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Community Rank: Sr. Associate (2795 pts) | Member since 01/29/2007

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All-time Return +6.22% (in over 2 years)	Risk (SD) Aggressive 0.00%	Sharpe Ratio -0.91
Followers 27	Winning Picks 86 of 210	Total Views 108390

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Last Activity: Added MAXY to bullish list on 10/12/09

Current Stock List:

Symbol	SP Sentiment	Return	Since
MAXY		-14.05%	10/12/09
PFBI	N/A	-42.03%	09/23/09
SKBI	N/A	+42.07%	08/24/09
SWHC		-19.43%	04/02/09
CSH		-8.22%	10/31/08
CHBT	N/A	-25.96%	10/08/08
HCBK		-30.01%	10/01/08
ICLR		-72.15%	08/09/08
CDNS		+18.51%	07/24/08
ASFI		-29.39%	05/12/08

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A biotech stock that you'll be glad you bought about MAXY 10/12/09
This stock is a rare bird. It's a biotech company with a real product and real earnings. They have no long-term debt and a lot of cash. The P/E under 4. Insiders own about a quarter of the company. The...

Cash all around about PFBI 09/23/09
Premier Financial is buying Abigail Adams National bank. Both banks are trading for less than the cash on the balance sheet. Uncle Sam is kicking money in order to make this deal happen.&nb...

Stealth nationalization? about UVE 08/28/09
David Gross wrote a very good piece for Slate last month about how Uncle Sam is keeping the insurance industry afloat. How? Growth in Medicare and Medicaid programs as people have lost ...

TheStreet.com likes Hudson about HCBK 08/27/09
Watch this video . By the way, even though this stock has nearly doubled from its 52-week low, it's still yielding over 4.5%. ...

A Chinese microcap biotech about SKBI 08/24/09
When you see a title like that , you probably assume that this is a volatile, money-losing stock that is more a prayer than a real company with real products. You would be wrong. Skystar m...

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We're moving! 10/06/09 — The new URL for this blog will be www.stocksforallseasons.com. I've launched a new Wordpress blog. This is the first step in a complete re-design....

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A few interesting links 10/01/09 — Is the market going to re-test the March lows? Jack Hough let us know Where to look for a clue on earnings .Are the bears turning bullish?Did the Thin White Duke cause the crash?Everyone's talking about the New Normal. Marc Faber is at it again. Do you have the stones to buy value this deep?...

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Are you okay with volatility? Really? You sure? 09/29/09 — One of the things that bedevils all investors is volatility. Usually, we are trying to figure out how to take advantage of it. Investors, particularly value investors, are always claiming to not care about it. It's casually dismissed as noise. It usually is. Still, it's hard to call it noise when ...

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What do when you see a list like this 09/28/09 — The Business Insider recently posted a list of 10 big companies veering towards bankruptcy. Not surprisingly consumer discretionary companies dominate the list. Without a doubt, all of these companies have serious problems. Should you go out and short these companies? No. Absolutely not. I'm not sayi...

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Revisiting E-Trade 09/25/09 — As readers of this blog know, I've been stalking E*Trade for some time. I first wrote about this stock back in November of 2007. It looked like a baby being thrown out with the bathwater. By my reckoning, there was still a vibrant brokerage business underneath the mortgage missteps. The stock has bee...

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Re: What is the relationship between China Crescent Technolog... 09/01/09
Newmarket Technology owns a 51% interest in CCTR.

What is the relationship between China Crescent Technolog... 08/28/09
I know that NWMT owns a chunk of CCTR, but I know nothing more. Can anyone shed a light on this relationship?

Courage 08/22/09
Did anyone have to hold onto or even buy additional shares of this stock when it was under$10?

Re: Airlines Can't Make You Money, Right? 08/06/09
The industry as a whole has never made a nickel of profit, though LUV has pretty consistently bucked this trend. I think that the airlines are fine trades. If I had to pick an airline, I'd look at Ryan Air.

Re: FDA is going to decide on the approval of new Gout drug 07/26/09
Please stop promoting crap stocks on this site.

Re: What about these as well? 07/17/09
Stop the spam!

Chinese stocks are still a bargain 07/15/09
These companies are growing and trading at low multiples, with plenty of cash on the books. Look at APY. It's still trading nearly 50% off its 52-week high. It has a PEG ration of 0.10.

Re: Please get rid of the stock touts 07/15/09
Does anyone police this site? There is no reason to come to this site if it's just a playground for penny stock promotion.

Problem with the site 07/09/09
Why isn't market performance being calculated?

Please get rid of the stock touts 07/02/09
Unless you want this site to become like Friendster, you will make some sort of effort to get rid of the spammers.

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Age: 30's	Occupation: wealth manager
Location: New York, NY

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