Square Inc. (SQ)

Let's take a look at the cornucopia of earnings reports that are coming our way after the close. Of the several dozen, which ones are likely to move the market? My guess is it will be some of these: Facebook Microsoft Mondelez International PayPal Q...

Raymond James has downgraded Square : We are downgrading shares of SQ to Underperform from Market Perform and establishing a fair value estimate of $56, implying 27% downside. In short, we believe organic growth peaked in 3Q18 and growth on the all-...

I am pleased with most of my moves over the last six weeks. Some of the better ones were the liquidation of Square and the sale of Amazon and Alphabet  , practically at their highs. While I don't plan to buy back Square at lower prices, I most assur...

* I have sold my long position in Square and I have taken the stock off of my Best Ideas List This morning's announcement that Fiserv will acquire First Data has buoyed the shares of payments companies (with whom First Data and Fiserv compete with) ...

* Taking profits in some more Square and in Canopy . * Selling my trading long rental in As mentioned yesterday, I have made some important moves in my portfolios this week - reflecting my ursine market view recently adopted: * Eliminated longs in 3...

I was a large buyer of stocks during the last half of December. On the market's extraordinary strength since Christmas I have made a number of portfolio changes this week: * Eliminated longs in 3M , Amazon and Google . * Reduced long holdings in Squ...

Square is advancing by another $3.70/share to $66.80 today. Trading at $50 about a week ago, that's a +35% rally in a very brief period of time. Given my ursine market view and the rapid price rise I have reduced my SQ investment from large sized to...

We have several standout investment positions today. , a Piper upgrade this morning, is my favorite speculative stock for 2019. I have been steadily adding to this name on weakness (see past posts). The shares were placed on my Best Ideas List on Ja...

I have been aggressively buying Square over the last few weeks, adding a sizable trading position on top of a large investment position. With the shares up from $50 to nearly $60 in the last week or two, I sold my trading layer this morning at more ...

And if anybody should come along He gonna give you any love and affection I'd say get it while you can, yeah Hey, hey, get it while you can - Janis Joplin, Get It While You Can It is tempting to take off some longs after today's spectacular rise. Af...

* I have sized up a number of individual longs during the market's recent weakness I have moved from medium-sized to large-sized in the following longs: , , , and . I have moved from small-sized to medium-sized in the following longs: and . I curren...

I added to at $54.60.

There have been some remarkable percentage gains from this morning's lows. Some examples: +6%, +4%, +8%, +5%, +6%, etc.

In addition to taking a trading long rental in  , I have added to $51, $54 and $24.10 in the early going.

I am adding to Goldman Sachs (at $163.90) and Square (at $55.75) now.

Adding to Square and Twitter - two possible takeover candidates (read: Alphabet! )

Here is a list of stocks I own in my pension plan:  ,   ,   ,   ,   ,   ,   ,   ,   ,  .

For about two years my personal pension plan has been entirely in short term Treasuries. This morning I abandoned that strategy and I have taken positions (on the opening) in the following stocks: , , , , and . I have no current intention of trading...

I have added to the following longs: , and .

My three favorite tech stocks for the near and intermediate term remain , and (my Trade of the Week). My two favorite industrial stocks are and . My favorite financial stock is . My favorite ETF is . My favorite takeover speculations are SQ, TWTR an...