Recent TWSInvestments's Commentaries
So Long, Farewell My Loyal Readers!
After 2.5 years of writing, my participation in the Trading Wall Street Investments blog is now officially ended. My career has taken a very exciting turn and my blogging days are finished for the foreseeable future. Thank you to all my loyal readers over the last few years reading along as I've ...
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Recap of 2010 Market Performance & ETF...
After a couple weeks off from posting through Christmas and the end of the year, I'm back to recap the year. Santa Claus showed up at the end of 2010 to add to the gains while the economic calendar and geopolitical environment presented no impactful news to derail the advance. The primary US inde...
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Tags: brandon-rowley | market-analysis
Greatest Jeopardy! Champions vs. Watson the...
On February 14th-16th next year, Jeopardy! will hold a contest between an IBM supercomputer dubbed Watson and two of the show's greatest winners of all-time, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. This is the first man vs. machine contest in Jeopardy! history and after 4 years of development, Watson promi...
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Tags: brandon-rowley | jeopardy
Slowing Productivity Growth Portends Private...
Does your company have you pulling your hair out because they fired all your colleagues and expect you to do all the work? Perhaps relief is on the way. The latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek had a great segment titled "Seeking the Number That Explain It All: Four economists discuss their fav...
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Tags: economics-and-government
Facebook's 'Visualizing Friendships' Maps...
Paul Butler, an intern on Facebook's data infrastructure engineering team, put together a fascinating graphic titled "Visualizing Friendships". With a random sampling of 10 million Facebook users across the world, Butler plotted arcs between friends based on the longitude and latitude of each per...
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Tags: brandon-rowley
McDowell Bests Woods, Bernanke Explains...
Golf is fun to watch again Tiger Woods is back...almost. For the first time in 2010, Tiger looked like the competitive, hungry player of the past. Granted, he was playing in the Chevron World Challenge, an 18-player event sponsored by the Tiger Woods Foundation and not an official PGA tournament,...
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Google's (GOOG) Android Flourishing
The latest data from comScore was released today on the mobile phone market and shows Google's (GOOG) Android platform flourishing, rapidly gobbling up market share from competitors. Smartphone ownership overall jumped 14% for the three months ended October 2010 over the previous three-month per...
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Tags: brandon-rowley | nasdaq-goog
Doctor Copper (JJC) Challenging All-Time Highs
Doctor Copper is one of the best indicators of global growth given its ubiquitous use in products we make all over the world. Copper has the characteristics of malleability and ductility while being one of the most efficient conductors of heat and electricity locking in its spot as a commodity wi...
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Tags: brandon-rowley | doctor-copper
Differentiating Between Trending vs. Mean...
Derek Hernquist had a great post out a few weeks back titled "How I Use Mean Reversion" in which he discussed the stark difference between two types of data: trending and mean reverting. While these ideas are not rocket science, it is crucial for success in markets to understand how these two typ...
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Tags: brandon-rowley
Christmas Time: Light the Tree, Buy Stocks
I'm back in New York and back at my desk after a nice, long Thanksgiving break. The market is on speed today with the Dow up 250 points right now after Monday's big intraday reversal marked a significant change in the action. It seems to me that stocks are primed for a Christmas rally to tack ont...
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Tags: brandon-rowley | market-analysis
Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) Growth at a...
A great investing model that attempts to combine the best of the growth and value worlds is the GARP model, or growth at a reasonable price. This strategy seeks to find companies growing at above market rates yet selling with moderate price tags. Often these stocks are previous momentum crowd fav...
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Tags: brandon-rowley | isrg | intuitive-surgical | company-research
N. Korea Pissing Everyone Off, Stocks Give...
Source: The WeekKim Jong-Il pissed off the world again last night as North Korea fired 100 rounds of artillery at Yeonpyeong Island in the Yellow Sea killing two soldiers and wounding 16 soldiers, three civilians. South Korea responded by shooting 80 rounds back. This sort of provocation always s...
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Tags: brandon-rowley | kim-jong-il | market-analysis | facebook-valuation
Solution for the Full-Body Scanner Controversy
Here's a solution to all the controversy over full-body scanners at the airports: All we need to do is develop a booth that you can step into that will NOT X-ray you, but WILL detonate any explosive device you may have hidden on or in your body. The explosion will be contained within the sealed b...
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Thanksgiving Week Means Christmas Shopping!
Thanksgiving week is here and the Christmas shopping season will soon begin. While the American consumer still seems to be struggling, they are expected to hit the stores anyway in full force. The S&P 500 2.4% off highs and questions swirl of whether we'll see a further pull-in or the always fun ...
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Tags: brandon-rowley | market-analysis
Google May Buy Groupon
Google is in talks acquire popular retail deal site Groupon, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal Friday. Groupon, which was launched in November 2008 and is reportedly raking in nearly $50 million a month in revenue, was one of the first sites to offer online consumers the option t...
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Tags: google | groupon
