Remember the "Facebook of China" Renren (RENN) and the "Youtube of China" Youku.com (YOKU)? While I lambasted both for valuation reasons (Renren also had a bunch of other red flags) [May...(
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Earnings season is well under way. A positive earnings report can often be the catalyst that a stock needs to begin a strong uptrend.
This is not, to put it mildly, a good time to be investing in stocks. The winds and tides of the market are blowing resolutely against you, which reduces your odds of making any real money to worse than an ant's chances of making it across a freeway at rush hour.
Those tides and winds seem [...]