[Published February 10, 2011]

Today, Blockbuster announced the intent to put itself up for auction, after bondholders were in disagreement about continued financing.

Carl Icahn finds himself once again in the midst of a rush to sweep up the crumbs from a company he had a large part in destroying, this time through negligence.

I have discussed the demise of Blockbuster a few times in the past, beginning with an article I wrote several years ago. I even provided a trading and fundamental analysis of the company in the Wall Street Investment Bible.

I also wrote about the Netflix-Blockbuster long-short trade two years ago.

I followed this up with another article a few months later.

If investors had acted on my analysis, they would have not only avoided holding a stock that would later file for bankruptcy protection, they would have also made huge gains through the long-short strategy I recommended using Netflix and Blockbuster.

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