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Kid Dynamite is now on Twitter: #KidDynamiteBlog Kid Dynamite (pseudonym) spent 8 years as a trader at a major Wall Street investment bank. from June 1999 thru April 2005 he specialized in portfolio trading, and from May 2005 thru November 2007 he was the head trader for an internal hedge ...more

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Revisiting RumbleOn
The stock had quite a ride last year, trading up to $11, and now back to about where it was at the time of my second post.
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RumbleON – Disrupting The Online Used Motorcycle Market
Here is a long thesis for a microcap stock I am currently long: RumbleOn ($RMBL)
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Green Mountain Coffee – The Most Non-Insider Trade In History
This morning, Green Mountain Coffee (GMCR) announced that they’re being acquired for $92/share in cash. Amazingly, their CEO, Brian Kelley, filed a form 4 on Friday evening. Let's take a deeper look.
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Where Bloomberg Discovers That Large Orders Have Market Impact
The post struck a nerve with me because it portrays index funds as the victim of nefarious market evildoers like “hedge funds” and “Wall Street trading desks.” Reality is the opposite.
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Fun With Canadian Retail Precious Metals Merger Arbitrage
The Sprott offer has some minimum requirements (2/3rds acceptance), and it’s a definite possibility that they won’t be able to get 2/3rds of GTU’s shareholders to realize that this is probably a good deal for them.
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More Gold Manipulators Busted!
The CME finally stepped up and busted some of these gold manipulators in action.
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STOCKS I FOLLOW

ADBE Adobe Systems Incorporated
AIG American International Group Inc
BAC Bank of America Corporation
C Citigroup Inc.
EGPT Market Vectors ETF Trust
ENX Eaton Vance New York Municipal Bond Fund
EQIX Equinix Inc.
EWEM Invesco MSCI Emerging Markets Equal Weight ETF
F Ford Motor Company
FMCC Freddie Mac
FNMA Fannie Mae
FSLR First Solar, Inc.
GLD SPDR Gold Trust ETF
GOOG Alphabet Inc. (Google)
GS Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
IEF iShares Lehman 7-10 Year Treasury Bond Fund
IGOV iShares S&P/Citigroup International Treasury Bond Fund
IVV iShares S&P 500 Index Fund
IYR iShares Dow Jones U.S. Real Estate Index Fund
JPM JPMorgan Chase & Co.
MGM MGM Resorts International
MON Monsanto Company
NFLX Netflix Inc.
PSLV Sprott Physical Silver Trust ET
QQQ PowerShares QQQ Trust Series 1
RCD Rydex S&P Equal Weight Consumer Discretionary ETF
RGI Rydex S&P Equal Weight Industrials ETF
RHS Rydex S&P Equal Weight Consumer Staples ETF
RSP Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF
RTM Rydex S&P Equal Weight Materials ETF
RYE Rydex S&P Equal Weight Energy ETF
RYF Rydex S&P Equal Weight Financial ETF
RYH Rydex S&P Equal Weight Health Care ETF
RYT Rydex S&P Equal Weight Technology ETF
RYU Rydex S&P Equal Weight Utilities ETF
SDS ProShares UltraShort S&P500
SH ProShares Short S&P500
SLM SLM Corporation
SPY SPDR S&P 500
SSO ProShares Ultra S&P500
TLT iShares Lehman 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund
TWX Time Warner Inc.
UPS United Parcel Service Inc.
USO United States Oil Fund, LP
VGK VANGUARD EUROPEAN ETF
VOO VANGUARD FIVE HUNDRED INDEX
WY Weyerhaeuser Co.
WYNN Wynn Resorts Limited
XRT SPDR S&P RETAIL ETF
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