Nigam Arora submits:
The real point of this article is not to just explain the drop in Nvidia (NVDA) stock on March 30, 2011, but to demonstrate how combining deep knowledge of an industry with deep knowledge of the behavior of the stock market can lead to immense profits.

The morning started out by  [ Read More ]

Tom Lydon submits:

Most investors dabbling in the actively managed exchange traded fund (ETF) space will peruse long-only strategies, but AdvisorShare is the first fund provider to launch a short-only active ETF.
The relatively new AdvisorShare Active Bear ETF (NYSEArca: HDGE) is an actively managed fund that shorts domestic U.S. equities in an attempt to provide  [ Read More ]

John Rosenberg submits:
I buy stocks for a living. I also periodically short them. Shorting stocks is a very different endeavor than being long; they are not the opposite.
Power One (PWER) is one of the most crowded shorts I have ever encountered – 38 million of the 83 million shares floating are currently sold short. The  [ Read More ]

Robert Weinstein submits:

While hardware, software, and wireless companies do not compete directly in the satellite space, they still maintain a significant advantage over Sirius XM (SIRI) when it comes to content delivery. SIRI counts 20.2 million subscribers versus 100 million smart phone users. In terms of economies of scale and corporate spending power,  [ Read More ]

Pedro de Noronha submits:

While Netflix’s (NFLX) underlying business is sound, we believe that a short position in Netflix is warranted because the stock is priced to perfection. If we assume that every household in the US subscribes to Netflix, our “blue-sky” valuation only values NFLX’s business at $300 a share (and that is  [ Read More ]