Showing posts with label Technology Sector. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology Sector. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Is Bing Cheating?

Is Bing Cheating?

Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results

Interesting article..I wonder if this will become a lawsuit down the road. It seems that Microsoft is using some of Google's results for things that they cannot find.

That does sound quite unfair.

Predict 2/2 Stock Market Closing Price Competition

Predict 2/2 Stock Market Closing Price Competition

All stocks were doing GREAT today! My account has risen to $11,100 at the time of writing. I am a little tore between selling at a good 3% gain or keep for little longer. I think I will keep them a little longer because there are no other great buying opportunities.

Anyways, this is the post to cast your AMD prediction for the 2/2 stock market closing price.

New rules are out~ Make sure your read how this point system works to become a part of the prize pool total $50.00

Sunday, January 30, 2011

Shining a Light on Solar's Fundamentals

Shining a Light on Solar's Fundamentals

This was a good post on an financial analysis of the fundamentals for the solar companies. It included the financial analysis of following companies: CSIQ / ENER / FSLR / JASO / LDK / PWER / SOL / SOLF / SPWRA / STP /.

Although the author of this article is really pro FSLR based on market fundamentals. We can kind of see that the stock market does not really react well when overall solar industry was out of investors favor in the past 2 years or so. I believe that although the rate of financial return on investment is important in terms of investing fundamentals, yet solar industry should not really focus on fundamentals...a huge part of industry should be tied in on how they could share their visions and executions to investors.

During this year I will be buying and selling solar stocks in the stock market. I think overall the solar industry will be experiencing a uptrend some experiencing some pretty wild ups and downs. So hopefully this will mean good monetary gains if I execute my trades right.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Predict AMD 1/28 Stock Market Closing Price Competition

1/27 STOCK PREDICTION RESULT
No one was correct with their prediction. Zach was the closest with his prediction!  AMD's market price closed at $7.75.  Better luk next time!  My account went up in value. So I am quite happy today ^^

Background: Because I am currently owning AMD stock shares, I am pretty actively looking at the stock market everyday. So I have decided to host a little stock market price guess competition.

Predict AMD 1/28 Stock Market Closing Price Competition
Because No one won yesterday, for 1/28's Competition, I will keep the prize at $1.50. Lol. Yeah I am pretty poor but I want all my readers in to have some fun. Here are the rules:
Please Read The Rules - I have made some CHANGES since the start
1. Guess the Closing Stock Price of AMD's tomorrow on 1/28. If you make it right, I will give you $1.50 through paypal. So I will at least need the winner's email address later on.
2. You Must be a current follower
3. One entry per person. This is just for fun. Please do not make multiple accounts for entry.
4. The guess must be placed under comments in THIS post.
5. If 2 people guess the same stock closing price, two people will win $1.00 each.
6. Competition closes daily at 12:00 am. PST on the day of competition.
7. NEW competition post will start sometime after market closes so check back ^^. It will be whenever I get the time to update and check the results.
8. I reserve the right to change the rules if I missed anything.

Tips:
Visit Finance Google and Search AMD for the current price.

HAVE FUN!

Note:
Please let others know about my blog!  If I have 200 followers by start of Market on Monday 1-30-11.  I'll increase that day's reward to $5.00.

Qualcomm 1Q earnings surge nearly 40 percent

Qualcomm 1Q earnings surge nearly 40 percent

Great~ Good financial earning from a major tech power house. I hope tomorrow will be great for the technology sector in the stock market. Right now after cutting KBH and getting into F5 network, I am a little tech heavy. I am planning to sell F5 network or AMD shares if they do jump tomorrow. I will see what happens.

After hour stock market price for Qualcomm jumped 6%. Definitely can not buy it at that price.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Solar Stocks Flying High as Goldman Singles out First Solar

Solar Stocks Flying High as Goldman Singles out First Solar

This is old news. But I guess this was why Solar index was really good yesterday. Too bad everything went down hill today. LDK is another one of the solar company that dropped a whopping 7%. Man...Good thing that I did not chase into the high of solar industry yesterday.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Nvidia rises in preopen, Barron's sees big upside

Nvidia rises in preopen, Barron's sees big upside

NVDA - Nvidia's stock price is rising quite a bit today. At my time of writing it's now a 8.41% gain. Man. I want to stop myself from chasing. I think this sudden increase in interest of buying NVDA stock is dangerous for the short term.

I wonder if I will miss the train by not chasing after the stock. The stock price sure is hot right now.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Intel Settlement Is Model to Fight Unfair Competition, FTC Chairman Says

Intel Settlement Is Model to Fight Unfair Competition, FTC Chairman Says

I really don't think that the government can do much to stop the unfair practices. Big companies still have the pricing ability over smaller competitors. Isn't that a part of business?

Although it is necessary to avoid Monopoly. I doubt that there's much the FTC can do.

But as a stock trader, Monopoly businesses are almost always good for stock returns. Especially to invest in a starting industry.

A look at recent tech-industry earnings

A look at recent tech-industry earnings

Jan. 13: Intel Corp. says net income jumped 48 percent, because of the strong demand on higher profit server chips. I think this is a one time event that will not last long. There will be a time when companies decide that they want to keep their existing hardware instead of dishing more money for that 10% more performance.

Jan. 18: Apple Inc.'s earning jumps too. I also think that it might not last. As more people have Ipods with more fierce competition, I think that their profit will decrease 3~4 year out with more innovative products. I think the current growth is overvalue which assume that apple can grow nonstop...

Jan. 19: EBay Inc. says fourth-quarter revenue rose 5 percent, as the healthy holiday shopping season bolstered growth in its online marketplace and PayPal online payments business.

Jan. 20: Google Inc. earned $2.5 billion during the final three months of 2010, a 29 percent increase from the prior year. Revenue climbed 26 percent to $8.44 billion. Man how much can google make...Is there a cap? I know that google has been pushing very hard for people to use their coupons. I wonder if this improves their buttom line.

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. says fourth-quarter income shrank from a year ago, when a big legal settlement it won from archrival chip maker Intel Corp. pumped up AMD's earnings. I kinda like how AMD is actually being quite conservative for their earning guides. I really do think the market is punishing them for things that they do not deserve. I am holding AMD right now so i might be biased..

Friday, January 21, 2011

So wrong About AMD

Haha I was so wrong about my AMD holding. The market is reacting quite negatively to the AMD earning release. I guess I would have to hold on to AMD for a while for any meaning full rebound.

My current account worth is down to $10,150 ah

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Earnings Roundup: Jan. 20

Earnings Roundup: Jan. 20

AMD will post earnings the end of tomorrow! (or today)...it is midnight here. Hmmz I wonder how the market would react for AMD today.

AMD seen posting strong Q4 Thursday

AMD seen posting strong Q4 Thursday

I hope the strong Q4 would turn investor mind about investing back into the stock which can push to stock prices higher. We will have to see, if that happens, I may sell my positions at a profit.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

01/19/11 AMD Delivers the World's First and Only APU for Embedded Systems

Original Source:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/AMD-Delivers-the-Worlds-First-iw-3300407420.html?x=0&.v=1

Man...this may be the financial news that I am hoping for. Hopefully this good news will tag along the tech rally that is happening in Asia now. However, I do feel a little ...with the timing of CEO leaving and this news release. Yet, we just have to wait and see.

If there is a boost to AMD price above my price target, I may consider selling the stock. It really depends on how the overall market is doing. I am looking forward to tomorrow's stock trading day.