DARK HORSE HEDGE

By Scott at Sabrient and Ilene at Phil’s Stock World

Cover short AMAG at the Market, Thursday 7/29/10

Short RAIL at the Market, Thursday 7/29/10

AMAG lived up to expectations last night with a resounding -$1.01 versus expectations of -$.96 and revenues fell slightly short at a not-so-healthy $16 million from its main product, Feraheme. Analyst Robert W. Baird immediately dropped AMAG from outperform to neutral and the stock has fallen -13.51%. DHH added AMAG as a short on July 1, 2010 in anticipation of the “earnings” shortfall. We believe it is best to “sell on the news” so we are recommending covering AMAG at the market.

DHH will replace the short position in the virtual portfolio to maintain our BALANCED Long/Short tilt as the market is between the 50 and 200 day MA at this time.

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SHORT FreightCar America (RAIL) at the market, 7/29/10

Continuing on DHH theme of looking for SHORT opportunities that continually disappoint on “earnings” day, we are adding RAIL to replace AMAG at the market. RAIL is set to announce “earnings” on August 5, 2010 at 11am ET. The eight analysts who follow RAIL expect a loss of -$.17 with a range of -$.24 on the low side to -$.10 on the high side. Going back to Sept 2009, RAIL has disappointed analysts in a consistent fashion by delivering a profit of +$.09 versus expectations of +$.22 in September 2009, a loss of -$.47 in December 2009 when analysts were looking for a +$.04 gain, and last quarter, when RAIL delivered -$.28 in the face of analysts’ projections of -$.17.

RAIL is rated a STRONGSELL by Sabrient with a VALUE score of 25 (out of a possible 100) and a GROWTH score of 30 (out of 100). DHH is in a BALANCED L/S tilt with 8 LONG and with the addition of RAIL 8 SHORT. We will continue to monitor market trends to evaluate the need to change the tilt.