IIC's Winners Watchlists

[IIC]

Why is it that everytime I see BRCM I think of Brylcreem!??? And then I just can't get that picture out of my mind! Riverbabe

"Brylcreem -- A Little Dab'll Do Ya!"

[IIC]

Today's MoMo:

XNN, GOAM, AXR, NRPH, MIKR, IPA, MXIC, EONC, MCF, HCTL,
BIOV, CAL, MALL, OMTR, HRT, VSNT, MWP, PLB, ONSM, ADST,
LNUX, TSTC, KTII, JST, EDU, SRSL, ISIS, AOI, GCH, LPHI,
IGLD, VNDA, BDY, UUU, TWLL, LVLT, CCBL, GEL

Little Charts:

http://trimurl.com/9T2

http://trimurl.com/9T3

http://trimurl.com/9T4

http://trimurl.com/9T5

XNN
GOAM
AXR
NRPH
MIKR
IPA
MXIC
EONC
MCF
HCTL
BIOV
CAL
MALL
OMTR
HRT
VSNT
MWP
PLB
ONSM
ADST
LNUX
TSTC
KTII
JST
EDU
SRSL
ISIS
AOI
GCH
LPHI
IGLD
VNDA
BDY
UUU
TWLL
LVLT
CCBL
GEL

[IIC]

Text Of Federal Reserve's Interest Rate Decision

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--The following is the verbatim text of the Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates released Tuesday, Dec. 12:
The Federal Open Market Committee decided today to keep its target for the federal funds rate at 5-1/4 percent.
Economic growth has slowed over the course of the year, partly reflecting a substantial cooling of the housing market. Although recent indicators have been mixed, the economy seems likely to expand at a moderate pace on balance over coming quarters.
Readings on core inflation have been elevated, and the high level of resource utilization has the potential to sustain inflation pressures. However, inflation pressures seem likely to moderate over time, reflecting reduced impetus from energy prices, contained inflation expectations, and the cumulative effects of monetary policy actions and other factors restraining aggregate demand.
Nonetheless, the Committee judges that some inflation risks remain. The extent and timing of any additional firming that may be needed to address these risks will depend on the evolution of the outlook for both inflation and economic growth, as implied by incoming information.
Voting for the FOMC monetary policy action were: Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman; Timothy F. Geithner, Vice Chairman; Susan S. Bies; Donald L. Kohn; Randall S. Kroszner; Frederic S. Mishkin; Sandra Pianalto; William Poole; Kevin M. Warsh; and Janet L. Yellen. Voting against was Jeffrey M. Lacker, who preferred an increase of 25 basis points in the federal funds rate target at this meeting.

[IIC]

Trades...DISCA +.17, AFFX +.27 and I made .09 on MAMA...Don't laugh...that was 3% on MAMA


Today's MoMo:

MAMA, ONSM, MFRI, HTI, AZL, UUU, GEFB, BMTI, GEF, GIII, AFAM, IPA, PSMT, PTT, CUBA, MICC, TSTC, HRT, SRSL, WBD, IOSP, IF

Little Charts:

http://trimurl.com/9TI

http://trimurl.com/9TJ

http://trimurl.com/9TK

MAMA
ONSM
MFRI
HTI
AZL
UUU
GEFB
BMTI
GEF
GIII
AFAM
IPA
PSMT
PTT
CUBA
MICC
TSTC
HRT
SRSL
WBD
IOSP
IF

[IIC]

It ain't over till it's over and it ain't over yet IMO...IIC

http://trimurl.com/9TT

[IIC]

He's lucky I wasn't the judge...24 years is nothin' for what he did...And his buddy's wife oughta be in the greybar hotel too:

http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/12/news/newsmakers/skilling.reut/index.htm

[ParkTwain]

He's lucky I wasn't the judge...24 years is nothin' for what he did...And his buddy's wife oughta be in the greybar hotel too:

http://money.cnn.com/2006/12/12/news...reut/index.htm

Jeff Skilling's brother is chief weatherman on Chicago's WGN TV. I saw a televised interview with him some months ago. He was publicly supportive, but ...

http://wgntv.trb.com/news/wgntv-skilling-tombio,0,1377504.story?coll=wgntv-home-nav

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/112117,CST-NWS-skilling26.article

Your CNN article mentions Ken Lay's death. Here's the word from the Aspen chief deputy coroner:

http://www.aspenpitkin.com/uploads/autopsy%20lay.pdf

[IIC]

Jeff Skilling's brother is chief weatherman on Chicago's WGN TV. I saw a televised interview with him some months ago. He was publicly supportive, but ...

http://wgntv.trb.com/news/wgntv-skilling-tombio,0,1377504.story?coll=wgntv-home-nav

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1...ling26.article

Well...I can't hold him personally accountable for what his brother did...But Lay's wife...C'mon...Either she belongs in an asylum with Cosmo for being out of it or she belongs in jail.


BTW...thanks for teaching me a new term...Had to look it up though..."Thread Troll"...First site that popped up was Insecure.org....Very apropos for our misguided Cosmo

[billyjoe]

Doug,
Give her a break. Remember she (Linda Lay) told us she's lost everything. She could become a porn star with that name. Oh , she forgot about the annuity that will pay her 900K per year starting in '07.

-----------billyjoe

[ParkTwain]

Re: Ken Lay, I don't believe it was natural. This guy was a capitalist soldier, fully sold out to the Big Bucks, and finally a convicted white-collar criminal. He wasn't going to let a lifetime of financial accomplishments be fully taken away. His remains were cremated. Big surprise. The Lays had more than one home concurrently in Aspen over the years (reference: http://www.khou.com/topstories/stori....29d73d64.html ).

I'm thinking the Lays had tentacles all through Aspen at the time the s**t hit the fan. There are plenty of ways pharmaceutically to trigger a MI. The guy already had coronary artery disease and hosted a couple of stents, but the news reports made a point of saying Lay showed no signs of ill health during the trial. The coroner had "plausible deniability."

[IIC]

Re: Ken Lay, I don't believe it was natural. This guy was a capitalist soldier, fully sold out to the Big Bucks, and finally a convicted white-collar criminal. He wasn't going to let a lifetime of financial accomplishments be fully taken away. His remains were cremated. Big surprise. The Lays had more than one home concurrently in Aspen over the years (reference: http://www.khou.com/topstories/stori....29d73d64.html ).

I'm thinking the Lays had tentacles all through Aspen at the time the s**t hit the fan. There are plenty of ways pharmaceutically to trigger a MI. The guy already had coronary artery disease and hosted a couple of stents, but the news reports made a point of saying Lay showed no signs of ill health during the trial. The coroner had "plausible deniability."

My wife doesn't even believe he's dead...It would be pretty easy to find someone to take your place...Find some guy who is dying of cancer and has about 3 months to live...Pay his family a few million bux and cremate the body...Pay off a coupla doctors and some podunk coroner and you're sippin' Mai Tais in your Angolan Villa for the next 20 years.

[billyjoe]

At his memorial service it was said "An overzealous federal prosecutor and the media have vilified a good man" another "it was character assassination"

----------billyjoe

[peanuts]

Doug,

Could you do me a favor? Make a chart with all the moving averages on it that you used to do... Do it for 1 year on MVCO, please. Thanks, dude

[IIC]

Doug,

Could you do me a favor? Make a chart with all the moving averages on it that you used to do... Do it for 1 year on MVCO, please. Thanks, dude

OK...I will post it a little later

[IIC]

IIC's Loser's List

Interesting day...I've been thinking about this for a while on the Day trade front.

One of my lists each morning are what I call Morning Movers...Stocks that are up pretty good pre-market. I make a list and watch them the first 20-30 mins along with all my other lists. On this list which may also include others that I see gapped I look for p/b's after about a half hour and then wait to see if any make another move which I can get some of.

Although many never make another move or I'm not there to see it, I've been thinking about doing the opposite...This morn I put together a list of 10 that were down quite a bit after 5 mins and then added 2 more after 20 mins. I looked for those that opened and then went down or those like ADCT and VRTX that gapped down.

I then watched for them to reverse up after the first 1/2 hour.

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=OXPS&t=1d +.15
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=POZN&t=1d +.11
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=ADCT&t=1d +.22
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=VRTX&t=1d -.30 and +.48
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=SIRF&t=1d -.11

Those are all the ones I bot in the morning...all dt's...did OK but would've done much better if I had held them longer.

Another one on the list was DVAX which I bot late in the 9.40's and heldover:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=DVAX&t=1d

Others on the original list were CELG COWN LIHR NTRI CENT ACLI.

One day doesn't mean much...but I made some money and it was pretty interesting.

I will watch this for a while and see how it goes.

I also traded AKS for +5 cents...too bad I was late for the party.