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TRBM flirting with 9 DMA.
Thanks Mariner!
Do you have access to the recordings of many of the artists on cdbaby?
Hey Mariner
Thanks for this Lush Budget stuff. I like it.
AG banging on a 17.50 bo
Thanks for trying OD. This song was written by Lowell George of Little Feat fame. I understand it has been covered 3 times. Once by Neil Young's one-time girlfriend, Nicollete Larson, Once by Lowell George's daughter, Inara George, and once by Robert Palmer.
I've heard the Inara George version and I think it's wonderful.
If you can find one of the other versions of this song, it would be great. Otherwise, Thanks again for your effort.
Dan
Good Morning Drummerman
Could you please play Trouble as sung by the late Nicollette Larson.
Unloaded my BFLY after hours.
My Beloved Monster by The Eels, please. In fact, please play a few tracks by The Eels.
THANKYOU DRUMMER and MISSY and all other contributors. You have improved the quality of my life.
Here are my 5 favorite songs that this thread turned me on to this year:
1. All Over Again by BB King and Mark Knopfler
2. Breakdown by Jack Johnson
3. Down Drinking at the Bar by Loudon Wainwright
4. Open Minded Redneck by Skunkweed
5. I Want to Rock you Hard this Christmas by The Dan Band.
Hi Bruce,
do you have an opinion about the utility of this product:
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?Message_id=8408204&txt2find=laptop?
TIA,
Dan
Accumulated some BFLY this morning. There's lots of risk here; but, it could move into the earnings announcement for this qtr.
Trying Some AQUA.OB It was recently demoted from the AMEX. It should catch some more orders for it's Arsenic removal water treatment technology.
Could you play The Waters of March by Susannah McCorkle?
Accumulating TWTI
Thanks for watching my back.
I like the long-term chart here:
http://stockcharts.com/def/servlet/SC.web?c=inno,uu[h,a]daclyyay[df][pb50!d20,2!f][vc60][iut!Ub14!La...
I will add if it approaches it's book value of .88 A Turnaround is plausible, but we'll see in January.
Started INNO
EPIX finding a bottom here.
VSTY on watch as a jaffecta.
Thankyou so much! Clem Snide is one of my favorite artists.
If I could make music, it would be something like this.
Happy Birthday by Clem Snide please...
SVA running on this:
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/051114/20051114005778.html?.v=1
Thanks OD!
You made me smile.
Thanks for lookin' and for Keep It Open
One more request:
Keep It Open by Bruce Cockburn
Somebody Bad Stole the Wedding Bell, by Eartha Kitt please.
Lost in Space by Aimee Mann, please.
Thanks Much for trying OD.
Bird by Baba Alade please?
I'm going to take a flyer on MLIN as my gapper pick.
They report earnings after the bell and last qtr's CC was positive about this qtr.
I'm glad you liked it. Cake is the handywork of John McCrea. As an aside, he has been perpetually unhappy with his drummers. In his frustration, he went to automated drumming a couple albums ago. Personally, I think the music has gone downhill since then. But, McCrea and that horn section have a certain something.
Hi Missy,
Could you play Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps by Cake?
HDB is my gapper
BBSE up on escalating volume and a very nice looking chart.
This is my gapper pick unless it collapses in the last half hour of trading.
MVK - Bollinger Band bounce/reversal?
I'm liking the action in FUEL today.
Hey Tuna I got some TXCO at 4.41 on a limit order.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention last week
Dan
AW is supposed to be benefitting from all the refuse created by Katrina. It's flirting with a break on good volume
Thanks for the welcome and thanks for the get-it-done attitude over here.
Can anyone identify the insurance company referred to in this blog piece?
These are momentous times. The big news in America, of course, is the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Americans, true to form, are exceeding the call of duty in their donations and help. Even when the government drops the ball, the people don't. I love that about my country.
Meanwhile, halfway around the world in Japan, where I currently live, it's election day. And not just any election day, mind you. This is The Big One. Without a doubt the biggest in 50 years. It will determine the fate of Prime Minister Koizumi and could dramatically alter the political landscape and give electro-shock treatment to the world's second biggest economy.
In both cases, Katrina and Koizumi, we find ourselves staring at two wonderful investment ideas.
With Katrina, investing is a touchy subject. Even after donating toward relief and doing all that we can to help, is it ever in good taste to hunt for an investment idea? Is there an uneasy feeling in the stomach if we make money off an event that rained such misery on so many people? There certainly can be, which is why I'm particularly thrilled to have found a company that has good upside potential and yet will be instrumental in getting The Big Easy back on its feet. Interestingly, it's not a construction company.
It's an insurance company. How, you ask, can an insurance company be a good bet
after a disaster for which they need to pay claims? It's an interesting situation.
As longtime readers know, I watch and admire Warren Buffett and his company, Berkshire Hathaway. In so doing, I also monitor Berkshire's competitors in the insurance business. Now, mind you, no company is in better financial condition than Berkshire. However, others are pretty darned good and can sometimes be had far, far cheaper than their famous peer.
Now is just such a time. An event like Katrina is a megacatastrophe in the insurance business. Rare, thank goodness, but not so rare that we don't have some history. Katrina's infamous cousins on the megacatastrophe list include Hurricane Andrew and 9/11. In each case, insurance companies took a hit in the stock market because of the impending claims they'd have to pay. The claims were so big in the past that many companies went bankrupt. That's where your skepticism appears justified.
So far, pretty ominous. But think a little farther out. What happens to the companies strong enough to literally weather the storm? They are left with fewer competitors and the ability to charge higher premiums on the next renewal cycle. It turns out that the best place to find that situation is not the frontline insurance companies visiting homes and assessing damage, it's in the reinsurance companies that provide insurance to those frontline insurance companies.
Estimates for the financial damage from Katrina are still rolling in and are still wildly different from one another. The range is between $20 and $60 billion. No matter the final figure, it will be massive. But, and this is key so please don't miss it, it will not be as big as expected.
In every past megacatastrophe, the estimates have come in vastly inflated. That's good from the standpoint of getting the money in place that's needed. In the stock market, though, it unduly scares investors away from certain insurance companies that are seen as being dangerously exposed. Maybe even fatally exposed.
So, the prices drop. And drop. And drop. What the clear-eyed investor does is sort through the wreckage for the most deeply underpriced strong company. If it is indeed strong, it will survive, rebound, and flourish.
Guess what? There's just such a company at just such a deeply discounted price right now. And I do mean right now, because the price fell like a rock early last week, but already staged the first leg of a dramatic recovery last Friday. It's __________ (TICK), and it closed last Friday at $18.87. It was fluctuating around $25 all summer then crumpled to less than $18 last Thursday. Hurry to buy under $19. Even if the stock simply gets back to its pre-Katrina $25, that will be a 31.6% gain. However, the stock has a year-over-year revenue growth of 20%, low debt, and a solid profit margin of 7%. It should go higher, perhaps above $30.
__________ has survived every major catastrophe since its founding in 1982. I'm confident that it will survive Katrina, too, and be one of many helpful hands putting New Orleans back together again.
My Advice: Buy __________ (TICK) under $19.
CLX hammering on high volume