Gary Dvorchak is a managing member of Channel Island Partners LLC, a Los Angeles-based hedge fund that manages large cap growth and growth-and-income funds. Dvorchak holds a master's degree in business administration from Northwestern University and a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Iowa.

 Some lessons learned from an unwise dividend play.
I am right now turning over nearly 70% of the portfolio.
Here’s a follow-up on my Wednesday trades, plus a trio of new ones.
Dividend trading should be picking up from now through early to mid-June.
Buffett was asked why he isn’t in gold, much as his avoidance of tech was questioned 12 years ago.
Most of our earnings forecasts for this past week turned out pretty well.
The clouds may finally be lifting for the solar sector, but is now the time to buy this beaten-down group?
Rising -- and declining -- uncertainty in analyst targets, as in these names, is an crucial metric to watch.
Big revisions in earnings estimates make these names candidates for either an upside or a downside surprise.
For now, I am not worried about the market from an earnings trend perspective.

Columnist Conversation / Market Updates

| May 16, 2012
| 4:04 PM EDT
U.S. stocks again gave up early gains and finished Wednesday lower....
| May 16, 2012
| 2:58 PM EDT
Stocks are hovering around flat, but the credit market is trading very poorly. Bid-wanteds in cash are rolling in, especially in the go-go financial names....

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