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03-22-2007

Skandia vs Umbrella Corp

I know this is old news, but I came across it once again yesterday when I was watching Resident Evil (the movie). The logo of the evil Umbrella Corporation running the evil lab in the movie is stunning like the logo of the Swedish insurance and savings company Skandia.

Umbrella Corp Skandia

The differences between the logos are the colors and the number of slices, but otherwise they look a like. I wonder if Skandia are aware of the similarities? Maybe it’s time someone asks them?

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08-19-2006

The Need for Diversification in The Stock Market

Why is it that some people only buy one or two stocks? Others may have 15 stocks but have 50 percent of their investment assets in just one of those 15 stocks. In Wall Street we refer to this type of behavior as concentration. Some firms call it over-concentration. When this happens in a brokerage firm it is always considered dangerous. It is so dangerous, in fact, that if the brokerage firm is using a concentrated stock position as capital, then the market value of the security in question is given a haircut. This means that the full market value of the security is chopped by some fixed percentage in any capital computation. In other words, if you are over-concentrated, you don’t get full value.

Some of you may have margin accounts. As you know, StocksAtBottom.com advocates cash ownership of stocks. If you own stocks on margin, it is our opinion that you will get sold out on margin. Normally in a margin account you put up 50 percent of the value of the stock you acquire in cash. If equity falls below 35 percent, you get a margin call. Now, brokerage firms love it when clients have 15 or 20 different stocks in a margin account. If there are some bonds in that account, guess what, they love it even more. Why? Because brokerage firms know that stocks represent risky Read the rest of this entry »

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08-03-2006

Stock Investing Tip

If you are looking for a Stock Investing Tip you have come to the right place. Investing tips come from everywhere and from all sources. From strangers you over hear talking in the store to the gurus on the television.

When we are in a strong bull market, and it seems like the market will not go down no matter what, you can get a great stock investing tip just from throwing a dart at the list of stocks in Investors Business Daily, and come out with a winner.

An Investing Tip can come from an article you read in the newspaper or a magazine. Usually the time you read about it, the stock has already made it’s big move. That is when the smart money starts taking their profits and sells to the dump money.

Sometimes investing tips come as a pump and dump. With the smaller priced stocks it does not take much money to buy alot of shares. They will then start talking about, or writing newsletters about how good (pump) the company is just to get people to start buying the stock, and at the same time they are selling (dump) their shares.

If you are getting into the market because of a tip you got, you are bound to lose your hard earned money. Sure you might get lucky a few times, like in a strong bull market, but in the long run you will eventually lose all your money that you set aside for investing.

The best stock investing tip you will ever receive is going to be right here. Do not buy any stock on any tip that you here!!! Do not put your hard earned money in any investment blindly, do your homework. Many beginners in the stock market will feel that they have to jump in on the tip they have gotten in order to make the big buck. They are afraid the train is going to leave without them. They don’t want to be left out of the big move.

There is no reason to be jumping into any stock right away. There are thousands of stocks to invest in. Let the stock price come to you, do not go chasing a stock.

Learning how to invest in stocks is not difficult, but it does take time, just like learning anything in live. Take the time to learn, there are many books to read that will get you going in the right direction. Read them, study them, study the market, practice trading on paper. Take the time to learn how to invest, you will not regret it. The stock market is not going anywhere, it’s been here for a long time, and will continue to be here for a long time to come.

Soon the only stock investing tip you will be listening to will be coming from the knowledge that you have learned, and that is the best investing tip that you can get. Then your friends and family will be coming to you for investing tips.

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07-14-2006

Oil price over 78 dollar

Due to the conflict between Israel and Lebanon the oil price rised above 78 dollar this morning. Pacific Ethanol, Inc (NASDAQ: PEIX) is up 2.56% in the morning trade today and Bluefire Ethanol Fuel (Other OTC:BFRE.PK) is up 0.94%.

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07-07-2006

Oil prices up!

Oil prices are back at all-time highs above $75 per barrel. XETHANOL CORPORATION (AMEX:XNL) was traded up 1.04% since yesterday to $9.70 per stock.

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07-03-2006

Oil Price vs Ethanol stocks

When I compared the price for NYMEX crude oil and the stock price for two ethanol producing companies I noticed that when the oil price increased or stod still the ethanol stocks did the same. When the oil price stod still or decreased the ethanol stocks decreased.

The ethanol stocks reacted much more then the change in the oil price and that can be because the stock market have to consider much more variables then just the price for fuel (in this case the oil)…. I’m sure you will be able to find similar relationships between other types of fuel and the oil price.

Ethanol stocks vs the oil price. (C) AndreasBylund.com

The blue line above is Xethanol Corporation (AMEX:XNL), the green line is Pacific Ethanol Inc (NASDAQ:PEIX) and the red line is the price for NYMEX Light Sweet Crude Oil. Data from Energy Information Administration, Nasdaq and American Stock Exchange.

Too bad I didn’t knew this at the beginning of the year since both Xethanol and Pacific Ethanol have gone up over 100% this year only!

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06-16-2006

Two stocks you should know about

SanDisk 1Gb. Photo: AndreasBylund.comUBS has upgraded both Sandisk (NasdaqNM:SNDK) and NVidia (NasdaqNM:NVDA) from Neutral to Buy.  

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