Comments on: Tracking Cramer’s ‘Data Center Doomsday’ Call

By: Jim Cramer vs. Data Center Industry | Investor News Feeds

Jim Cramer vs. Data Center Industry | Investor News Feeds — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:57:17 +0000

[...] a commencement of 2010 Data Center Knowledge had an engaging article tracking his prophecy in a brief term: So how did Cramer’s prophecy spin out? If we sole all [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:07:33 +0000

@Nick and Craig in the stock market world batting .200 is considered good. Why? that means for every 4 losses you have one winner and that winner was good to double your money place on the winner once maybe twice. In the stock market no one holds onto the stock until it looses all its value (unlike gambing where you play until your bust). If you lived dangerously in the stock world you would still sell at when the stock when got to a 20% loss. That’s called a stop loss, so if the stock was a dollar you sell at 80 cents. So at a .200 batting average on 5 stocks of $1000 each you make $200 net gain with a 20% stop loss. With Crammer that’s two wins out of five cause we’ll give the market the house advantage. Net Gain $1400 ((2 x $1k) – (3 x $200)), or a 28% return on investment, which is rock start status in the stock market world.

While I think Jim is a nut case, he’s very public with where he invests in money unlike alot of the experts out there.

By: Darryl Eady

Darryl Eady — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:19:58 +0000

I’m still trying to understand why the adoption of any particular processor not matter how powerful would negate the need to house a company’s IT infrastructure. Processors are getting more powerful all the time and our accumulation of data keeps increasing. Businesses will always need colocation, data center outsourcing, and managed services,especially when IT is not their core competency. Along with credit default swaps, Cramer is one of the main reasons why so many people have lost value in thier stock portfolios. His advice is useless.

By: Craig Piercy

Craig Piercy — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:38:29 +0000

Don’t casinos need only slightly over 50% good to take all your money. If those stats are true, then continuing the Cramer plan would eventually break someone.

By: Monday data center tidbits. « The Server Room

Monday data center tidbits. « The Server Room — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:30:51 +0000

[...] } First up is reading about Jim Cramer’s face plant in predicting Intel’s Nehalem CPU was going to drive all the dat…. I in turn predicted Cramer didn’t have a clue what he was talking about. The results are in, [...]

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:04:00 +0000

48% good? That means it was also 52% bad. That’s not really helping his credibility.

By: Michael Campbell

Michael Campbell — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:31:13 +0000

While this particular rant of his is about your specific industry, his predictions in general are around 48% good. (That % came from a study someone did over the past 3-5 years, if memory serves.)

Point being, don’t get all bent out of shape about it.