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Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009
What's the opinion on PCG and AMZN?

I'm thinking going in for AMZN and PCG for their quarterly...

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Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

destructo posted:

I don't see what's so complicated here unless you're planning on shorting a massive amount of stock at one time.

ahaha... I am doing this. buy to cover is going to be.... fun

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009
so, anyone actually think AMSC is worth keeping for a long?

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

MrBigglesworth posted:

The gently caress? SIRI posts their first profit since the merger, beating analysts estimates (they expected a loss) and the stock is down 7%?

Something about Liberty Media converting their preferred stocks?

Looks like people are scared that dumping will drop the price to.. a quarter per share.

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

destructo posted:

Just for shits.. Watch GGWPQ in the coming week.

are we looking at who wants to buy it or if the judge is going to rape it?

I would bet that the judge would do something in between and go with the 3 months like the Hughes suggested. I would be surprised if anyone wanted to gobble up the entire company. While I doubt GGWPQ would get carved up, I would think it would get funding from china?.

If you jumped on the boat 2,3 week ago one would be :smug:... :\

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

Cheesemaster200 posted:

hooray GE!

why? (I am on the hooray boat, but I want to know why)

maybe this?

quote:

General Electric expects to have around $25B in cash at the end of 2010, up from $8.7B in 2009, and plans to resume growing its dividend in 2011. The company sees opportunities for stock buybacks and strategic acquisitions as well. Comments were taken from conference presentation slides.

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009
haha GE broke 18.

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

Nifty posted:

Anybody have opinions on ge right now? Specifically,
buying ge right now?

I hear the sentiment is long. (like 2011 long).

I would assume that it's a little bloated because of the news. I only jumped in to have it offset my questionable decision to buy CIM.

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

Josh Lyman posted:

Everyone is saying S&P 1250. I sold out of some positions yesterday as a precaution but dove back in, leveraged out the rear end. FAS ftw :cool:

I would love to see this so Cramer stops crying about Double Dipping. On the other hand I would have to believe if S&P were to hit 1250, the fed would be move the rates a little bit. There is also doubts on the fed moving the rates also since lending&real estate is (still) poo poo right now.

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

D13F00L posted:

Sold CAH 3/2/10, ex-dividend end of march. I need to get in the habit of watching that closer, but I'm within the window this time.

GE, I have a GT90 day sell covered call order at 1.05 for strike of 18...it should hit that if it can brush nearly 19 again, which it dide hit yesterday but I didn't put it in until close. GE might not make it to 19 again short term...I'm somewhat expecting it to go back to 17ish before going back up.

I rarely watch the market every day, I just glance maybe once a week, and do research before buying a stock. I miss these chances sometimes. :sigh:

Same problem here, I dumping GE and going to wait for it to dip once before going back in.

I love how shits hit the fan on ex-div dates.

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

goddinpotty posted:

So I have a tiny slice of equity in a tech company that's filing for an IPO in the next couple of months under MOTR. I have an offer on the table pre-ipo for 1.10 a share which is about 5x earnings. All pertinent info that I have access to is in the S-1. How do I even begin to think about how to maximize my return?

dump money into it?

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

Duey posted:

Earnings report, they reduced guidance and prompted a huge sell-off. It was way overdone too and the stock has been recovering ever since. I agree with your assessment though, it's why I bought in a few weeks ago too.

I swear QCOM likes to screw with investors by lowering their own forecasts and then come back a month or two later and go "lol joking guys"

I'd not doubt it would go back up to 45 by the years end, and be pushing to 50 if SnapDragon really kicks off (and I hope to god it does because it's an awesome processor).

They really should sell off FloTV though, that thing has been a money drain for years.

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

Josh Lyman posted:

Do you really see a market for FloTV? I don't really know anyone who would seriously want one.

God No, hence why they should've blasted that division into deep space... or Asia

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

Josh Lyman posted:

All I know is that RIG and DO are up nicely since Tuesday.

Speaking of which, on March 1:

Since then, they are up 11.2% and 14.7% respectively, while the S&P is up 6.7%. :smug:

:smug: I bought FSLR right before they dipped thinkin' "THE POWER OF THE SUN"
then they jumped 5%.

Anyone else crying over VZ slowly bleeding down?

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

SSH IT ZOMBIE posted:

Of course, I'm probably totally wrong and GE will be 25/share next month somehow.

option time :ohdear:

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009
I thought NFLX, why would it skyrocket repeatedly again thought I at 60..

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

MrBigglesworth posted:

When does Blockbuster announce earnings?

It's amazing to watch the netflix performance. $10+ pops earnings release days with a nice steady climb between 3 months ago and now.

Heh BBI @ 47 cents.

Netflix 100.05 +13.07

if only we could short BBI endlessly...

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

self posted:

Shorting SBUX and going long on JPM, let's see if this my strategy works in the real world.
and for some reason I decided that C would hit $5 again? let's see if I am going to be :smug: or :ohdear: in a few days weeks...

Dr. Jackal fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Apr 23, 2010

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

Cheesemaster200 posted:

VZ has one nice rear end dividend though...

doesn't mean poo poo if it drops more than the dividend in the quarter though.

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

I WANT TO EAT BABBY posted:

Today's action in C might be telling.

dip as people panic that 1.5 billion shares is going to dilute the market so much C will never make it back to 5?

I closed my C position and moved over to QCOM, from what I can tell they like to have great earnings(increase their share price), then declare their next Quarter will be lovely(decrease their share price), the stock slowly climbs back up until Earning. So it's a 3 month call...

Foma posted:

buying GS
I really don't know about buying GS. Their earnings was great (but then which banks had horrid earnings Q1?) but because of the SEC filing people are less likely to use GS... but then their main business is M&A side which is B&B anyways.

Why not in JPM?

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

MrBigglesworth posted:

Nice jump on SIRI yesterday. When Ford does good, so does SIRI.

and SIRI drops with Ford. lo.

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

MrBigglesworth posted:

No, we are just puttering along, Greece shits the bed and then the market goes crazy. I just dont see the logic of Greece having problems to cause someone to go in and say, welp, better sell some of my holdings.

maybe everyone dumped their stocks and bought the 15% greek bonds :ohdear:

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

Cheesemaster200 posted:

Personally, I think the market just looking for a good reason to have a significant down day. All this rallying is making people (including me) uneasy. However I think there is too much positive pressure on the US economy to really slow it down.

I wouldn't be surprised if we closed close to even today to be quite honest.

I don't know, I looking at it, one hour left and I think 1% would be hard to make up unless people who covered their Europe position decided to invest in the US suddenly instead of holding it as liquid...

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009
where's the guy who bought FSLR at 126?

Are we really back on the rally or are people just stuffing their money back in after the Greek panic yesterday?

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

synftw posted:

Chinese solar and wind look to be safe rides during China's renewable energy initiatives, but I don't want to spread too far on hyped industries, at least until I can figure out which companies will be able to manage integration of new technologies.

You should've seen the piece CNBC did on that a few days ago.

I believe China's renewable energy whether it's sustainable or not it will be funded by the government for at least another year or two just so they can meet the goals that they setup a few years back. They spend money these kind of projects like water until they meet some magic number.

The problem would be with seeing if at that point the solar/wind industry would be able to use the time they buy through the government to gain momentum in the private market.

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

Christobevii3 posted:

Are you talking nand chips i'm assuming? INTC is ahead in the 28mm race it seems and sandisk. It seems all the chips are on backorder for ram makers too, so I don't see a huge issue.

I think he was talking about the new Phase Memory Chips that's hitting the market... well for small devices.

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

ayekappy posted:

Chirp Chirp? I guess most goons are still bulls. Neener bitches! Of course somehow some way some magical bullcrap will occur to lift the markets some more and make them go sideways or something for a few months. Holy crap! Is that where the term bullshit came from?

godamn should've closed my positions until next month since we all know Greece is going to make the market poo poo itself until further notice.

I would love to close all positions and wait until Q2 earning or some great news about Europe's debt program. Where is that person who closed their shorts on the Euro?

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

Christobevii3 posted:

Cramer is calling to buy the dips in the market on housing stocks today wtf???

Cramer is a bull and is screaming that people should be buying it now on the dip..

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

I WANT TO EAT BABBY posted:

This is a fantastic graphic.

so wait to short the market or EURUSD when Spain croaks? that graphic makes Greece look like a drop in the bucket, I would think a more interesting graphic would include GDP and deficit in drawing the size...

Would love to see one of those for US,China,Japan and Europe.

also, still laughing at people unwilling to rally for HAL :smug:

and I eat my HAL shorts today :x

Dr. Jackal fucked around with this message at 17:57 on May 11, 2010

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009
god, I love this volatility

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

dethkon posted:

Do any of you use Stotchastics to try and predict the tops and bottoms of a trading range during periods of volatility? I'm no expert on indicators (and charting in general tbh) but I've noticed that buying at %D < 20 and selling at > 80 can be frighteningly predictable for some securities. However I would like to know if there are better indicators to watch.

I've been running around with MACD and %K

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

ayekappy posted:

That's a low blow considering I could be banned by 4:00(4:15)pm tomorrow!

fffffffffffffffffffffff hope you put money where your predictions were

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009
so basically we had May 6th "Flash Crash" happen slowly over the week?

shorted MA and PRU, helped recover my losses from QCOM :smug: fuckin' QCOM.

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

ayekappy posted:

I would say a retrace ordinarily, but I'm guessing probably almost just as bad of a day. Futures even broke 10k DOW a little ago. Monday will probably be the retrace day.

edit: I regret not adding this earlier, I thought there might be a gap up to ~1080 then 1086-1091 or so and then big down, another 2%+ from this close. No banme challenge though. :)

looks like retrace is happening early? I wake up early now just to watch people on CNBC poo poo their pants and un-poo poo them.

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

fougera posted:

So I made a ton during the uber-bull using margin shamelessly and of course lost all those gains this month. Is there a "correct" way to use margin? Some kind of bankroll strategy perhaps?

no

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

ChubbyEmoBabe posted:

Not to mention the albatross of defaults that continue to pile on. The bulls best news is that it's getting slightly less bad.

pile on or was it increase, housing is going to be poo poo for longer!

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

MrBigglesworth posted:

In a sea of red, Dollar General continues to rise. Double dip recession on the way? Anticipating people that are too poor for Wal-Mart going to hit up the DG instead?

market shits on itself for a week does a "recovery" for a day or two and then continues to poo poo itself for another week?

I think investors are really just looking for any good reason to panic sell, honestly how does having a War in the Koreas actually affect the US market? or Europe for that matter. Maybe they are worried you wont be able to ship Samsung and LG devices out of Korea without it being torpedoed?

edit:
godamn NFLX, buy on the open sell on the close.

Dr. Jackal fucked around with this message at 20:10 on May 25, 2010

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

greasyhands posted:

some penny stock poo poo

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

might as well go to a casino

Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

greasyhands posted:

What? Those are all real companies with real revenue and real growth, many of them having been around for over a decade. I said they were the "risky" plays in my portfolio right now, nowhere near my entire holdings. They certainly aren't "penny stock poo poo" in any traditional sense of the word, though they are high beta. What, do you only play blue chips and indices?

f2a posted:

In fairness, the same can be said for the vast majority of stockpicking.

I do that.

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Dr. Jackal
Sep 13, 2009

Dr. Eldarion posted:

Gotta be fear of the long weekend. If it weren't for that, we might have actually closed in the green.

Massive sell off means massive buy back on MondayTuesday? :ohdear:

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