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On the comments area of my Bullish on Google post, I got a question from loyal reader, SD: For perspective, on a trade like this which particular calls would you likely buy and what percentage of your capital would you risk on the trade? Thank you. It's funny....I used to not answer that question, when I was running money and writing my blog on TheStreet.com. Options aren't nearly as liquid as ... read more

Happy Hour viewer, Jim, sent me this link with this intro: Should I get a 'good' house' for $450, or two houses for $100 each? read more

A friend of mine on facebook, who friended me after seeing us on Happy Hour, recommended I break my post-1982 music ban to check out this Imogen Heap artist. She sent along this video from YouTube...color me impressed. Gonna download her albums off iTunes today and get to know the artist. Blogs are the new radio indeed, eh? ... read more

The financial discussion I have most often with people when they actually open up and talk about their lives is about how they’ve lost big money over the years in one sort of trading scheme or tip sheet or newsletter or TV show or another as they try to make the quick buck. There ain’t no such thing as a quick buck. You gotta be patient and conservative…and if you are and you work hard and ... read more

Sentiment is a hard thing to measure.  How do you quantify "bullishness"?  Sentiment, as defined by Webster, is an attitude, thought, or judgment prompted by feeling. And as anybody who's ever been in a stupid argument with a lover over who's done more for whom or who's done less to whom, then you know trying to count up and measure feelings is a fool's mission. Alas, sentiment matters when ... read more

I tied my bandana, took my pack from the floor You were still sleeping,as I stood at the door Once more I was heading to,God only knows where That's when it hit me, I was already there I could ramble, a thousand miles or more Never find the light I've seen in your eyes before You gave me the freedom to go on my own way But you gave me much more, you gave me the freedom to stay -- Waylon ... read more

“The universe unfortunately has a way of course-correcting. You don’t do it because you choose to, you do it because you’re supposed to.” - Ms Hawking, Lost Episode "Flashes Before Your Eyes" Yeah, I watched a lot of Lost during my forced rest and lethargic days the last couple weeks. I do believe it's the best television in the ... read more

Easy does it.  I have not put any more money into the market since the down 500 day on Monday.  Goldman's down 30% in a straight line since I bought it.  That's not fun, even if it's just a toe. As I've said all week -- you might want to START buying here.  Don't draw a line in the sand. We are living through some of the hardest times in our financial markets' history.  Be careful, but ... read more

Long-time reader (from even back in my TheStreet.com days actually) emailed me the following this morning: Number 3 from yesterday's post: 3. I think you’re going to have to be more like Warren Buffett than Peter Lynch in your approach to investing for the foreseeable future – that is, wait until they are truly giving stocks away with the odds stacked in your favor ... read more

Walk along and talk along and live your lives quite freely But leave our children with their toys of peppermint and candy. For seagull I don't want your wings, I don't want your freedom in a lie. Your thoughts they are of harlequin, your speeches of quicksilver, I read your faces like a poem, kaleidoscope of hate words. For seagull I don't want your wings, I don't want your freedom in a ... read more