I guess it was about a week ago Pete Najarian on Fast Money said that he kept his Apple shares, but sold 140 April calls for 9 dollars a piece. When he said that I thought he was crazy. How did it play out? Not so good folks. First he sold the options at 9 dollars and for a very short period he was...

Today was a great day for equities, but a horrible day for commodities and gold. > Gold futures dropped more than 3% Tuesday in a broad-based commodities sell-off, as strength in the U.S. dollar exerted heavy selling pressure on the precious metal. I previously blogged why I do not like...

When I invest one of the things that I do is get feedback from the locals. If I am investing in Latin America I get a local contact that gives me the lay of the land in South America. I happen to be lucky because I have family that lives in South America, North America, Europe, and the former...

My wife and I went to apply for a mortgage as we saw a piece of property that interested us. Considering that I am always interested in knowing the state of the market I asked the mortgage broker how business was. She said, "we are really busy right now." I looked at her and asked, "how come?" She...

On March 17, I said that the world has changed. I wrote. > I will not keep you in suspense, but the world changing event is the fact that the Fed has allowed investment banks to come to the Fed bank teller for money. That has changed everything. What this single action means is that investment...

Via Long and Short. > And you know it hurts my feelings, if nothing else, that the Swiss franc is worth more than the dollar. > -Paul Volcker in an interview this week with Charlie Rose Yes the famous Paul Volcker who brought stability back to crazy America. Volcker was in office from 1977 to...

I have been watching a trend among companies that has me deeply concerned. It has me so concerned that I wonder if we are not about to hit a second bubble? What has me concerned is that companies are straying out of their domain and into things that has absolutely nothing to do with their business....

Up, down, up, down it would seem that the entire market has gone nuts. I have also taken my time to post a blog entry talking about the state of the market. Part of it due to a cold I was working off, and other part is that I am busy finding buying opportunities. The big question in your mind is...

Christian's posts over the last few days and an article about Warren Buffett got me thinking and I think it's time for a post to the good ol' Investor Geeks. I think the morons on TV have gone on long enough and I think we Investor Geeks are on the same page, so listen up! First of all, the days of...

I wanted to provide a counterpoint to some recent articles posted on Investorgeeks that have suggested commodities are not a good place to invest.  More specifically, that the commodities boom is a high risk area of investing and potentially a giant bubble. I have a different opinion.  I personally...