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Closing My Final 2014 Long & Short Tech Stock Pick
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As has been the case in past years, I’m now going to close existing long & short tech stock picks. Why? Mostly because for tracking purposes, I prefer starting from scratch every year and evaluating my returns by year. Many of you know that I only have 1 remaining trade to close:-Long Microsoft (MSFT) & Short AOL Inc (AOL)
As of my writing this, that trade is down 8% or so which is not great but given the year, I won’t complain. More on that in a second. But first, let’s take a quick look at how both stocks performed since opening the trade on May 27th.
I remain a believer in Microsoft and do still like this trade even though it’s very challenging to short AOL as I’ve learned over the years. The company doesn’t have that much going on for it in terms of actual business but is able to do well through sales of assets, rumors of being taken over, etc. By the way, that Yahoo to buy AOL rumor sounds ridiculous to me. Am I crazy? Yes, buying AOL would make pitches for advertisers more compelling but doesn’t Yahoo have more than enough on its plate in terms of underperforming/outdated web assets? I’ll be VERY disappointed in Marissa Mayer if ever she pulls off something like this…
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