Thank God for the internet!

[Thierry Martin]

We all know more wars are coming to push the global agenda, i do'nt even have to post links anymore, but here they are any way.

Read up on serious information.
http://stuartwilde.com/SW_wn.asp
http://www.stevequayle.com/index1.html
http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk/newz48.htm
http://www.infowars.com/
http://www.davidicke.com/content/blogcategory/30/48/
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/
http://www.paulingtherapy.com/
http://hometown.aol.com/codeufo/multiverse.html/
Please forward these sites.

spread the peace through INTERNET, its a powerful tool if we are gonna survive.

"peace for peace, don't Fight for peace."

"Dressed all over and Zesty Mordant"

[Thierry Martin]

What 2 Wall Streeters does our Master respect? Warren Buffet and Eddie Lambert http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2004...ert18nov04.htm

Darn, I did not know this: "Mad Money's producer used to oversee the Jerry Springer Show" http://www.kiplinger.com/personalfin...09/cramer.html

As a Cramer Robot, here are some of his Nasties I live by:

>Bottom Spotting:"There was no reason to panic and sell the stock, but panic [people] did" as analysts "knocked it down with their downgrades," Cramer said -- The lesson to be learned is that people should pay close attention to analysts as their comments, upgrades and downgrades can affect stock prices, but folks shouldn't just blindly follow what analysts advise -- "Bottoms are created by too much negativity," Cramer said, adding that when there is this type of "bear raid," people should do their own homework on the company and stock -- "When you see a stock hit with multiple downgrades and it plummets -- that's when you should swing into action and see if it deserves to be down or if it's just because of the analysts."
http://www.thestreet.com/pf/funds/ma.../10309966.html
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>Cash In on CEO Withdrawals when the CEO is the core problem with a company
http://www.thestreet.com/_tscs/funds.../10308484.html

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>Speculating
Penny Stocks: companies with no earnings or issues trading on the Pink Sheets, a loosely regulated trading system that handles mainly small firms -- Avoid those, along with the names traded by way of the over-the-counter Bulletin Board, he said.

"There's a sweet spot in the speculation business -- the $2 to $10 spot," he said. "This is where you'll make all the money." Should there be a stock that interests an investor but trades above $10, "you might want to consider using options to speculate." As on the previous show, Cramer emphasized that speculation must be done only with discretionary money -- that is, money that won't be missed if it's lost -- and never money in a retirement account. Speculative stocks grow very quickly, but they can die very quickly as well, meaning investors must keep an eye on what he called the life cycle of the company.

http://www.thestreet.com/pf/funds/ma.../10306803.html

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>>Defensive Stocks: These companies supply products that people buy regardless of how the economy is doing, he said-- These stocks are recession proof
http://www.thestreet.com/pf/funds/re.../10305462.html

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Tracy Byrnes explains Cramer:

>CramerLand Speak: http://www.thestreet.com/_tscs/video.../10300412.html

>Futures: http://www.thestreet.com/pf/funds/bo.../10305884.html

>Options:
http://www.thestreet.com/pf/funds/bo.../10310716.html
http://www.thestreet.com/pf/funds/bo.../10306968.html

[Thierry Martin]

Out of desperation, I "Googled" this: "faith healers and stocks" and came across a new help: here's hoping...

Dear Reverend <John Doe>:

Through Pay Pal, I am sending you $19.95 to pray over my stock symbol "q," whch goes up and down in the $8.75 to $9 range--I need for it to break through its 52 week high of $9.22...Can you help?

With kindest regards,
Z

My Dear Z:

Thank you for the email and your love offering. I have added Quest's stock symbol to the "cemetery." During trading hours, I raise dead stock. FYI, when this occurs, normally, the stock holder sends another love offering of 10% of the amount earned, because, obviously, my service is prayer intensive.

Can I have a witness,
Reverend <John Doe>
The Church of Wall Street

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler -- Albert Einstein

[Thierry Martin]

I bought a package of 12 Dollar General razors for, dah, a dollar

Right off, I was obviously pleased to get two bonus razors!

(There is a gawd, and he is just at times)

The basic metric here then is hard to establish, because, obviously 12/$1 does not work--I am not sure how to factor in those 2 bonus blades to get a solid metric

I also sported for a can of Gunk Liquid Wrench, which is DG's knock off of WD-40 (sorry, my Master (Cramer), I did not go for Best of Breed) at $1.50

I bought one can of DG shaving lather for $1

Thus, the next metric is Tot Cost ($3.50) compared to CVS's $6.49

Once in the shower, I lather up and move to my next metric I am testing: how long should I wait before shaving after lathering up...I am sensing the metric here is 61.98723 seconds--but I have not completed my homework, so I could be wrong (Master Cramer is no help, alas)

Once I complete a Shave, I scrub down the razor, dry it, and then give it a good squirt of Gunk, for I have established what dulls a razor is oxidation and not shave-qua-shave (to be philosophical)

Once a week, I run my DG razor through the dishwasher (along with all my dishes) to give the blade what in the car biz is called Detailing...Once done, two squirts of Gunk for the "shine."


I can report my razor is going strong after 3-months! And in this Conference Call, I expect this razor to last through the next quarter. I am still establishing in my R&D program how many squirts of Gunk is in a can, as well as in the shaving cream can. With powerful savings in sight, the upcoming holiday season should be more joyous with the added $0.08 I am saving Total Costs Per Shave. DG razors, Gunk, and shaving cream are definite buys at this time!

[Thierry Martin]

i know cnbc was too busy having the dow celebratory lunch to notice, but since i WAS banking on amaranth being the bloated floating corpse in the water, this made me notice. hopefully a blip, first on bloomberg (does bloomberg still have the terminals you can buy?)

Pirate Capital Says Half of Investment Staff Resigns (Update4)
By Katherine Burton and Jenny Strasburg
Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Pirate Capital LLC, a $1.7 billion hedge fund, said five of its 10 investment professionals resigned or were fired, two weeks after the firm came under regulatory scrutiny for possible securities-law violations.
Pirate founder Thomas Hudson, in a letter sent today to investors, didn't say what led to the departures. He'll close the Norwalk, Connecticut-based firm's funds to new investments, and concentrate on managing money rather than courting clients and overseeing his staff, according to the letter.
``My goal is to focus on returns, not the size of the assets we manage,'' he wrote.
Pirate may have violated securities rules by belatedly disclosing the sales of its stakes in OSI Restaurant Partners Inc. and Freightcar America Inc., lawyers not involved in the matter said earlier this month. The firm said it eventually publicly reported the stock sales after being contacted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The SEC is investigating Pirate, according to a person with direct knowledge of the probe, who declined to be identified because the inquiry isn't public.
Hudson, 40, built a reputation as an activist investor by taking stakes in companies and pressing for changes to boost their stock prices. Recent campaigns against companies including James River Coal Co. and GenCorp Inc. have fallen short.
Hudson declined to comment when contacted by e-mail.
`Mischaracterization'
The letter said analysts Zachary George and David Lorber resigned on Sept. 26, and Carl Klein, the firm's fixed-income portfolio manager, quit the next day. Hudson then fired analysts David Muccia and Matthew Goldfarb, the letter said. All will leave after a 30-day transition.
``What Hudson wrote in the letter to investors is a blatant mischaracterization of the circumstances of our departure,'' Goldfarb and Muccia said during a phone call this evening. ``We are currently exploring appropriate legal remedies.''
Still at Pirate are Stephanie Tran, Peter Desloge, Glenn Haberfield and Chadd Kirk, according to the letter. Hudson said he may hire a new analyst.
At the end of August, the firm's Jolly Roger domestic fund was up 3.3 percent for the year, while the offshore fund returned 5.2 percent. Both the onshore and offshore Activist funds had climbed about 2.8 percent. That's below the 5.8 percent average return of equity hedge funds this year, according to Hedge Fund Research Inc. in Chicago.
Holdings Decline
Shares of companies that are among the funds' largest holdings declined today. CEC Entertainment Inc., the Irving, Texas-based owner and franchiser of Chuck E. Cheese pizza restaurants, fell 2.7 percent to $31.92 at 4:16 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. Pirate held 3 million shares, or 9 percent, as of August, according to regulatory filings.
Shares of PW Eagle Inc., a Eugene, Oregon-based maker of polyvinyl pipes for water and sewage systems, fell 3.9 percent to $29.98 in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. Pirate owned 2.7 million shares, or 22 percent, as of this month.
Pirate owned 7 million shares, or 10 percent, of CKE Restaurants Inc., the Carpinteria, California-based parent of Carl's Jr. and Hardee's restaurants. The shares fell 2.5 percent to $16.61 on the New York Stock Exchange.
In a September newsletter for investors, Hudson called James River Coal the ``shipwreck of the month.'' He pushed the Richmond, Virginia-based company to add three new board members in August. The stock has since tumbled 28 percent.
Earlier this year, Pirate won a proxy contest at GenCorp Inc., a defense contractor based in Rancho Cordova, California, gaining three board seats. The shares are trading at $13.06, down from the firm's average cost of $13.50 a share.
Hudson, who has more than 90 percent of his own net worth in the fund, said he would hold a conference call for clients on Oct. 3.
To contact the reporters on this story: Katherine Burton in New York at kburton@bloomberg.net ; Jenny Strasburg in New York at jstrasburg@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: September 28, 2006 21:13 EDT

[Thierry Martin]

Just wanted to know how many other people also bet sports / gamble in addtion to play the market. Got in a discussion with a friend of mine about it. I could see how certain people are more prone to it due to their personality. And if you do, what kind of trader are you? Day, Swing, long, etc....

I could see day or swing traders being more of the gambler type or they just like the action.

Curious to get some other insight.

[Thierry Martin]

Have you heard of the Rule of 72 and its tremendous predictive power to illustrate the snowballing effect of compound interest and it's interesting.

Here's how it works: take the number of "72" and mentally divide it by the absolute value of an interest rate to quickly work out the number of years compound interest need to double your money.

So if you had invested $10,000 at a steady 6% each year, it will take you 12 years to grow that money to $20,000.

Hope this is of some help to all of us trying to double our money.


good luck
Steve