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Lightning Zwei posted:Are any of you guys active on Stocktwits? Been flipping back and forth between Stocktwits and Twitter and I really like the site.
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Does anyone know why SAI got split into two different holdings (one being LDOS)? I've been looking at financial news and have yet to find anything on it..
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Oct 6, 2013 05:28
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Wonder if it's time to start buying some PUT options on my VTI and assorted other stock holdings. This budget nonsense is beginning to make me nervous.
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Yeah futures went plop at the open; Looks like the market's shrugging off another overnight drop so far. Acquilae fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Oct 7, 2013 |
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Oct 7, 2013 00:07
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I've been heavily hedged with Nov puts since late August. I'm not willing to let my portfolio rely upon the tea party nutjobs to do the right thing. Happy to take the 1-2% haircut if things end up OK by November.
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Oct 7, 2013 02:14
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drat that Tesla train! I got stopped out on a 7% trailing stop at $178.xx and now we are above that price at $186 just a few days later. Oh well, cant complain riding $61 to $178!
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Acquilae posted:
Looks like you had it right! I made a lot of money on Friday, took profits and I'm 100% in cash now...I can't handle this political bullshit loving with my money daily. I'll jump back in when the debt ceiling poo poo is resolved, and hopefully buy some discounted shares. Lightning Zwei fucked around with this message at 15:04 on Oct 7, 2013 |
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MrBigglesworth posted:drat that Tesla train! I got stopped out on a 7% trailing stop at $178.xx and now we are above that price at $186 just a few days later. Oh well, cant complain riding $61 to $178! Tesla defies reason right now. I'll happily keep selling calls on it while holding my long position from $107.
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Oct 7, 2013 15:15
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Are we whipping out our Tesla dicks, cuz I've been in since the day before the first profitable earnings.
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Oct 7, 2013 15:44
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Acquilae posted:Yeah futures went plop at the open; VXX is holding up fine. I still see more downside for the $SPY and will cover around 166.45 or when I hit my stops. Dwight Eisenhower posted:Tesla defies reason right now. I'll happily keep selling calls on it while holding my long position from $107. Does the market follow reason ever? 
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Oct 7, 2013 15:46
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Sanky Panky posted:VXX is holding up fine.
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Oct 7, 2013 18:27
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Call me Smaug, because aside from a few toehold equities, I'm sittin' on this pile of cash until Ted Cruz blows up the economy.
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What a beautiful close today. 
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Sanky Panky posted:What a beautiful close today. I bought some VXX about midday, now I just wish I had doubled my order size.
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Shear Modulus posted:I bought some VXX about midday, now I just wish I had doubled my order size.
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Oct 7, 2013 22:39
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Acquilae posted:VXX was definitely a missed trade opportunity today. I was not expecting the indices to sell off that heavily at the close. The intraday triple top was a good sign of what was coming at close. 
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Oct 7, 2013 22:45
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I had a bbry strangle I sold today for 8.24% gain and I think I will eventually regret it. But I was positioned more for buyout deals falling through than succeeding and with the new interest revealed over the weekend and the gains today, I decided to get out.
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Sanky Panky posted:The intraday triple top was a good sign of what was coming at close.
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Today's trading also exhibited a four tooth grumpy face: ...better watch out
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Cheesemaster200 posted:Today's trading also exhibited a four tooth grumpy face: Wait, wait! It is a sad face?  We are doomed...
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Sanky Panky posted:Wait, wait! It is a sad face?
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nebby posted:And here Buffett said TA is bs because if you turn the charts upside down they say the same thing Doesn't tasty trade have a feature that turns your charts upside down?
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Oct 8, 2013 15:44
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Covered part of $SPY short at 166.50 first target met.
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Jeez markets turning into a waterfall today.
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I hope a lot of congressmen own stock. Maybe losing money hand over fist will motivate them to do their jobs.
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scavok posted:I hope a lot of congressmen own stock. Maybe losing money hand over fist will motivate them to do their jobs. Rich people only get richer after a serious economic hardship, as they still have the capital to buy when the market is near the bottom and ride it back up. The congresspeople will be fine, it's the normal people who are going to eat it, just like the housing collapse.
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Kal Torak posted:How can people be so stupid with their money? Looks like "investors" mistook TWTRQ as a way to buy into TWTR. I shorted this at $0.06 in my simulator but then they changed their symbol and investopedia hasn't converted my shares 
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Inverse Icarus posted:Rich people only get richer after a serious economic hardship, as they still have the capital to buy when the market is near the bottom and ride it back up. If this poo poo goes down substantially I'll be waiting on the side lines with a smile on my face and a hundred racks ready to dump on the bottom.
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Closed out the bull spreads on my iron condors on NDX and RUT yesterday morning, because I had finally become fully convinced of the insanity of this congress. My feeling today: "Ducked that bullet.  "Everything else I'm holding long term for dividend yield or to cover calls, though I'm planning to exit TSLA if it falls under 160.
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Oct 8, 2013 20:58
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My Tea Party insurance goes ITM at SPY 165. 
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Stocks you're going to buy if we hit another recession: BF.B without a doubt.
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I've been obsessing over VIX this week but looking at the VIX chart it's historically fallen fast after runs to 20+ so my highest probability trade for this week would be a short on VXX/UVXY as they're about to hit resistance trendlines. It could be a case for a small but unsustainable rally/bounce up until Congress passes a bill to prevent the debt ceiling. If that bounce occurs, I will be shorting it since after today with NASDAQ finally dropping with the DOW and S&P 500 and taking the bubblicious momentum stocks with it, it's telling me that the baton is about to be passed to the bears and a sub-1600 S&P by November would be an early Christmas. e: shorted a small position in VXX @ 17.22. Adding more if it can stay/trends under 17 for the day. Acquilae fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Oct 9, 2013 |
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Decided to adopt a Talebian approach to current events; if the US defaults then I expect a downgrade in the Federal government's credit rating and an unpredictably bad time for financial institutions. Hence: LONG PUT BAC NOV 13 12 LONG PUT C NOV 13 36 LONG PUT COF NOV 13 55 LONG PUT WFC NOV 13 32 I think there's still decent odds that as the debt limit is reached we'll see those who hold congressmens' purse strings crack the whip, and decent odds that they'll obey, so these strikes are based entirely on opportunistic pricing rather than any sort of analysis. And TSLA's dancing under 170
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Oct 9, 2013 15:02
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1) Why the hell didn't I buy SPY puts when the government shut down last Tuesday? 2) Why don't I buy the puts first thing tomorrow morning until the debt ceiling situation is resolved?
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Josh Lyman posted:1) Why the hell didn't I buy SPY puts when the government shut down last Tuesday? 2) As soon as you do, they will resolve it and SPY will be up 1.25%.
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Josh Lyman posted:1) Why the hell didn't I buy SPY puts when the government shut down last Tuesday? I think you missed the bus man...sorry to tell you that. You can try but do not go too heavy on it.
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The same reason everyone didn't outright buy puts in SPY? This could have easily went the other way and you would have just been gambling on the outcome. Also, didn't the market go up like 1%+ the first day of the shutdown. Balls of steel to hold those puts through that...
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I bought puts on Sept 20. They're up 150% at the moment.
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Cheesemaster200 posted:The same reason everyone didn't outright buy puts in SPY? If only I had the conviction of my lunch conversations. 
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