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Joined Nov 10, 2007
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The Meltup Continues

Short sellers must have brain cancer to be stubborn enough to have open shorts here. NOTHING brings the market down and NOTHING can stop this psychopath market from marching higher, apparently so. Last week I took some of my chips off the table, by way of selling some stocks to raise some cash. In hindsight, THAT was a bad idea. But life is all about making HORRENDOUS ideas, laughing at them, then doing stuff to correct said actions.

However, in my case, I will accept overreaching cautiousness, in return for peace of mind. I am up 15% inside of 3 weeks and there is nothing wrong with taking the foot off the pedal—so there.

My top pick, right here, right now, is TEKELEC [[TKLC]] . The stock is a play on text messaging for the AT&T Inc. [[T]] network, as they are the largest supplier of signal transfer point for At&t. You need to think iPhone, and how big it is becoming, and you need to do it now. As Apple Inc. [[AAPL]] destroys Research In Motion Limited (USA) [[RIMM]] , more people will flock to the At&t network, by way of buying an iPhone (Apple is locked into a contract with T). Plus, there is a decent short position (7%+) worth flattening out like a panini.

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25 comments

  1. Threatmeter

    In before Jake Gint uses any of the following phrases:
    Libtard
    Limo Lib
    Lurch

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  2. DPeezy

    AAPL meltup into January 27th “tablet” announcement.

    Then, sell the news.

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  3. GETGroup

    WHEN this market rolls over, their will be far less shortsuckers around to have the thing they crave the most…to be right, first

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  4. Big Mike

    I am thinking of buying some AMZN before earnings…Implied volatility is exploding higher; since the market cant go down, why the hell not?

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  5. Lokapujya

    Genius idea! I was thinking about this as an investment as soon as I heard you can donate $10 for Haiti relief by just texting a number.

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  6. Long Ge

    Won’t Apple and ATT’s contract for exclusive rights to the iPhone be expiring this quarter?

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  7. Big Mike

    Anybody has any recommendations for additional blogs to read?

    Name a bunch please…

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  8. New Ideas

    I believe Long Ge is right about AT&T losing exclusivity with the iPhone within months. As soon as iPhone is on Verizon, say good night to AT&T…. everyone I have asked (short of a couple people) have said they only have AT&T because of the iPhone and they want Verizon badddddd

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    • sailorboy

      thppt. the contract may be up for negotiation in months, but there is no guarantee aapl will leave t. as long as t coughs up the subsidy and the (units x subsidy) is greater than a lower subsidy but greater units elsewhere, t keeps the contract. aapl is probably banging away on t for a higher subsidy and/or improved network experience. t will push back on the subsidy and agree to upgrade its network and customer service. thus, it will come down to whether aapl thinks units will continue via t alone. figure out when the existing (units x subsidy) falls at a rate greater than aapl can cut cost. if aapl leaves t, short t as it is an indication its wireless growth is stalling. look for t to hype a replacement phone (droid?) before it lets aapl walk away. i see no indication of any of this and thus find it highly unlikely aapl will leave t.

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    • DPeezy

      It would take at least a year to re-make a CDMA iPhone.

      It is much more likely that 4G will be the (common) intercept for Verizon/Sprint. So the iPhone will stay on AT&T (& T-Mobile, unlocked) until at least 2011.

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      • Indie

        not sure i understand your comment peezy. hoverheah, in cadland bell and telus are CDMA and have the iphone since november.

        not that i care. i’m on GSM rogers. but make no difference. they’re all the same. the only thing worst than banks are telecom co. it’s all shit service and price fixing.

        europe got the AMAZING triple-play contract. bring this in north america and create instant wealth.

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  9. Mark

    Monsieur Fly,

    Will you be re-establishing positions in CMI and SQM?

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  10. AI

    IBM drops the ball

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