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so I started watching 5 or 6 stocks I feel confident about, tracking for a bit just to se what happens.
Opening Prices on day of Post
twc - 147.02
sre - 102.88
aapl - 101.04
goog - 578.37
tsla - 263.50

if I would have invested when i started, I'd be up 3% right now. This will be fun to monitor

Current Prices

twc - 147.57 - flatish
sre - 105.88 - 3%
aapl - 98.43 - (2.6%)
goog - 582.57 - .8%
tsla - 288.22 - Monster gain - 10%

Gonna watch those gains evaporate? Any adjustments?

Here's a contrarian indicator showing an all-time imbalance b/w bears & bulls...

20140903_hated.jpg


Zig when they zag Dave!

BTW, someone put on 100,000 contract put spread yesterday. They paid like $6M with a potential payout of 0 (if SPY > 190 at October expiration, which is (always) the 3rd friday of the month, and a max payout of $100M, if SPY is <180 in 43 days...

By the time I got through posting this, I think I am off on Dave's current prices. Prob should just do after hours, duh.
 
Finally have some reserves (as a college student no less!). Started by putting 2k in with the mutual fund store and have another 1k that I'll get moving with a more aggressive portfolio that i'll manage personally...wish me luck.
 
I think the put spread was put on by a large institution that wants out of some of their positions. With liquidity so dry (true liquidity, not robots passing shares back and forth for rebates), I think buying protection then liquidating the equities makes sense. The thing is, once you start liquidating and the market turns, there are so many trade systems that are playing moving averages and indicators, you will inevitably trigger them as well, making your sell price lower. With the puts in place, you can _almost_ sell quickly just to insight such a behavior, b/c you are protected. I wonder if that could be profitable...

TASR is killing it. Love that company, but they have run up quite a bit. Today they got orders for $500K(? - my best guess) worth of guns and their stock goes up $36M in market cap. Def doesn't make sense. I should sell but am afraid the next good news could be massive... BTW, one of their competitors is DGLY, and I only mention them b/c I would stay away. Stock goes from 3 to 26 in 3 weeks... I might short it, but haven't yet.
 
Question for the crew here, please opine on Trip Advisor (TRIP). Does anyone use them to actually book a place to stay? I am extremely curious...
 
Finally have some reserves (as a college student no less!). Started by putting 2k in with the mutual fund store and have another 1k that I'll get moving with a more aggressive portfolio that i'll manage personally...wish me luck.

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Current Prices

twc - 147.57 - flatish
sre - 105.88 - 3%
aapl - 98.43 - (2.6%)
goog - 582.57 - .8%
tsla - 288.22 - Monster gain - 10%

Gonna watch those gains evaporate? Any adjustments?

Here's a contrarian indicator showing an all-time imbalance b/w bears & bulls...

20140903_hated.jpg


Zig when they zag Dave!

BTW, someone put on 100,000 contract put spread yesterday. They paid like $6M with a potential payout of 0 (if SPY > 190 at October expiration, which is (always) the 3rd friday of the month, and a max payout of $100M, if SPY is <180 in 43 days...

By the time I got through posting this, I think I am off on Dave's current prices. Prob should just do after hours, duh.
If I had invested, I suppose Id take half out of tesla.. Is taht the move? I dont really understand the chart

I also put those two that you recommended in there.

Apple is a fuckin gbust and I dont feel great about whats happening on the 9th.. If i had researched more I wouldnt have put them on the list.

Im still feeling out fluctuations.. As in day to day big gains vs. big les vs. stability, and morning to afternoon, to pick up on any sort of patterns.

Id prefer to figure out patterns and look at the post earlier in this thread that examines exactly when to buy before I make any mores.


Edit: looking at it again, does this mean I should bet against stuff now?
 
I didn't recommend any of those stocks... You came up with TWC on the zig-when-they-zag hypothesis, not me!...

The play with TSLA is up to you. I can't stomach that kind of volatility, so if I made 10% that quickly, I would sell 90% and hold the rest forever!

Like I said, I recommend being long an equal amount of $ long as you are short. That way you aren't really f-ed over by market direction, and you get to test out theories for and against companies. That's what you should do with your play account for sure. As far as with real $, it depends more on your time horizon I suppose. I think anyone investing their $ at this point in the market is crazy, but if they will dollar cost average or have a 10 year time horizon, my opinion changes.
 
aright man, spoon feed. where would you put your money
 
http://www.tradersdaytrading.com/demark-indicators.html

S&P just triggered a monthly sell signal... 5 months or less... So with stock acct, go half long half short on whatever with like $10K.
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With remainder, invest in airbnb arbitrage, get your system down, and buy a place just to rent it with some absurdly low down payment AFTER you have proven that you have it figured out.

Ok, go!
 
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Question for the crew here, please opine on Trip Advisor (TRIP). Does anyone use them to actually book a place to stay? I am extremely curious...

No, I never trust those sites. At least if I buy from the airline I think they have the least chance of fucking it up.


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Anyone have any feelings toward the alibaba ipo?
 
seas, bbry, twc, cmcsa, sre, goog tsla aapl were my picks.

I would have been up 18.6% in a week and a goddamn half.

i've changed what Im looking at..

dropped comcast seaworld and apple, picked up bkbb fb and ntflx.

I was gonna shift away from this, but goddamn 18.6%. That would have been $3700.

still have yet to research air bnb.
 
seas, bbry, twc, cmcsa, sre, goog tsla aapl were my picks.

I would have been up 18.6% in a week and a goddamn half.

i've changed what Im looking at..

dropped comcast seaworld and apple, picked up bkbb fb and ntflx.

I was gonna shift away from this, but goddamn 18.6%. That would have been $3700.

still have yet to research air bnb.

tsla shelled today, down below your buy price.
fb beat up today.
nflx (I corrected your ticker) beat up today.

Cardinal rule: "when you're yellin' you should be sellin', when you're cryin' you should be buyin'."

You should balance it out by shorting some companies, IMO... TRIP (trip advisor) has plenty of room to fall...
 
oh ive been looking at it all day. would have been down 16.5%.
 

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