Saturday, December 24, 2005

STOCKS I AM CONSIDERING FOR PURCHASE


Neoware Systems. NWRE. Look at the chart. pretty impressive. Looks to have a long term uptrend .





CIT group. CIT.



TRAD. Tradestation. Online brokerage. Very popular. 25% plus increases in net income year to year. Good stock chart.

Saturday, December 17, 2005

An Apple a day


AH.WHAT A BEAUTIFUL CHART. Like my mother used to say "An Apple a day keeps the doctor away" . Lucky for me I have been invested in this stock since April of 2004. April 15 2004 to be exact. High volume day, high upside 62 mil shares traded. In for at $28.95 ( pre split - current prices $14.475). 500% gain to date. BEAUTIFUL.

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Holdings and market outlook

  • Google News

  • Forbes

  • Fortune
  • Currently Long on

    • STV
    • GROW
    • QSII
    • ENG
    • UPL
    • URGI
    • CFK
    • GOOG
    • HOM
    • RWC
    • PQ
    • PKD
    • TALX
    • CBG
    • GOL
    • XTO
    • ASVI
    • EPEX
    • BLSC
    • AAPL
    • APL
    • BWLD
    • CAKE
    • PZZA
    • SBUX
    • SIRF
    • AQNT
    • GLW
    • VLO
    • OXY

    Short on

    • THOR
    • F
    • WGO
    • LUV
    • JBLU
    • NT
    • LU
    • GM
    • KKD
    • NFLX
    • ALDN
    • TOL
    • KBH
    • LEN
    • PHM
    • DHI

    Market will stay choppy till February atleast. Housing market ready to go bust. Short home builders , construction companies etc.

    Saturday, May 28, 2005

    THE GREAT REAL ESTATE MARKET COLLAPSE

    Housing Prices going up ? Not for long . Not living in a real estate ' bubble' ..think again. Prices across the nation are going up 15-25 % a yr and that is considered 'normal'. A crash bigger than anyone can imagine is right around the corner and I will explain why .
    In the last few years particularly after 2001 , alot of people have bought homes using adjustable rate mortgages ( ARMs) . Can't afford that dream home , no problem. Just get that ARM interest only mortgage and your monthly payments will be 25-50 % less than what you would be paying with a fixed mortgage amortized over 30 years. These days we have ARMs starting as low as 1% . The problem lies in the fact alot of people are using these ARMs not to free up additional income to use for other purposes but rather to make up for the fact they cannot afford that home on a fixed rate fully amortized loan . In expensive markets - think California , people on incomes of $50,000 a year are buying $500,000 homes. Using ARM options their monthly payments are affordable initially but things change down the road. Most ARMs are fixed from a few months up to 10 years with most being of the variety that are fixed for 3 years . ARMs are generally tied to an index - T-Bill, Libor etc. If anyone has tracked these indexes,they would notice the rapid uptrend in the last few years with rising rates. By the time the fixed period for these ARMs are over, the rate these home owners will be paying will be ridiculously high , think 8-9 % and to top it off it will be fully amortized ( interest and principle payments) . Those people making mortgage payments of $2000-2500 a month will be paying close to twice that $4000-4500 a month . Now we raise the question , if people could barely afford the homes with ARMs, how will they ever afford the payments at the higher rate ? In California according to studies conducted by the mortgage industry , close to 70% of new home buyers have used ARMs to purchase their homes over the last 3 years. Many of these ARMs are just starting to reach the adjustable period where they will be tied to the higher index . Many of these homeowners do not have the option of refinancing to a fixed rate mortgage because they would not financially qualify for them . The only option for a lot of these people will be to sell the house or go into foreclosure . The number of homes on the market for sale will rapidly increase through out 2005 and 2006 causing real estate prices to plummet especially in areas like California where the affordability is so limited.

    Saturday, May 07, 2005

    The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

    Oil is going to $100 a barrel . Yeah right. It was only a few years ago, 1998 if I recall correctly where oil was hovering just above $10 a barrel. So what happened ? Did world demand increase 5 times in the last 7 years to cause oil to crack $50 a barrel ? NO. The demand for oil has increased by less than 25% yet prices have are up 300-400%. Its ridiculous and sooner or later prices will be back at an equilibrium of $30 a barrel. SHORT OIL . Sell Sell Sell. $100 a Barrel !!! Those crazy analysts at Goldman Sachs. What were they smoking ? Before this decade is over oil will fall to $30 a barrel or less. One only needs to look at the historical prices of oil and see the large increases followed by larger drops in price. Current production is more than enough to meet demand . There are enough proven reserves to last us most of this century. New sources are being discovered - Alberta , Siberia . The big oil producers have enough spare capacity to jack up production 25-30% if needed. So why the price increase ? Fear , panic , greed ..the same old culprits . Instability in the Middle East, Terrorism , China is going to drain all the worlds oil. NEVER . Like I said $30 a barrel or below .