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Alligator Investor's Blog Posts
Yahoo! App and 360 Importer
06/05/09
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We’ve got two Yahoo! related news items today.
The first is that we’ve launched a Yahoo! 360 importer (listed in your admin screens under Tools ? Import) to make migration from 360 to WordPress.com super easy. Just upload the Yahoo! 360 export ZIP file, and we’ll do the rest. Yahoo! will be sh...
Announcing VideoPress.com
05/15/09
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The tasty new logo
We’ve been busy lately here at WordPress.com — we’ve had an announcement of a new or updated feature for you every day this week. Today, you’re getting a two-fer!
Earlier this week, we announced VideoPress, the great new video feature for WordPress.com. Now VideoPress has i...
Comment Reply via Email Improvements
05/15/09
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Since opening up the comment reply via email feature to everyone last month we’ve been continuing to improve it. Here are some of changes that have gone in during the last few weeks:
Better detection of email auto responders / vacation messages
Added a reminder to the bottom of comment notificati...
Comment Search
05/14/09
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You guys are generating an amazing amount of feedback on your blogs. Matt mentioned in the April Wrap-Up that there were 8.6 million comments! Comments are flying in every second of the day.
And have you ever had one of those blog posts that was good, but the real action was in the comments? The b...
New stats charts
05/13/09
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If you’ve looked at your WordPress.com blog stats today, you might have noticed the charts look a little different. We’ve replaced the old proprietary chart object with Open Flash Chart, an open source alternative.  Charts now look like this:
(Though I can’t guarantee you’ll see numbers li...
Post by Email
05/12/09
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Have you ever wanted to fire off a post from your phone, Blackberry, Outlook at work…? Following on from Comment Reply Via Email we’re introducing our latest feature to make it even easier to publish to your blog: Post by Email.
Maybe you’re on holiday and want to show your journey. Maybe youâ...
Get HD WordPress Video with VideoPress
05/11/09
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You may have noticed that videos around here have been getting higher and higher quality.
I don’t just mean the cool content from WordPress.tv, but the video player and video/audio quality itself.
We’ve rewritten how videos work here on WordPress.com from the ground-up and taken inspiration from ...
April Wrap-Up
05/09/09
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In April we introduced Instant Findability, TED video embeds, a springtime theme, a cool new domain, and reply-by-email for comments, now open to all. A pretty busy month, with more awesome features on the way, plus WordCamp San Francisco, on May 30.
If you’re in town or want a reason to be, be s...
Stats in your time zone
05/08/09
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When we sat down at an Austin cafe in 2005 and wrote the stats system, Matt and I had no idea what we were getting into. He created the databases and drew the little smiley face while I wrote the code. We had milk and cookies. It was really cute. We were naïve!
I swear it was Matt’s idea to store ...
Add YouTube and Polls to Comments
05/07/09
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Some of you may have noticed we’ve been experimenting with a new feature in comments here on WordPress.com, namely that you can now embed YouTube videos and PollDaddy polls directly in a comment.
Although shortcodes are great and we’ll continue to support and encourage them for comments the simpl...
Applied Materials (AMAT)
02/20/07
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Applied Materials manufactures semiconductors and fabrication equipment for the semiconductor industry worldwide. Some predict that these businesses will suffer in 2007 due to a chip glut. That may be true, but Applied Materials is clearly a market leader in this important business. The shares appe...
An Interesting Technical Tool: 17 and 43 Week EMA Crossovers
02/18/07
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Yesterday I was browsing through an article about an alleged 9-Month Cycle in the stock market at decisionpoint.com. The author claims that he is able to identify profit opportunities through studying this cycle and its component sub-cycles. At the end of the article, he presents a weekly chart of ...
Fording Canadian Coal Trust (FDG)
02/16/07
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According to Yahoo Finance, Fording Canadian Coal Trust operates as an open-ended mutual fund in Canada. The trust owns a 60% interest in Elk Valley Coal Partnership, which produces and sells seaborne metallurgical coal. The partnership’s primary product is hard coking coal, which is a metallur...
The Facts About Inflation and Energy Price Trends
02/15/07
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The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, gave Congress a positive view of the economy yesterday, predicting that declining energy and commodity prices are likely to reduce inflation. “There are some indications that inflation pressures are beginning to diminish,” Bernanke told ...
Lessons from John Dorfman
02/14/07
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John Dorfman has been writing a value-oriented stock market column for Bloomberg for nine years. Dorfman is an independent thinker and his columns have been a gold mine of original investment ideas. John is retiring as a Bloomberg columnist to devote full attention to his Boston investment firm, Thun...
The Ultimate Lazy Portfolio
02/13/07
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One of my favorite blogs is The Kirk Report. There are few days when this Kirk does not provide a variety of thought-provoking and useful material. Yesterday he had a post about Scott Burns’ “Lazy Portfolios” -simple but effective model portfolios meant as a foundation for long-te...
Is it really a sign of a top when closed-end funds trade at a premium?
02/12/07
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There was an article on Seeking Alpha this morning entitled “Sign of a Market Top? Closed-End Funds Trading at Premium to Net Asset Value“. The article states this is “a phenomenon almost without precedent” and quotes Barron’s columnist Randall Forsyth as saying this is...
Comments
02/12/07
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Comments are an important issue that every blogger has to deal with. Since the beginning I have taken care to respond to every comment. You would like to be able to have intelligent discussions with your readers, but it takes a lot of time to keep up. There is a lot of spam, and the vast majority ...
Whole Foods Market (WFMI)
02/09/07
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I keep a list of growth stocks that I might be interested in buying if they ever tank enough to selll at less than 20 times earnings. Whole Foods Market, currently selling at 32 times earnings, is on the list. This stock has enjoyed phenomenal growth, but it has been in a downtrend for the last yea...
Update on PowerShares Progressive Energy ETF (PUW)
02/08/07
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The progressive energy ETF was reviewed in this blog when it started trading last fall. I thought it sounded promising, especially as a complement to its sister ETF, PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy (PBW), which I own. To recap briefly, PUW is based on the WilderHill Progressive Energy Index. Th...
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More about Alligator Investor
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Website:
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About Me:
An alligator investor relaxes at the bottom of his pond waiting for good things to swim by or fall in
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An alligator investor relaxes at the bottom of his pond waiting for good things to swim by or fall in. He disdains crocodile investors, who charge out of the water to seize their prey.
I am looking for stocks which are outperforming the S&P, yet have lower volatility and higher dividend yield than the index. I wait for those stocks to be on sale before I buy them. Once I own a stock I tend to hold it for the long haul.
I am also interested in early detection of trend changes in the financial markets, classical value investing, and the use of ETFs to achieve portfolio balancing and diversification.
The purpose of this journal is to clarify my investment strategy by putting it in writing, and to record important information for future reference. I don’t give investment advice. If I have an open position in a security being discussed I will disclose it.
Due to an inordinate amount of spam and silly posts, I have limited comments to Wordpress users who are registered and logged in. You can reach me by email at alligator dot investor at yahoo dot com.
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