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Demandware First Day Live Log, Blow By Blow (DWRE)

Posted: March 15, 2012 at 4:15 pm

Demandware, Inc. (NYSE: DWRE) priced its IPO today and the premium price of $16.00 was above the $12.50 to $14.50 per share price range.  24/7 Wall St. wanted to track ...
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ADTRAN: When Bad Earnings Warnings Are Good (ADTN)

Posted: March 15, 2012 at 3:50 pm

How many times do you see a technology stock rally after an earnings warning?  An earnings warning from ADTRAN, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADTN) was met with a rally in the stock ...
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Guidewire Now Takes Top IPO Of 2012 (GWRE)

Posted: March 15, 2012 at 3:10 pm

Guidewire Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: GWRE) is currently the best of the best of the IPO class of 2012.   After pricing more than 8.8 million shares at $13.00 in late January, the ...
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Akamai Options Volume Stands Out (AKAM)

Posted: March 15, 2012 at 12:15 pm

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM) looks harmless enough today in its trading as the stock is up about 1.5% at $37.20.  That is on only 1.3 million shares against a ...
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Are Apple and Microsoft Stock Gains Peaking? (MSFT, AAPL)

Posted: March 1, 2012 at 12:47 pm

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is "the new Microsoft" as far as tech companies taking over the world.  In the 1990's it was Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) that was taking over ...
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Silver’s Re-Run: The Devil’s Metal Lives On (SLV, GLD, AGQ, SLW, PAAS, HL)

Posted: February 28, 2012 at 12:56 pm

Is it starting to feel like the silly season all over again?  On a day after higher consumer confidence and weak durable goods, spot gold is up just over 1% ...
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Can You Make Money In Stocks On Leap Day? (DIA)

Posted: February 28, 2012 at 11:45 am

2012 is a Leap Year and that means one more potential trading day with February 29 on the calendar.  Stock market statisticians often try to look for patterns in anything, ...
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Very Unusual Short Interest Trends (ALU, BAC, DNDN, DMND, FSLR, GMCR, HGSI, LNKD, NFLX, RIMM, SIRI)

Posted: February 28, 2012 at 8:58 am

Cult stocks and controversial stocks often have an unusually high short interest.  What is amazing is that the bets against these companies sometimes go off the charts and we see ...
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Unusual Stocks At All-Time Highs (CLB, CLH, CVLT, INTU, LGF, LO, MA, MJN, FIRE)

Posted: February 22, 2012 at 11:30 am

We are seeing some surprise moves for all-time high stocks this Wednesday.  Some are even moving without the benefit of fresh news. Core Laboratories NV (NYSE: CLB) almost made it to $125.00 ...
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Crushing Blow for Gilead, Billions of Dollars (GILD)

Posted: February 17, 2012 at 7:22 am

Gilead Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD) is being crushed after a disappointing result in its Hepatitis C treatment after reporting that a majority of hepatitis C genotype-1 patients who had a ...
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Best Recent IPO Class: Up 50% Or More (KORS, INVN, IMPV, CLVS, GWRE, MFRM, JIVE, LPI)

Posted: February 16, 2012 at 3:25 pm

IPO Fever has not really caught on in a major way yet in 2012.  The Facebook halo-effect did bring a pop and private equity firms are still seeming to hold ...
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Top Five Early Winners & Losers This Thursday (ITRI, NTAP, NILE, NVDA, PMFG)

Posted: February 16, 2012 at 8:32 am

Many stocks are on the move this morning.  Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITRI) and NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) are the two pre-market leaders on percentage gains this Thursday morning on NASDAQ; ...
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5 Big S&P 500 Tech Stocks Outperforming Apple in 2012 (AAPL, CA, TDC, CRM, A, BRCM, DELL)

Posted: February 13, 2012 at 11:53 am

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has been on fire in 2012 and has hit new high after new high.  If you just benchmark the $500 price, Apple shares are up 23.4% ...
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CME Lowers Energy & Metals Margin Trading Requirements (CME, GLD, USO, SLV, JJC)

Posted: February 9, 2012 at 5:37 pm

CME Group Inc. (NYSE: CME) is going to make it cheaper for traders to trade energy and metals futures, something which could make it easier and cheaper for traders, speculators, ...
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More Short Covering Exaggerates Solar Rallies (TAN, FSLR, SPWR, ENER, TSL, WFR)

Posted: February 9, 2012 at 3:10 pm

Solar stocks are on fire.  Still, they are so far down from a year ago that celebrating the move it difficult to do.  To show just how powerful this move up ...
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