Google (symbol GOOG) will be announcing earnings today after the closing bell. The economy is clearly in a slowdown, but how will it affect Google’s earnings? Remember, they are an advertising company and in a downturn, many businesses begin to pull back their spending on advertising. Not to say this is what [...]
Although the influence of the individual investor has grown a great deal in the past several decades, the institutional trader still rules the markets and controls the ultimate destiny for many of the exchange traded stocks. How useful would it be to know which stocks a mutual fund manager is moving money into or [...]
I was over at Killer Startups - a site that has really taken off in the past couple of weeks - browsing many of the new Web 2.0 players for anything stock market related and stumbled on these:
Stock Cloud is an interesting data mining or data visualization experiment - they describe it as a
tag cloud [...]
WallStrip does Western Union (WU) - golly Lindsay has a cute “western” accent!
Halloween is a great seasonal event and I had to snicker to myself this morning when Collegiate Pacific Inc showed up in my list of potential Head and Shoulders chart patterns. Why is that even remotely funny?
Because their stock symbol is BOO - what could be more appropriate? How about:
WTCH is the symbol [...]
What does Pee Wee + HOG + Cute Hostess equal?
WallStrip does Harley-Davidson, Inc. (HOG).
I am finding WallStrip to be an important part of my day - it still ain’t WallStreetWeek with Louis, but fun.
WallStrip for Thursday was wonderful! Jump over there and watch this episode when you get a chance. It is a total ode to the show “The Office” - which any good cubicle dweller is joyfully aware of. Not to ruin too much of the episode, it is filmed in the classic [...]
Can Google Inc. (GOOG) make up for the incredible blunder (or brilliant business move) of buying YouTube? We will see once their earnings are announced this afternoon. Certainly the stock price is anticipating great news, as GOOG is up over nine bucks at the close - after hours trading should be fast and furious as [...]
I must be getting old, because I still don’t exactly understand what the name Wallstrip means exactly - but it is a fun supplement to my normal CNBC watching. Today they are taking a look at Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (CMG) - go directly to the video.
Are we ever going to see Dow 12,000?
This afternoon, after the markets close, four big tech companies will be reporting third quarter earnings. Intel Corporation (INTC) looks like it isn’t going to do its part in helping to crack Dow 12K - there seems to be a good deal of concern about the earnings [...]
Wow - if I had not seen it myself, I would not have believed it. I switched on CNBC just in time for the opening bell and saw that SAIC, Inc. (SAIC) was going public today. SAIC is a major employer in the Washington DC area, so I expect there to be many [...]
I was just clicking around the stock correlations to see if there was anything interesting and happened upon a funny (99% probability of being meaningless) 30 day correlation. It seems over the past 30 trading days Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL) is stongly correlated with Columbia Sportswear Company (COLM). Is that because Steve Jobs buys Columbia [...]
Testing a cool feature from StockTickr:
SGDE: SPORTSMANS GUIDE INC
Outlook: Long Industry: Catalog Mail Order Houses
New high on 30.61 times average volume: 1,111,748 vs. 36,319
(tags: long, New High on Huge Volume)
RATE: BANKRATE INC
Outlook: Long Industry: Internet Info Providers
New high on 8.88 times average volume: 1,817,151 vs. 204,655
(tags: long, New High on Huge Volume)
DIS: WALT DISNEY COMPANY
Outlook: Long Industry: Entertainment [...]
Honestly, I didn’t think much about correlations of stock prices when I first put together the section that showed highly correlated stocks - it was more of an interesting exercise. I had a bunch of stock data and wanted to see what it looked like on the web and showing stocks that were correlated [...]
