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Today was my last day of employment at Time Warner Cable. I have been with the company 7 years - long enough to have earned a pension! The reasons for my decision to leave are far too complicated to go in to here. Suffice it to say that I was made a better...

I've divested myself of all Gold holdings at a small loss, in order to diversify a bit out of precious metals. I still hold SLV April 21 calls, which are near worthless right now and represent my largest loss. I will hold them until the bitter end...

I have bought back into Stillwater after trading out before its recent sharp pullback. I really like this stock. Palladium and Platinum are both necessary to catalytic converters (2 grams each per converter, on average), as it is in the nature of these...

Because ideas matter . There are plenty of people in this world who don't agree with me on that premise. One of these people might go see Avatar and wonder why I find it offensive: after all, it's a fictional piece of eye candy about an alien...

Inglourious Basterds is the latest tripe from Quentin Tarantino and it is typically "tarantino-esque", meaning it's loaded with heavy handed efforts to convince the viewer of just how smart and witty the director is. For example, he may...

I've been hearing a lot of pundits say that buying Citigroup (C) at 3 dollars and change is like buying an unexpiring option on the financials in general. Personally, I have no idea how to play the financials and the depth of government intervention...

I said Stillwater Mining (SWC) was the best investment idea I could come up with, a month or so ago when it was at 9.50. Well, yesterday was one of those days I dream about as a stock speculator, in which Stillwater rose 17% in a single day. It had previously...

When I buy stocks and options, I like to have conviction in a story that I feel will play out; one that runs contrary to common wisdom. So here is one of the stories I currently subscribe to and the various ways I can play it. We all know mobile phones...