You know I’m no fan of ANALysts–they’re only right about 30% of the time (oh I forgot past performance is not indicative of future returns LOL my bad!), but this research paper found by AMP (good job you investigative journalist, good good good!) is truly astounding stuff…
Tag Archives: ANALysts
Formal Evidence Thousands Of Wall Street Analysts Altered Their Reports aka Wall St. Needs A Google Latitude
February 5, 2009 at 8:35 am by Timothy Sykes
How Fool.com Writer/All-Around Fool Anders Bylund Screwed Up Bigtime on MercadoLibre, Inc. (MELI)
September 20, 2008 at 7:14 am by Timothy Sykes
I really don’t mean to make more “friends” in finance, but I just can’t help myself.
Why ANALysts Make Me Sick To My Stomach
September 1, 2008 at 9:36 pm by Timothy Sykes
A few weekends back, I read these 2 Marketwatch articles that came out within hours of each other and couldn’t help but laugh. “Pieces might be in place for dollar to sustain gains” says this:
Why ANALysts Are Useless For Individual Investors: Sirius XM Radio Inc (SIRI) & Apple Inc. (AAPL)
August 23, 2008 at 6:00 pm by Timothy Sykes
I rag on ANALysts quite a bit, probly cuz their track records uniformly suck and yet they still get paid some decently to suck. More importantly, many people actually listen to these people who suck (Is that why they’re called suckers?) Check out this example of typical shoddy ANALyst work:
Why ANALysts Are Useless For Individual Investors: Sirius XM Radio Inc (SIRI) & Apple Inc. (AAPL)
August 23, 2008 at 6:00 pm by Timothy Sykes
I rag on ANALysts quite a bit, probly cuz their track records uniformly suck and yet they still get paid some decently to suck. More importantly, many people actually listen to these people who suck (Is that why they’re called suckers?) Check out this example of typical shoddy ANALyst work:
15 Stocks In Play But Most Of Them Are Useless For Trading
May 29, 2008 at 8:51 am by Timothy Sykes
Northern Technologies International Corp (NTI) I successfully scalped this one yesterday for about $400, but its strength shows these short picks can and should also be played from the long side…detailed post coming…but I look to short again, but only if it’s a worthy pattern MAXLIFE FUND CORP (MXFD) I nailed this one breakout in yesterday’s pre-market post even though I said squeeze to $30 and only was up $5+ to $27ish…my bad…squirm shorties, squirm, especially Goode, that’s what you get for spamming my site and not putting me on your blogroll sucka CKX Lands Inc (CKX) is another low marketcap pick by Lionmaster along with higher marketcap play IndyMac Bancorp, Inc. (IMB). I’ll probly look to short CKX either … Continue reading
10 Hot Stocks And Why It Might Be Fun To Short Sell Them
May 2, 2008 at 9:10 am by Timothy Sykes
VM After missing out on perfect 10%+ afternoon fades both Wednesday and yesterday (dan you publishing business model!), I shorted 1,000 shares at $4.01 into the market close yesterday…while I’d have preferred to short into some kind of bounce—as it might bounce a bit early today—this thing had too many things going for it: first down day, filling the gap perfectly, after a multi-day runup smack into resistance, a strong long-term downtrend, a history of rolling over after spikes, a failing business, upcoming earnings (where they’ll probly fail some more, as is their tendency)…there are buyout rumors so it’s not an ideal play, but I’ve learned to trust chart patterns much more than humans. It’s really gotta crack $4—if it … Continue reading
ANALysts & Venture Capitalists Know S#@! About How SmallCap Stocks Trade
April 22, 2008 at 11:44 am by Timothy Sykes
While I respect Andy Kessler for making a ton of $ back during the bubble and writing two superb books–Wall Street Meat and Running Money, this piece of s$#@ interview he gave on smallcaps really makes me mad. Not only does he believe it a foregone conclusion that investors should look for companies with emerging technologies, but he also refuses to name any names or give any kind of timeframe whatsoever for his theory. To Andy and all other venture capitalists, do your thing with big companies, but don’t talk about smallcaps and microcaps—these companies ALL have cool technologies, but this isn’t 1999, most of these companies are gonna fail and their grim reality is reflected in their stock prices. … Continue reading
ANALysts & Venture Capitalists Know S#@! About How SmallCap Stocks Trade
April 22, 2008 at 11:44 am by Timothy Sykes
While I respect Andy Kessler for making a ton of $ back during the bubble and writing two superb books–Wall Street Meat and Running Money, this piece of s$#@ interview he gave on smallcaps really makes me mad. Not only does he believe it a foregone conclusion that investors should look for companies with emerging technologies, but he also refuses to name any names or give any kind of timeframe whatsoever for his theory. To Andy and all other venture capitalists, do your thing with big companies, but don’t talk about smallcaps and microcaps—these companies ALL have cool technologies, but this isn’t 1999, most of these companies are gonna fail and their grim reality is reflected in their stock prices. … Continue reading
When Timmayyy Is Dead Right: Manipulated Stocks Go Boom!
April 21, 2008 at 7:20 pm by Timothy Sykes
For the 3 most recently manipulated microcraps—CNOA (pumped by a CNBC “reporter” who mistook paid-for stock promotion for credible research, probly the result of majoring in theatre studies in college (seriously)), EDEN (agriculture product pumped by a TheStreet.com “journalist” who forgot to read the quarterly report mentioning they sold off that division!) and TIGR (I don’t wanna know the evil lurking behind that pump, possibly some SEC counter-intelligence subdivision trying to draw out fellow manipulators) I have been dead on. These are opportunities from which you can profit because I’m not talking about variables that indirectly affect stock prices (ie earnings, the economy)—no, these catalysts have a direct impact on the supply/demand of shares and consequently the stock price. Since … Continue reading
