Thursday, June 19, 2008

Barclays Keeps Its Cake and Eats It Too

It seems too easy. Lose billions on the value of corroded assets, but instead of suffering the anguish , you issue rights. That is the tract...

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Royal Bank Scotland Fixes Rights

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) claimed victory on Monday, June 7, in its historic rights issue. By Wednesday the bank said it had placed 95% o...

Goldmans Second Verse, Same As The First

For Goldman Sachs reporting fiscal second quarter 2008 results it was the same old refrain they beat expectations, their own . Goldman Sac...

Lying Lehman and the Lies They Tell

There is no longer a shred of doubt that Lehman Brothers is headed down toward single digits, possibly all the way to the the pink sheets. T...

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Alert: LEH

I think the the last three days of LEH fake rally will ge taken out and right now I will put my money where my mouth is, by shorting a 1/2 p...

Trade Alert: LEH

Now that Lehman Brothers and Goldman Gangester Sachs have reported earnings we will be looking at Lehman Brothers to short for the final rid...

Execution at Lehman

It’s wearing Lehman down. The steady friction generated by rubbing lies against the truth and constantly being called on to explain the diff...

Monday, June 16, 2008

Trade Alert: LEH JPM

There are all the reasons in the world to short Lehman Brothers. The stock is forming a lowre high as it crashes into its 8 day EMA on anem...

Trade Alert: LEH JPM XLF

It looks like the financials are going to rock. Everyone hates them the news about Lehman Brothers has brought everything down, but they had...

Goldman Sachs is Touchable

The once feared Golden Godfather has been contemptuously slapped again by investors in trying to unload credit crunch damaged leveraged lo...

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Lehman Brothers is Another JP Morgan

Bear Stearns was gutted from within. The take down from the board room could not have been more bloody if done with a straight razor in an a...

Friday, June 13, 2008

Alert: LEH

We just got stopped out of LEH at 25.51 which reports Monday. The professionals will cover their shorts Monday morning. The volume on LEH is...

Thursday, June 12, 2008

The Problem With Multiple Inverse ETFs

With the popularity of inverse ETFs on the rise it's a good idea to consider some of the hazards. Ideally we would just be able to go l...

Mauled Again

With the overnight shredding to the bone of Bear Stearns still fresh in investors’ minds, Lehman Brothers is finding it more difficult to sh...

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Alert: LEH

Sell short 50 shares LEH now @ 24.46 stop @ 24.50. We will add when leh breaks 21.00

Alert: SLV IAU GLD

I don't know how, but I overlooked gold and my two wining trades on the gold ETFs IAU and GLD are now under water. Initially I wanted to...

Alert: OIL UGA

Close out OIL and UGA Sell 25 shares OIL @ 80.57 Sell 25 shares UGA @ 63.47

Trade Alert: LNN

If LNN cannot break above 120 soon , then it will have identified a downtrend for itself. The stock hit a high of 130 in May, the failed at ...

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Trade Update: DUG

To get a big picture of our DUG trade look at the daily chart of oil ETF, USO . It gaped and made its all time of 113 on Friday June 06. Now...

It's Personal

The credit crisis continues to take down new victims, and the high rolling heads include two more CEOs. As with Citigroup’s “Chuck” Prince a...

Monday, June 9, 2008

Running on Empty

Fitch Ratings actually said an unkind word about a company before it goes on life support, two companies actually. ``Barclays and BNP and ...

Sunday, June 8, 2008

Psychotic

As the market intensifies its punishment, Lehman Brothers’ cash continues to dwindle and the bank’s desperation grows. This asphyxiation is ...

Saturday, June 7, 2008

More More More

The Royal Bank of Scotland is gaging on its consumption of ABN Amro and the subprime binge of the housing bubble. The bubble has long since...

Friday, June 6, 2008

Alert: OIL UGA

sold 25 shares of OIL @ 83.01 sold 25 shares of UGA @ 65.72 3:50 pm DIG is down 2.00, sell OIL and UGA

Trade Alert: DUG

The gap has filled, move stops up to 26.90