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No Yahoo!, You Want To Make More Money, Not Less!

June 14, 2008 at 3:07 pm
by timothysykes

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I don’t give a damn about any of these companies stocks—Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) or Google Inc. (GOOG)—but when I see articles with titles like this: “Microsoft offered $9 bln for Yahoo stake, search deal”, I can’t help but laugh.

Obviously nobody outside the inner workings of such a deal knows the details and maybe YHOO was right to walk away and do a deal that’s 5% of that size (this is where the laughing sets in), but the media has clearly taken the stance that whatever YHOO does, they f$#@ up and investors—as I think by now I’ve proven—are influenced by the media. Mmmmmm, how do do all those lawsuits just starting to rise in the oven smell?

I mean c’mon YHOO, you screw up basically everything you touch—for example, remember not so long ago when Google Finance was but a blip and now they’ve introduced sooo many cool tools and blogging features that’s its actually put a dent in the once great Yahoo! Finance…you guys shoulda woulda coulda taken the $33, made Icahn a bit richer and been put outta your misery. Did you forget you’re a public company and the goal is to make you stock go higher?


As it is, the situation is a bit like me looking back and seeing what I coulda done differently on ideal shorting opportunities like CNEX and FPP!

Posted in Bad Trades, Financial Media Circus, idiots, Missed Opportunities

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  • http://www.thenetfool.com/ Jim

    Finally someone who understands. I’ve seen far too many blogs hyping Yahoo and all that business. Personally, I wouldn’t touch either one of the three stocks. Jerry Yang really screwed over shareholders in a big way by dropping out initial talks with Microsoft, so I’m mad FOR the shareholders on Yang, haha. At any rate, Yahoo shouldn’t be in this market anymore, much less demand a $22 premium!

  • http://www.thenetfool.com/ Jim

    Finally someone who understands. I’ve seen far too many blogs hyping Yahoo and all that business. Personally, I wouldn’t touch either one of the three stocks. Jerry Yang really screwed over shareholders in a big way by dropping out initial talks with Microsoft, so I’m mad FOR the shareholders on Yang, haha. At any rate, Yahoo shouldn’t be in this market anymore, much less demand a $22 premium!

  • Rambone

    MSFT and Yahoo deal is forever dead as Yahoo has already struck a deal with Google. Icahn shot himself in the foot twice. He bought Europeans style CALLS representing 50 million shares and sold European style PUTS representing 50 million shares both with 19.50 strike prices expiring in 2010. He filed papers to buy another 40 million shares so he might own 100 million shares of Yahoo. His plan was to remove the board so he could replace them with his own to accept the $33 offer that was OFF the table. The guy has clearly lost his talent as an investor with recent flops of Motorola, Block Buster, and potential Circuit City investments. Adding insult to injury to Yahoo shareholders papers were released showing MSFT offered $40 a share for Yahoo in Jan 07. 3 other billionaires followed Icahn money in the hopes he could accomplish a deal including Pickens, Paulson, and Cohen.

    Look for Yahoo to touch new 52 week lows soon. I’d initiate a short on a break of 20. Easy 1 point scalp.

  • Rambone

    MSFT and Yahoo deal is forever dead as Yahoo has already struck a deal with Google. Icahn shot himself in the foot twice. He bought Europeans style CALLS representing 50 million shares and sold European style PUTS representing 50 million shares both with 19.50 strike prices expiring in 2010. He filed papers to buy another 40 million shares so he might own 100 million shares of Yahoo. His plan was to remove the board so he could replace them with his own to accept the $33 offer that was OFF the table. The guy has clearly lost his talent as an investor with recent flops of Motorola, Block Buster, and potential Circuit City investments. Adding insult to injury to Yahoo shareholders papers were released showing MSFT offered $40 a share for Yahoo in Jan 07. 3 other billionaires followed Icahn money in the hopes he could accomplish a deal including Pickens, Paulson, and Cohen.

    Look for Yahoo to touch new 52 week lows soon. I’d initiate a short on a break of 20. Easy 1 point scalp.

  • Rambone

    This from Wall St Journal Winners and Losers:

    Winners:
    Google: By completing a search-advertising pact with Yahoo, not only did the Internet search giant succeed in keeping its rival out of Microsoft

  • Rambone

    This from Wall St Journal Winners and Losers:

    Winners:
    Google: By completing a search-advertising pact with Yahoo, not only did the Internet search giant succeed in keeping its rival out of Microsoft

  • Mike_13th

    Tim,
    Watching the Livestock marathon now,very nice.
    A few comments here.
    You say GOS a very nice chat but not enough hits,thanks but with 60 folks in it now instead of linking with other chats,we actually are thinking of limiting our chat to 70 folks or fewer now.
    Laura,Muddy and myself don’t want it to turn into a frat party,we are happy with a small crowd that wants to be serious about alerts that FIT and we don’t really care if we have only 30 in there actually,as long as they are harder core penneystocker momo type folks.

    Also I think you don’t get what I said about LAUD.
    I agreed with you that Wednesday the party was a 50/50 shot on LAUD that it was over in 2 days.
    I even said I agree ,when you said that.
    BUT I also said those kind hardly ever gapdown big at open and LAUD I was in long at an avg. price of 1.89 so I still made nice bucks with a sell at 2.50.

    Also JADE I put up here:
    (Jun 13-09:19) 13th_FLOOR: JADE late

    11 mins before post this was put, it opened at 3.08 and ran 3.57 in just an hour and a half on just a steady rise.
    No freakout drops there just steady up.
    I see you’re gonna go pay with alerts before the open also, I hope you got the premarket late hits down like I do, cause I’ve had some unreal ones in the last few months.
    If you don’t I’ll even teach you …for free.
    You start posting those huge runners, your alert subscription
    list will soar.

    Also I previewed SEED as vol building right before open,that was a nice lift off too right after open.

    Also SOIS which i brought here on 6/3 if you in chat Thurs I alerted the moment it went red at 1.49 that day.
    And yesterday I know you were busy but I was calling it all the way down and you were saying that there weren’t really any plays at the moment you were interested in.It sure interested me as it even fell from 1.20 to 1.10 to 1 then the huge drop to .78

    Anyway, thanks again for the mention on Livestock but we are just kinda trying to keep it a smaller group on GOS.

  • Mike_13th

    Tim,
    Watching the Livestock marathon now,very nice.
    A few comments here.
    You say GOS a very nice chat but not enough hits,thanks but with 60 folks in it now instead of linking with other chats,we actually are thinking of limiting our chat to 70 folks or fewer now.
    Laura,Muddy and myself don’t want it to turn into a frat party,we are happy with a small crowd that wants to be serious about alerts that FIT and we don’t really care if we have only 30 in there actually,as long as they are harder core penneystocker momo type folks.

    Also I think you don’t get what I said about LAUD.
    I agreed with you that Wednesday the party was a 50/50 shot on LAUD that it was over in 2 days.
    I even said I agree ,when you said that.
    BUT I also said those kind hardly ever gapdown big at open and LAUD I was in long at an avg. price of 1.89 so I still made nice bucks with a sell at 2.50.

    Also JADE I put up here:
    (Jun 13-09:19) 13th_FLOOR: JADE late

    11 mins before post this was put, it opened at 3.08 and ran 3.57 in just an hour and a half on just a steady rise.
    No freakout drops there just steady up.
    I see you’re gonna go pay with alerts before the open also, I hope you got the premarket late hits down like I do, cause I’ve had some unreal ones in the last few months.
    If you don’t I’ll even teach you …for free.
    You start posting those huge runners, your alert subscription
    list will soar.

    Also I previewed SEED as vol building right before open,that was a nice lift off too right after open.

    Also SOIS which i brought here on 6/3 if you in chat Thurs I alerted the moment it went red at 1.49 that day.
    And yesterday I know you were busy but I was calling it all the way down and you were saying that there weren’t really any plays at the moment you were interested in.It sure interested me as it even fell from 1.20 to 1.10 to 1 then the huge drop to .78

    Anyway, thanks again for the mention on Livestock but we are just kinda trying to keep it a smaller group on GOS.

  • Mike_13th

    And another comment.
    You keep saying Scottrade sucks for trading these kind short.
    YES ok it does SUCK horseballs for that.I totally agree.
    BUT it rules for the scrolling hod list.
    I’ve also said that many times.
    And you either don’t realize it or don’t care.
    Whatever, BUT IT DOES.

    I traded a few weeks with Muddy when he was mentoring me.
    I could not believe what I was seeing with him and that scolling hod list.
    He was catching stocks on their first vol spike breakouts from that list that were running 10-20-50% in less than an hour,sometimes minutes.You say you go check msg boards for alot of your alerts,Tim,when we checked later Muddy was catching many of these even BEFORE the news hit the wires!
    When I said to him that was unreal,he just laughed and shrugged and said,”happens almost everyday,no big deal.”
    No big deal??, dude, I said,that is WHACK!!

  • Mike_13th

    And another comment.
    You keep saying Scottrade sucks for trading these kind short.
    YES ok it does SUCK horseballs for that.I totally agree.
    BUT it rules for the scrolling hod list.
    I’ve also said that many times.
    And you either don’t realize it or don’t care.
    Whatever, BUT IT DOES.

    I traded a few weeks with Muddy when he was mentoring me.
    I could not believe what I was seeing with him and that scolling hod list.
    He was catching stocks on their first vol spike breakouts from that list that were running 10-20-50% in less than an hour,sometimes minutes.You say you go check msg boards for alot of your alerts,Tim,when we checked later Muddy was catching many of these even BEFORE the news hit the wires!
    When I said to him that was unreal,he just laughed and shrugged and said,”happens almost everyday,no big deal.”
    No big deal??, dude, I said,that is WHACK!!

  • http://www.test.timothysykes.com timothysykes

    mike, i dont do buying intraday runners, as i think ive proven, i suck at that…my premium timalerts membership:

    http://www.test.timothysykes.com/timalerts

    is specifically for short sellers because even though many of the stocks i cover are good longs before they are good shorts, TIMalerts’ value lay in the fact that these people are gonna get an early heads up on what stocks to reserve shares in so its not the free-for-all for shares that it currently is. also u gotta remember most people have jobs/school so they cant check my blog every minute/hour to see if and when i make my trades, TIMalerts will help solve that problem too

    as for people who wanna buy breakouts, thats what u, muddy, superman, lionmaster, all u guys are for, i’ve got the dark side covered :)

  • http://www.test.timothysykes.com timothysykes

    mike, i dont do buying intraday runners, as i think ive proven, i suck at that…my premium timalerts membership:

    http://www.test.timothysykes.com/timalerts

    is specifically for short sellers because even though many of the stocks i cover are good longs before they are good shorts, TIMalerts’ value lay in the fact that these people are gonna get an early heads up on what stocks to reserve shares in so its not the free-for-all for shares that it currently is. also u gotta remember most people have jobs/school so they cant check my blog every minute/hour to see if and when i make my trades, TIMalerts will help solve that problem too

    as for people who wanna buy breakouts, thats what u, muddy, superman, lionmaster, all u guys are for, i’ve got the dark side covered :)

  • http://www.stjohnproductions.com Jesse

    Tim, I enjoyed the Livestock show very much. Thanks for your hard work and effort you put in to this. I wasnt able to watch the whole thing because I was dealing with all the flooding issues around my area here in Wisconsin.

    I like the fact that you put your video player at the top of your page. I watch it little by little as I get time to do so.

  • http://www.stjohnproductions.com Jesse

    Tim, I enjoyed the Livestock show very much. Thanks for your hard work and effort you put in to this. I wasnt able to watch the whole thing because I was dealing with all the flooding issues around my area here in Wisconsin.

    I like the fact that you put your video player at the top of your page. I watch it little by little as I get time to do so.

  • http://www.test.timothysykes.com timothysykes

    thanks jess, u know there’s an on demand button on the video player too so u can watch it from specific times

  • http://www.test.timothysykes.com timothysykes

    thanks jess, u know there’s an on demand button on the video player too so u can watch it from specific times

  • johnnyvento

    The problem with your strategy is you need to be with IB to get those shorts… most people are not and you need to pony up 10k to get in.

  • johnnyvento

    The problem with your strategy is you need to be with IB to get those shorts… most people are not and you need to pony up 10k to get in.

  • http://www.stjohnproductions.com Jesse

    Tim, it just so happens thats exactly what I have been doing. Whenever I find some time, I check my notepad to see what ‘minutes’ I left off at.

  • http://www.stjohnproductions.com Jesse

    Tim, it just so happens thats exactly what I have been doing. Whenever I find some time, I check my notepad to see what ‘minutes’ I left off at.

  • http://www.stjohnproductions.com Jesse

    Where do I go to upload my profile picture?

  • http://www.stjohnproductions.com Jesse

    Where do I go to upload my profile picture?

  • http://www.test.timothysykes.com timothysykes

    johnny, i use and recommend thinkorswim, 3.5k minimum

    jesse go to gravatar.com

  • http://www.test.timothysykes.com timothysykes

    johnny, i use and recommend thinkorswim, 3.5k minimum

    jesse go to gravatar.com

  • YoungGunz

    You can get a margin account when you sign up for power e-trade with 2k.

  • YoungGunz

    You can get a margin account when you sign up for power e-trade with 2k.

  • YoungGunz

    I have been messing with Think or Swim a little bit. I haven’t had time to really try to figure things out in either of them. I have been sticking to most of the basics.

    I also miss-informed you on my performance. I think it sounded like I said I started with 2k and am up to 5k in a month. I meant I made it to 5k this month. I started about 5 months ago. I have basically been trading from work which is kinda risky if you jump in and have to get interrupted by someone wanting me to leave my desk. Needless to say people can make money in penny stocks starting with just a little. I have basically been doing it for fun right now.

    I plan to buy the dvd its just been crazy busy at work and haven’t been able to commit much to trading since I started checking out your site again. You have helped my returns and I think I get the patterns you’re really looking for. I just can’t find them good myself.

    You first caught my attention when you were in your hedge fund and on cnbc or msnbc with their stock challenge that a waitress ended up winning. Back then your site only really had links to wallstreet warriors and you were about to release your book. I am happy to see that you’ve turned a misfortune into something positive by teaching. Thanks also for not trying to turn your site into some sleazy get rich quick scheme like Michael Parness and his day trading infomercials

  • YoungGunz

    I have been messing with Think or Swim a little bit. I haven’t had time to really try to figure things out in either of them. I have been sticking to most of the basics.

    I also miss-informed you on my performance. I think it sounded like I said I started with 2k and am up to 5k in a month. I meant I made it to 5k this month. I started about 5 months ago. I have basically been trading from work which is kinda risky if you jump in and have to get interrupted by someone wanting me to leave my desk. Needless to say people can make money in penny stocks starting with just a little. I have basically been doing it for fun right now.

    I plan to buy the dvd its just been crazy busy at work and haven’t been able to commit much to trading since I started checking out your site again. You have helped my returns and I think I get the patterns you’re really looking for. I just can’t find them good myself.

    You first caught my attention when you were in your hedge fund and on cnbc or msnbc with their stock challenge that a waitress ended up winning. Back then your site only really had links to wallstreet warriors and you were about to release your book. I am happy to see that you’ve turned a misfortune into something positive by teaching. Thanks also for not trying to turn your site into some sleazy get rich quick scheme like Michael Parness and his day trading infomercials

  • http://www.stjohnproductions.com Jesse

    This is a comment to test out my Gravitar to find out if it is working right.

  • http://www.stjohnproductions.com Jesse

    This is a comment to test out my Gravitar to find out if it is working right.

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