Raising a Little Cash

I am selling off non-essential names, in order to tie up loose ends and raise some cash. My goal is to raise 20% cash and sit on it for more than 30 minutes, if at all possible. Thus far, I am quite pleased with the doings over at OPEN, which is my largest personal position by size. I own a chunk of the stock with evil intentions of routing out the short sellers, GW Bush style, in order to make them seek God.

In addition, ARO, PSUN and APC are showing some strength, all to do with March seasonality. All three stocks, historically, do exceptionally well during the month of March. Let’s hope for the best, but expect something horrendous.

If you notice, iBC has a different look today, as we launched the iBC Financial News Network. It’s a work in progress, so bear with us. As time goes on, the reporting and publishing of relevant information, pertaining to financial markets will increase in efficiency. Although other finance sites do it well, they are missing a key component to their business models: how does it make you money? My mantra, as always, “if it doesn’t generate revenue, I’m not interested,” exemplifies my stated goal to the tee, with this new endeavor. I hope you enjoy it. For those of you who miss the iBCNEWSBOT300: see the bottom of the page for link to feed.

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(Ticker, % of float sold short, today’s gain)
1 LNG 31.6 +32.64
2 CSKI 16.6 +12.42
3 BONT 21.1 +8.24
4 EK 26.9 +5.82
5 AVNR 20.1 +5.41
6 CBST 17.3 +5.36
7 RNOW15.1 +4.71
8 CLWR 30.2 +3.47
9 LNET 31.9 +3.45
10 GMCR 24.5 +3.37
11 YOKU 36.39 +3.34
12 SKY 25.6 +3.29
13 BWLD 16.4 +3.23
14 NVTL 17 +2.69
15 HUSA 17.6 +2.41

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(ticker, % of float sold short, today’s loss)

1 SHZ 54 -12.1
2 CAVM 17.7 -6.96
3 UTA 17.5 -6.8
4 CSR 23.1 -6.11
5 LCC 19.3 -5.5
6 MHR 18.8 -4.53
7 BIOD 20.7 -4.46
8 NETL 23.4 -4.37
9 OSBC 15.8 -4.26
10 CCRT 21.3 -4.13
11 CISG 26.09 -3.88
12 ENTR 50.4 -3.24
13 CIEN 32.8 -3.24
14 RXII 24 -3.23
15 SATC 19.9 -3.16

I sold both, raising cash.

Within oil/gas, HERO (+14%) CQP (+16%), LNG (+34%) and PDC (+5.5%) are leading the charge higher, thanks to escalating violence in God’s sandbox. On the other hand, tech stocks are getting poleaxed, led by losses in FNSR (-35%), OCLR (-17%), OPXT (-16%) and JDSU (-12.8%).

With strength in crude, Airline stocks find themselves on the receiving end of egregious homo-hammers, while refiners, as well as most oil related stocks, trend higher— ever so gingerly.

As cool as $100+ oil is, the market hates it. Every time we uptick in crude, the market legs lower. Trading civil unrest is difficult, especially when it’s an armed conflict. Will it spread to Algeria and Saudi Arabia? If not, perhaps oil is $20 rich here and worth betting against, via SCO. However, how can I put that trade on while the middle east is so volatile?

Answer: I can’t.

Hence, we are stuck with expensive crude, which hurts consumption. Higher crude serves as a tax and Wall Street does not like it. Even worse, oil and gas stocks, aside from the degenerate small cappers, aren’t even benefiting from this shit storm. The market is dying to trade higher. It wants a reason to rally to 14,000 AND MORE. However, I’m afraid that the crude wall being built up on a daily basis will kill this rally where it stands. The downside could be significant, should the high energy prices permeate consumer spending habits.

Until the middle east simmers down a bit, I’m afraid your best trade is a quick one or cash.

Starting immediately, Mr. Caine Thaler will be leading the charge to provide macro/news related items for iBankCoin. Additionally, all of you small dogs, as well as staff writers, may participate in this new venture of mine. Should any of you feel the urge to post an editorial or news related item, inside the Peanut Gallery, there will be a box for you to check that will say “news.” Should you have the courage and the internal fortitude to check it, your drivel will be exported to my new box, named “The iBC Financial News Network.”

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There was no reason behind today’s rally. Europe was sucking knee-caps and the world, for lack of a better term, was retarded. The dickless eunuchs from Time magazine ignored the spaced aged shit being purported on iBC, in exchange for the money losing ways of helium suckers like ZH. But what should one expect, when dealing with the old graybeards from Time? I doubt their editors even search the web, let alone understand the purpose of financial blogging. If you believe financial blogging is all about whoring news like a fucking 5 year old, go elsewhere. However, if you’re interested in changing your lives, by way of increased net worth: visit iBankCoin daily.

Today’s rally was an odd one, led by oddball sectors, like healthcare. Hospital stocks lifted higher, led by HMA and LPNT. Home healthcare names like GTIV and CHE took off, as a variety of tech and Ag names sucked wood. I am not so sure this is rotation. If anything, the smoking hot sectors needed a breather. What’s impressive about this rally is that it didn’t need the leadership names to run. This tells me that money wants to be long, no matter what. It’s like playing whack-a-mole.

Get your hammers ready.

Top picks: AVL, OPEN, MAS

I bought 5,000 AVL in the $7.80’s.

Disclaimer: If you buy AVL because of this post, your only daughter will marry Lenny Dykstra. And, you may lose money.

Sell zone averted. Back to handing out beat downs to your local burlap’d bearshitter.

As Europe deals with bad bond auctions, I am on the lookout for market deterioration. In order to get me to sell, I need to see fucked up price action in leadership stocks, as well as commodities. I might give gold, silver and oil a pass, due to mid-east chicanery.

And, I need to see both the bond markets and dollar firm up. In other words, I need to see Bernanke and his POMO ways take a breather, giving way to good olde fashioned deflationary vortex.

It’s a hard call, mainly because of seasonality. After all, we’re in fucking March, not September. According to the laws dictated by the seasonality Gods, we are supposed to trade up until May. However, we are dealing with a series of unforeseen events here that shit in the face of so called “seasonality Gods.”

In short, I’d love to see gorillas on cocaine ramp this market up, so that I can blast gangster rap music in my office, as I slap the shit out of low level employees with hot slices of pizza. But sometimes dreams do not come true, jackass. Welcome to the real world.

Speaking of which, Dykstra is back and crazier than ever. You’re all gonna suck his cock: the American ghandi.