The above ad caught my attention last night in the wee hours of the morning. This visual advertisement can serve as both a barometer to see which companies are adjusting their business model for the 21st century. If you aren’t set up for the age of the smartphones, you will be left in the dust. Ebay continues to play the game like a winner.

The below chart has Christmas and retail written all over it.

Chess put it best the other day, the leaders gonna lead. Before the Christmas month is out I may visit “The Bay.”

Obviously more research to come when I finally get 5 minutes to myself.

Note: Do not forget to take a look at what I offering you prior to tonight (click here)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tqmIsF4s48

Lyndon Johnson has already cast an absentee ballot for Young Gun. He suggests you do the same. For he fears giving miscreants access to the OSC resulting in the annihilation depicted above.

Don’t worry my dear conservative, Reagan says I am the only option.

Who would have thought both parties could have come together? Young Gun made it possible.

Find out more about my platform here.

Since many of you have voiced your desire to gain the tabbed position on IBC, I thought it would be best to enlighten you with some knowledge.

Let me begin with a basic premise that will serve you not only in the blogging endeavor, but in regards to life. If you lack personality you will fail to hold anyone’s attention. If you lack the ingenuity or creativity that is required to hold a conversation, perhaps you should focus on some basic social skills prior to blogging. You desire to write for IBC, but fail to think outside the box. The box being the normal and accepted principles of blogging, contrasted to outside that box, the ways in which IBC brings its viewers the world of the markets.  As an aspiring blogger I have analyzed The Fly’s rise to fame, he did so by taking the norms and shitting on them — making IBC what it its today.

Do you really think utilizing the jokes and stock picks of The Fly will serve you to have any legitimate readership? The fools who constantly regurgitate crap serve no one any purpose and only will bore readers in the first week. The same can be said about their stock picks. What good does voicing the same plays as The Fly or Chess serve readers. What the reader needs, what they want — fuck it — what they must have are fresh ideas. The readers want someone who will do the hard work for them and point them in the appropriate direction.

Have you ever thought what you as a potential blogger would really bring to the table? I am not merely suggesting market analysis, extraordinary picks, or eloquent writing. I am speaking in terms of expanding the ways in which IBC brings you the market news. The hallowed halls of IBC have been on the frontier of stock picking since its inauguration. The Fly wishes to bring new blood into his realm, not to just have new and fresh analysis, but to improve on the way in which IBC presents the world of the markets. So what do you bloggers  really have up your sleeve that will help grow IBCs readership? What ways will you capture an audience and make them return time and time again?

From what I have read thus far, absolutely nothing. (excluding Rhino)

I have countless ideas mulling around in my head, all in which will give IBC fresh and new life.

The majority of the bn bloggers lack the ingenuity to write a gut wrenching, well informed, and inspiring post. The majority of you will fail to contribute to the growth and overall awesomeness of IBC. Just read through the posts as of late and you will see I speak nothing but the truth. These bloggers need me to point out their failures and ineptitude, as I have done above. Do you really want them on the IBC homepage over the next 3 months?

So come to realize what I am offering you and take full advantage of it: What I Am Offering You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DvfCfS6bJ8

I am beyond fed up with the market consensus for the fiscal cliff — the call for inaction.

Who has ever made money from inaction? Particularly during the season of buying everything… I mean gift giving. Most companies make their year during the fourth quarter. Do you really think it’s going to change this year? Do you really think congress’ inactivity will cancel Christmas? Get out of your parents basement, go to any local mall or shop, and witness the gluttony of consumerism. Will your wife or mother really not purchase you all the ridiculous items you do not need? From hams to iPhone’s, Christmas will live on.

Perhaps I wasn’t explicit enough — the masses are Christmas shopping  No one cares about tomorrow, they only are living for today. Christmas comes this eve and the fiscal cliff blows up tomorrow, with the masses getting to drunk on rum egg nog to realize what tomorrow brings.

Obviously I am not ignorant enough to suggest ignoring the effects of the Fiscal Cliff. In particular, the potential loss of jobs that could send us back to the depths of despair. Currently that remains 28 days away and the biggest shopping season of the year is upon us.

I have yet to chose my retail stars for the season, though this will be done before the week ends. For you desperate for a fix right now, take a look at Rhino’s take on LULU as well as RC’s Sunday Charts featuring LULU. I would say I am all about it, but I got burned so bad last year that Lululemon is not to be spoken in my presence (though yoga pants are always an acceptable attire for the females frequenting my establishment).

Every year there are retail plays that can bank you coin. I will be pointing out a few potential big plays in the next week.

Note: Do not forget to take a look at What I Am Offering You

You are obviously dying to know what I am offering you.

Earlier today I gave you a little taste, a little hit(The Only Way to Play Facebook). I know you are dying for more. You may jut get it.

In the course of the next four days you will see all types and kinds of bloggers come out of the woodwork — like roaches climbing out of the hull of a rotting schooner. I’ve been in the game a while, just take a look at my site (Capital Overlook). Anyone worth their weight knows that doesn’t count for anything. I’ve been right more than wrong, again look at my previous posts. Now that actually counts for something.

We all come to IBC for one reason: a different take on the financial markets. Any fool can write for Businessweek, CNBC, or Seeking Alpha. They write there for page views and airtime on television networks that fewer and fewer are watching. What does it take to be part of IBC? The ability to entertain. The prowess to be correct. The drive to think outside the box. Those are not skills you can pick up overnight, those are not mentalities that can be faked (though many over the next four days will put up a impressive facade), they are attributes gained through living the life of a Young Gun. You can go anywhere for finance news but there are few writers worth bookmarking and repeatedly coming back to — that is my ambition.

The markets are not just about GDP or smart phone sales, they are about the thousands of small news and data pieces coming together. Traders, investors, and bloggers alike often get caught up in the minute details, missing the forest for the trees. What I do is take economic trends, consumer trends, and combine that with detailed research to destroy those that are too busy counting their page views to do any legitimate research. I don’t always point out specific trades, but give my audience food for thought.

Perhaps before the week is out I will give you more insight into myself, though currently the above should satisfy your appetite.

A very fitting song:

A while back I wrote a piece about Facebook, focusing on the stupidity of the downside arguments. I have never seen a stock where so many are focused on their ideals about where technology is going rather than trading the stock. Had you just made the trade instead of listening to what Cuban said (which he later almost completely revoked), you would be fine. Now lets go over a few points so you don’t make yourself look like a fool again.

No one knows where the social monster will end up. Hell it could even get so big it will eat itself. In more simple terms, social could become an all encompassing aspect of our lives and it may become the norm for us to cut out social interaction through technology. This does not mean that you can not make money on the trade. Let’s look back at something comparable, so as to better relate it. We all remember the Netflix tale, the famous Cramer pump and dump. Where shorts were burning their houses for insurance money and longer were claiming Obama was going to offer Obamaflix all the way up to $300. I remembered my own inaction like it was yesterday. I wanted to buy in at $99. I wasn’t even looking for anything but to see $115 again (I’m a simple guy, I don’t ask for much). I was so fearful of the longevity of their business model I didn’t buy in. I didn’t buy in at $100. I didn’t buy in at $150. I didn’t… you get the point. Lucky for me I didn’t try to short it anywhere on the way up either. The long and the short of it is(elementary pun intended) that you can’t fight where the market wants to take these hot stocks.

Facebook has moved over 50 percent in the last 3 months. I am not saying go out any buy it tomorrow. Though I do believe instagram is taking twitters formula and owning them at it (though thats another post). The point is they aren’t going out of business yet, well not until they launch their own platform on the RIM phone (cause it sure won’t be on an iPhone or Android). I think the moment of elated buying has past, people don’t buy Facebook profiles for Jesus’s Birthday, they buy everything else. I think there are currently better plays than the Book, but what you should take to heart is the simple and key lesson everyone overlooked.

If you play Facebook through a real long or short thesis you are asking to be taken out back and shot (preferably with a Smith and Wesson). Ask around. Play it like a trader and you will be rewarded. Most importantly look through the fog to see the marker, the fog being the fools caught up in their ideologies and the marker being price action.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVaHvheGl6M