WednesdayApr 11, 2007 7:10 am

Violence Must Be Met with Brawn, Brains, and Bullets in The Age of Violence: Universal Guardian Holdings, Inc. (OTC BB: UGHO)

Circa 1191 Richard the Lion Heart, King of England on his march to take back Palestine ordered his army to behead 2,500 Muslims in the walled city of Acre when their leaders did not meet his terms of surrender. He, like many of us, was given to violence when it was necessary to facilitate his will. The Islamic fanatics have no monopoly on beheadings; though we in the West can claim a sort of one-upmanship in that we seemed to have outgrown the beheading mentality, save for the occasional Jeffrey Dahmer aberration.  Yes, unlike our Muslim brethren in the Middle East,…

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TuesdayMar 20, 2007 10:41 am

International Group Holdings, Inc. ( ITGL.OB )

IT Group Holdings Inc., symbol ITGL, acquired IT Telecommunications Plc (“IT”) based in London, England, in May 2006 as it’s wholly owned operating entity - a telecommunications carrier/operator supplying mostly wholesale access to subscriber lines and airtime to Resellers of telecom services for business and residential subscribers. IT was founded in 2000 and started trading in July 2004.   Investment Highlights   • Total Assets growth of 86% between year-end 2005 and Q3, 2006 . • Completed installation of a large capacity public switch and network in the UK to increase margins and capacity, support VoIP services from other carriers,…

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TuesdayMar 20, 2007 9:38 am

“Well, Bill, at least we didn’t louse it up completely.”

Writing research on small-caps is an activity for the strong-willed.  It takes more than imagination; it takes discipline, courage, and the ability to sort the good and the bad from the just plain ugly.  Our Independent Research is ranked fourth among 40 research firms for generating positive results among firms who cover 1-99 stocks, according to Investars.   If one does the calculations, overall we are ranked tenth out of 126 firms, putting our research somewhere around the eighth percentile in the nation for generating positive results.  Investars Ratings performance is measured as the average daily gain/loss of a $10,000 investment. …

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FridayMar 09, 2007 10:47 am

The Plants Get Trimmed, the Pigs Get Slaughtered and the Chickens Come Home to Roost

You’ve got to hand it to the merchant bankers behind the AeroGrow (OTC BB: AGWI) deal. They executed a brilliant reverse merger and a funding at $5.00 raising over $8 million for the Company.  The stock closed at $6.30 on Thursday, down 3 percent. The stock is currently trading 25 x book value (mrq) and 9 x sales (ttm). The Company reported a net loss of (8,389,893) on $6.7 million in revenues for the nine months ended December 31, 2006. They sell a dirt-free aeroponic kit, the AeroGarden™, that  grows  “fresh herbs, salad greens, tomatoes, chili peppers, strawberries and more indoors, year-round, so…

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ThursdayMar 01, 2007 6:50 am

The Game Isn’t Over – for Small-Caps

The game is not over, not even close. At least not for small-caps.  RedChip's family of stocks remained relatively unscathed on Tuesday's sell-off.   China was due for a precipitous correction and all roads connect in the global economy. The US stock market is not an island unto itself; however, the American economy remains strong. Interest rates are still at historical lows and consumer confidence remains high.  In the short-term, certain sectors in the market will remain strong while others sectors such as the dotcoms will be hit hard in the coming weeks and months. The sell-off could be part of a…

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