Monday's Daily Blog Watch

08/13/07 - 07:03 AM EDT

James Altucher

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

Stockpickr's System Trades of the Day includes a trade triggering on Priceline (PCLN Quote - Cramer on PCLN - Stock Picks) (which went up on huge volume Friday) and on Apple (AAPL Quote - Cramer on AAPL - Stock Picks) (triggering the 3x2 system) among others. When things are volatile, these are exactly the types of systems that work well.


RealMoney contributor Sramana Mitra thankfully still occasionally gives us free content on her blog when she analyzes Apple iPhone competitor Motorola (MOT Quote - Cramer on MOT - Stock Picks).


Unusual stocks of the day: stocks that rose on unusual volume yesterday, and stocks with unusual option activity. These are all potential breakout plays.


Uber-marketer Seth Godin has a fascinating story about the history of the Red Cross symbol and how it related to Johnson & Johnson (JNJ Quote - Cramer on JNJ - Stock Picks), and he describes a recent lawsuit over it.


Value Investing World reminds us of Ben Franklin's 13 virtues. Reading the list, it occurs to me how amazingly difficult it is to follow any of them.


PaidContent analyses Google's (GOOG Quote - Cramer on GOOG - Stock Picks) acquisitions from the first half of 2007.


Stock Market Beat gives its two cents on what's going on with Qualcomm (QCOM Quote - Cramer on QCOM - Stock Picks).


Stock Market Bites has some advice for what Marchex (MCHX Quote - Cramer on MCHX - Stock Picks) should do about their 200,000 domain names.


Wow, I never even thought of World Wide Wrestling (WWE Quote - Cramer on WWE - Stock Picks) as a dividend play.


Dividend Money notes that Hershey's (HSY Quote - Cramer on HSY - Stock Picks) dividend just got a little bit sweeter.


Great post by Kevin Kelly on a stock for a volatile market: shoemaker Steven Madden (SHOO Quote - Cramer on SHOO - Stock Picks).


Check out the most popular app on Facebook. I dare anyone to challenge me to a game.


Is it true? Would Yahoo! (YHOO Quote - Cramer on YHOO - Stock Picks) really consider giving up its search business to Google?


Just in case you missed it: the Barron's Roundup from this weekend. Insider purchases, activists, cash-rich companies, etc.


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 president of Stockpickr LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of TheStreet.com and part of its network of Web properties, and a managing partner at Formula Capital, an alternative asset management firm that runs a fund of hedge funds. He is also a weekly columnist for The Financial Times and the author of Trade Like a Hedge Fund, Trade Like Warren Buffett and SuperCa$h. 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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