Newmark says, "sometimes I've winced when I thought about how much money I've walked away from." (Newmark is CEO of Craigslist) == "To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men," an opening caption says, quoting Edward Wilson. "We have all become Hamlets in our own country, children of a slain father-leader whose killers still possess the throne." "Nothing as long as you live will ever be more important. It's up to you.", "The bigger the lie , the more people will believe it." == While the public display of Hitler's photo and fascist symbols continue to meet serious global condemnations, why does the global community continue to keep silence when Japanese political leaders continue to pay their respect to war criminals in the Yasukuni? Is that the holocaust is more worth talking than the ripe of Nanking, and millions of civilians killed by the Japanese in East and SE Asia, not to mention the sexual assault to women. How is the Western media claimed themselves to be the fourth branch to balance the ruling power? How do we explain this discrimination in the global community? Jane Tse, HKSAR, China == CFA mostly are for asset management, which is buyside. Wall street investment banking is a part of saleside. You don't need to finish all three levels to get an entery level job in asset managment and many only passed level 1. These entry level jobs at small firms require only a bacholer's degree but most Chinese have MBA or Master's in business related areas. Top firms like Wellington Asset Management only hire at top B-schools. The key to get CFA type job is networking, that is talking to the right people at the right time and right place. == And finally, I decided to apply to business school. There, I learned about marketing, and operations, and other skills necessary for business. But more importantly, I had professors, like the students here do, who challenged me, and taught me a different notion of what was possible, who forced me to see my life in new ways. And I think in a very great measure, that is what leadership is about, that is what education is about, that is what character is all about. -Carly Fiorina == Although her book Selling Women Short is a powerful indictment of how Wal-Mart has treated its female employees, Liza Featherstone nonetheless acknowledges the lure of the Wal-Mart store for female shoppers, who delight "in spending as little as possible, all in one place." A business that treats women bad is attractive to female customers, this is interesting. == Perhaps we have talked so much about our civilisation's potential to destroy the planet that we have forgotten that the planet also has an untamed ability to destroy civilisation too. == Historic Anonalies to EMH http://www.investorhome.com/anomaly.htm == PSI: for <30 years old F1 ISIS for anybody F1 or F2 >30 ICSWEB HTH: for F1>30 ISTUDENTCITY: for 30 GLOBAL COVER: for kids F2 dependents only 374/year. (250 DEDUCTIBLE) == How a 'big investor' (or market maker) can engineer a short squeeze: 1. Force a stock down, by judicious selling of a small portion of his holdings, to a price at which it can't be purchased on margin by the public ($5 for most brokerages.) This can also be done with relatively less selling, by first 'supporting' a stock in an obvious range, to keep the crowd interested, and then backing away and letting the stock fall under its own weight as the crowd gets 'disillusioned' and creates its own sell pressure. By holding it under $5 with heavy selling (and light buying) at the right times, this will ensure that proportionally more 'cash account' public buyers (e.g. IRA accounts, accounts with under $25K in assets, etc.) than 'margin account' public buyers will buy the stock, because 'pyramiding' strategies based upon marginability will be prevented from working at this price. The stock held in these cash accounts will later be unavailable for shorts to borrow (stock must be held in margin accounts to be borrowable for shorting); therefore, the size of the 'short pool' is made to decrease. Also, by forcing the stock back under $5, many margin account holders who bought over $5 will sell because the maintenance requirement will have increased to 100%. 'Margin Monkeys' who are too heavily invested will 'dump their losers', e.g. dump those stocks which didn't go up after they bought them, and they will start with those stocks whose maintenance requirements are the highest--or have recently increased to 100%. For instance... those stocks which were recently above $5 and now are not. 2. Shift a large quantity of his *own* stock from margin accounts (from which shares can be borrowed for shorting) to cash accounts (from which they cannot.) This is called 'taking delivery'. This tactic further reduces the amount of shortable stock because less of it is now borrowable by the public. 3. Allow the stock to 'peek' above $5 now and again, to draw in suckers who want to short it. Many brokerages will not allow stocks under $5 to be shorted, so when it peeks above, suckers will jump in, and their shorting will further reduce the size of ever shrinking 'short pool'. 4. Begin to passively re-accumulate under $5(meaning buy only at the bid in a dis-interested manner, and not in a way that moves the price up), in non-margin accounts, from weak-handed margin account holders who 'give up' on the stock because 'it just cant go up anymore'. On the charts, this passive accumulation will show up as sideways, congestive movement (Like ALTH is now exhibiting.) 5. When the time is right... take the stock up sharply by aggressive buying at the ask, which will bring in the hot money crowd and make the move self sustaining, in order to blow out obvious 'buy stops' above a key trading range... in the case of ALTH.. 5.75 - 6.00. Seems there have been a few posts lately from eager shorts clearly indicating this buy stop range :) 6. Step back and enjoy the fireworks When to do all of this: a few weeks BEFORE a major news event comes out...so that the market news reporters will say "Company XYZ appears to be rising in anticipation of news expected on " ... and this 'stock moving higher in anticipation' sort of news will bring in a larger pool of motivated public buyers... to whom he can now sell in size, in order to reduce his 'event risk' by reducing his holdings ahead of the news. I wouldn't be surprised to see this sequence of events happen in the *very* near future for ALTH, as the May FDA deadline approaches. Does ALTH have any 'big investors' who are savvy enough to do things like this? Investors whose names are spelled the same backwards as forwards, maybe? == The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is building upon the unprecedented opportunities of the 21st century to improve equity in global health and learning—because the life and potential of a child born in one place is as valuable as that in another.