Shorting Stocks

• If You Could Hate One Stock…
  Posted by Howard on May 26th, 2008 at 10:13 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  I hate a few. You know them if you read this blog. 1. Best Buy (BBY) 2. Verizon (VZ) 3. Harley Davidson (HOG) 4. Capital [...]

• Name that Roundtrip! Win My Respect?
  Posted by Howard on January 29th, 2008 at 2:47 pm, Comments: 25 comments

  If you are going to short you might as well catch a homerun. I always wanted to be the guy to catch the move to [...]

• I Would Short…BUT…
  Posted by Howard on January 29th, 2008 at 7:20 am, Comments: 2 comments

  I am hearing 50 Basis Point Cut or death to the markets this morning on CNBC. I have to be honest. I wake up at [...]

• Name That SHORT!
  Posted by Howard on January 4th, 2008 at 7:52 am, Comments: 11 comments

  I am now shorting a bunch of SPYders. Could be for the day or could be for 5-6 points. I will hit them all day. [...]

• The Bears to Lindzon…Na na na na na!
  Posted by Howard on December 17th, 2007 at 2:34 pm, Comments: 1 comment

  Today’s market action looked like this . If you are a bear, it looked like this . The bears are truly in control of most [...]

• Shortsellers…Putz's
  Posted by Howard on December 13th, 2007 at 10:23 pm, Comments: 9 comments

  Oh boy…more ammunition for a top argument now. Howard is calling shortsellers putz’s. The point is, they may be smart and intellectual and right even, [...]

• Today's Selloff…Buying Again, but not with Enthusiasm…Looking at Short Ideas
  Posted by Howard on December 12th, 2007 at 1:24 pm, Comments: 1 comment

  I just bought back SPY at $147.65 but just small compared to yesterday. My sells this morning (blogged them) in the $149′s and $151′s look [...]

• The Bears Overstay Their Welcome…As Usual
  Posted by Howard on November 30th, 2007 at 7:37 am, Comments: No comments yet

  The shorts are such amateurs. They are too smart for their own good. While they brag at ‘cocktail parties’, their profits disappear. Sure – we [...]

• Message to bears…Is That all You've Got!
  Posted by Howard on November 28th, 2007 at 4:07 pm, Comments: 2 comments

  What a bunch of sissies those bears. They will be back hard though. I did warn you though to leave the bulls alone for a [...]

• Always be Buying? At Least Looking!
  Posted by Howard on November 18th, 2007 at 5:09 pm, Comments: 4 comments

  I save a lot of time not looking for short sales. By watching all-time highs and better yet, having my friends Cole and Eric emailing [...]

• Goldman Sachs…A Historic Day for Capital Markets
  Posted by Howard on October 9th, 2007 at 1:05 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  A very interesting/exciting day indeed. Google, Goldman Sachs, China, and the Dow/S&P are at all-time highs. Oil and Gold are pretty much there as well. [...]

• BEARS…They Shit in the Woods and Buy Puts in October
  Posted by Howard on October 8th, 2007 at 9:15 pm, Comments: 6 comments

  Google haters, China haters, SubPrime shocks and internet bubble talk all perfectly cocktailed for the seasonal October swoon. NOT! Maybe we get an October Stock [...]

• No Uptick Rule…This Toy has HURT the Bears
  Posted by Howard on September 4th, 2007 at 2:49 pm, Comments: 7 comments

  Of course there will come a day when the no uptick rule haunts us, but not quite yet. Too many newbies think that it was [...]

• Shortsellers Overhead at Lunch
  Posted by Howard on August 15th, 2007 at 12:34 pm, Comments: No comments yet

  They are getting cocky. Can’t blame the turds: (hat tip FLY ) Share on StockTwits

• Hype and Optimism vs. Hate and Pessimism
  Posted by Howard on January 14th, 2007 at 5:23 pm, Comments: 12 comments

  Don’t be a sucker for hype. That said, I choose hype over hate and optimism over pessimism. You should too. I just found out that [...]