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Colorado Stocks	Colorado is a state of thriving companies. The state’s industries are many and varied; from aerospace & satellite, to agriculture, bioscience, mining and natural resources, financial services, manufacturing and telecommunication. Some great key facts to know about Colorado are:1. Over 100 companies are in the aerospace industry in Colorado.2. The aerospace and satellite industry provide the state with around 130,000 jobs.3. The agricultural industry generates over 105,000 jobs in the state.4. ...	August 23, 2008
Deep Market Thoughts…Go Golf…I Am!	There are certain periods of the year where you just need to go out and enjoy life and walk away from the screens. Now is one of them. You have been and will continue to be churned. Sure, we have had a few great trades (FXP and SMN) the last month and new long entries on this blog (JNJ, CCC, EURX, YHOO, QCOM, IBB, WU, WERN etc) are doing ok if not great, but we are headed into a very interesting fourth quarter and you need to be fresh and flush with cash. Global indices have been crashing, ...	August 15, 2008
96th Edition of the Festival of Stocks	Welcome to the July 7th edition of the Festival of Stocks. The Festival of Stocks is a blog carnival dedicated to highlighting bloggers best posts on stock market related topics. Fat Pitch Financials is the actual birth place of this online weekly event, so it is always a special occassion when I get the chance to host this event. If you aren’t already familiar with my blog, Fat Pitch Financials, it is a value investing blog with a focus on wide moat companies selling at substantial discou...	July 07, 2008
Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio Mid-Year Update 2008	The Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio has maintained its downward trajectory this past month. The portfolio ended June with a balance of $1,225,136.89 versus the May balance of $1,291,425.91. On a positive note, while the Fat Pitch Financials Port was down only 4.09%, the S&P 500 was down 8.43% this past month according to the Fat Pitch Financials Marketocracy numbers. Looking at mid-year performance, the Fat Pitch Financials Port is down 11.03% since the beginning of the year, while the S&am...	July 02, 2008
No Big Meltdown, But Let’s See How we Close	It’s nice to see the markets hold this weekend. Oil has not done us any favors so i don’t expect any huge rally, but I am adding a few stocks as I mentioned. One being WU. Close eye on Apple (which I am short) to see how it participates. ...	June 23, 2008
Optimist Lindzon says…Western Union (WU) Keeps on Wiring	Shipping stuff costs a lot more money than wiring things and as Federal Express suffers, Western Union (WU) is busting out. The price may be ‘telegraphing’ (no pun intended) more strength ahead. We covered Western Union (founded in 1851) on Wallstrip and I recommended keeping an eye on the Wallstrip worthy IPO, but not buying it until it showed real strength. Now I am buying. Also a great trip back in time to a funny Wallstrip: ‘You must have some pretty big pants to fit a...	June 22, 2008
Earnings highlights: Goldman Sachs, Best Buy, General Mills, Carnival and others	Filed under: Earnings reports, Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), Best Buy (BBY), Carnival Corp (CCL), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), General Mills (GIS), Deere and Co (DE), Western Union (WU)Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks: Best Buy Inc. (NYSE: BBY) beat Q1 estimates as consumers spent their government stimulus checks. Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL) posted better than-expected Q2 results but offered cautious Q3 guidance. Cyberonics Inc....	June 21, 2008
Western Union (WU) soars on guidance, buyback plan	Filed under: Major movement, Forecasts, Good news, Options, Technical Analysis, Western Union (WU)Western Union (NYSE: WU) shares are trading higher today after the company said fiscal-2008 earnings will likely be in higher end of the range of $1.25 to $1.29 per share previously forecast, above analysts' estimates of $1.27 per share. WU also approved a plan to repurchase $1 billion in common stock. If you think that the stock won't fall by too much in the coming months, then now could be a good ...	June 20, 2008
Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio Update for May 2008	I just wanted to provide you with a quick update on the Fat Pitch Financials Portfolio. This Marketocracy portfolio ended the month of May with a total value of $1,291,425.91 (the account started with $1 million). The portfolio was down 1.48% for the month of May. For the last 12 months, the portfolio is down 2.58%. Nevertheless, the portfolio is still up 28.78% and has an annualized performance of 7.09%. I still have $301,724.31 in cash, which should be a sufficient amount of dry power in cas...	June 08, 2008
Thursday's Upgrades and Downgrades	UpgradesUS Airways (LCC)- Credit Suisse Underperform » Neutral UAL Corp. (UAUA)- Credit Suisse Neutral » Outperform Whole Foods (WFMI)- FTN Midwest Neutral » Buy Eli Lilly (LLY)- Cowen & Co Neutral » Outperform Amdocs (DOX)- Kaufman Bros Hold » Buy Novartis AG (NVS)- Cowen & Co Neutral » Outperform Novatel Wireless (NVTL)- Morgan Joseph Hold » Buy SAIC (SAI)- Jesup & Lamont Neutral » Buy Prestige Brands (PBH)- Oppenheimer Underperform » Perform Morgan...	June 05, 2008

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