Full Disclosure Finance

By Andrew
I’ve decided to start a new segment of posts on the site called “On the Radar”. When I come across a stock that catches my interest i’ll outline the story in post form so you can see my justification for why I like the stock. This will help me perform thorough research on my […]

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By Andrew,
Lately I have been trying to implement the deep-in-the-money calls options strategy that I explain in a recent post through my paper trading account at Investopedia. On April 22nd I outlined our first success with Microsoft calls and a second idea with Corning Inc. With the stock trading at $25.73 I bought 10 of the August $20 calls […]

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By Andrew,
On April 4th I wrote a post on implementing the deep-in-the-money calls strategy with Microsoft calls. To recap I bought 10 of the July 2008 $24.00 calls for $5.15 on March 26th. Sometime last week the July calls reached our target of $6.15 and the good-till-canceled limit order executed to lock in our $1000 […]

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By Andrew,
In a recent post I commented on the Visa (V) IPO and how I thought you should play it. The post was also published on Seeking Alpha, which is a financial site that publishes stock related posts from various blog sites and individual contributors. On the Seeking Alpha post a number of readers have left comments […]

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By Andrew
The Dow was down nearly 300 points today lead by commodities with Gold making its biggest drop since June of 2006 and Crude Oil down nearly 5%. Yet Wall Street still managed to pull off the Largest IPO in US history. Late Tuesday Visa (V) priced the 406 million shares of their Initial Public […]

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By Andrew
In my last post I disclosed a holding in Sandvine Corp. (SVC.TO) and had promised a full fundamental analysis on the company. Well it was a rough week last week for shareholders of Sandvine. On Thursday Sandvine announced that they were cutting their 2008 revenue forecast to $80-85 million from the previous $100-110 million. […]

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By Andrew
Its been a while since my last stock purchase update, so I wanted to bring everyone up to speed on my current holdings. I’ll state the number of shares, the purchase price of the stock, and a brief justification for the purchase.
1. 50 shares of Research in Motion (RIMM) @ $87.03
This holding was actually a […]

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By Andrew,
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past 2 weeks you probably have heard about the Microsoft offer for Yahoo!. After what has seemed like endless speculation, Microsoft finally announced that they are officially pursuing a deal for internet conglomerate. The unsolicited offers has Microsoft paying $42 billion dollars or approximately $31 per share for […]

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By Andrew
Well its been a tough start to 2008 for investors to say the least. The markets put in their worst January in 17 years and volatility has been king. We had a sharp rally in the major indices over the past few weeks only to have them snap back 4% in two days at the beginning of last […]

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By Andrew
I’ve been building up a position in McDonalds over the last few weeks (see my previous posts here and here for details). In the most recent post I said that the stock would probably trade lower and I was looking for resistance around $50 per share. Well on Monday the stock hit that level thanks to […]

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