Posts from ‘January, 2007’

I recently watched “The Smartest Guys in the Room” on DVD. It documents the rise and fall of Enron. It is based on a book, and the authors of the book have a large part in commentary of the movie. It is shot in a PBS documentary sort of way, but is actually very entertaining.
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For the last year or so, I’ve been thinking about what investment opportunities are available out there if you have cash available. I don’t have the cash, but interest rates are still low, making the cost of borrowing cheap. Credit cards are easy to come by, home equity loans allow people to borrow against [...]

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 [...]