Chris Grande

When You Think Entrepreneur and Bay Area, Do You Only Think of Tech?

Chris Grande — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:25:27 +0000

If you only think of tech guys when you think of the San Francisco bay area and entrepreneurs, then maybe you should think of this too: Marin County Farmer’s Market There are numerous food entrepreneurs in the bay area also! I visited the Marin Farmer’s Market last Sunday – despite being incensed by some of [...]

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Hot Pot – Spectacular

Chris Grande — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:09:38 +0000

Chinese (or Mongolian) Hot Pot is one of the better food treasures found on earth. I enjoy Japanese Shabu Shabu, but I very much like the spicier Chinese broths and am a fan of Chinese vegetables. Though hot pot can be expensive for someone like me who eats mostly vegetarian – many places charge $15-20 [...]

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Stalking Me Mr Hawk?

Chris Grande — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:15:32 +0000

Mr Hawk (I think that’s a hawk or is it another scavenger? help?): On a run and I see this guy on the road: Likely looking for some tasty road kill – when a car passed he flew up to his perch (top photo). I kept looking back to make sure he wasn’t interested in [...]

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Storm Brewing?

Chris Grande — Thu, 10 May 2012 22:59:03 +0000

As mentioned last night, Cisco reported a weak outlook and as expected, too the stock down big today. It also led to investors selling Salesforce bigtime (a company I was short in my test fund til yesterday – bad timing!) . With those terrible reports, the market was still green slightly today but ended weak. [...]

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The Real Excitement Was After Hours

Chris Grande — Wed, 09 May 2012 22:13:05 +0000

We’ve had an interesting evening – on top another failed rally at the end of the market day, We had: More companies disappointing Cisco saying Europe looks tough and IT Spend Trend Weak European leaders clashing over “austerity” We do this every year. Analysts talking how big the second half was going to be. Then [...]

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Trust

Chris Grande — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:01:54 +0000

I don’t trust the markets. I don’t trust individual companies. And I certainly don’t trust management of most companies. Why am I telling you this? Because that’s one of the biggest ways people get burned in the markets: falling in love with a company, with a CEO (figuratively), with stocks in general. it has pushed [...]

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Buy The Dippers Trying Hard

Chris Grande — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:03:15 +0000

This morning several support levels were broken on stocks, indices, commodities etc. Gold took it the hardest as it moved strongly below a trend line, and would need to reverse today to prevent a downtrend from starting (though of course it can always do what it wants after). Of course if it reverses, it could [...]

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Spastic Market Continues

Chris Grande — Mon, 07 May 2012 21:54:53 +0000

Hyper-reaction to earnings announcements was one market peculiarity that I pointed out in Friday’s blog post. This trend continued today after hours as 2 “hot ” stocks – RAX and MAKO – were slapped down (MAKO almost 30%) due to imperfect outlooks for the near future. Understand something – both companies are showing impressive growth [...]

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Fun Night at Salvatore’s

Chris Grande — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:21:35 +0000

We had a great time at Salvatore’s (in Medford of course) last Tuesday night. My friend Joe and I hosted a private client evening featuring seafood appetizers, gourmet pizzas (not only the regulars, but also specialties like garlic and spinach pizza, lobster pizza, and buffalo chicken), and select wines. Here was the setup before the [...]

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End of the Day

Chris Grande — Sat, 05 May 2012 02:01:07 +0000

QQQ’s down on big volume, DIA also down on higher volume – a few people sold into the close as markets hit their low at 4PM This doesn’t bode well for longs -however, the charts for QQQ and DIA look similar to two other recent mini flash crashes on 3/5-3/6 and 4/23-4/24. We will have [...]

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