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		<title>THQ, Marvel Ink Licensing Pact</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shares of Marvel Entertainment Inc. (NYSE:MVL)are up on news that video game maker THQ Inc. (NYSE:THQI) has signed an exclusive worldwide licensing deal with Marvel. THQ will develop games based on the Marvel characters for all consoles and Windows PCs.
The first game is scheduled for a 2009 release.
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		<link>http://theproficientinvestor.com/thq-marvel-ink-licensing-pact/</link>
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		<title>Bluefly Reports Q1 2008 Earnings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The retail market has been extremely soft because of inflation fears and a slowing economy ( recession?). A falling dollar compared to the rest of the world doesn&#8217;t help either.
Given these situations, the numbers from Bluefly aren&#8217;t that bad. I expected a loss simply because money is too tight for most people to be squandering [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproficientinvestor.com/bluefly-reports-q1-2008-earnings/</link>
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		<title>Take Aim, Pull The Trigger, Don&#8217;t Look Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I bought 35 shares of Marvel Entertainment Inc. (NYSE:MVL) because I know this summer is going to be a big one for the two films the company is releasing this year. Iron Man proceeded to break all box office estimates earning over $100 million in the opening weekend. Most analysts predicted $70-$80 million. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproficientinvestor.com/take-aim-pull-the-trigger-dont-look-back/</link>
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		<title>Where Do We Go From Here? Yahoo!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft withdraws their bid for struggling internet search company Yahoo! and the stock drops $4 or 15% on nearly 300 million shares traded.
This is exactly what I knew was going to happen. I can tell you that Yahoo shareholders are likely pissed and I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if they get hostile over this.  Fans of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproficientinvestor.com/where-do-we-go-from-here-yahoo/</link>
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		<title>How To Profit From Hollywood This Summer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I got to thinking about the huge blockbuster season that happens in Hollywood every summer, and starts this month with the release of Iron Man.
May is traditionally the month the biggest films of the year come out. I&#8217;m talking about the huge movies like Transformers, Star Wars, and of course this summer&#8217;s Iron Man.
Marvel, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproficientinvestor.com/how-to-profit-from-hollywood-this-summer/</link>
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		<title>Economic Stimulus Comes 4 Days Early</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new tax rebates President Bush approved to go out are going out early. 4 days early. On Monday, April 28 those who selected to receive their 2007 tax refunds via direct deposit will see the payments in their bank accounts. For most individuals it will be a $600 boost to their bottom line. For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproficientinvestor.com/economic-stimulus-comes-4-days-early/</link>
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		<title>Bluefly Web Conference And Q1 Results May 7</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bluefly will report results for Q1 May 7th, 2008 at 5pm.
After nearly losing their spot on NASDAQ earlier in the month and gaining a much needed $3 million cash infusion from primary shareholder George Soros,  Bluefly and its shareholders approved a 1 for 10 reverse split putting the stock around $4.50. Since then, low [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproficientinvestor.com/bluefly-web-conference-and-q1-results-may-1/</link>
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		<title>Apple Beats, Lowers Guidance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apple topped Wall Street estimates for Q1 Today.
Quoted from marketwatch:
Apple (AAPL) earned $1.05 billion, or $1.16 a share, on $7.51 billion in revenue for the quarter, compared with the same period a year ago when Apple earned $770 million, or 87 cents a share, on sales of $5.26 billion.
The results topped Apple&#8217;s forecast of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproficientinvestor.com/apple-beats-lowers-guidance/</link>
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		<title>The Future of Netflix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love when the pundits come out of the woodwork trying to figure out why a stock like Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) can&#8217;t hold a fair valuation price. Everyone has an explanation as to why the stock plunged over $8 in one day after earnings were announced.
Earnings were in line but with lowered guidance (by about a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproficientinvestor.com/the-future-of-netflix/</link>
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		<title>Take It Off The Table</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I sold a few more shares of apple today for about a $200 gain and 100 shares of EMC for about $100 gain. It&#8217;s important in this kind of market to take the gains when you can. It&#8217;s ok to leave something on the table but you want to play with the house&#8217;s money.
Selling into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproficientinvestor.com/take-it-off-the-table/</link>
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		<title>Long Term Cheap Stocks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When looking for investments long term, there are many things that can determine whether a stock is a good buy or not but one of the main things I look for is always earnings. Based on the earnings you can figure out where a stock should be and where it is going.
One I really like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproficientinvestor.com/long-term-cheap-stocks/</link>
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		<title>Taking Gains On The Way Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Any sound investment strategy will have in place a plan for when to take profits. One of the biggest mistakes you can make investing is thinking that if you just hold a stock long enough you will make money. This is patently untrue and a dangerous way to play the market.
Take my recent Apple (AAPL) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproficientinvestor.com/taking-gains-on-the-way-up/</link>
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		<title>Bluefly Reports Q4 Loss</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bluefly (NASD: BFLY) reported a loss of $.04 cents per share compared to a loss of $.03 cents per share the previous year. Revenue increased 10% and increased 30% year over year.
Essentially, revenue is growing for the company but they are still operating at a loss because they haven&#8217;t been able to meet inventory demands [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproficientinvestor.com/bluefly-reports-q4-loss/</link>
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		<title>Revisiting Apple</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a while since I talked about Apple and why you should be buying it. Actually, you should have bought it when it was at $125 but if you missed that bottom, don&#8217;t worry. The price is still right and Apple is way too cheap.
Here&#8217;s a company with 22% growth over the next year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproficientinvestor.com/revisiting-apple/</link>
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		<title>Checking Spam Can Lead To Ideas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I check my spam folder on this blog every day. I check it because although Akismet is really good at catching nearly all the spam, sometimes legitimate comments get relegated to the trash pile.
In the past month I have had so many spam comments about Phentermine, it&#8217;s unbelievable. Phentermine I guess is a weight loss [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproficientinvestor.com/checking-spam-can-lead-to-ideas/</link>
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		<title>How Not To Pick Stocks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are any kind of subscriber to a financial newspaper like The Wall Street Journal or Investors Business Daily, chances are you have also had your address sold to other similar news sources.
The problem is, some of these sources aren&#8217;t reliable and are only trying to get you to buy into a particular stock [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproficientinvestor.com/how-not-to-pick-stocks/</link>
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		<title>Free Pennystocking DVD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s your chance to learn from one of the best penny stock traders in the business. Tomothy Sykes, author of An American Hedge Fund: How I Made $2 Million as a Stock Operator &#38; Created a Hedge Fund, is giving away his instructional DVD, Pennystocking.
This DVD is packed with detailed instruction on how to read [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproficientinvestor.com/free-pennystocking-dvd/</link>
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		<title>Profit Takers Rule The Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My overall portfolio sagged today, but I wanted to mention two of my stocks here. First, Bluefly closed up .03 cents at .46 cents on the PR about the stock split. This is action from investors trying to boost the price a little higher pre-split to make the resulting price higher&#8230;probably so they can short [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproficientinvestor.com/profit-takers-rule-the-day/</link>
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		<title>Bluefly Announces Reverse Split</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In accordance with the SEC, Bluefly(BFLY) announced a reverse split of 1-10 meaning for stockholders, every 10 shares will now equal one, which will move the stock to the $4 range&#8230;just under what is allowed for shorting and it will also change the amount of shares available from 134.3 million to 13.4 million.
Bluefly&#8217;s symbol will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproficientinvestor.com/bluefly-announces-reverse-split/</link>
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		<title>Never Trust A Stock Picker</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s exactly why you should never trust anyone that claims to have a proven system to pick winning stocks.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23578967/
Crooks abound everywhere folks, and there&#8217;s always some sucker willing to give away their money. Anyone who says they have a sure-fire system that can pick winning stocks all the time is lying. You can make predictions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://theproficientinvestor.com/never-trust-a-stock-picker/</link>
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