TECH party! A brief summary

First of all, this is a brief analysis.
We live in a new TECH era. Therefore, this is the most exciting, form the trader point of view, time to invest for a short time in some TECH stocks. 
Just for your information the best performing industry is the Utilities. However, in this particular article we focus on the TECH industry.

LNG Market Overview

Great action and movement seem to be happening in the Liquefied Natural Gas field.

Trading philosophy, excerpt from Liar's Poker

Just wanted to share an excerpt from Michael Lewis book Liar's Poker on trading philosophy. Just enjoy!

Bank Regulations and Morale Hazard

Central Banks play an important role in monetary policy in their countries. If one traces their history it goes back to the era of the goldsmith, where paper money originated. In the United States, depositors left their gold at goldsmiths’ vaults, and in return, they received paper as a claim for their gold to redeem. This paper circulated as paper money and paper money was in effect in the United States until 1970’s, when the United States abandoned the gold system.

Are we all trapped in our minds capability? Vol.01 Financial Bubbles

Do you think that the world is in real as you seen it? And if yes is that a realistic point of view? I mean we only understand what our mind can understand, that is and our biological limit.

The Effects of Asset Prices and Exogenous Shocks on the Economy

I recall in math the function of several variables, where a variable is dependent on some other variables.  In the case of macroeconomics, Quantity demanded is a function of the price of the good demanded the price of related goods (substitutes) or complementary goods.

Interpreting the Balance Sheet for External Financial Users

Companies report their yearly financial information on the Balance Sheet. Throughout the year all financial transactions are recorded on separate accounts, and at the end of the year are posted on the Balance Sheet. The Balance sheet, and this is the most important point here, is a reflection of the financial position of the company on that specific date (of the balance sheet).

Stock Review of GS-Godman Sachs and HLF- Herbal Life

2014 still underperformed, that’s a phenomenon all the stock markets present normally after the end of a year for at least the first 3-4 weeks. The bearish stock market can open profit opportunities for the investors. We present you 2 Stocks that can produce profit in a small time window:

Alexander S Onassis Foundation Gaslogged In

GasLog Ltd. (GLOG) owns, operates, and manages vessels in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) market worldwide. It provides maritime services for the transportation of LNG and LNG vessel management services. GasLog’s fleet include 18 wholly-owned LNG carriers, including eleven ships in operation and seven LNG carriers on order.

Costamare's performance and Container shipping market

Costamare (CMRE) Inc. owns and charters containerships to liner companies worldwide. As of January 27, 2014, it had a fleet of 67 containerships with a total capacity of approximately 438,000 TEU.   

IPO Puzzles

According to J. R. Ritter (1991) we have documented three anomalies in the pricing of initial public offerings (IPOs) of common stocks: the short-run underpricing phenomenon, the ‘‘hot issue’’ market phenomenon and the third anomaly is the long-run Underperformance of IPOs.

Tanker Market, Three month overview

Knotty seems to be the tanker market, since there is a controversy between market data and investor’s attitude.

Upward trend appear to show imports of crude oil in China, according to China’s National Bureau of Statistics while on the other side of the Pacific, EIA (Energy Information Agency) and DOE (Department of Energy) expect U.S. to produce more oil in 2013 as drilling activities remain high, which means that more domestic oil will be used from U.S. refiners hence the reduced imports, negative for tankers operators.

Euronav NV's three month performance and tanker market

Euronav NV “EURN:BB” is an integrated owner, operator and manager able to provide complete shipping services in addition to the carriage of crude oil on its fleet of modern large tankers.

Euronav NV’s shares jumped 103,16% within three months. (21/10/2013-20/01/2014)

Can Underwriters Reputation affect your share performance?

Why is that happening?

First of all, the underwriter is usually an investment bank that employs IPO specialists. These bankers ensure that the firm satisfies all regulatory requirements, such as filing with the appropriate bodies and depositing all fees, and makes all mandatory financial data available to the public.

Factors infuencing the performance of IPOs

The major influencing IPO factors in accordance with our research are:

1.Firm Size (SIZE):

Firm Size is one of the most major influencing factors. Many small firms want to go public to raise capital to finance their new investments and reduce their high level of debt, especially in young shipping companies, where the debt ratio is over 70%. 

Is Facebook able to endure the pressure?

New researches shows that young people prefer other social networks in spite of Facebook especially in Europe and USA. Facebook Inc. get a lot of pressure by market analysts and Mark Zuckerberg ( CEO and Founder) and his management team searching for new ideas, to attract again young people on their social network.

IPOs fast profit makers?

Why fast? Lot of academic researchers (Ritter 1991, 2009, 2013, Loughram et al 2008) found out that US-listed IPOs can produce wealth to investors in the First day of trading!