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Weekend Blog Watch

09/02/06 - 02:47 PM EDT

James Altucher

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Monty’s Bluff draws attention to an interesting use of YouTube. And Micropersuasion has the latest stats on YouTube.


Quant Investor takes another look at PVC pipe maker (and Pirate activist play) PW EaglePWEI.


I love the way Dealbreaker scours the craigslist personals for mentions of bankers or hedge funds.


I have never thought of CaterpillarCAT as a stock for contrarians.


CXO Advisory looks at how August stacked up vs. previous Augusts and what, statistically, might be ahead for September.


Blogging Stocks asks whether Howard Stern can rescue SiriusSIRI.


Activist fund Pershing Square is getting more serious about McDonald'sMCD.


All of the S&P 500 stocks with five-day winning streaks, courtesy of Ticker Sense.


Please, Please, PLEASE!


One Guy's Investments takes a closer look at Charlie Munger’s favorite stock, CostcoCOST.


Jeff Matthews calls "bull" on the idea that AppleAAPL and Sun MicrosystemsSUNW might merge. Just to add to this, people have been speculating about this merger since 1994, when Apple stock was caving in and looked like a bankruptcy under Amelio. It didn't happen then, and I believe Jeff that it won't happen now. Thank God.


Great analysis by The Peridot Capitalist of all the negatives baked into the Capital OneCOF story and why those negatives might not be as bad as people are thinking.


Fantastic post on how genius works.


This is what I feel like when I get lucky on an otherwise bad trading day.



At the time of publication, Altucher and/or his fund had no positions in 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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