I’ve been waiting and waiting and its here.
I will rub my hands together in a very mysterious way now.

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Attempting a fresh long with QLD and SSO at these lows with a tight stop. Yesterday’s low was tested and that is the premise I’m using for now. If it doesn’t work, oh well, won’t be the first or last time.

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If I have to put my face on the line to save the free markets I will.
I’m not shaving until the market prints a green close.
See if you can deal with that market!

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I like seeing where visitors to StockRake have come from. I get a lot of visitors looking for double beta long etfs and inverse etfs. During this turmoil, I’ve had tremendous traffic spikes for people looking for the inverse etfs - naturally. A bottoming sign? Probably.
I particularly like looking at the map though. One recent [...]

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You know the markets are bad when people stop partying in Ibiza, Spain to watch them.

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WOW I know 200 may not be alot to some stock bloggers, but breaking 200 is a milestone for me, so Tequila shots are on me!

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I thought this was funny.
New York Times originally publishes the story that stocks rally on Fed cut, gets picked up by Google News, but by the time you clicked on the story NYT had the story changed. Thats the type of day it was, up big, then down, then back up bigger, then back down, [...]

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Not really anything related to what I do here, but I saw Becky Quick ask the BVLGARI CEO about their new store opening in Japan. “Why Ginza?“, Quick says. The BVLGARI CEO smirked and kinda laughed then explained that anyone who is anyone in fine goods has to be in Ginza as it is the [...]

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So Tim Sykes sent me a pre-lim copy of his new book, An American Hedge Fund. It was released October 1st, I received it in September, but since everyone was posting their review on the 1st of October, I thought I’d help him out and give a little hype once the big boom of press [...]

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It looks like the site went down sometime yesterday. I had no access to the site because I was in the hospital all weekend. It looks like everything is up and running now though.

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You might not have noticed, but I have removed the default “nofollow” on comments to encourage more commenting by everyone including other stock bloggers. This means that search engines will follow the links in your name/website field when you comment.
*If your comment is complete trash and contains spam just for the purpose of receiving a [...]

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I was considering opening up a stock forum here at StockRake where we can just have stock/investment ideas free flowing. Let me know if there you think it would be useful by commenting to this post and I’ll get it setup if there is enough interest.

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9 for 9 with the UFC picks. I gotta put some money on this stuff.

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I’m late in posting this because of server issues. The PPV just started, no fights yet. I know its delayed, but I haven’t looked at results yet.
I’m taking Randy Couture over Gabe Gonzaga, but its going to be a good close fight.
I’m taking George Rush St. Pierre over Josh Koscheck. I’m big fans of both [...]

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I often check out the message boards on Yahoo for stocks I’m interested in, just purchased, or currently own. You can often find out some useful info from some of that stocks message board gurus. However, you more than once will have to ignore complete and utter garbage as well, but as you become experienced [...]

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