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Proper Yiddish Phrases for a conference call.
Dec 4th
During a conference call today, Robert Toll decided to give a try at saying something in yiddish about the housing market, fasluk. This is not a yiddish word, It sounds yiddish, it isnt.
Nice Jewish boy and finance expert Scott Rothbort has told me, he probably ment Fastunken.
For future conference call references for all you ceo’s out there. Here is a list of words with their category
Broygis: Not on speaking terms.
Bubeleh: Endearing term for anyone you like regardless of age.
Bupkis: Nothing. Something totally worthless. (Literally “Beans”)
Chutzpeh: Brazenness, gall.
Cockamamie: Crazy; ludicrous
Drek: Human dung, feces, manure or excrement; inferior merchandise or work; insincere talk or excessive flattery
Farkuckt (taboo): Dungy, shitty
Farshlugginer: Refers to a mixed-up or shaken item. Generally indicates something of little or dubious value.
Feh!: Fooey, It stinks, It’s no good.
Gelt: Money
Gevalt!: Heaven Forbid! (Exclamatory in the extreme.)
Ipish: Bad odor, stink
(To) Kibbitz: To offer unsolicited advice as a spectator
Kibbitzer: Meddlesome spectator
Kish mir en toches: Kiss my backside (slang)
(A) Kitsel: Tickle
Klutz (klotz): Ungraceful, awkward, clumsy person; bungler
K’nishes: Baked dumplings filled with potato, meat, liver or barley
Kolboynik: Rascally know-it-all
K’vetsh: Whine, complain; whiner, a complainer
Leck, shmeck: Done superficially (Literally, “lick, smell”)
L’chei-im, le’chayim!: To life! (the traditional Jewish toast); To your health, skol
Mazel Tov: Good Luck (lit) Generally used to convey “congratulations”.
Mentsh: A special man or person. One who can be respected.
Meshugeh: Crazy
Meshugeneh: Mad, crazy, insane female.
Meshugener: Mad, crazy, insane man
Mish mash: Combination, mess, hodgepodge:
Mitzvah: Good deed; a gift to help one in get started in their career or future
Nebbish: A nobody, simpleton, weakling, awkward person
Nosh: Eat, snack
Nudnik: Pesty nagger, nuisance, a bore, obnoxious person
Nudje: Annoying person, badgerer (Americanism)
Oi!!: Yiddish exclamation to denote disgust, pain, astonishment or rapture
Oi, gevald: Cry of anguish, suffering, frustration or for help
Oi, Vai!: Dear me! Expression of dismay or hurt
Phooey! fooey, pfui: Designates disbelief, distaste, contempt
Plotz: To burst, fall over
Prost: Coarse, common, vulgar
Putz: Slang word for “penis.” Also used when describing someone someone as being “a jerk.”
Shikseh: Non-Jewish girl
Shiva: Mourning period of seven days observed by family and friends of deceased
Shlemiel: Clumsy bungler, an inept person, butter-fingered; dopey person
Shlep: Drag, carry or haul, particularly unnecessary things, parcels or baggage; to go somewhere unwillingly or where you may be unwanted
Shlimazel: Luckless person. Unlucky person; one with perpetual bad luck (it is said that the shlemiel spills the soup on the shlimazel!)
Shlub: A jerk; a foolish, stupid or unknowing person, second rate, inferior.
Shlump: Careless dresser, untidy person; as a verb, to idle or lounge around
Shmaltz: Grease or fat; (slang) flattery; to sweet talk, overly praise, dramatic
Shmeer: The business; the whole works; to bribe, to coat like butter
Shmendrik: nincompoop; an inept or indifferent person; same as shlemiel
Shmo(e): Naive person, easy to deceive; a goof (Americanism)
Shmuck (tabboo): Self-made fool; obscene for penis: derisive term for a man
Shmuts: Dirt, slime
Shnook: A patsy, a sucker, a sap, easy-going, person easy to impose upon, gullible
Shnorrer: A beggar who makes pretensions to respectability; sponger, a parasite
Shtik: Piece, routine: a special bit of acting
(A) Shtunk: A guy who doesn’t smell too good; a stink (bad odor) a lousy human
Verklempt: Extremely emotional. On the verge of tears. (See “Farklempt”)
Vos iz?: What’s the matter?
Zol zein!: Let it be! That’s all!
I just lost a bunch of money by switching to Shorting
Sep 23rd
Ok, thats it, one of these Jews (said with love) wins shorting…….
(My picture of timothy sykes is down atm (http://retardtrader.com/uploads/2008/02/tim-sykes-cult.jpg)
I lost a tremendous amount of my portfolio to what amounts to a 15 minute meeting + a london stop shorting announcement + my lack of a stock loss.
To be honest Ive never been a good shorter, who knows, maybe im just a hopless optimist, but from now on, I’m not shorting unless its a pair trade. I’m going to leave it up to Timothy Sykes and Doug Kass.
As for my personal account, im gonna come back, this time wiser, hey, at least I only lost 3000$ I could have been managing money, IMHO im glad I learned this lesson while I am at my current Level, I feel ill be a better trader for it.
New York real estate could see a 5 percent jump over the next month or two.
Aug 21st
Now my boss, Cody Willard will probably kill me for saying this, as he is a strong NYC housing decline bear, but I belive that the housing situation will have one last upwards trend over the next month or two before it all tanks come holiday season.
My reasoning behind this is that I have a belief that with the falling euro, and declining european housing prices along with the fall of the price of oil, (disregarding yesterdays spike) there will be a rush to value, and where is that percieved value, NYC real estate.
This pattern, however, will only last so long, it is also my belief that when another major bank fails, or the holidays come and there is no bonus to support the outrageous prices, the NYC housing prices will drop like a rock.
LONG AND SHORT OF IT- sell you nyc housing, short nyc housing bonds, and for the love of god, save up, New York is about to get really cheap.
Apple (AAPL) , its a pop culture virus
Aug 7th
Let me start this by saying Apple(aapl) is heading up to 240, that being said, NEVER BUY AN APPLE. A few months ago I would have suggested buying an apple, but now that everyone has started getting a frigging mac, and making my Iphone that i saved for months for, commonplace, now the sykes trigger has been activated. That is the moment Timothy Sykes gets into something, its no longer cool(I guess i have to stay out of blogging).
Now, i would be short this stock except for the fact that its like a plague. Everyone thinks “but its easier to use” NO IT ISNT, “but its more secure” NO IT ISNT ITS LESS TO BE HONEST IT TAKES LESS THAN 2 MINUTES TO COMPLETELY HACK A MAC, and dont get me started with how much the 3G Iphone’s are breaking.
Let me clarify, i love my iphone I just hate how everyone is getting apples now, so now as far as im concerned. IM A PC
Pick a airline thats up over 6% today and short it
Aug 4th
Oil has been volitile in this range for a week or so, expect a rebound tommrow, if not today,
Airlines will be the best return to risk trade on oil in my humble opinion
Some airlines to consider would be Northwest (NWA), Delta (dal) etc.
Make sure you get in on it soon, because this trade could be over by 3-3:30
Your medicine for a broken market: Why I bought SSO today
Jul 29th
First off the good news,
I WAS GRANTED MARGIN
That means I can finally go in and out of stocks like I have always wanted to, and in this volitile market, that is the most valuable thing you can hope for.
The market was set for a turnaround and looking at where oil was going I decided that An investment in the S&P 500 was a good idea.
SSO is a double leveraged etf, so if you apply another 2x layer through margin to it you are getting a BROADLY diversified portfolio, yielding 4x the daily result of the s&p 500. You could also short the market 4x with SDS. Now this may seem like a risky move, but lets consider what could concievably happen in a three day period. Lets say the market moves up 1.3% a day. This would mean that SSO would be yeilding 2.6% a day, with compoundment this would mean that you would have yeilded 8% on a regular portfolio. And 16% on a leveraged 2x portfolio. In otherwords, the market retraces less than 3.9% (Which I believe it will.) and you made 16%. Mind you, the exact opposite could happen, so be careful, and ask an investment advisor before doing anything.
I Lauched a neat site today,
Jul 28th
http://wallblog.com/sites/
Check it out, its a link thing, and if you click back to pro blogs, it lanches major sites from where you are.
A hedge to fund yourself with: the $150 oil caution, solar panel makers First Solar (FSLR) and Intel (INTC) might be for you
Jul 26th
So after reading the previous article you may have thought to ask,
“But Jay what happens if the price of oil goes up”
I have a hedge against that right here for you that I’m relatively sure will not go down that much if oil does that will experience a likely 20% gain if oil does rebound.
First Solar design manufactures and sells solar energy modules and Intel has recently gotten into the raquet due to their specialty in chip making anyway. Because these two companies will continue to have customers due to planning and smart (in my opinion) foresight on some peoples accounts. However, should $150 oil become a possibility again, and other energy costs go up with it, for example a continuing rise in oil these companies might be what you would want to be in, in addition to this intel is being used more in more in apple devices, as they can also have windows run on them, as such, if Apple (AAPL) goes up, then Intel (INTC) could easily too.
Im leaving on a jet plane, Northwest Airlines (NWA) and Delta Air Lines (DAL) that is
Jul 26th
All my bags are packed I’m ready to go
I’m standing here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye.
But the dawn is breaking it’s early morning
The taxi is waiting, he is blowing his horn
Already I’m so lonesome, I could crySo kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you wait for me
Hold me like you never let me goI’m leaving on a jetplane,I don’t know when I’ll be back again
Oh babe I hate to go
Oil is on the way down. And it is going to impact the market, now alot of people I have been talking to have been thinking about playing the oil companies, however it is my personal belief that this will not be the best play against falling oil, or even rising oil.
The companies that will be heavily affected the most between here and $110 a barrel oil. Will be the airlines, and as this site is more about maximising gains. I have found what are in my opinion the best positioned stocks to benifit from the reduction in oil prices(and by that affect jet fuel prices). As these companies have already reduced costs outside gas and some with gas with the excuse that it will cost a ton of money to fuel the planes, as the futures market is tumbeling theses excessive fuel costs will be less of an issue and as the market has discounted these companies to the point it seems they are expecting bankruptcy. If these companies can benifit from the reduction in fuel prices enough, then they may experience a truly magnificent stock recovery, somewhere in the realm of 50% in the next month in my estimation
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