Archive for March, 2012

• The Stocktwits Distribution of Stream Extends to MSN Money…More Networks of Networks…
  Posted by Howard on March 28th, 2012 at 10:51 am, Comments: 3 comments

  Yesterday, my friend Fred Wilson wrote a post entitled: ‘Can You Build a Network on Top of Another Network.  There were some great insights and [...]

• Man Pants, Crowdfunding and Momentum Monday…Liquidity Meets Window Dressing Meets Good Mood …
  Posted by Howard on March 26th, 2012 at 10:09 pm, Comments: 2 comments

  This bull market has a profile…It is a cloud and SAAS based, web shopping, Priceline travelling, social sharing, Chinese searching, gun toting, Europe fleeing, burrito/wing [...]

• Stocktwits as Predictor…Research Says Yes!
  Posted by Howard on March 26th, 2012 at 12:15 pm, Comments: 8 comments

  I have long felt a legal insider advantage being tapped into the Stocktwits stream of consciousness. The data is starting to back me up. I [...]

• Let’s Talk About Yahoo…Embrace The Purpleness
  Posted by Howard on March 26th, 2012 at 12:12 am, Comments: 5 comments

  Internet people love to hate on Yahoo $YHOO. It bums me out. I like Yahoo. They are a media company and I guess we all [...]

• The ‘Hot Ball’s Apple Short of 2012…And Starbucks to Sell Guns and Ammo
  Posted by Howard on March 21st, 2012 at 1:53 am, Comments: No comments yet

  I am not sure what will happen first….Apple dropping for a day or Starbucks selling weapons. America is complaining about how hot their iPad gets [...]

• Boo Apple…The Great Utility Company…Let the Double Taxation Begin!
  Posted by Howard on March 20th, 2012 at 2:05 am, Comments: 6 comments

  I need my utility company. They are on auto-pay. They scare me with their power. I have no idea how the grid works or trust [...]

• Momentum Monday…Why Apple Should Get into Social
  Posted by Howard on March 19th, 2012 at 3:02 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  Other than the fact that market averages are making new multi-year highs again, the news of the day is Apple paying a dividend and the [...]

• What Will Apple Do With It’s Cash…It Should Be Payments and Needs to be Social!
  Posted by Howard on March 18th, 2012 at 10:52 pm, Comments: 87 comments

  The fun speculating about what $aapl will do with it’s cash horde will end tomorrow. They are not going to do something small. It makes [...]

• Friday Lightspeed Account Snapshot…Ivan Beating Howie…Tortoise and the Hare
  Posted by Howard on March 16th, 2012 at 8:23 pm, Comments: 1 comment

  We are a few weeks into the @Ivanhoff vs. Lindzon Momentum Contest and Ivan has an early lead up just over 1 percent (I am [...]

• Encyclopaedia Britannica….’We Have A Better Tool Now’
  Posted by Howard on March 14th, 2012 at 1:29 am, Comments: 4 comments

  My first big sale was a set of Encyclopaedia Britannica’s. Summer of 1985. I had pimples and great hair. Now there will be no more [...]

• Warren Buffett… #GOD
  Posted by Howard on March 13th, 2012 at 4:56 pm, Comments: 6 comments

  I still don’t like the old man, but he is the one guy that can fight the tape. You can only fight the tape if [...]

• Momentum Monday…Pruning Amazon and Still Bullish
  Posted by Howard on March 13th, 2012 at 12:48 am, Comments: 5 comments

  I explain why I decided to close a long-term position of mine in Amazon ($AMZN). Opportunity cost matters, especially in a bull market. Ivan and [...]

• The Long Way Home…My Successes and Failures as an Investor the Last 10 Years
  Posted by Howard on March 8th, 2012 at 10:59 am, Comments: 3 comments

  Thanks Jay Gould for organizing this interview. Here it is. Share on StockTwits

• Momentum Monday…Why Nike is STILL a Sleeping Giant
  Posted by Howard on March 5th, 2012 at 10:03 pm, Comments: 13 comments

  Ok here is the lowdown… The price of oil sucks, but software stocks don’t care. That has been the trend. $IBM is now at 10-year [...]

• StockTwits’ Top 10 Trending Tickers for February
  Posted by Howard on March 5th, 2012 at 9:32 am, Comments: 2 comments

  What a month for the bulls. The Stocktwits streams were pulsing with momentum names old and new. You should not fight the tape and our [...]