Fly Buy: $BALT

I added to my BALT position.

MAKO just got bought out at a 80% premium. That company sucks, yet they still caught a bid.

Heading into the final months of the year, expect mergers and acquisitions to pick up some steam and special dividends be distributed. Naturally, share buybacks will be demanded by well to do activist shareholders and the average investor richly rewarded for being patient.

American balance sheets have never been better, so keep that in mind the next time you get wild eyed and try to become a hero shorting stocks that you deem to be “bad” or overvalued. The net result will be similar to what the bozo short sellers at MAKO are seeing this morning: account balances of zero.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ7eJm5bZ5Y

Iron ore shipments are through the roof. The shippers will begin to mint money if this trend continues. One thing is for certain, this trade isn’t dead.

Disclosure: I am long EGLE and BALT.

I didn’t participate in your down market. As you suffered in agony, I cruised to a 3% gain, led by EGLE, YELP, MHO, ANGI and FLTX. Most of my positions moved today, including ESPR, NSTG, CVV, BALT, FSLR, FB and POWI. Let it be noted, I own zero IMMR and have hardly any POWI left.

I am turning over positions very quickly because I am in the zone. I am in rapid trading mode, ping-ponging from one position to the next, like a giant locust devouring the corn crops of the unfortunate.

My buys have been very energetic, mostly market orders, because I want to get in fast, and then out. I’m not loyal to any one name. I view these stocks as vehicles to finance future core positions.

As I build up my asset base, trading like a space alien magician, you get the fruits of my industrious labour.

I’m not worried about this tape, as we’re woefully close to being oversold. It’s only a matter of time before we snap back and if you’re positioned in the right stocks when it happens, you’re gonna make a killing.

I took profits on some of my EGLE position and allocated funds into BALT.

I added to my NSTG position.

Numbers were good today.

One thing that no one is talking about is the fact that mortgage rates have soared in recent months, due to “taper fever.” But with rates coming down again and the Fed firmly in control, I am betting that the housing starts and sales will begin to show significant year over year improvements.

My favorite ways to play this is via MHO, ANGI, TRLA, BZH and USG. There are other plays worth considering, like BLDR, MAS and FBHS. However, the pure way to play it is via the god damned homies.

The thesis is very simple. The US government cannot afford higher rates because of its debt load. Therefore, the Fed will keep them low, forever, effectively buttressing the housing market. The only way housing declines from here is a giant bubble bursting, which would mean the end of western finance anyway. So who cares, right?

Pick one and buy it, then walk away.

As for ANGI: it is, by far, the cheapest social media stock worth buying today. It is almost 4x cheaper than YELP and just as useful, if not more. I use YELP to stuff my face. However, I use ANGI to make permanent home improvements, which costs me a lot of money. ANGI is a buy up to $50.

FLTX just did a secondary at $46.79, underwritten by Merrill and Barclays. Yes, it’s true, insiders sold some stock and the offering was entirely selfish. Nonetheless, that doesn’t mean this brand new ipo is destined to denigrate shareholder value, just because some bozo (Seeking Alpha hack), who was EXACTLY wrong on AMBA and AVG, said so.

Since the Seeking Alpha hit piece, the stock has plunged from $45 to $38. In my estimation, the underwriters are under extreme pressure to defend FLTX here, and rebuff the absurd claims of some amateur short sellers.

This is a great company, on sale, that is increasing productivity for fleet management in the trucking industry. Growth is robust and earnings have been exceeding expectations. More than that, I sleep well at night knowing that I am going to fleece those suckers from Seeking Alpha again.

As an aside, mostly everything else looks like trash and Obama is beating the drums of war in Syria again. This is classic fall market crap.

UPDATE: I added to my FLTX position

Rates have been going lower, since the Fed day. Markets will trade up and down depending on emotion and short term news events. But this is a significant development that will shape the economy for many months to come.

You and your little mexican friends are gonna lose all of you money shorting stocks, playing Gordon Gekko from the illuxurious confines of your housing tenements. The futures will lure in the overzealous, the barbarians, to play the market to the downside, like miniature Jim Chanos’ talking smack about ‘global growth’ and how a great big cataclysmic crash is going to bring forth the second birth of Christ, who will then grow up to usher in the apocalypse– saving only those who went to mass on sunday and kept company with pedophiles.

This is exactly what is going to happen.

I am going to walk into work and sell some stocks, because they will be up. By “walking into work”, I mean rolling out of bed, directly into a three piece tuxedo, shiny shoes, cane, top hat and monocle, then walking 10 steps down from the master bedroom to office #1.

NSTG, EGLE and ESPR will all trade up, dramatically, staggering those who thought it could never happen. No one is short these names anymore because they’re all dead (I see dead people). Nonetheless, I relish in the idea, like a ghoul around flesh (no cannibalism), to afflict deleterious damage to fictitious characters who may or may not exist, who tend to be “betting against me” all the time. A psychiatrist might diagnose me with a sordid form of acute paranoia, which is perfectly fine with me. However, I will have you know, by no stretch of my imagination are there delusions; things are just grande.

Everything I say here is real and terribly troubling, to say the least (NORMAN BATES).

Back to the point: we’re going higher, even though we’re going lower. The Great Bearded Clam is lying in the tall grass with a Barrett M82 in his hand, waiting for the opportunity to bankrupt you suckers buying FAZ.