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    Frankenstein movie poster, Gibson guitar, and GICs/CD

    Near the bottom of the market in early 2009 there was an article on a Frankenstein movie poster. this poster was sold for over $100,000. the person claimed that the poster made a return of 13% a year on average. now before you go out and buy one and solve some of your invesmtent problems...
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    penny stocks some basic rules

    just finished reading The Guide for Penny Stock Investing (Donny Lowy, 168 pages, 2000). not a bad book, has some spelling mistakes and is ten years old so some of the info maybe dated. got this from the library but would not buy it... got me thinking about some rules for penny stock...
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    Peter Lynch Jones Soda and Purple turtles

    should state have a niece who is having a graduation from grade six. yes they now have a cermoney for grade six. have a youger cousin who graduated a few years ago from high school in the US and was shocked by the size of the cermony/party/reception the three day event. only could make it for...
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    Panic by Michael Lewis, and I agree with Jim Cramer...wow

    about three weeks ago started Panic which was edited by Michael Lewis, seems like a good choice currently. roughly 390 pages that tackle the housing bubble, interent mania and other recent blow ups. most of the articles are ten pages or less, and some like Dave Barry spoof on real estate...
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    earnings and the current state of the market

    here are some stocks mentioned in the past and their most recent earnings, from April 20 on.... TCK.b TCK TECK RESOURCES LTD., earned $908 million this quarter compared to n $241 million a year earlier. Earnings per share came in at 1.53 compared to .50 last year. TCK.b which use to be a...
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    thursday baseball

    jays under 7.5 houston over 7.5 going to include these games with may, in april got off to a great start and well, loss the last three games, totals...., believe starting pitching in one game is excellent, and weaker in the houston game. thanks selkirk
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    Beware of the Commodity Guru etf

    there was an excellent article from the one and only (how is that for an introduction) Fabrice Taylor. he wrote this article in Nov, 2009, he writes for globeinvestor, (globe and mail)... by the way if you bought HAG Nov 2009, at 9.12, it is now at 9.04 this stock is smaller now, and it is...
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    bad beats

    had a bad run for about 3 weeks, then a small good run for 1 week. had an over in an Miami nba total that went over just because of ot. however for the most part bad beats, in soccer would lose under in the 90min, or extra time, often 2 goals in the final five min...sometimes these runs...
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    book reviews: its when you sell that counts and others

    My goal since 2008 is to read a book a month, in 2008 read ten books, in 2009 none, was a busy year, but that is still bad. anyways so far have read eight book in 2010, plan on reaching 12-14 at least this year. here are some non business ones that I have read: 1. Just after Sunset (stephen...
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    three coin flips parlay

    a small 25 parlay here, wild ml coyotes ml coyotes under 5.5 going to wait for baseball, loss seven games in a row, that is hard to do...so will take a break until April....the last game was a soccer game Xerez scored in the 90min to kill my under....oh well... sometimes you go through...
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    Forbes: Sport Team Values

    Every year Forbes does a list of what they estimate the pro sport teams in North America are worth...here is the list, starting with hockey of coarse... I would walk from Newfoundland to BC, in the winter to buy the leafs for 470 million..., they are worth 700-1 billion dollars. yes I am a...
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    bought rim, rimm, brave, stupid or both

    in my year end thread I stated would stay away from rim rimm (rim in Toronto, rimm in US), then it was under 70 cdn. and not going anywhere. well in the last two weeks it has began to move, actually after Apple made the tablet news official rim has been in rally mode. rim will introduce new...
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    Recap 2009 and 2010 predictions

    Here is what I thought would happen in 2009, some hit, and some off the mark. (comments in brackets) thanks selkirk the predictions started on the internet in late 1998 conerning 1999 so 10 years online at various places the print version has been ongoing since 1994. if you disagree or would...
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    nhl darts

    rangers iles under 5.5 -130 hopefully this rivalry will be a low scoring game, rangers have been getting great goaltending and of late trouble to score... record nhl totals 1w-0l nba totals 3w - 2l thanks selkirk
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    nba darts the second edition

    going to play knicks over 202.5, I know they were the bricks yesterday against the bulls but hopefully the shooting can get close to 40%. thanks selkirk
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    NHL darts

    nyr rangers under 5.5 -135 good goaltending and neither team has been lighting it up of late. thanks selkirk nhl nba 2-1 totals
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    dart throws

    cavs memphis over 194.5 both teams average close to 100 points, though on the downside memphis is not giving up 100 pts. to anyone like last year and are playing better on defense. will take the over. thanks selkirk
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    Gold Presentation for Shareclub December

    The chart does not show up, have a bar chart of evey year of returns since 1971...though have reported data in the returns. my biggest sr. gold I own is abx, since will lose 90% of my yri at 12cdn. Should note, do not own Osisko gold, which I had, and looking at Rainy river gold, do not own any...
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    Black Friday

    This is the big shopping day in the US, a kick off to the holiday season that will answer many questions. this will not be a great holiday season for sales, that is known, but how bad, or can it improve on last years numbers. with unemployed at 10.2 % and 17% under employed (the total...
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    Gilberts portfolio

    going to start another portfolio similar to Mr. GIC, hope it does as well but who knows. instead of 100,000 will be 10,000, the goal is 10% a year, also it will be based in Canada. November 19, 2009. sell 2 puts BNS 46 dec .44 .48 .44X200= $88 net credit. buy 100 cnq 72.40 cdn. $7240 sell...
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