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Josh Lyman posted:You sold AMD calls? Why?! Collecting premium from the trading channel obviously. STC $14 Jan'18 Calls for +50% at market open  Going to rebuy the same calls next week on the dip or just buy putsdougdrums posted:I split it between SH and DOG, which I wouldn't ever hold more then a couple days. That's about the safest short position I could take in the short term, I think. I'm pretty happy staying long in the ... long term. I don't think there's going to be a decline like 2000 or 2008 in the next year or two, if the status quo keeps. I had some money chillin' and was looking to get some chump change in case of a speculative sell-off, which worked ok. Torpor posted:What the heck happened to AMD? Near as I can tell there was news of a Tesla/AMD team up? I guess we should price AMD like a tech stock AMD/TSLA is unconfirmed, don't expect this rally to last. Think to the INTC/AMD rumour that popped +10% and sold off the next day.
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AMD/TSLA is dumb as gently caress. Why would you partner with a company that has done NO WORK in AI driving? Why would you use GloFo when their process sucks donkey balls? It would be like Elon Musk doing the exact opposite of what he's done with Tesla so far.
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Maybe to enact better pricing from Nvidia, it's really bizarre. AMD has a 3rd semi-custom SoC design win that has yet to be announced, but was rumoured to be in auto, Lisa Su is on record saying it is a low margin part. Still not sure about TSLA/AMD
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iirc AMD owns none of GlobalFounderies anymore and it's majority owned by the UAE, so none of this really makes any sense. Like, they're a big fab, doesn't mean AMD is on the case. Also AMD has quite a few custom jobs already ... I don't think adding Tesla would pad that too much. dougdrums fucked around with this message at 15:08 on Sep 21, 2017 |
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Mubadala (UAE) runs GloFo. It seems to either be a slip up by the CEO or being misspoken as to who the 3rd SoC win is.
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paternity suitor posted:If you're making an honest assessment of the US economy you cannot ignore that there is almost $3T with a loving "T" trillion overseas and it's going to get brought back, and it's going to get spent, it's just a matter of when. That is roughly equivalent to five (5) Googles. Imagine the economy suddenly having five new Googles. Companies are sitting on massive piles of money and it's completely unprecedented. No one knows what exactly they're sitting on the money for, but they are. And if they spend it, the economy is going to explode (good explode). The economy is not capital constrained through. People and firms are not spending because they don't want to spend, not because they can't finance the money. Any repatriation is likely to go directly back to shareholders or for deleveraging, depending on where interest rates move.
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Cheesemaster200 posted:The economy is not capital constrained through. People and firms are not spending because they don't want to spend, not because they can't finance the money.
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paternity suitor posted:I'd compare it to the alternatives (mostly risk free return). All market crashes (like, fast ones, not slow declines) are liquidity events. There's a lot of market cap tied up in ETPs, which are kind of by definition more liquid than the underlying assets. That doesn't matter for QQQ or SPY or TLT because the underlying assets are plenty liquid anyway absent Armageddon but it does for volatility or Bitcoin or junk bond or Pet Insurance Companies of the Pacific Northwest ETFs, where if there's a relatively sharp move down people will be trying to exit the ETF and the ETF will be selling the underlying into a decline, which will exacerbate the move down further. Vol etfs are especially because it's like not even a question that at some point vol will move up hard and the vast majority of VIX futures are traded by the vol etfs so at some point everyone selling vol is going to have to turn around quickly and VIX is going to go way way up but it might secretly be that VIX futures/VXX/XIV and the rest just occupy their own little world now and it wouldn't actually affect stocks or options much at all, or it could be that it drives SPY option prices through the roof and everyone who has a hedged strategy finds out it's impossible to hedge and starts liquidating. Or something else happens. I think probably volatility is its own little world now but I am not smart enough to know. Those aren't necessarily my views and those aren't reasons why the market would decline, but I think they're sensible reasons why a flash crash is more likely than normal.
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Cheesemaster200 posted:The economy is not capital constrained through. People and firms are not spending because they don't want to spend, not because they can't finance the money. Also it's not like the money overseas is sitting in bank vaults. Apple owns a pile of corporate debt with their pile of "cash", funding other companies.
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I'm really kicking myself for not dumping my ITUS shares when they were 2.60 yesterday. I'm still in at 1.31 from Monday. Maybe tomorrow.....
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crazypeltast52 posted:Also it's not like the money overseas is sitting in bank vaults. Apple owns a pile of corporate debt with their pile of "cash", funding other companies. Yeah I wonder what the repatriation of three trillion dollars - if such a thing is even possible - would do to all the countries where it's currently sitting, and by extension, the global economy? Does anyone know of a decent analysis of this? All the articles I find are about the impact on the dollar or on the US economy.
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What a wild ride with $AMD today  Sad about not buying puts but I rolled out the covered call and collected yuuuge premium.code:
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Leperflesh posted:Yeah I wonder what the repatriation of three trillion dollars - if such a thing is even possible - would do to all the countries where it's currently sitting, and by extension, the global economy? From my vague understanding it will likely strengthen the dollar, which has in the past screwed EM countries with dollar debt. Separately, China could get hurt by the outflow, where they need the yuan to stay strong. In fact recently they have implemented measures to make it hard for multinationals to take out money or working capital, probably for this reason.
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I just opened an e trade account and put $1,000 in it. What do I buy
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Put it all into the cheapest Greek shipping stock you can find.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Put it all into the cheapest Greek shipping stock you can find. How about facebook
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How abut you tell us what you're hoping to accomplish with your investment so we can give you a little real advice? Is this in the place of gambling? Are you starting this account to begin truly saving and investing? Is this for something specific?
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How comfortable are you watching stocks go down 30% and not pushing sell?
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Risky Bisquick posted:How comfortable are you watching stocks go down 30% and not pushing sell? How comfortable are you watching stocks go up 30% and not pushing sell?
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Or how comfortable are you selling at a 30% loss because you realized you were wrong?
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Trade options. Nothing like watching your "investment" gradually lose 50% until just before expiry, selling it and then seeing it shoot to 300% the next day. Trust your gut! Lol
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Rocks posted:I just opened an e trade account and put $1,000 in it. What do I buy 
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Phil Moscowitz posted:Trade options. Nothing like watching your "investment" gradually lose 50% until just before expiry, selling it and then seeing it shoot to 300% the next day. Trust your gut! Lol Holding options trying to maximize the time premium while underwater 
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Risky Bisquick posted:Holding options trying to maximize the time premium while underwater I recommend it for all new traders, just to get that experience (and the wonderful feelings it brings) under their belt immediately
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I agree, it's much better when your first options trade isn't a winner
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Rocks posted:I just opened an e trade account and put $1,000 in it. What do I buy Find a penny stock you like and ride that poo poo into outer space!
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Accretionist posted:Find a penny stock you like and ride that poo poo into outer space! $LODE tomorrow is the day! its going to the moon!!!!!
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Risky Bisquick posted:I agree, it's much better when your first options trade isn't a winner Kind of like walking into the casino your first time, putting $5 in the slot machine, and popping a $500 jackpot THIS poo poo IS FUN! Ima quit my day job
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Rocks posted:I just opened an e trade account and put $1,000 in it. What do I buy
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Can you even buy bitcoin on ETrade? I am assuming there is some scam EFT but I want 200% returns by lunch.
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Elephanthead posted:Can you even buy bitcoin on ETrade? I am assuming there is some scam EFT but I want 200% returns by lunch. GBTC, as always, is the solution to any investment problem.
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It doesn't really work with $1k, but with at least $3k, an actual fun way to dip your toes in with low risk and get a taste for poo poo is to wait for a market dip, by a US total market ETF, then wait for it to climb to get up 4%, then sell. With ~$20 commission coming and going, you take home $100. Might take a week, might take a couple months. Fun part is you don't need to even watch the market every day, just scan headlines, look for freakout MAJOR MARKET SHOCK HOLY poo poo (which is like a 2% drop in current market) for a time to buy, then every time you see a NEW MARKET RECORD HOLY poo poo headline, check the total market fund to see if your target gain percentage has been hit yet. Or just set a sell limit, but I think it's good for someone starting out to need to wrestle with emotions a bit to learn about themselves while their finger hovers over the sell button. You TOLD yourself you'd sell at 4%... But look at that uptrend!  If you get unlucky and do this right at the start of a bear market or sustained slump, you can just mentally shift it out of gambling portfolio and into retirement portfolio, and not give a poo poo about it anymore because hey you needed to buy and hold that poo poo anyway, and it's not going to ever go to zero.
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That's the longest loving way to say buy low sell high I ever done read
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I guess if you wanna join me on penny stock island you can buy like 4000 shares of BCP. Nothing says "I do the stock market!" like a penny share banking security traded on a foreign exchange!
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paternity suitor posted:That's the longest loving way to say buy low sell high I ever done read And this is a lot of words for quote:BTFD
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Try buy high panic sell low
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paternity suitor posted:That's the longest loving way to say buy low sell high I ever done read Well the meat is the idea of doing it with a US total market one to keep the risk low and boring, and the mental shift to plonking it into the retirement fund if you have terrible timing, so you don't ever end up losing money on it. Babby's first trade. No sharp edges.
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The Butcher posted:It doesn't really work with $1k, but with at least $3k, an actual fun way to dip your toes in with low risk and get a taste for poo poo is to wait for a market dip, by a US total market ETF, then wait for it to climb to get up 4%, then sell. With ~$20 commission coming and going, you take home $100.
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Rocks posted:I just opened an e trade account and put $1,000 in it. What do I buy Move your $1,000 into Robinhood and close your eTrade account. If you're just messing around with that little money go no-commission...
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Don't pay 2% of your account in fees for a single trade. That is very bad I also think you're completely wasting your time with $1k but, follow your heart as they say
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