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DENN FGI Five winning Super Bowl trades: IV. Buy Denny's Corp. (DENN) 02/01/09 — Filed under: Bargain stocks, Stocks to BuyWhen shares of Denny's Corp. (NASDAQ: DENN) are trading at half the price of a Grand Slam Breakfast, yet it was one of the companies willing to drop big bucks on a Super Bowl ad, I gotta jump in my car and get down to Denny's to see what's gone wrong. Proble...

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DRYS Best Trades of 2008: #4 Buying DryShips (DRYS) at the November low 12/31/08 — Filed under: Newsletters, Bargain stocks, Chasing Value, Stocks to BuyDuring the bull market in commodities that peaked midway through 2008, shipping companies that transfer base commodities across the oceans enjoyed phenomenal runs to all-time highs before fizzling out like a Roman candle. Companie...

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FRE FNM Best Trades of 2008: #5 Shorting 'too big to fail' Fannie and Freddie 12/31/08 — Filed under: Bad news, NewslettersThis shorting strategy defied all odds and pretty much defined the year for the stock market. I don't know anyone who truly thought Fannie Mae (NYSE: FNM) and Freddie Mac (NYSE: FRE) would both be trading under a buck as 2008 came to close. The idea of these once-i...

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Best Trades of 2008: #3 Shorting oil on the Fourth of July 12/31/08 — Filed under: NewslettersFor those that had the fortitude to pull the trigger, shorting crude back in early July when all the perfect storm conditions for $200 per barrel oil were on the horizon ... and had the stones to stay with that trade ... made a killing. This is one of the greatest reversals f...

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LEHMQ FRE Best Trades of 2008: #2 Getting long and staying long the 30-year Treasury bond 12/31/08 — Filed under: NewslettersThis strategy went from being a modestly successful trade through October to a hero-sized trade in the past 45 days. The Fed funds rate, the most widely followed interest rate the banks charge each other for overnight lending, topped out in August 2006, at 5.25%. When the Fe...

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INFY BIDU Best Trades of 2008: #1 Shorting 'Chindia' the day after New Year's 12/31/08 — Filed under: India, China, Newsletters, PetroChina Co Ltd ADR (PTR), Huaneng Power Intl ADS (HNP), China Life Insurance ADS (LFC), China Mobile Limited (CHL)With all the media buildup leading up to the Olympic Games in Beijing this past summer, just about everyone and their brother was bullish on the...

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DRYS Best Trades of 2008: 5 moves that could have made you rich 12/31/08 — Filed under: India, ChinaFor most investors and traders, 2008 was a tough year. But while many people saw their portfolio take a merciless beating and watched their retirement vanish into thin air, there were a select few who made a killing. In fact, if you had been on the right side of any of these ...

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2008 Trades Gone Bad: 5 moves that hurt this year 12/30/08 — Filed under: China, OilWhether a novice or a pro, we all may mistakes investing. Sadly, for many of us, 2008 proved to be a year rich with bad options and negative results -- or, as I prefer to call them, learning opportunities. Here's a review of some of the most painful learning opportunities in 2...

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CLNE CHK 2008 Trades Gone Bad #5: The peak oil trade 12/26/08 — Filed under: Newsletters, Chesapeake Energy (CHK), Stocks to SellThis oil trade takes the cake. At the zenith of the speculative bubble in the oil patch -- when crude hit $147 per barrel in July -- you had everyone from T. Boone Pickens to Prince Alaweed touting $200-per-barrel oil by the end of the...

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GS C 2008 Trades Gone Bad #4: Betting on the financials 12/25/08 — Filed under: Newsletters, Citigroup Inc. (C), Bank of America (BAC), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Stocks to SellBuying the financials while the Fed was aggressively cutting interest rates was supposed to be a no-brainer. Banks, brokerages, insurance companies and other financial-related businesses rall...

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PG HRL 2008 Trades Gone Bad #3: Buying non-durables 12/24/08 — Filed under: Coca-Cola (KO), PepsiCo (PEP), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), Newsletters, Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), Campbell Soup (CPB), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), General Mills (GIS), Procter and Gamble (PG), Hormel Foods (HRL), Kraft Foods'A' (KFT), Stocks to SellTypically, when the economy enters a reces...

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FXI 2008 Trades Gone Bad #2: Betting the China bull market would continue 12/23/08 — Filed under: China, Newsletters, Stocks to SellMany people believed the Beijing Olympics would spark a multi-year bull market for China. Leading up to the summer Olympics, the best think tanks in the world were putting out glowing reports of a new juggernaut economy that would lap the United States ...

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CC CCTYQ 2008 Trades Gone Bad #1: Going long the specialty retailers 12/22/08 — Filed under: Wal-Mart (WMT), Newsletters, Sony Corp ADR (SNE), Circuit City Stores (CC), Tiffany and Co (TIF), Sears Holdings (SHLD), Coach Inc (COH), Costco Wholesale (COST), Abercrombie and Fitch (ANF), Under Armour'A' (UA), Nordstrom, Inc (JWN), Urban Outfitters (URBN), Stocks to SellIf you made a...

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