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Sand
Footballguy
What's your sector? Based on your avatar I'd guess Edwin Watts and the Baltimore Opera Hat Company?
Judge Smails
Footballguy
Healthcare IT
Judge Smails
Footballguy
Don’t know. Don’t even trade individual stocks anymore but I think I have an account through TD Ameritrade. Portfolio managed through DFA funds via TD Ameritrade Institutional with my Advisor. Can open an account if necessary. Would be willing to bet $5-10K
culdeus
Footballguy
I mean they will usually let you go in the tank for 30% of your margin right before calling you. Varies a bit place to place, you need to get your margin agreement in place first.
Most places will let you margin for x% of different flavors of securities. So if you account has 100k in ETF and 50k in stock and 50k in bonds you might get to credit 70% 50% 90% of those values.
NREC34
Footballguy
Rattle and Hum
Footballguy
If shorting is not your thing, I'd think about just buying long-dated, deep in the money Puts. Long dated so time value does not evaporate quickly. Deep in the money so it moves closely in step with the underlying stock. If you like, PM me the symbol and your time frame and I can price some ideas for you during the day when market is open. GL whatever you choose.
There’s got to be a better way. It always goes down. Unless you time it right, you lose. In this thread alone you had people saying the same thing when it was in the 50s, then 40s, then 30s. This year alone it’s gone from 72 to 21. That’s not a winning proposition.
culdeus
Footballguy
It went from 20 to 25 in a matter of a couple days in the most recent downturn. If I can capture a 25% gain in two days, I would—it’s worth considering if and when the market feels overheated or shaky. And, to me, this is a shaky market.
culdeus
Footballguy
Definitely understand. Still, I don’t recall anyone in here making money on it. Every discussion was losing money trying to time it or waxing poetic about the jump it just made.
culdeus
Footballguy
Maybe, but there were supposedly some real dollars invested. TVIX may be one of the most discussed symbols in here.
Don't Noonan
Footballguy
NREC34
Footballguy
culdeus
Footballguy
because it's fun to talk about in light of giant swings in the market. I mean i have it as a widget on my home screen of my phone. I've never invested a dime in it either way, but still consider it my most important tracking indicator of at least when to come in this thread..
Capella
Footballguy
I’m a little excited. I wouldn’t mind a little more sell off. Better price entry points isn’t a bad thing long term.
Capella
Footballguy
Mario Kart
Footballguy
I don't have discretionary income, or money to buy more, what I would do is shift money into what I currently have. I have two funds that I probably wouldn't touch because those are growth funds and haven't done me wrong. If I wanted to get rid of all my BP to shift into Apple or MSFT, that would be my only play. BP has a good dividend so am leery of switching out of that. But, I'm staying put for now too.
Been thinking about selling all my stocks but this, the trade resolution, is keeping me in the game. I’m feeling a bit helpless now, though, I must admit.
S&P 2000-2200 before then next leg up. Give it a few more weeks before they start talking retest the lows. Pretty sure a trade resolution will simply be a chance to get out and not be the next leg up.
Looking like some buying opportunities coming soon. Any real news or just lingering worries?
Of the 3 stocks I bought a couple weeks ago, two are still up about 10% and one looks almost dead even based on pre-market. None of the 3 are impacted much, if at all by China/trade.
ETA: Going after Mexico now.
Of the 3 stocks I bought a couple weeks ago, two are still up about 10% and one looks almost dead even based on pre-market. None of the 3 are impacted much, if at all by China/trade.
ETA: Going after Mexico now.
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Would it surprise you if you hear 10 years from now that he was making bets on the market. Funny thing is that I don’t believe it would be illegal based on the news piece I watched where senators/congressmen were allowed to insider trade on info they received via committee meetings, etc.
culdeus
Footballguy
Not really referring to that. I was pretty shocked that senators and congressmen used to be able to do insider trading and it was legal. There’s an act against it now but it doesn’t seem to matter still.
Anyone ever see a 20% decline followed by a 20% gain followed by a 20% PLUS decline within a year or 2? Me either and I wondering if it happens because:
1. Joe Retail investor was not shaken out in December and doesn't hate the markets.
2. It hasn't happened in the recent past.
1. Joe Retail investor was not shaken out in December and doesn't hate the markets.
2. It hasn't happened in the recent past.
skycriesmary
Climbing up the Walls
Nothing would surprise me at this point. The depths of his depravity know no bounds. Not trying to make this political, but answering the question.
Yeah, honestly it’s all of them. Pelosi came up as having gotten VISA pre-IPO shares right before legislation they didn’t like was stopped. There’s a reason why these career politicians always seem to be way wealthier than their normal salaries would get someone. Worried about the financial crisis in 2008, no problem, you already knew and sold all your stock.
skycriesmary
Climbing up the Walls
Looking like another fun day. Keeping my cash on the sideline. Still up a few percent on 2 of the 3 stocks I bought May 13th and up around 15% in the 3rd stock. Still a good decision but wondering how far we might go down because I was a little too worried to push back all in at the end of last year and that would have been smart.
jonessed
Footballguy
Anti-trust talk amongst some politicians who of course want to make a name for themselves. Couple that with some down days and you get an overreaction. I’ve still got 80% locked up so I can wait but it does seem like we may test some of those end of year lows.
You could be right. I’m pretty sure they don’t want to break anything up and honestly I think they are less of a real target than say Facebook and Google due to their ad dominance and privacy concerns. I’d say it’s overblown but it may take a bit to work it’s way out. Unfortunately, politicians like to make news so we’ll hear about the evil corporations a bunch.Honestly if AMZN gets busted up, my gut says it's worth more, not less.
I think it was on one of the Motley Fool podcasts they said that if they spun off Amazon Web Services into a separate company, AWS would be in the top-ten-largest companies in the US.
