LinkedIn is the largest social network for professionals in the world. On balance, LinkedIn stock is in no-man’s-land at this time. It can as easily go to $300 as it can to $100. As of this writing, the stock is at $213.30. Let us examine the eight most important factors
(The Weekly Digest reproduces the morning capsules made available every morning before the market open in the Real Time Feeds to the paying subscribers. ) THE GOOD AND BAD OF S&P 500 BREAKOUT February 28, 2014 Yesterday S&P 500 finally broke out of the heavy resistance at 1850. The
Starry-eyed investors in Zulily may lose their shirts if Amazon becomes more aggressive in the daily-deal business; considering Zulily’s success, Amazon moving in to crush Zulily is a highly likely event. The chart illustrates the insanity that has set in Zulily ZU stock. Please click here for an annotated chart. On
Workday (WDAY) is a provider of software as a service for human capital management, financial management and big data analytics. It was founded by Aneel Bhursi and Dave Duffield. Bhursi was the chief strategist at PeopleSoft and Duffield was the founder and CEO of PeopleSoft. Founded in 1987, PeopleSoft initially focused
The increasing complexity of smartphone hardware may be generating investing opportunities. But investors need to have a clear idea of what exactly counts as hardware and who is doing it well, so in a two-part series, I will look at these to aspects, and in Part II look at
Microsoft MSFT has reportedly cut the price of Windows 8.1 by 70% for tablets and low cost computers. Original equipment manufacturers will now pay only a $15 license for Windows 8.1 if they install it on devices that sell at retail for under $250, this compares to the previous license cost of
This post was just published on ZYX Short Change Alert. The ZAGG position is short from $13.85 and 30% of the full core position size is being held. Profits have previously been taken as low as $4.00. The just reported earnings were slightly better than expectations. The stock closed at $4.26 but in
This post was just published on ZYX Short Change Alert. February natural gas contract is approaching expiration. 30% of the full core position size is being held. On expiration the contract is likely to be very volatile. Consider locking in profits on a 20% tranche or two thirds of the position
On Sunday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Samsung announced the release of two new smart watches called Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo. Unlike their predecessor smart watch from Samsung, which was powered by Android, these new models use the Tizen operating system. To date most of Samsung’s mobile
This post was just published on ZYX Buy Change Alert. Consider starting a 25% tranche in EBAY. EBAY has been undervalued. The trigger for the trade is Icahn redeploying capital from AAPL to EBAY. Buy zone is $54-55.50. The stock is at $55.10 as of this writing in the pre-market. Target zone is $68 to $73. No