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ADSX in NY Newsday
FDA OKs implantable chip in patients
http://www.newsday.com/business/nyc-fdachip1014,0,6902955.story?coll=ny-business-headlines
ADSX all over the news
FDA: Chip Implant Can Be Used to Get Health Records
Reuters via Yahoo! News Wed, 13 Oct 2004 1:40 PM PDT
A computer chip that is implanted under the skin won U.S. approval on Wednesday for use in helping doctors quickly access a patient's medical history.
F.D.A. Approves Use of Chip in Patients
New York Times Wed, 13 Oct 2004 1:40 PM PDT
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved an implantable computer chip that can pass a patient's medical details to doctors, speeding care.
Delray company's implantable chip gives data, privacy worries
Miami Herald Wed, 13 Oct 2004 2:23 PM PDT
WASHINGTON - Medical milestone or privacy invasion? A tiny computer chip approved Wednesday for implantation in a patient's arm can speed vital information about a patient's medical history to doctors and hospitals.
FDA Approves Implantable Data Chip
WOAI Wed, 13 Oct 2004 2:50 PM PDT
Medical milestone or privacy invasion? A tiny computer chip approved Wednesday for implantation in a patient's arm can speed vital information about a patient's medical history to doctors and hospitals. But critics warn that it could open new ways to imperil the confidentiality of medical records.
heraldtribune.com: Southwest Florida's Information Leader
Herald Tribune Wed, 13 Oct 2004 2:47 PM PDT
FINANCIAL AS ST: In Lake wood Ranch area. Incl. ALARM Instal lers; learn while you earn. Front Desk R eceptionist 20-30 hrs per week. WASHINGTON -- Medical milestone or privacy invasion?
Applied Digital's CEO Scheduled to Appear on NBC Television's The Today Show
Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance Wed, 13 Oct 2004 1:54 PM PDT
Applied Digital , a provider of Security Through Innovation, announced today that its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Scott R. Silverman is scheduled to appear on NBC Television's The Today Show on Thursday, October 14th during the 8 am time period.
Applied Digital's CEO Scheduled to Appear on NBC Television's The Today Show; Scott Silverman to Appear on Thursday,
StockHouse U.S. Wed, 13 Oct 2004 2:11 PM PDT
Applied Digital (NASDAQ:ADSX), a provider of Security Through Innovation(TM), announced today that its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Scott R. Silverman is scheduled to appear on NBC Television's The Today Show on Thursday, October 14th during the 8 am ti me period.
October 13, 2004
WINK TV Southwest Florida Wed, 13 Oct 2004 2:15 PM PDT
TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) _ Jobs, health care and other concerns of daily life will likely be focal points as President Bush and challenger John Kerry meet Wednesday for their third and final debate.
LEXR short +20% and they report tomorrow!
earnings shorts into Thursday
these have not shown much reason to expect them to reverse the past 2 earnings performance trends..
LEXR Thursday 10/14 earnings -last 7/15 -13.9%. 4/16 -32.6%
DCLK earnings 10/14, last 2 7/23 -27%, 4/15 -27.3%
NFLX earnings 10/14-last2 7/16 -28.1%. 4/16 -16.9%
NFLX probably the weakest short side play of the 3
On LEXR
www.amtddj.inlumen.com/bin/djstory?StoryId=CqwOfqaebqLqWmdmYndG
=DJ Lexar, Sandisk Dn: Inventory, Pricing Seen Hurting Margins
10/11/2004
Dow Jones News Services
(Copyright © 2004 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)
By Michelle Rama
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Shares of flash memory makers Lexar Media Inc. (LEXR) and SanDisk Corp. (SNDK) fell for the second session Monday on inventory concerns and worry that aggressive pricing will hurt profit margins.
The declines come ahead of both companies' third-quarter earnings reports, expected on Thursday.
Investors skimmed some profits from SanDisk shares following a rally in the shares, and Lexar's recent short-covering ended following a strong run in the stock, analysts said.
Observers also pin the declines on Samsung Corp.'s recent NAND flash price increases. Lexar's profit margins are likely to be pinched as Samsung, which supplies its raw NAND flash memory, raises its prices.
teapeebubbles-yup
earnings shorts into Thursday
these have not shown much reason to expect them to reverse the past 2 earnings performance trends..
LEXR Thursday 10/14 earnings -last 7/15 -13.9%. 4/16 -32.6%
DCLK earnings 10/14, last 2 7/23 -27%, 4/15 -27.3%
NFLX earnings 10/14-last2 7/16 -28.1%. 4/16 -16.9%
NFLX probably the weakest short side play of the 3
On LEXR
www.amtddj.inlumen.com/bin/djstory?StoryId=CqwOfqaebqLqWmdmYndG
=DJ Lexar, Sandisk Dn: Inventory, Pricing Seen Hurting Margins
10/11/2004
Dow Jones News Services
(Copyright © 2004 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)
By Michelle Rama
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Shares of flash memory makers Lexar Media Inc. (LEXR) and SanDisk Corp. (SNDK) fell for the second session Monday on inventory concerns and worry that aggressive pricing will hurt profit margins.
The declines come ahead of both companies' third-quarter earnings reports, expected on Thursday.
Investors skimmed some profits from SanDisk shares following a rally in the shares, and Lexar's recent short-covering ended following a strong run in the stock, analysts said.
Observers also pin the declines on Samsung Corp.'s recent NAND flash price increases. Lexar's profit margins are likely to be pinched as Samsung, which supplies its raw NAND flash memory, raises its prices.
TASR a good short to hold as more & more is published about deaths related to use of stug gun
The Arizona Republic, using computer searches, autopsy reports, police reports, media reports and Taser's own records, has identified 71 cases in the United States and Canada of death following a police Taser strike since September 1999. In eight cases, medical examiners said Tasers were a cause, a contributing factor or could not be ruled out in someone's death. In 15 cases, coroners and other officials reported the stun gu>>
reminder- earnings weeks coming- short the consistant previous divers
See past post, I have my list. Anyone want to post any they are aware of will be great to do dd on.
One I like alot is DCLK, last 2 earnings it dropped on 7/23 -27% & 4/15 -27.3% and earnings are 10/14.
I will be posting when I short..most posts are in irc #activetrader & #BuySellShort
MAJOR % profit made on these big droppers!
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Posted by: mflutie
In reply to: None Date:7/22/2004 10:15:51 PM
Post #of 23390
an idea for october
unless the tenor of the overall market changes, two weeks before quarterly earnings come out(around 10/18/04) short everything in sight. Crap happens all the time. Warning season comes and it`s a blue light special for the shorts.
With that in mind, would be a powerful list if others posted what stocks got rock dropped this time around on earnings. Chances are pretty good that if those stocks have shown the same drops last quarter, there is a strong shot at another repeat in Ocober. If we are prepared, we can get short these stocks around 10/18 or so & just wait to ride them down.
Any help on naming the drops will be appreciated. Any comments on this idea also interested.
see, now I should know better than to post stuff from #at :)
NAZ + 7 days in a row......first time in 18 years.
mighty interesting roll the dice with LENF $2.94..
LENF will be competition for TASR with debut of stun products in 03/05
N.C. Woman Sells Naughty Barbie Dolls
4 October 2004, 5:47pm ET
PITTSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Barbie's being bad. The wholesome, if sometimes surreal, beauty of the iconic doll is taking on a different twist under the influence of photo lab owner Anne Baker. Baker has coerced Barbie and her friends to ditch the sequin gowns and pink roadsters for sexy outfits, outrageous poses and delinquent behavior.
Plastic dolls line four long shelves in Baker's store, called Annie B and the Black and White Guy.
There's a cross-dressing male doll with long hot pink hair and a tight miniskirt. A "Jailbait Barbie" stands behind bars, wearing a pink and white striped uniform and an identification number. An eight-legged black widow doll crawls up a spider web, with Ken wrapped in her webbing. "She's a man-eater," the sign says.
In a scenario that has its parallel in real life, Baker finds down-on-their-luck Barbies _ at thrift stores and from friends _ then introduces them to a world of sex, drugs and violence.
"I always loved Barbie," she said. "I don't know what led me to this. Barbie was too clean and she needed to be in the real world, so I put her in my world."
Baker has had jobs both in costume design and toy buying, and figures they inspired her to take up the Barbie habit three years ago. Now she sells the dolls for up to $125 each.
Sometimes they are placed in sets. One features Ken in a clay wolf mask, his tongue flopped across his chin like a dog, his long brown hair kinked sky-high. Barbie, her lips pouted around a perfect smile and head covered by a red cape, drops her basket of fruit in surprise.
Another, called "Hef and the Bunny and the Mansion," features a blue-eyed Barbie in a Playboy bunny outfit, serving drinks to Hugh Hefner (played by Ken).
Baker said children enjoy the dolls sometimes more than parents do.
"Kids actually don't even realize what they are," she said. "They just love them. It's the parents who get upset; the kids don't. "Most everyone thinks it's funny."
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TO BUTTER OR NOT TO BUTTER . . . . .
DO YOU KNOW.. the difference between margarine and butter?
Read on to the end...gets very interesting!
Both have the same amount of calories.
Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams.
Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter,according to a recent Harvard Medical Study
Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.
Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they are added!
Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.
Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years.
And now, for Margarine...
Very high in trans fatty acids...
Triple risk of coronary heart disease..
Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) Lowers HDL cholesterol, (the goodcholesterol) ....
Increases the risk of cancers by up to five fold...
Lowers quality of breast milk...
Decreases immune response...
Decreases insulin response.
And here is the most disturbing fact....
HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING!
Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC...
This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that ishydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added,changing the molecular structure of the substance).
YOU can try this yourself: purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shadedarea. Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things: no flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell yousomething) ... it does not rot or smell differentlybecause it has no nutritional value,nothing will growon it... even those teeny weeny microorganisms willnot a find a home to grow.
Why? Because it is nearly plastic.
Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast?
Share This With Your Friends.....(Butter them up!)
INMT- how the winds change..in yesterday @ .39-.41..out .50..pissed as I watched it go further leaving much on the table but wanted to be able to sleep last night without worry..bankrupt this am & nose dived,,smiling like crazy now!
WLDA news: chuggin away in a/h, more to come in next days imo
DJ World Airways Files With DOT To Link Silicon Valley And China>WLDA
DJ World Airways Sees 6 Round-Trip Cargo Flights/Week
TZOO/GOOG rumor= DJ News: "There will be a new cemetary dedication this weekend,, The Holy Name TZOO Shorts Are Dead Cemetary will inter a multitude of TZOO shorts in one all encompassing ceremony
CBS Can't Vouch for Bush Guard Documents
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=4&u=/ap/20040920/ap_on_el_pr/bush_...
KKD article in Friday Business Week Online
http://biz.yahoo.com/bizwk/040917/b3901128mz026_1.html
add a 4th Q?
07:30 QQQ jumps to Nasdaq from AMEX - NY Post (35.25 )
The New York Post has learned that the Nasdaq 100 index trust (QQQ) is moving to the Nasdaq from its longtime home on the American Stock Exchange. The Nasdaq and Amex are close to an agreement to move the listing of the Nasdaq-100 index ahead of a previously set July 2005 deadline, sources said to Post.
QQQQ?
TZOO short- hearing, no confirm -- wedbush - - hearing TZOO secondary that was being talked about coming by end of the week at $51-53 range...apprx 7 mill. shares
U.S. AUG. RETAIL SALES DOWN 0.3% VS. -0.1% EXPECTED
lancebps hey, that really answered it! lolol
board monitor, you should be happy to have a trader post their exits,,that shows complete honesty & helps other traders not as knowledgeable as GoldenChild.
If that's your attitude, it's you who are hurting the board if you think posting an exit is a negative
NTSL NetSolve to be acquired by CSCO for $11/shares -- DJ
NTSL currently 8.90
unfortunately it's halted too
TASR short---conference:In slideshow related to conference presentation, co says it expects no major international orders in Q3.
time for TASR CEO to don his black shirt & making a striking CNBC appearence again
irc server fro Boston seems to most stable at this time
to add it to your server list go to options folder (folder with the hammer icon) use connect/servers/edit
then add this new one
boston.ma.us.financialchat.com
port: 6667
name it FinancialChat2 or something like this so that it is not the same as the one you currently use.
Say ok.
Now go to your server list. it wil be on the very bottom. Click it & connect.
irc connect/disconnect problems this mrning.. for anyone having them,,it's web problems, not servers.
ISRG med/long term buy
Bear Sterns downgraded ISRG yesterday from outperform to peer perform (which is rather funny since as some posters point out, there are no peers in this field). Looks like this leads to a probable better buying spot here. Complaints from message board posters that the person writing the downgrade doesn't understand the company. Maybe instead, he DOES understand fully, and as we have often seen, a downgrade is used to get the better lower prices to buy, while an upgrade is often a signal to sell.
Why I got interested in this company is both from my previous heart situations as well as President Clinton's current one. It is quite possible that this was used on him. I have no evidence to support this other than it is said the hospital he had his surgery in has them. If by some chance it comes out that this was used, then the stock should really pop. If not, I look at ISRG as a solid mid/long term investment on a quality product that will be used increasingly in the future...with no current competition.
Here is an interesting article on da Vinci robotic system.
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/09/05/loc_robots05.html
"Surgeons are using the robots, which cost about $1.2 million each, for a growing list of operations, including cardiac bypasses, heart valve repairs, prostate removals, gastric bypass, lung surgery, even kidney removals for organ transplant procedures."
Something to look into for a growth hold position as sales of these machines will increase in the next years.
Company is Intitive Surgical ticker ISRG
http://www.intusurg.com/
Stock has increased 50% so far in 2004. Looks to have plenty of room, but this is an investment imo, certainly not a specific trader.
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More Than 100 Stars of Tomorrow to Present at the Three-Day Conference
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- ThinkEquity Partners, a leading
research-centric institutional investment firm, will host its second annual
Growth Conference on September 21-23, 2004 at the Omni Hotel in San Francisco,
California. The event will serve as a forum for investors to gain valuable
investment insights into the key drivers of the growth economy, offering
attendees the opportunity to interact with executives and investment
professionals from the most exciting growth companies in the market.
The Growth Conference will include presentations and break-out sessions
with more than 100 CEOs of the fastest growing companies in the world,
exploring the current state of their respective industries. Included will be
class of 2004 IPOs (Salesforce.com, Greenfield Online, Color Kinetics,
Blackboard, Momenta, and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals), as well as ThinkBIG
sessions from 30 CEOs of prominent high growth, top performing small cap and
micro cap companies.
About ThinkEquity Partners
ThinkEquity Partners is a research-centric institutional investment firm
focused on the growth sectors of the knowledge economy. ThinkEquity Partners
is dedicated to providing focused insight, advisory services, and capital to
institutional investors and corporate constituents in the knowledge economy's
key growth verticals, including technology, health care, business services,
and knowledge enterprises. For more information about ThinkEquity Partners,
please visit http://www.thinkequity.com. Member NASD and SIPC.
Presenting Companies
Intuitive Surgical
wonderboy-JetBlue Airways Corp ,.absolutely,,JBLU was talked about on #activetrader much of yesterday. Others said that it had bottomed & looked at it as a long. I disagreed because of exactly for the same reason.
MAMA nice from a/h buy yesterday on stock buy back
a solid trading idea might be to look into those companies that gain in Florida during the winter months,, with the hurricanes these companoies will surely suffer revenue drops in late 2004 & would be good shorts..Disney of course, but they are so big that it might not hit them as hard,,find companies based in Florida
in MAMA on a/h announcement of share buy back
borrowed from irc channel..
Subject: A Straight Forward Opinion
T. Bubba Bechtol, part time City Councilman from Pensacola, Florida, was asked on a local live radio talk show the other day just what he thought of the allegations of torture of the Iraqi prisoners. His reply prompted his ejection from the studio, but to thunderous applause from the audience.
"If hooking up an Iraqi prisoner's private parts to a car's battery cables will save one American GI's life, then I have just two things to say:
"Red is positive"
"Black is negative"
tivo just denied the NFLX rumor
Sep 7, 2004 (streetinsider.com via COMTEX) -- According to Bloomberg, TiVo Inc
(Nasdaq: TIVO) says it has no partnership with NetFlix (Nasdaq: NFLX) and won't start movie download service for a year or more.
Netflix and TiVo - Later this month, Newsweek has learned, Netflix and TiVo plan to unveil a simple but significant partnership that could shake up the media world. Subscribers who belong to both services will be able to download their Netflix DVDs over the Internet directly onto the TiVo boxes in their homes, instead of receiving them in the mail.
BUSH up by 12% in latest polls after convention, Kerry got NO bump. the election is already over folks. Plan your stock buys accordingly. Some folks were calling for stem stock buys about a month or so ago, figuring Kerry would win & stem cell stocks would gain favor. If you bought into this, time to dump before getting caught in a loser. Look for the stocks that will be favored by a Bush win, cause that is what is coming.
this website has a tendency to get folks to buy their picks, making for price increaes.
On balence, there is also detractors on the net at every cal lthey make.
Suggest doing some dd on them to decide whether to get in front of any before their postings.
I'm already in BCSI fwiw
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Arnold giving a rousing speech at RCN. Hitting all the points to make the case.
Excellent!
didn't catch SWIR at bottom, but looks to bve a stock that recover the current 3 day drop for a nice profit from entry level. will hold a while to see
SWIR screwing the pooch on numbers so far..not nice
n SWIR here based on next 2 day moves after last 8 straight Major_Dropper days going back to Jan '01..all 8 went at least +5% hod from drop day close within 1st 2 days