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Tuesday's Daily Blog Watch

02/06/07 - 08:03 AM EST

James Altucher

Editor's note: Every morning, James Altucher presents the most timely, topical posts from the Web's best business blogs.

We look at all stocks less than $10 that are top-ranking Value Line stocks and come up with this trading system.


Compete.com determines the Attention 200 -- the 200 Web sites that commanded the most attention over the past month.


Stockpickr's System Trades of the Day including trades triggering for Flextronics FLEX and Google GOOG. Google triggers in the 3x2 system, which has worked for it 80% of the time in the past.


Google is facing competition from Yahoo! YHOO and Microsoft MSFT in terms of providing a platform for advertisers. But also there's competition that's even more serious in terms of satisfying the needs of content publishers.


Quant Investor has a great discussion of the 1929 mania for closed-end funds.


Startup Review gives us its seven indicators of success for a Web 2.0 company.


24/7 Wall St. comes up with a breakup value for Corning GLW.


Information arbitrage reads between the lines and gives the full lowdown on Microsoft's launch of Vista.


TechCrunch breaks the story that Google and MySpace are renegotiating their lucrative deal. The question is ... why?


Seeking Alpha discusses why Google failed in China.


Hedge fund Fortress is the first to go public in the U.S. We look at what this might mean and how to take advantage of it.


The Online Investor believes Procter & Gamble PG is the best company ever.


Stockerblog keeps track of the stocks of all book publishers. It singles out "Dummies" publisher John Wiley & Sons JWA.


Think Equity has some interesting statistics on Sunday's Super Bowl.


Uber-human (and Real Money contributor) Dr. John Rutledge is either going to win a Nobel Prize or become supreme ruler of China before long.


Perhaps the most interesting stock I've seen for global warming is now an ADR here in the U.S.


And today's article is about Jim Cramer's techniques for gaming when analysts are about to upgrade a stock, complete with some guesses on the next stocks to get upgraded.



At the time of publication, Altucher and/or his fund had no positions in any of the stocks mentioned, although positions may change at any time.

James Altucher is a managing partner at Formula Capital, an alternative asset management firm that runs several quantitative-based hedge funds as well as a fund of hedge funds. He is also the author of Trade Like a Hedge Fund and Trade Like Warren Buffett. Under no circumstances does the information in this column represent a recommendation to buy or sell stocks. Altucher appreciates your feedback; click here to send him an email.

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