Daily Options Report - Posted 13 weeks ago

Got this in email yesterday:Looking at FNM this morning it was trading 4.85. The Sept 5.00 call was trading about 1.25. I realize this is just becau...

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In Quant Investor - Posted 21 weeks ago

I purchased 1,000 shares of American Express today (ticker:AXP), mainly based on valuation. AXP is a leading global credit card, payments and travel c...

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In Quant Investor - Posted 22 weeks ago

I think this may be a good time to look for high quality, low risk financials for longer term time frames. I think Met Life (ticker: MET) fits the bil...

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In Stock Market Beat - Posted 23 weeks ago

My latest column is up at RealMoney.I usually want a stock to score highly in four out of five categories before giving it much consideration: earning...

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In Stock Market Beat - Posted 28 weeks ago

Hansen Natural (HANS), which makes Monster energy drink, reported lower-than-expected quarterly results as cost increases drove down profitability, se...

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In Stock Market Beat - Posted 28 weeks ago

It was all fun and games when WallStrip and AlphaTrends jumped on the Landstar bandwagon. Now that the company is profiled in BusinessWeek I m getti...

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In Stock Market Beat - Posted 29 weeks ago

Landstar (LSTR - Annual Report) has long been one of my favorite stocks. I have said before that I would be willing to own Landstar up to a parity yie...

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In Quant Investor - Posted 31 weeks ago

Given the rocky market over the last six months, it doesn t hurt to have some solid longer term positions to help weather the storm. I recently purc...

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In CXO Advisory Blog - Investing Notes - Posted 34 weeks ago

Our trading strategy test seeks to exploit the size effect, the value premium, the turn-of-the-month effect and the volatility premium by timing sale...

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In Stock Market Beat - Posted 38 weeks ago

photo credit: lucasreddingerThis article is a reprint of my February 22, 2008 RealMoney columnForget the debate over whether telecom is a buy or sell...

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