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Comeback week for Solar Stocks?

Himanshu Pandya — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:39:37 +0000

Solar stocks just capped a fantastic week with every solar stock except one (WFR) clocking a double digit gain.

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Indian Stocks roar back along with the Sensex

Himanshu Pandya — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 23:12:15 +0000

BSE Sensex roared back last week by gaining almost 10% week-over-week.

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Indian Stocks – The inevitable finally happened last week

Himanshu Pandya — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:22:32 +0000

Well, we knew we were going to see a big drop any day now and the Indian market finally obliged last week.

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Must Read: Hedge Funds send letters to investors explaining their recent losses.

Himanshu Pandya — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:41:58 +0000

Wall Street Journal has copies of letters that Hedge Fund managers sent to their investors about their recent losses. You do need a subscription to the Wall Street Journal to read them.

http://online.wsj.com/documents/sorry-all.pdf

If you don’t have a subscription to WSJ then email me and I’ll send you a copy. Send the email to himanshu AT FinancialNirvana.com.

I cannot post the pdf online due to obvious copyright reasons.Â However, I believe sending you an email would would fall under fair use since I can freely give my Newspaper to a friend or a neighbor.

Jones Soda: Time to grow up and execute

Himanshu Pandya — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 02:52:54 +0000

Jones Soda (Nasdaq: JSDA) you have grown up now. You have gone from niche brand to a national brand that’s available coast to coast. You have gone from being available at a handful of retail locations to over 15,000 retail locations in a short amount of time. You want to challenge the likes of Coke and Pepsi in the future. You are taking steps toward being a mainstream brand rather than a underground brand. You are innovating and providing healthy alternatives evidenced by you using Pure Cane Sugar rather than high fructose corn syrup. You are one of those companies that investors feel like could disrupt the beverage industry and maybe break the duopoly of Coke (NYSE: KO) and Pepsi (NYSE: PEP). So that’s why we can’t have things like ‘delays in the launch of our CSD product negatively impacted our gross margin and profitability’. You have everything going for you now and you have a number of retailers stocking your product. All you have to do now is EXECUTE. Shake up your management if that’s what it takes for you to execute. You have a great opportunity here so don’t let it slip away.

* I own December 2007 Call Options of Jones Soda. I also bought PUT Options before the earnings just in case they couldn’t deliver. No, I didn’t buy the Calls when the stock was in the 30’s. I bought these when the stock was in the high teens and mid to low teens.

Interactive Brokers IPO – IB is going public

Himanshu Pandya — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:04:03 +0000

Interactive Brokers is going public.Â I have been using Interactive Brokers for a few months now and couldn’t be happier.Â I got an email the other day describing IB’s IPO.Â

After 30 years of building our closely held company, we are ready for the next phase of our development. We believe that a public offering of our shares will provide us with greater name recognition and accelerate our growth. Accordingly, we are now launching the Initial Public Offering of 20 million shares of Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (”IBKR“), and we expect the public offering price to be between $23 and $27 per share.

I have theÂ option to participate in the IPO and I am considering it.Â I am going to study the prospectus and competitors in the next few days and make my decision.Â

Here’s the website for the prospectus:Â http://ipo.interactivebrokers.com/IPO/

Out for the next two weeks

Himanshu Pandya — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:55:47 +0000

I am going to India for the next couple of weeks and probably won’t be able to write during this time. I will try and write something while I am there about the Indian markets. Hopefully, the market continues to perform well.

Mentioned on TheStreet.com and featured on SeekingAlpha.com

Himanshu Pandya — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 05:42:59 +0000

My article on the Chinese Pollution plays got mentioned in James Altucher’s ‘Daily Blog Watch’ column for the TheStreet.com

The same article also got featured on the front Page of SeekingAlpha.com

Financial Nirvana Headlines

Himanshu Pandya — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:02:45 +0000

Energy.FinancialNirvana.com

Another blowout week for Solar Stocks
Comeback week for Solar Stocks?
Solar Stocks – Where do we go from here?
To all Alternative Energy Investors
Kaydon: The long term story remains strong

India.FinancialNirvana.com

Knowledge@Wharton: Should India set up a Sovereign Wealth Fund?
Citigroup’s India cost cutting could benefit domestic banks
Indian Stocks – Where do we go from here?
Indian Stocks – 2007 Performance Review
Indian Stocks Weekly and YTD Price Change – Week ending December 07, 2007

Tech.FinancialNirvana.com

SiRF: Rumored to have lost out on the upcoming GPS capable 3g iPhone
SiRF: Deutsche Bank reiterates ‘Buy’ rating and $30 price target
For all you Alvarion (ALVR) and WiMAX believers
Get in before SiRF’s back up
Tech Stocks to keep an eye on during this downturn

My new site: DailySectorWatch.com

Himanshu Pandya — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:28:56 +0000

Following are the sectors/categories you can track on my new site:

http://www.DailySectorWatch.com

Indices: US, Asia Pacific, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, Africa

Alternate Energy: Ethanol stocks, Solar stocks, Wind stocks, Fuel Cell stocks, Geothermal stocks, Butanol stocks, and Water stocks

Energy: Nuclear stocks, Oil Pipeline stocks, Oil Equipment and services stocks, Drilling stocks, Oil Production stocks, Oil Funds and ETFs, Coal stocks and Canadian Oil Sands stocks.

Internet: ecommerce stocks, Search Engine stocks, Travel stocks, e-finance stocks, Advertising stocks, infrastructure stocks, Content stocks, Indian stocks, Chinese stocks, Internet services stocks.

Future Tech: Wimax stocks, OLED stocks, Nanotech stocks and Robotics stocks

Cool Tech: GPS stocks and Camera Phone stocks

Transport Stocks: Aircraft, Airlines, auto stocks, Freight and Trucking stocks, Railroad stocks, Recreational vehicles stocks, Rental and Leasing stocks, Shipping stocks, truck stocks, and auto parts stocks.

Media stocks: Cable stocks, Diversified Media stocks, Magazine stocks, Movie Distribution, Movie Studios, Music, Newspaper stocks, radio stocks and TV stocks.

Financial: Investment Brokerage stocks, Banks, Credit services and Diversified media stocks.

India: Sensex, India Internet, Indian Banks, Indian IT services, Indian Telecom stocks, Indian pharmaceutical stocks, Indian Automobile and India Funds

China: Chinese Internet, Chinese software, Chinese Wireless, Chinese telecom, Chinese semiconductor, Chinese Biotech, Chinese Healthcare, Chinese Airlines, Chinese Auto, China funds.

Japan: Japanese Auto stocks, Japanese Beverages, Japanese Consumer Electronic stocks, Japanese Fashion, Japanese Financial, Japanese Industrial goods, Japanese Tech stocks, Japanese ETFs.

Israeli stocks

REIT: Diversified REITs, Healthcare REITs, Hotel/Motel REITs, Industrial REITs, Office REITs, Resedential REITs and Retail REITs.

Precious Metals: Gold stocks, Silver stocks and ETFs.

Aerospace and Defense: Diversified Aerospace and Defense stocks and Aerospace and Defense Products and Services.

Electronics: Cellphone stocks, DVD stocks, Video Game stocks, Home and Car Audio, iPod and Mp3 stocks, PCs and Servers stocks, Retailers, Set-top boxes and Storage stocks.

Retail Stocks: Apparel stocks, Department stores, discount retailers, Drugstores, e-tailers, electronics, footware, grocery store stocks, Home Improvement stocks, Jewelry stocks, Luxury stocks, Food and Restaurant stocks and Specialty retailers.

Warren Buffett Portfolio stock holdings

Metals: Aluminum, Copper, Steel and Iron stocks.

Software: Application Software, Business software stocks, Healthcare software stocks, Information Delivery, IT Services, Multimedia and Graphics stocks, Security software stocks and System software stocks.

The site is still in beta and I will be adding a lot more sectors and categories before I officially launch it.