Thursday's Blog Watch

04/26/07 - 07:32 AM EDT

James Altucher

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

Here's the latest short interest list of Nasdaq stocks, with Dendreon (DNDN Quote - Cramer on DNDN - Stock Picks) among those with the greatest increases in short interest, and Sirius (SIRI Quote - Cramer on SIRI - Stock Picks) with the highest short interest.


10Q Detective thinks bookseller Books-A-Million (BAMM Quote - Cramer on BAMM - Stock Picks) is due for a stumble.


Stockpickr's System Trades of the Day include another trade on JetBlue (JBLU Quote - Cramer on JBLU - Stock Picks) in the 3x2 system.


Let's face it: Amazon.com (AMZN Quote - Cramer on AMZN - Stock Picks) did a great job this past quarter.


Here are some stocks that rose yesterday on unusual volume, suggesting a possible breakout.


OpinionJournal has a great review of The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb. On a slightly unrelated note, if the author of that review reads this Blog Watch column, will you please contact me? I just realized we were roommates at Duke's summer program in 1981 when we were in 7th grade.


Mock Portfolio has come up with a way to hedge against every possible risk in the U.S. economy with just one basic idea: oil drillers and exploration firms.


Alarm:clock believes 24/7 Real Media (TFSM Quote - Cramer on TFSM - Stock Picks) might be takeover bait right now.


When we think "search," we always think Google (GOOG Quote - Cramer on GOOG - Stock Picks), Yahoo! (YHOO Quote - Cramer on YHOO - Stock Picks), maybe AOL, maybe Ask.com. Compete.com summarizes the winners among the rest of the search engines.


OK, so the Dow hit 13,000. Dealbreaker takes a look at other Dow millennials.


I love it when I've never heard of a company. Hilary Kramer, where do you get these? Here is a grocery store company that trades on the NYSE that's a way to bet on Israel's booming economy.


Above I said Amazon is doing all right. Well, according to Notable Calls, the analysts disagree.


One Guy's Investments dives deep on defense small-cap American Science and Engineering (ASEI Quote - Cramer on ASEI - Stock Picks).


Wow, Stockerblog reminds us that you really have to be careful when you order anything online.


Stock Market Beat breaks down NutriSystem's (NTRI Quote - Cramer on NTRI - Stock Picks) earnings. NTRI also appears on Stockpickr's Obesity Index


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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