Odd Lots: What Others are Saying

The official definition of 'odd lot' is a group of shares amounting to less than 100 shares. For purposes of Stockerblog.com, it is a group of short articles about what other bloggers and web sites have come up with. It has nothing to do with being 'odd'.

There is a new stock market Firefox Add-on: Stock Pilot - Equity Research Assistant 1.3.2 . It allows you to switch easily between financial websites without losing the context of the stock you are researching.

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Steven M. Cohen came up with a list of his top book list called A Random Walk Down a Stock Market Recommended Reading List, which includes a few of my favorites.

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Speaking of books, I'm just finishing a Hitchcockian page-turner that came out a few years ago by Michael Connelly called Chasing the Dime. It is about the head of a molecular computer company who wants to raise money from a venture capitalist, but starts to get wrong number calls all day long at his new apartment. He decides to track down who this 'Lilly' is that all these callers ask for, and it leads to murder, beatings, and much, much more.

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The Museum of American Finance in NYC is having a presentation by biographer Jean Strouse on "WHAT WOULD MORGAN DO? FINANCIAL CRISES PAST AND PRESENT" on Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 5:30pm.

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As long as we are talking about the financial past, do you know where the words Bull and Bear come from?

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Did you see the Freakonomics article about how Bernie Madoff told James Altucher that "reputation is the most important thing."

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What company may be paying a former president $1600 an hour yet is laying off 400 people? Footnoted.org has the answer.

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TradingGoddess has a great review of the book Riding the Storm Out.