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New Website Design on the Way 01/05/09   —  Just a "heads up" for those of you who visit the site rather than read 'Fund my Mutual Fund' via email or RSS feed/reader; we'll be rolling out a quite substantial re-design of the website sometime in the next 7 to 14 days. By "quite substantial" I imply you will probably think you are on the wrong ...
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New York Times Opinion Piece by Lewis and Einhorn 01/05/09   —  I usually don't bring over opinion pieces to the website, but there is a fascinating one by hedge fund manager David Einhorn & Michael Lewis, the author of "Liar's Poker" and for you baseball fans "Moneyball". It comes in two pieces online 'The End of the Financial World as We Know It' and 'How ...
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IYR   SRS   If the S&P Closes Below S&P 920.... 01/05/09   —  ... I shall take a short term swim in these evil instruments called Ultrashorts.Sometimes I read the news on yahoo finance or wsj.com and just shake my head that the market can ever go up ;) It is a horror show out there in the real economy. Thankfully we can trade in the fake economy aka Wall Stre...
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ILMN   Bookkeeping: Adding to Illumina (ILMN) 01/05/09   —  I've been waiting a long while for Illumina (ILMN) to show signs of life - the stock has built a huge base and Friday finally crossed over the 50 day moving average ($26). I wanted to see a confirmation and today we seem to have one - with the stock in the $27.30s I am moving the stake up from 0.9% ...
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TBT   LVS   Confusing Action Today 01/05/09   —  With the Federal Reserve involved in so many markets I am not sure if our old markers we've learned over the years have as much meaning....Strangely the dollar is up, but commodities also up....Bonds finally cracking, 10 year falling... [Ultrashort Lehman 20+ Year Treasury (TBT) finally working] whic...
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ALGT   Bookkeeping: Beginning Allegiant Travel (ALGT) 01/05/09   —  We mentioned Allegiant Travel (ALGT) as a name on our radar this weekend - the stock had fallen from $49 to $44 Friday, and its 50 day moving average was $41 which the stock has fallen to today. So we're going to give this stock a whirl in the $40.70s with a 1.5% stake.I will edit this entry with mo...
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SQNM   Bookkeeping: Sequenom (SQNM) Limit Order Hits 01/05/09   —  I've been trading around a core position in Sequenom (SQNM) of late....I had cut this name back on the 18th [Dec 18: Bookkeeping - Cutting Sequenom] after making 30% in 5 days (just under $22) I placed a limit order to try to buy it near the 50 day moving average....Hence I bought it back on the 30t...
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MON   BBBY   Earnings on Tap this Week 01/05/09   —  Earnings season does not really begin in earnest until NEXT week but the first wave is hitting this week. I believe this quarter will be one of "pulled guidance" (we have no visibility) and lots of complaints about the stronger dollar hurting the multinationals. Bulls will keep saying "yes but that...
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ICLR   LSR   Bookkeeping: Weekly Changes to Fund Positions Year 2, Week 22 01/05/09   —  Year 2, Week 22 Major Position ChangesFund positions of 1.0% or greater can be found each week in the right margin of the blog, under the label cloud and recent comments areas; I highlight weekly the larger position changes.Being a long only fund, via Marketocracy rules, the only hedges to the downsi...
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CSH   WFMI   Wall Street Journal: People Pulling Up to Pawnshops Today are Driving Cadillacs and BMWs 01/04/09   —  Occasionally you get a thesis correct, but can't seem to find the horse to profit from. I've been on the pawn shop bandwagon since mid summer since I thought the economy would be far worse than the punditry. [Jul 24: Cash America (CSH) and EZCORP (EZPW) Both Report Today - Starting Small Stake in EZ...
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India with 2nd Stimulus Plan in a Month 01/04/09   —  Take that Obama! 2 stimulus plans in 1 month. Singh! Singh! Singh! (not quite so fun to chant as 'O-bam-a') I'm watching India just because it appears no one else does, in their love affair with all things China. Plus the banks are kicking tail of late [Dec 29: India Banks Perking my Interest from ...
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EBS   A   Potential Portfolio Candidates 01/03/09   —  I've been jettisoning some names this week to make way for new kids on the block; or in some cases, old friends we've once owned. I am still working through a lengthy list of newer Obamamania stocks; some of which are very alluring - but below are names I like from a fundamental basis, that I've fol...
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ACM   FLR   I like Zach's Idea on AECOM Technology (ACM); Perini (PCR) Might Also be Back from the Dead 01/02/09   —  A reader sent me some small water infrastructure stocks (read: Obama thesis) that are absolutely flying earlier in the week, so I am preparing a piece on those. It's all about thesis in 2009 since the facts are going to be so poor. I've owned Flowserve (FLS) in the past which is more of an internat...
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GOOG   GS   Potential Short Set Ups 01/02/09   —  If you are interested here are just a handful I see; what I do with the blog is mostly just talk about half of my strategy: the long side. Much better than the index ETF shorts are finding individual stories with generally weak charts. I can't do it currently but these are typical set ups - I see a...
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ICLR   Bookkeeping: Closing ICON (ICLR) 01/02/09   —  I was debating whether to keep or close ICON (ICLR), the 2nd of my 3 part contract research organization basket - I cut 1 of the 3 positions Wednesday, and I've decided to close this name out as well. First the chart is not improving and second I have a basket of about 6-8 names I am interested in b...
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AVAV   Bookkeeping: Cutting AeroVironment (AVAV) into Potential Double Top 01/02/09   —  I'm going to continue to take profits even in my most favored names; AeroVironment (AVAV) is facing a potential double top with an early November high.I always assume these fail; sometimes the assumption is correct, sometimes not. If its the latter we'll just get back our position slightly higher as...
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S&P Back to Top of its Multi Month Range as World Economies Plunge 01/02/09   —  As you see in the chart below we are back to the top of a quite substantial sideways rangeThe S&P has been in this range for about 20 sessions in a row and we're now at a similar spot as two weeks ago. We've been ignoring all bad news for about 5 weeks now and keep saying "it's all priced in, br...
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APWR   Bookkeeping: Cutting A-Power Energy (APWR) 01/02/09   —  A-Power Energy (APWR) has staged a nice rally since 'fessing up to a substantial haircut in fourth quarter guidance. Obviously it would of been advantageous in retrospect to buy that dip to the upper $3s but I took the conservative route. As I wrote for the more aggressive folk...Again, aggressive s...
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You're a Mean One, 2008 12/31/08   —  Have a Happy New Year and in the spirit of "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" I'll present "You're a Mean One, 2008" (2008 replaces Mr Grinch in all lyrics) - actually this is one mean spirited song when you consider the 'Leave it to Beaver/Donna Reed' type times (1950s) :)<object height="344" width=...
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WM   Fund My Mutual Fund's Most Popular Posts of 2008 12/31/08   —  Readers come and go (hopefully more come than go) over the year, so with 3100 posts (wow!) since we started in August 2007 I thought I'd compile a list of the most popular posts of 2008 for any of you who were not here to celebrate the new year with us nearly 365 days ago. For those that were around...
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