Sold Out Yesterday

Yesterday I woke up and immediately checked the market. When I say immediately, I mean I literally rolled out of bed and got online. After seeing the market positive again and my stocks doing very little I made an executive decision.

I sold the majority of my holdings on the US exchanges. I am SURE some will rip higher, some will drop lower, either way I’m emotionally detached and couldn’t care less. I’m going to Vegas then Asia or Africa, depending on my mood. I refuse to leave my money, unattended to, in US exchanges, in microcrap stocks.

Tomorrow if I wake up in time, as the market opens in 5 hours, I’ll sell a bunch of CDN rubbish I own except my gold and silver. In the event we climb higher, hurray for the recovery. If we drop lower I’ll have plenty of ammo to buy big companies, doing big things. I’m also freeing up “confused coin” so I can allocate it to things I’m confident and enthusiastic about.

Besides my keen interest in radio frequency identification, I’m also into the whole “personal aviation” industry. Personalized helicopters are the thing of the future and I want in on it. They are dope. Below is courtesy of Carter Aviation Technologies. Sadly, they are private but I don’t blame them. Why would one subject themselves to the public aka the neurotics if not needed?

Slick 4 seater prototype to bring the family to the lake.

I’ll hopefully be writing something on this thesis later this week or next when I have some time.  I like these hybrid choppers because of the little room required to land and take off, major drawback of planes when serving the public at large.

Good night, morning or afternoon to you.

I’d like to discuss the matter of radio frequency identification(RFID). For those of you who aren’t familiar with RFID, here is an explanation from Wikipedia:

“Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is the use of an object (typically referred to as an RFID tag) applied to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification and tracking using radio waves. Some tags can be read from several meters away and beyond the line of sight of the reader.”

RFID has a large number of uses and I only see them expanding. Currently RFID tags are being used in applications including but not limited to: transportation payments,  transportation and logistics, human implants, product tracking, biometric passports, libraries, animal identification, mobile payments, asset tracking etc…

After doing some research, I’m even more keen on this idea then ever. What got me thinking about RFID tags?  Thought came to me while in the lengthy check-out line of a  major big box retailer. The shopping experience and selection is grand but the check out procedure is slow and cumbersome. Instead of having a cashier scan each item, I envisioned a scenario where each item had a RFID tag and customers just push cart through a gate which automatically tallies the cost of all items.  How much time would this save?  The more I think about RFID, the more uses and scenarios come to mind.

Some  larger companies that have involvement in this space include: UPS, TYC, TXN, JAVA, SAP, R, MCK, IBM, INTC, INFY, CSCO, BAX, BRC, MMM, AVY, VRSN.

Other companies in this space:  PHG, TQNT, NCR, IN, MANH, IP, CKP, ATML, ZBRA, IN and ALAN

For further information on these companies and their involvement in the RFID industry please read this list of RFID related stocks.

On a side note for you conspiracy theorists, if you believe in the Illuminati, then you’ve probably heard the idea that eventually, we’ll all have RFID chips in us that contain every bit of data required for us to exist in society. In the event you displease those in power, they simply delete the file from your chip, effectively erasing your existence. Why not cash in along the way?

If the RFID industry interests you, I suggest you read the RFID Journal.

Below are a few stocks related to RFID that I looked up in The PPT, I have a lot of research to do.

Manhattan Associates Inc (MANH)
The company is a developer and provider of supply chain solutions that help organizations optimize the effectiveness, efficiency, and strategic advantages of their supply chains.

Atmel Corp (ATML)
The Company designs, develops, manufactures and markets a range of high-performance logic, radio frequency and nonvolatile memory integrated circuits using complementary metal-oxide semiconductor and other technologies.

Zebra Technologies Corp (ZBRA)
The Company designs, manufactures, sells & supports a range of direct thermal & thermal transfer label printers, radio frequency identification printer/encoders, dye sublimation card printers, & related accessories & support software.

Intermec Inc (IN)
The Company designs, develops, integrates, sells, resells and services wired and wireless automated identification and data collection products and provides related services.

I like this space and plan on allocating 10% of my portfolio in the coming months.

The picture says it all for those of us loyal to the long side.

We’re enjoying a well timed, delicious,  late Friday afternoon tuna-meltup.

If you are short, on brains, enjoy your most deserved rotten rat soup and have a rancid weekend.

With wins that would put a smile on my face while in Vegas next week, I’m still pushing it, in the name of more, some would say “greed”. I feel like the guy above, walking a fine line between more and much less. Woke up to see how the action was and albeit it decent, not what I was hoping for. I will continue walking this fictitious tightrope in the name of more, for the sake of more.

Back to a mid day slumber and TGIF to those of you with some concept of routine.

I’m doing a late night prowl, not to be confused with a midnight prowl. Looking for some stocks to potentially purchase , for a trade, should the market continue rising.

Looking for stocks that finished well into the close and recently upgraded to buy from the revered PPT.

Steelcase Inc (SCS) – 6.13 +0.47 (8.30%)
*Dividend – 8.1%

Heckmann Corp (HEK) – 4.56 +0.17 (3.87%)

PHAZAR CORP (ANTP) – 3.97 +0.21 (5.58%)
*Thinly traded ~14,000 avg

There were many more to choose from, all of these had a few other characteristics I was looking for.  Interests included but not limited to: % hybrid change, action into close, accumulation and when possible, volume.

Isn’t life grand? Especially when  you wake up from a quasi ~3-5 hour slumber and you find even more coin rattling around in your online brokerage accounts?

I wonder what it’s like being a bear, damned to be in line at a soup kitchen, just in time for Christmas, might I add. If you are a bear and you’re still mauling over a halloween costume, I’d like to suggest you try a clown suit.

My stocks are doing well and “working for me” in this time that I’m not working. Turns out a friend on the Indian Ocean was speaking of a new Yacht Marina that may be opening with him and some friends chartering flights from a popular African country. As a result, and having a penchant for all things lucrative, I may just investigate that opportunity.

Pardon me for I digress, I haven’t slept much. On that note I’m going back to bed and will enjoy dreaming of $ an % symbols while you, the uninitiated clog a public bathroom that’s already had a train ran on it and smells of a 1970’s bowling alley.

When I wake up, I may sell some dogs that that have been tormenting me in my sleep and buy some new stocks.

CHLN & MGI from yesterday are coming along nicely, nothing “crazy” but that’s alright, we can’t all be.