This course is a broad overview and discussion of the salient subject areas that one will need to navigate to fully understand the commodity space.
Students will be introduced to what makes each of the commodity sectors tick from an international economic standpoint.
This course sets the record straight about what is a predictive indicator and what is a lagging indicator in the commodity markets.
This course investigates why certain traders become great and why others blow up. Be prepared to journal extensively and learn about your strengths and weaknesses.
Nearly a decade after the turn-of-the-millennium technology-stock meltdown, that familiar exuberance is in the air.
by Mike Martin
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| 10 Vital Plays | ||
| CMGI, ICGE, VERT, AKAM, BCOM, LU, JDSU, QCOM, SEBL, WCOM | AAPL, RIMM, BIDU, GOOG, VMW, GRMN, FSLR, GME, GS, ICE | |
| Swollen Stock | ||
| QCOM $650 | GOOG $680 | |
| Plaything Perils | ||
| eToys crashes like Santa on a balsa sleigh, filing for bankruptcy after Street analysts reveal dismal 2000 holiday-season orders | Mattel shares sink nearly 25 percent after authorities reveal children are likely better off eating paint chips for breakfast than playing with Chinese-made gewgaws | |
| Seer Status | ||
| Oracle (of Redwood City) at $50; Oracle (of Omaha) at $50,000 | Oracle (of Redwood City) at $20; Oracle (of Omaha) at $140,000 | |
| Marvelous Gadgets of Wonder | ||
| iPod birthed; Steve Jobs’s vision of putting “1,000 songs in your pocket” blows minds | Even your granny’s toaster oven holds 20,000 songs, plays DVDs and uploads to YouTube videos of her swearing after burning dinner | |
| Nightmare Scenarios | ||
| Purported Y2K debacle far less perilous than anyone envisioned | All-too-real CDO debacle far more perilous than anyone envisioned | |
| Online brokerages | ||
| E-Trade advertises it has clients “with money coming out the wazoo” | E-Trade shareholders, whatever their stake in the brokerage, get spanked on the wazoo thanks to a series of ill-advised loans | |
| Boorish Loudmouths | ||
| Broadcast.com’s Mark Cuban elegantly pirouettes around the market collapse by selling to Yahoo for stock; swiftly eliminates downside risk via elaborate hedge | Cuban clumsily (and sleevelessly) mambos with Kym Johnson on Dancing With the Stars; swiftly eliminated from competition | |
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You are responsible for your own decisions. No sense of entitlement. No one owes you anything. Own your own shit.
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August 16 2010
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