Posts under ‘Commentary’

Its often difficult for people to track their economic progress. There is, generally a lot going on in one’s economic life. People have auto loans, credit card debt, student loans, home mortgage debt, stock accounts, retirement accounts, cash in savings and often other types of investments that may be a bit less mainstream. [...]

I found a cool article over at Market Trends Before The Tape today about Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) that track the performance of shorting the major indexes. In case you aren’t familiar with shorting stock, but the quick explanation is that shorting stock means to borrow it from an existing shareholder, sell it immediately [...]

I’ve used Omniture’s products in the past for analyzing web traffic, they have a great product and offer exceptional value to their customer. Their revenue model is strong in that they make a small amount of money for each server call that is made from the customer to their servers. One or more of these [...]

I bought some January puts on RadioShack for 1.18/contract on December 12th. The stock was trading around $17 and Best Buy had just announced that earnings were pressured due to low margins caused by price competition. I’m not the hugest fan of Best Buy, but their price and selection is pretty great. If they are [...]