I don't have the scanner results from yesterday since I was busy streaming TV shows (bandwidth priorities!), but I assume it would have caught BGC ... rumored buyout.
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Himax Downgrade, Delayed Reaction
Didn't notice this one at the time but went back and checked the scanner from 3/16 and sure enough it was there.
Renren At New All-time Low
Went back to look at my time-stamped tweets on RENN. Here they are:
TV I've Watched Recently
Going to list all the TV I've (recently) watched (alphabetically) with my brief comments. I need recommendations from people who agree with both my likes and dislikes.
- Breaking Bad (loved it, watched from start to finish)
- Boardwalk Empire (liked this one, watched it all)
- Borgen (liked the first couple seasons, refused to start third as I feared would jump shark)
- Bosch (wasn't too thrilled with first (and only?) season)
- Broadchurch (not bad, final episode was a cop-out)
- Broen/Bron (the Danish/Swedish show ... liked it)
- Curb Your Enthusiasm (funny but cruel, Larry David the poster boy for anti-Semitism)
- Dexter (watched a couple seasons and liked it then quit when it had no clear arc)
- Game Of Thrones (quit after a few episodes, not into the fantasy thing)
- Girls (I think I've seen every episode, no matter how much pain inflicted)
- Happy Valley (kind of liked it)
- House of Cards (it's slick, still watching, though dreading inevitable shark jump)
- Lilyhammer (loved the first season, haven't tackled the later one)
- Louis (love this show, seen every one, very painful in parts)
- Mad Men (liked it, have seen every episode)
- Orange Is The New Black (watched one or two episode and quit)
- Orphan Black (watched one episode, didn't like it)
- Please Like Me (from Down Under, only one season, that's all the juice it had)
- Rectify (really liked season one, I guess there's a season two now?)
- Scandal (tried to watch it, bouncy cam, quit after a few minutes)
- Shameless (quit after two episodes)
- The Americans (watched season one, didn't hook me for some reason)
- The Fall (Scully with British accent, ultimately disappointing)
- The Good Wife (watched quite a few episodes, though I'm not sure why, Margulies of course)
- The Sopranos (loved it, watched from start to finish)
- The Walking Dead (only watched part of one episode, didn't like it)
- The Wire (liked it, even the season everyone else hated)
- Top of the Lake (watched one episode, didn't like it)
- Transparent (liked this one, looking forward to second season)
- True Detective (had some good episodes, neat vibe, but ultimately disappointing)
- Veep (funny, but often cruel humor)
Shameless -- Season One
I've only watched the pilot so far, but wanted to put this up as a placeholder. Initially not thrilled with it. The story of an alcoholic father and his brood of children who have to fend for themselves on the (white) south side of Chicago. Everyone is attractive, except for William Macy, and generally cheerful despite the poverty ... I find that offensive. If you want to see real poor whites, tune into Cops.
I'll soldier on and try to watch the rest of season one.
OK, I watched episode two and decided to stop. Yes, there are some funny lines, some amusing situations, but the root of the story is poverty and alcoholism and dysfunction ... and if you're playing that for laughs, it doesn't work for me ... it's unseemly. In addition to everyone being above-average attractive, they're also fairly articulate. Poor white families don't talk like these people do. Also how the show handles sex (and homosexuality) and race (his youngest baby boy is half-black), it kind of grosses me out. Not sure who the target audience is, I guess Millennials ... probably squarely aimed at Millennials. Not my bag.
Movies Watched -- Jodorowsky's Dune
Kind of interesting, the story of a sci-fi movie that was never made ... Jodorowsky seems like a lovable lunatic ... he assembled a crew of talented characters in the mid-1970s, especially the artists HR Giger, Jean 'Moebius' Giraud, and Chris Foss, to work on his vision -- the storyboards they created are amazing. Hollywood wisely didn't touch the project because they anticipated it would go over budget and wouldn't be 90 minutes long. There was a Dune movie made, directed by David Lynch, but it was a disaster.
I was interested to know what drugs were being consumed by everyone back then ... did Jodorowsky have some source of amazing Mexican weed? Recommended if you're interested in movie history.
"Dees bastards with dee sheet, I mean dee money, wouldn't fund my insane, drug-addled vision!"
Pandora Pop, 1 Minute View
Supposedly a rumor of a buyout ... Pandora's Music Genome Project is valuable ... not sure who would buy them though, Apple? Day traders don't care ... it's just a trade.
VelocityShares 3x Long Crude Oil ETN
Was unaware that this existed before Friday ... ticker symbol UWTI (U for Ultra, WTI for West Texas Intermediate, I suppose) ... this shows how out of touch I am ... if it doesn't cross my radar, I just have no idea about it.
ETF Trading Portfolio Update -- March 16, 2015
Cutting losses in gold and emerging markets and getting short 'em. Short crude gains bailing out lots of little losses ... that's the idea with trend following.
Salix Pop, 1 Minute View
Salix Pharma (yes, another biotech stock) popped on a $175 buyout offer ... the scanner of course would pick this up at 12:40 PM and assuming you weren't at lunch (or fast asleep in China), you would have gotten in early enough to make a few bucks.
Nanex posted a millisecond chart of SLXP on Twitter ... this is a slightly better look than my $9.99 a month datafeed can give.