Archive for May, 2008

An ETF on Steroids

By TheWild1 at 25 May, 2008, 4:12 pm

I came across this interesting article on MarketWatch. It shares the proposal of a new ETF. The goal of the fund is:

to give triple the daily return of some mainstream stock indexes. Of course, these leveraged funds would amplify investors’ potential losses as well.

The fund would track many popular U.S benchmarks and possibly add in [...]

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More Reasons the Airlines Don’t Care About YOU

By TheWild1 at 25 May, 2008, 12:34 am

As I mentioned a couple weeks back, airlines can basically do whatever they want.

Need more proof?
Well how about the fact that now numerous airlines are considering charging passengers for checked luggage.
Who started all this talk?
None other than good old American Airlines. In a plan to try and increase their revenue, American is planning to cut [...]

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Red is Not a Good Color

By TheWild1 at 24 May, 2008, 8:01 am

I had been pretty busy all this week, so I was never really able to run any good positions. It was probably a good thing I didn’t. When I open Firefox the home page is my personalized iGoogle, with a Google Finance section in the corner (yes I my life is google). Not good to [...]

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Leasing the Link

By TheWild1 at 24 May, 2008, 12:09 am

Got this email and thought maybe somebody would be interested:

Linksys, a leading provider of networking and storage solutions has broadened its support for resellers and small business owners today by introducing leasing options offered by InteliLease(TM). Now U.S. based small business owners can minimize major technology investment purchases by leasing Linksys equipment through their [...]

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Ah, the Problem with Transparency

By TheWild1 at 23 May, 2008, 12:01 am

TWI Dictionary: Transparency - the amount of business plan and results relayed to the mass.
For the public, a high level of transparency is always preferred, and for quick and easy growth transparency is also good for the business itself. It has that vibe that you stand behind what you are doing.
That is exactly what Todd [...]

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What it is to be me

By TheWild1 at 21 May, 2008, 12:02 am

Back on April 3rd I recommended Suncor Energy (SU). This was when the current price of oil was just a myth. At the time the stock was sitting on $100. Now the stock is sitting at… well just see for yourself.

Sure the TWI price target at the time was set up for an 8 point [...]

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