Sorting Through

I am thrilled with all of the chatter created with the 2006 prediction post and the follow up posts. I have had a lot of comments from folks stating the bull case. I still think the bull case is based more on perception of fundamental current events than how, I think, the market just works. That being said the bull case could turn out to be correct.

Part of why I think do-it-yourselfers read this site is to learn some of how I think and view things. Hopefully they take in content from several sources. If you are interested in really getting into the bull case I would tell you to look at any of the comments left by Jack Miller or better yet go visit his blog. Jack gets a lot of stuff right. I disagree with him about 2006, but I hope he's right.

Long time reader George left a great comment, noting that up a little is not in the bag yet. With seven trading days left he is correct but yikes, 50 points lost that quickly? I think that would cause all sorts of pandemonium.

I stumbled across an article from the Forbes site called 6 Stocks and 6 Funds for 2006. By the title I thought that meant six stocks and then six funds for a total of twelve. I went through the slide show twice and it turns out six and six just means six, not twelve.

Anywho, the picks were FTO, MSFT, IPAS, EWJ, FSCOX and JATTX. I have no smart alec comments, just passing along the picks. Given that I had to take a shot at my top pick for TheStreet.com, it would be tough to cast a stone at this.

I got an email from the Yahoo Mail Beta Team offering me access to their new email (beta test for now). The new layout sort of looks like Gmail. I did not completely explore it but it looks like it has the auto-refresh feature that Gmail has. As you might imagine it can be a huge time saver if you get a lot of email.

I'm sure there were other things but if my first impression of the new Yahoo mail was correct, is it really just a me too version of Gmail? If so is that a bad thing? Clients still own Yahoo. One idea behind the position is my belief that nothing will happen in the Internet world without Yahoo. Yahoo may be a little late with an enhanced email but it is in the game.