{"id":33789,"date":"2016-02-03T10:32:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T15:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=33789"},"modified":"2016-02-03T10:32:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T15:32:47","slug":"snagging-bargains-a-new-way-to-loose-your-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technologyinvestor.com\/?p=33789","title":{"rendered":"Snagging “bargains.” A new way to loose your shirt."},"content":{"rendered":"

Catch a falling star? <\/strong>In a word NO.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"AMZNFallingStar\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"GPROFallingStar\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"NetflixFallingStar\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Please review the orders you put in long,long ago at ultra-low prices, thinking you’d snag a bargain.<\/p>\n

Beware those “bargains” are now cratering.<\/p>\n

I snagged Netflix at $90, a bargain, except it’s now $87.32 and falling.<\/p>\n

Not easy. My best holdings (of the remaining few) are Verizon, Google, a short on Apple and BSV (a short-term bond fund).<\/p>\n

Today, there are no rising tides that carry all boats.<\/p>\n

Yesterday a friend gave me a copy of “Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates — the forgotten war that changed American history.”<\/p>\n

\"Jefferson\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It seems an appropriate book to read. Lots of pirates in the stockmarket. We need a Jefferson (??)<\/p>\n

Forget about stocks for now, says ZeroHedge, They’re too pricey. Here’s a ZeroHedge chart:<\/p>\n

\"Wherewearenow\"<\/a><\/p>\n

For the full ZeroHedge article, (also called “No Shame in Cash,<\/strong>“) click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Ted Cruz won Iowa by appealing to evangelicals. <\/strong>(Does that include Jews?)
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He has something on his website called “Five for Freedom” which reads:
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“Abolish the IRS, the Department of Education, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. A Cruz Administration will appoint heads of each of those agencies whose sole charge will be to wind them down and determine whether any programs need to be preserved..”<\/p>\n

I’m hoping income tax is not a program that needs to be preserved.<\/p>\n

Go Ted.<\/p>\n

Five For Freedom summary, click here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"HarryNewton\"<\/a>
\nHarry Newton, who has friends who suddenly love gold, again. Here’s the last five years in gold. It s*cks. (I have to put the asterisk in because many subscribers have idiot IT departments who censor the word and won’t deliver my blog.)<\/p>\n

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Now Google is down 2.5% today! Yuch.<\/p>\n