Long Vanda Pharmaceuticals (VNDA)

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Back on February 24th, I did a takedown on DDD, suggesting it as a short, and that very night a guest post appeared with a much more comprehensive take-down of 3-D printing in general. Well, the mainstream media has finally caught up with Slope of Hope, and Barron’s cover story this week is about how overvalued consumer 3-D printing stocks are. How about that? (more…)
Upside on SPX was capped by the weekly upper bollinger band as expected, and the close on Friday was at 1878.04, a point and change above the upper band close at 1876.64. SPX could continue to trickle up under the weekly upper band for a while yet, or we could see some retracement to clear some headroom for a more impulsive move. I’m giving the weekly close ceiling (without a rare and bearish punch over the band) this week in the 1890-5 range. SPX weekly chart: (more…)
A point I have been trying to make since the beginning, which in my case for public writing was 2004, is “but it is what it is” (biiwii). The name of the website was a direct (and bullish) response to my own bearish bias (which endures to this day because I have seen no improvement in monetary policy making) as the Greenspan era credit fueled cyclical bull market was getting ramped up. In other words, it is what it is; don’t fight it. It was bullish. (more…)