Samsung's Galaxy 8

Really?

Really??

Really???

Who knew that Samsung's design inspiration came from Wall Street!

The same Wall Street that is telling you to sell AAPL!!

Bernanke to give market a green bar

After Ben's speech at 10:00 a.m., when he'll make it clear that the Fed isn't teetotalling on easy money---what do you think all the folks that sold or laid out shorts yesterday in the late day sell-off will do?

Oh My! The market had a big red bar!!

Wall Street acts like they've never been in a red bar!!

Buy this baby!! Today's red bar was a gift!!!

Oh I forgot--the only Red Bar that Wall Street likes to spend their money is at......

But if you want an easy 10% on your money, buy BAC that just hit its three red bar drop!

Kass buys AAPL aggresively

Doug Kass bought AAPL

Douglas Kass ‏@DougKass

I aggressively added to my Apple long under $443 after the close.$AAPL #stockaction

And thinks a bottom is near

Douglas Kass ‏@DougKass

@KeithMcCullough It felt like forced selling Keith late in the day - with some bids wanted. Typically this is transitory.

Nevada legalizes on-line gaming

Nevada can now engage in interstate gambling,and Nevada Governor Sandoval said it was a very important bill to our economy.

Does that mean New Jersey is next?

The pen is in Governor Christie's pocket this Tuesday, and according to Poker Stars, so is the fate of Atlantic Club Casino, one of the surprise winners in the Atlantic City Casino market the past year, that Poker Stars is "buying."

Without Christie's signature, they threaten to close by Easter.

And the winner of all this is????

ZNGA!

Touted here at $2.17. And still looking for the double and then another double!

Some sarcasm for the Herbalife shorts

Using Ackman logic--is Lifetime Fitness a ponzi scheme?

So the other day, I was looking for a gym membership in one of Lifetime fitness gyms. They won't advertise the rates, so you have to email them--So for the year it was $2,953.

I thought that was on the steep side so -so I decided to check out their 10Q, where I see the average membership revenue was decidedly below that--But then, I was at a decidedly upscale gym--so how would that logic work? It doesn't. That's Ackman  math!

But are people renewing at Lifetime? 37% don't.

In 2009 LTM had an attrition rate of  40.6%
In 2010 LTM had an attrition rate of 36.3%.
In 2011 LTM had an attrition rate of 35.3%.
In 2012 LTM had an attrition rate of 37.3%.

Oh My!  Where is Pershing square?? Lifetime Fitness is just selling memberships--and 37% of the time no one renews! It must be a ponzi scheme! Oh My!

And their motto is, "I CAN DO IT ALL IN MY LIFETIME."  Oh wait--their name is LIFETIME FITNESS---Oh My!! Yet their members don't even last a year!

It must be a ponzi scheme! Where is the FTC??

Maybe all the folks at Lifetime Fitness that decided not to renew, are drinking shakes at the Herbalife clubs!

Bottom line:  I agree with Carl Ichan, that Bill Ackman is the biggest crybaby, sanctimonious hedge fund whiner that I have ever seen! (note to Carl--have you flipped your NFLX yet?)

But I still own Howard Hughes (HHC 77)! And just watch the HLF circus. Which looks like a pop after the drop!

Herbalife, just closed on their acquisition of Dell's manufacturing plant that they just paid $22.3 million for. Dell paid $110 million for the manufacturing plant, and in November Dell touted this sale for $30 million, but now that Dell is going private, they gave away the 750,000 square foot plant for $22 million, and now HLF has a hub on the East coast! Yet Mr. Ackman will tell you they aren't selling any product, and that the FTC will raid HLF, so that nobody can work at these plants, and no jobs can be added in Winston-Salem so crybaby Ackman can make some money on his short! Oh yeah--that's really a smart bet. Only on Wall Street my friends, can such arrogance by Ackman be deemed an investment!! And yet, Silly Billy spent 18 months generating this thesis!!!

Thanks Bill!

AAPL's slingshot rally is on deck!!!

So the playbook on the shorts in AAPL was to lean on the stock until everyone would puke it up--compare AAPL to RIMM and DELL, and then get the Fandroids to pimp their stories in the press....

Let AAPL come down to a point of ridiculousness, and then start the wash, rinse, and repeat story again until all the shares of AAPL are shampooed from every weak hand on the street.

And at $450.81 we are at ridiculousness!!

But the bears on AAPL didn't count on the slingshot ramp rally!

Einhorn's slap back at Cook's books cut's the head off of the bears!  And  AAPL will have it's slingshot rally! Now!

Apple has it annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday--which means that the stock rallies, and ramps hard going into this meeting, all on some nebulous story or whisper that Apple has something that will appease Wall Street.  Morgan Stanley was out fanning those flames on Friday, when it was touting a 6% dividend yield for AAPL.  Who knows what is going to actually happen; all we know for sure is what Wall Street wants--a massive ramp!

Friday they couldn't pin AAPL to 450 on option expiration, as they traded over 80,000 calls.  And if these bears can't control option expiration, do you think they can control the ramp? Of course not!  They have already used up all their firepower. The bulls will have them for breakfast--they are already scrambled eggs!

And now the fanboys are asking---- do you think this would really happen under Steve Jobs watch? Does that really matter?

Above is the letter of every new hire at Apple.

AAPL will do fine, despite what Wall Street wants you to believe!

And if you don't believe that, put on your Google Glass Goggles that are compatible with the iPhone.

And you will see that AAPL is going to rip the head off of the AAPL bears in the next few days!!!

AAPL makes $115 million a day, $1 billion every 9 days--and Wall Street wants you to believe Apple has problems!

So last night the worriers were out on AAPL again---and AAPL is trading at 452 this morning--Oh My!

FoxConn has a hiring freeze! Oh My!  David Einhorn, is being a crybaby in the footsteps of Ackman, and is crying before a judge because AAPL won't give him some cash--and the stock he touted as the next trillion dollar market cap is down for his fund!  Oh My!

Meanwhile another day, and another $100 million in profit for AAPL. Oh yeah Wall Street--AAPL has problems--sure! They have problems in where to invest their $139 billion dollars of cash! Heck they even threw $3 billion in mutual funds!

And even Jeffrey Gundlach opines since AAPL isn't giving him any cash to invest. So he says that AAPL could go to 300! What makes him think AAPL is going to split their stuck?

Another pundit, and another seer and another fool, selling the public Wall Street's latest fairy tale!

Meanwhile, in Bloomberg land, Betty Liu is asking what can we do to "save Apple?" Save Apple? From who or whom? From making $100 million a day??

The chatter from the pontificating pundits, and the hedge funds who now treat AAPL as though it has has Legionairre's Disease, because some of their high and mighty brethen have decided to exit their position, and their kids have bought a Galaxy?

Who cares? Who really cares? They'll be gone with their rants and raves, and every 9 days, AAPL will make another billion dollars, and the holders who buy here at these throw away prices, will once again, profit from Wall Street's stupidity.

Go ahead--and take a bite!

Golden Eagle swoops down to grab kid

Take down some Sears at 42, because its going up!!

Sears Holding has been beaten down, and Wall Street will tell you its the next JC Penney etc... The next who, what or where? Are you kidding me?

The next thing just doesn't happen!  After the housing crash, we were told of the next leg down, blah, blah, blah--after the stock market crash we were told another depression and dust bowl were headed our way--blah, blah, blah--And now these same charlatans will tell you there isn't any value in Sears--blah, blah, blah.

So buy it--buy it now, and take it down in SIZE!!!

Why? Real estate, assets, and Wall Street hates it!! Use the excuse that Deckers went from 31 to 42, ANF from 29 to 46--oh wait--they were touted here--so use that as your excuse to buys SHLD at 42!!

And because, since the "keyhole didn't lie--ask Mike or Swami" the tape don't lie either!

Buy it in SIZE as the tape says Eddie is cooking!

Who needs Wall Street insider talk? You can see their fingerprints ALL OVER this number!!

Take it to the house!

Truth in Advertising! Oh My!

So Deckers gets upgraded today and the stock is trading at 42 and change. A 40% move in two weeks!

Two weeks earlier, DECK was touted here at 31.http://www.wallstreetmanna.com/2012/11/bo-and-pm-of-thailand-seem-to-be.html

Now that's truth in advertising!!

This is the easiest market in the world to invest in. Buy your stocks when they come down, and turn off CNBC.  It's not a big trading market--its a market to invest in.

So for gosh sakes, INVEST!

10 weeks ago, when Barron's panned Facebook, and said it was going to 15, I  said take the stock at 20. You now had a 40% move in that number in 10 weeks!

Now that's truth in advertising!

Free money, free picks, and the Feds aren't knocking on your door, wondering where you got the free money from!!!

And now, I'll give you one of the biggest tech stocks that you can buy next, because all the fools omn Wall Street have knocked it down to a good entry point.

It's big, bad and blue!!

IBM!

Another stock to make the shorts look like fools!

Buy it here at 191!

Meg Whitman blows HP's money

Meg Whitman spent $144 million of her own money running for Governor of California, before losing to Jerry Brown. Look how she looks when she thinks she's going to be Governor.

Before voting for herself for Governor, she hadn't voted in 28 years.

She also was on Mitt's finance team in 2008.

So she left politics to run Hewlett Packard, in September of 2011, after being on Hewlett's board since January of 2011.

The acquisition of Autonomy, closed on October 3, 2011, for $10.2 billion.

When HPQ announced the acquisition of Autonomy, the market reacted by chopping $12 billion of shareholder value instantly from HPQ.

Apparently no one at HPQ understood what that meant.

Today HPQ took a charge of $8.8 billion for the Autonomy acquisition.

So Meg, in 14 months, at the helm of Hewlett Packard, took an $8.8 billion charge on a failed acquisition  and was CEO while HPQ, lost over $30 billion of shareholder money!

In 14 months.

And she wanted to run California????

It still looks that the only beat Meg can do for HPQ, is on her headphones, as she blames her predecessors for the mistakes!

(You know what that means? Her next run is for President!)

The only winner on HPQ?

Jim Chanos.

BO and the PM of Thailand seem to be getting along!

 And the market also gets infatuated with AAPL today as it adds 30 points--which is "As Advertised."

Now once again, bears, tell me why you sold AAPL under $530?

Because you were stupid?

But to commemorate THE END of the pullback in stocks, I decided to pick up some "Bear Artwork" titled "Bear Market" or "Too big to fail."

I always liked irony.

He's an artist in DC, and like Blum buying Warhol, Campell Soup art for $1,000 in 1962--you can pick some of Matt Sesow's art for the same price!

Because artwork, like stock needs to be bought when they are giving it away!

And speaking of giving it away--I picked up some Deckers (DECK 33) at 31--just so the shorts can say "Uggghhh!" like the morons who sold AAPL under 537, or those who sold ANF at 31, or LVS at 37 etc etc...

The Market Selloff is OVER!!!

Buy AAPL at 537 with both hands!!!

Apple has now corrected enough to buy. And I can tell you to buy it here, since I was touting Apple in the high 80s in January of 2009.  Yesterday, Cramer was on television telling you to sell it, because the fate of AAPL rests in the politicians hands, because the tax rate on capital gains is determining the fate of AAPL.

Well, if you believe that, you deserve to lose. Apple's value is not determined by a pundit on television, and AAPL has now corrected to a price that you can sell at the money puts and collect the premium from the Chicken Littles who are afraid of their own shadow.

Oh My--The sky is falling! Not! Unless of course, you follow these pundits predictions!

Because selling AAPL at these prices is just stupid!

Four more years

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At least now we won't have to hear all the whining about the "fiscal cliff'" and all the so called impending doom, that isn't going to happen.

This economy is poised to grow marvelously, and Obama supporters will finally get the Hope and Change that they wanted in 2008.

And Mr. Romney will go back to stripping companies of their assets, and pocketing the difference.

ZNGA rocks after earnings! Better revenue and big buyback!

So ZNGA announces a $200 million buyback, and revenue of $317 million versus street expectations of $255.

So the stock trades up +20% tomorrow.

So you get Free Money, on an easy trade!

And the prices the stock saw today, will never be seen again, as the low today, will be the lows forever!

ZNGA to launch real money gaming platform

Zynga is announcing a real-money gaming partnership today, which it likely is hoping to distract from its third-quarter earnings report that we know already will be pretty grim.

Zynga said it is forming an exclusive partnership with bwin.party, a real-money gaming operator. This marks the company’s first move into real-money from the funny-money gaming its used to hosting on Facebook, through games like Poker.

That is gambling, my friends. A gambling platform.

OK--so now, once again, who were the idiots that sold ZNGA down because they were worried about earnings?????

Once again, Wall Street is giving away Free Money, but it isn't for the sheeple, muppets, or the tyoical Wall Street wimp who needs a line in the bathroom to buy him some courage. 

Just grow a pair and buy the stocks when they are cheap and quit worrying about the next 3 cents if it moves against you!

So you get two cents worth of free advice, that will remind you to grow a pair.

Even if there isn't one on ZNGA's dog!

Buy ZNGA

ZNGA reports earnings after the close, and the stock at $2.18 reflects only the value of the cash on hand and the $220 million headquarters owned outright.

The $900 million of revenue? Wall Street is valuing it as a liability.

So what.

Wall Street is wrong.

You need to buy ZNGA at this price, which is the equivalent of buying Apple when it was 3, (split adjusted) and selling for only the cash on hand.

You have the same opportunity here. But Wall Street, as always, is afraid of its own shadow, and most people on Wall Street, are so timid and fearful, they can't think for themselves.

Facebook already announced that ZNGA's revenue percentage is already down, so who cares?

Steve Jobs was known as a mercurial CEO.  Of course, Steve Jobs hung out with Larry Ellison, while Wall Street thinks Mr. Pincus would probably be more comfortable with Mike Jeffries and his Gulfstream G550 attendants, so the boys club on Wall Street whacks the stock even more.

As I said before, Wall Street is wrong.

Now what did the Guardian say about ZNGA on October 5, when they pre-announced lower numbers?

Oh that's right--I forgot--this is a Wall Street crowd. You need to spell it out.

"In a blogpost, Mark Pincus, the mercurial billionaire who is chief executive....."

M-E-R-C-U-R-I-A-L.

So what is my target on ZNGA?

A double, and then another!

Facebook pops! Barron's wrong again! As Advertised!!!!

It was just 30 days ago, that I said you need to buy Facebook on the Barron's cover story slam.

Whatever happened to that?????

Anyone remember that????

Here's a reminder!!!

What happened???

Facebook is almost $25, and you have the BIGGEST MOVE UP EVER in Facebook's public history today!

Once again, Free Money!!!

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia strikes Monday Night Football's 666th game tonight!

Jets are 8 point dogs, and with Sanchez at QB, you could take 14 and still lose!

Put in 666!

Romney chainsaws Obama, threatens to axe Big Bird

Bears on Wall Street hanging in New Jersey

NFL Refs are back in action

That was the easiest "As Advertised" in Football history!

Buy CAT!!

Caterpillar has pulled back from 94 to 88, and is now 89, after rallying from 83 in early September. The first catalyst for the CAT rally was supposedly because of new stimulus plans from China, when in fact, the stock was just oversold on cautious comments by CAT's CEO.

Now we have weakness today, because CAT trimmed its outlook for 2015 to $15-$18, from $15-$20, so, once again, we have weakness from cautious commentary by CAT. Oh My!

And once again, that commentary has given an entry point, here at 89, for those who missed it at 83 in September.

CAT at 89, is a steal that even of the replacements refs could rule on!

And speaking of Roger Goodell, didn't he say that the Saints conduct was DETRIMENTAL to the league? Well, then, isn't the officiating detrimental to the league?

Maybe Roger thinks he's in a league of his own!

Well, in that case, the replacement refs have struck out!

Look for a settlement with the refs by Thursday, DESPITE what ESPN says!

Buy Facebook on the Barron's selloff

So Barron's touts Facebook to $15, using their tired reasoning and tired figures.

Big deal.

The next five points are up, not down, and $20.73 is a good entry point.

And take some ZNGA under 3 while you're at it! 

Reggie White endorsed bounties, laughs at Goodell from Heaven

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Jan 6, 1996; San Francisco, CA, USA: FILE PHOTO; Green Bay Packers defensive end Reggie White (92) moves past San Francisco 49ers tackle Kirk Scrafford (76) during the 1995 NFC Divisional Playoff Game at Candlestick Park. The Packers defeated the 49ers 27-17. Mandatory Credit: Peter Brouillet-US PRESSWIRE

Here's what Reggie White had to say after the Packers 49ers playoff game in 1996--The one, where Reggie White's performance was so spectacular that sport pundits believed, God "healed" Reggie's hamstring.

And what was Reggie doing before the game after his prayers? Giving out bounties!

Before the playoff game against the 49ers, White told his defensive teammates that he would hand out cash bonuses for big plays, like interceptions, fumble recoveries and cobweb-inducing hits. Shaking his head now, White says with a groan, "I wound up paying out almost $9,000. You'd be amazed how guys who are making hundreds of thousands of dollars get up and go after that $100. They'll sit in the film room the next week saying, 'Ooh! I caused a fumble and recovered it. That's $200!' "
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1008692/3/index.htm

And the commissioner is doing what? Making grown men sign affidavits that they gave out bounties?

Let 'em play the game!

Papa Joe....