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ETF Splits and Reverse Splits effective Tuesday April 2

bbmaven — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:23:25 GMT

CAPS players who have picks on 16 ETFs will awake Tuesday morning to some exotic CAPS scores. It will take a few days for the crack CAPS team at TMF to get these into the system - and it always seems to cause our fellow players a great deal of anguish. If you are prepared for it, you won't feel that surge of "panic" and can be confident that the score adjustments will come over the following w...

Bogus Fiscal Crisis

bbmaven — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 13:28:09 GMT

Over the last six months, I have gotten increasingly agitated at the consensus that has developed that we have a debt and fiscal crisis in the US. I attributed much of the noise coming from those who were telling us to watch out for the falling sky to a political agenda with the election approaching. Nevertheless, I have been unable to clearly articulate the opposite case - that we don't have a fiscal crisis - we have a an impending ...

CAPS Geniuses

bbmaven — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 20:29:44 GMT

I don't blog much - I don't have a lot to say and don't ascribe much investing prowess to myself just because I happen to play this wonderful CAPS game fairly well. I ran across a post from roofman6 over on the CAPS feedback board, and was struck that he looked at the score of the current top "Fool" (that would be me - yay) and that he was concluding that there must be something seriously wrong in his investing when com...

David Redstone

bbmaven — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:34:54 GMT

From my deep and dark CAPS past (2007), I got into a bit of a spirited exchange with a gentleman by the name of David Redstone who took umbrage at my characterization of the financing that Medis Technologies (MDTL.pk) executed in late 2006. http://caps.fool.com/Blogs/medis-contr...

Babo's new Moniker

bbmaven — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:25:58 GMT

Congratulations to Babo on your new TMF moniker.

It was Fun While It Lasted

bbmaven — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:46:57 GMT

It took awhile, but I lost the "unearned" points today and am having trouble dealing with the loose skin around my cranium from my head expansion. I have now been tossed out of the #2 hole - and the deep hole in my sense of well being, the come down from the week of glory to my more humble station, is almost unbearable.

What Fun

bbmaven — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:04:26 GMT

I really like the idea of being #2 behind Bulishbabo for a brief time - this is fun. It will last until the 8,500 points received for the VSTOV transaction gets adjusted by our fearless CAPS team. Take your time guys - I am ok with this injustice for awhile :)

Sneaking into the top 10 when nobody was looking

bbmaven — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:48:39 GMT

I am happy to have snuck back into the top ten however briefly that may last. I haven't sniffed these heights since the late winter and early spring of 2007 - I think I got up to the number 5 slot before the long slow ride down into the 250 range. Nice to be back for awhile - am quite confident the ride will happen again :)

Dr Dorothy Height

bbmaven — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:43:49 GMT

A moment of silence to remember and to celebrate the life of Dr. Dorothy Height, who embodied the best that a human being can be and do.

Bravo nonsense

bbmaven — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:25:59 GMT

It was such a relief to have a couple of days of someone other than Bravo as the Top Fool. Please - someone take over for good and spare the rest of us of the perpetual silliness regurgitated across all of the CAPS world day after day. This is not an anti-god post - everyone is free to travel the journey they choose. It is an "anti (spewing of nonsense attaching wisdom to 1st century superstition)" post.

Medis Controversy

bbmaven — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:07:33 GMT

I was flattered that one of my pitches related to MDTL was quoted by Tim Beyers in his article last week entitled "Who's Buying Now", but I didn't know about it until I got some hostile attention from one David Redstone. Redstone publishes a newsletter h2fc which, as best I can fathom, tracks developments in the fuel cell industry. He is a huge supporter of Medis and took great offense to the quote in Tim's article, as well as my characterization in the Medis score ...