http://www.marketrap.com/article/selected_articles View Recent Articles en Copyright Marketrap 2010 10 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91203/take-two-interactives-bioshock-2-tops-software-sales-for-february-2010 Take Two (NASDAQ:TTWO)'s Bioshock 2 on the Xbox 360 barely beat out Wii's popular New Super Mario Brothers for the month of February, according to NPD.  Activision's November release, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was at number 3 and 6 of th... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:23:42 -0800 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91203/take-two-interactives-bioshock-2-tops-software-sales-for-february-2010 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91202/how-david-einhorn-and-dan-loeb-along-with-goldman-sachs-brought-their-special-talents-to-bear-on-new-century-financial You don’t hear much about it, but the March 2007 bankruptcy of a company called New Century Financial was arguably one of the most important events leading up to the financial crisis that nearly caused a second Great Depression. It was the d... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:49:49 -0800 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91202/how-david-einhorn-and-dan-loeb-along-with-goldman-sachs-brought-their-special-talents-to-bear-on-new-century-financial http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91201/cataloging-sears-holdings-corporation-stock-manipulation Most of the examinations of stock manipulation published here on deepcapture.com take place after the fact, the damage being done. However, we’ve became aware of instances of apparently illegal, manipulative trading in several companies&rsqu... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:24:44 -0800 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91201/cataloging-sears-holdings-corporation-stock-manipulation http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91200/sears-holdings-corporation-short-selling-stock-delivery-failure-analysis-prepare-to-be-astounded I’ve got everything ready to go for my next article, save one thing: the most current stock delivery failures data, corresponding to the second half of January, which the SEC was supposed to have made available yesterday. I’m particula... Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:05:57 -0800 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91200/sears-holdings-corporation-short-selling-stock-delivery-failure-analysis-prepare-to-be-astounded http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91199/fed-exit-strategy-preparing-for-inflation-spdr-gold-trust-et-al-part-2 In late July of last year, I provided an analysis of the tools the Federal Reserve was proposing it might use to facilitate an exit from the substantial amount of bank reserve creation (and resultant balance sheet expansion) since September 2008 (... Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:44:08 -0800 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91199/fed-exit-strategy-preparing-for-inflation-spdr-gold-trust-et-al-part-2 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91198/thestreetcoms-barry-ritholtz-and-a-tale-of-two-media This is a transcript of the Deep Capture podcast episode published on February 10, 2010. You may: Download the episode in mp3 format. Subscribe to the podcast’s RSS feed. Download in iTunes. listen to the episode right here in this handy au... Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:43:16 -0800 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91198/thestreetcoms-barry-ritholtz-and-a-tale-of-two-media http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91197/kilroy-realty-corp-misses-guidance-estimate During their mid trading day conference call, Kilroy Realy Corporation (NYSE:KRC) reported FFO guidance of $2.10-$2.30. An average of 11 analysts had expected FFO of $2.23.  Shares slipped slightly as a result of the miss.  After the mar... Tue, 26 Jan 2010 11:11:49 -0800 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91197/kilroy-realty-corp-misses-guidance-estimate http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91196/john-paulsons-greatest-trade-ever-something-of-a-scam By now, everybody knows that the market for collateralized debt obligations was riddled with fraud in the lead-up to the financial crisis. What is less known is the fact that hedge fund managers helped create and inflate the market for these toxic... Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:34:23 -0800 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91196/john-paulsons-greatest-trade-ever-something-of-a-scam http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91195/the-coming-oil-conflict-in-iran Newsmakers and even the oil markets (USO, X, USL) have learned to get used to tensions between the West and Iran.  Last week, an Iranian physics professor linked to the country’s nuclear program was assassinated.  Iran blamed Israe... Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:12:16 -0800 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91195/the-coming-oil-conflict-in-iran http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91194/new-evidence-raises-questions-about-kingsford-capital-links-to-thestreetcom-inc-others A blog published by the University of North Carolina School of Journalism reported recently that Steve Cohen of hedge fund SAC Capital managed to kill a story by Reuters reporter Matt Goldstein. It seems that Goldstein was going to shed some light... Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:20:35 -0800 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91194/new-evidence-raises-questions-about-kingsford-capital-links-to-thestreetcom-inc-others http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91193/gamestop-technical-analysis-shows-a-possible-significant-trend-reversal Check out this mid-term view of Gamestop (NYSE:GME).  As you can see below, the stock has moved above its rising trendline which began in November 2008. This is bullish because it initially broke below the trendline but instead of continuing ... Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:10:09 -0800 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91193/gamestop-technical-analysis-shows-a-possible-significant-trend-reversal http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91192/goldman-sachs-reiterates-buy-rating-on-gamestop-corp After removing Gamestop Corp (NYSE:GME) from their conviction buy list in November, sell side Goldman Sachs (GS) analyst Robert Higginbotham today is pushing investors to buy GameStop shares, with a price target of $29.  He cites two specific... Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:32:46 -0800 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91192/goldman-sachs-reiterates-buy-rating-on-gamestop-corp http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91191/hopes-and-dreams-continue-at-take-two-interactive-software He said in 1993 it was always his dream to run his own media company.  Strauss Zelnick left a nice job at Fox and took a big risk to work on a start-up video game company, Crystal Dynamics.  That risk turned out to be a failure for him ... Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:11:35 -0800 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91191/hopes-and-dreams-continue-at-take-two-interactive-software http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91190/ghosts-of-fairfax-financial-now-hedge-funds-scurry-to-sever-ties-with-sac-capital Investigative financial reporter Teri Buhl is reporting that hedge funds are scrambling to put as much distance as possible between themselves and the increasingly radioactive SAC Capital, which is rumored to be the next target of the FBI’s ... Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:44:44 -0800 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91190/ghosts-of-fairfax-financial-now-hedge-funds-scurry-to-sever-ties-with-sac-capital http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91189/as-all-eyes-focus-on-amazoncom-and-wal-mart-stores-while-apple-macys-and-gamestop-corp-see-dramatic-online-traffic-increases Unique visitor estimates at Compete.com show that internet traffic in the month of November rose dramatically at several popular websites.  Of the largest United States online retail portals, the biggest winners in the month of November were ... Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:49:08 -0800 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91189/as-all-eyes-focus-on-amazoncom-and-wal-mart-stores-while-apple-macys-and-gamestop-corp-see-dramatic-online-traffic-increases http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91188/wikipedia-unimpressed-by-lies-about-naked-short-selling-and-overstockcoms-patrick-byrne Wikipedia’s Jimbo Wales sees Gary Weiss sockpuppeting all over the internet, defending illegal naked short selling, attacking CEO of Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK) Patrick Byrne, and engaging in debates using multiple identities. As is describe... Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:26:22 -0800 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91188/wikipedia-unimpressed-by-lies-about-naked-short-selling-and-overstockcoms-patrick-byrne http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91187/the-psychology-of-gamestops-management-communication-are-investors-listening GameStop Corp's (NYSE:GME) management is making every effort to recoup investor trust after earnings missses earlier in the year. Now, there is not one but two clear signals of management communicating confidence in their business. They are practi... Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:32:35 -0800 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91187/the-psychology-of-gamestops-management-communication-are-investors-listening http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91186/activision-will-beat-analyst-npd-revenue-estimate-today ANALYSIS - Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter is predicting that NPD will show that publisher Activision Blizzard is going to bring in 455 million in U.S. revenue in the month of November.  Pachter also predicts that 6 million units of Ca... Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:27:27 -0800 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91186/activision-will-beat-analyst-npd-revenue-estimate-today http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91185/gamestop-the-barbell-company Many have observed that NPD data has not necessarily been indicative of GameStop Corp. (NYSE:GME) performance. I happen to agree based on the Barbell Theory. GameStop has two big earnings drivers going for it that allow it to outperform a weak or... Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:07:11 -0800 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91185/gamestop-the-barbell-company http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91184/comparing-gamestop-corp-to-game-group-plc Many analysts are carefully watching GameStop Corp’s (NYSE:GME) closest overseas equivalent, Game Group PLC (LON:GMG), in order to form an opinion on the future of GameStop.  Game Group’s management has not been able to keep up wi... Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:26:20 -0800 http://www.marketrap.com/article/view_article/91184/comparing-gamestop-corp-to-game-group-plc