The Hackensack

With the Nasdaq near a 14-month high, and the VIX near a 14-month low, I have been building a basket of out-of-the-market puts on financial...

Apparently, I'm not the only one who decided to bet against VMED recently. Short interest on VMED spiked 43% in the first two weeks of...

In a post earlier this month ( "Buying a lottery ticket to bet against gold" ) I mentioned buying a few puts on the gold ETF GLD ....

Virgin Media (Nasdaq: VMED ) caught my eye on the Short Screen screener last night. In addition to having an Altman Z"-Score in the di...

In a post last Thursday ( "Buying a lottery ticket to bet against gold" ) I mentioned buying a few puts on the gold ETF GLD . Thos...

If you're new here, take a moment to click on the bear over there and look around --> Short Screen offers tools and ideas for short ...

John Chow on Short Screen and Tim Sykes, as resources for investors looking to short stocks: "Going Long on Going Short" .

On September 17th, I mentioned that I had shorted one of David Einhorn's holdings, Einstein Noah Restaurant Group (Nasdaq: BAGL ), at $...

This didn't last long. On the advice of one of my developers I deviated from the personalized tweeting and sent the same reply to 20 or...

Took advantage of the up day today to pick up a few more DIA puts. I'm working on a more precise hedging strategy, but these should suf...

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In a post last year, I recommended a documentary from 2001 that was airing on Showtime again, Startup.com , which profiled the rise and fal...

I mentioned this in a previous comment thread, but I shorted a few shares of Einstein Noah Restaurant Group (Nasdaq: BAGL ) earlier today at...

Below is a presentation of Vitaliy Katsenelson's secular range-bound market thesis, updated as of this month (longtime readers may recal...

In a post last August, "The Strongest and Weakest Banks in America" (which, according to Feedjit , still attracts a number of rea...

Mike Shedlock ("Mish") actually lists eleven financial entities on the brink in this post . One of them, Downey Financial (NYSE: D...

Hat tip to Barry Ritholtz for this The "X"-List Report" (PDF) on the strongest and weakest banks in America. The list draws...