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I think maybe it's time I dusted off Forrestmail™ and use dit for less nefarious purposes.  

Also, I now own 50,000 shares of this stupid thing. :bag:
So the 28k shares that were purchased today were all you? 

:lmao:

Without your 28k shares, basically, $62 dollars of this traded today?

:lmao:

I've never had so much fun lighting money on fire (but don't tell my wife, I frown upon lighting funds on fire in the house).

 
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So the 28k shares that were purchased today were all you? 

:lmao:

Without your 28k shares, basically, $62 dollars of this traded today?

:lmao:

I've never had so much fun lighting money on fire (but don't tell my wife, I frown upon lighting funds on fire in the house).
27,500 to be exact.  :bag:

I'm not about to tell my wife about this, though her opinion of me probably couldn't sink much lower.

 
I had an order in for a while for 10000 peatf @ .113 but it never filled. I'll keep watching.

Wound up spending it on the blockchain etf: BLCN

 
So the 28k shares that were purchased today were all you? 

:lmao:

Without your 28k shares, basically, $62 dollars of this traded today?

:lmao:

I've never had so much fun lighting money on fire (but don't tell my wife, I frown upon lighting funds on fire in the house).
How else do you heat your mansion in the winter? 

 
BLCN is mainly large cap tech and financial services. NTTAWWT
Yeah, I know. The link I posted talks about their top 20 holdings. I like the balance as compared to the top heavy BLOK and am interested to see what companies they continue to add, currently only 59 of the intended 100. I think their metrics for inclusion seem very solid. Plus I like their foreign exposure. Not a home run swing investment but hopefully a nice long term hold.

 
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It is  a solid group of companies. I honestly just dislike it because it seems like a marketing ploy and many won 't do the research you have and understand what they are buying. I.e.,only one or two are actual blockchain companies. Most of the companies are too large for blockchain success to really move the needle. I didn't realize, though, that they're expanding to 100, so that could change. Here's the full list of the 59 if you haven't seen.
http://go.realityshares.com/blcn-daily-holdings/

 
It is  a solid group of companies. I honestly just dislike it because it seems like a marketing ploy and many won 't do the research you have and understand what they are buying. I.e.,only one or two are actual blockchain companies. Most of the companies are too large for blockchain success to really move the needle. I didn't realize, though, that they're expanding to 100, so that could change. Here's the full list of the 59 if you haven't seen.
http://go.realityshares.com/blcn-daily-holdings/
sounds like back in the late 90s where everyone was slapping a "dotcom" on anything and getting rich going ipo.   

 
What I would like to see are the companies in the underlying index (RSBLCN), which they created, to get an idea of which ones might be added down the road. They say they will rebalance twice a year but I doubt it will happen in the March schedule. There are plenty of niche etf's, so if blockchain is the true revolutionary technology they say it is, it's worth a bet, imo.

 
sounds like back in the late 90s where everyone was slapping a "dotcom" on anything and getting rich going ipo.   
Yeah, I saw a video with one of the guys involved and he said that the SEC wouldn't allow them to even have the word blockchain in the etf title because of the attention it gets. They fully expect to be allowed to add it at some point when the mania that the word creates dies down.

 
Optionsguys, a question.  I (probably) mentioned somewhere in this thread that I studied for the 7, but never took it, about 20 years ago.  As such, I have a vague memory of all the mechanics of options trading, but not a firm grasp on it.  Rest assured, I'm not making any trades until I read more, but I just want to see what I remember.  So, here's the first question.  Buying calls is pretty straightforward from what I recall.  You pay a premium to reserve the option to buy stock at a certain price.  If the stock goes up, I'm going to sell the call for a profit prior to expiration.  (Side question - any of you ever actually exercise long calls?)  If any of this is wrong, please chime in.

My question revolves around selling naked calls.  I'll provide an example...

TSLA is currently trading at $340.  Feb 02 calls with a strike price of $450 are trading at $.06 right now.  So, if I were to (example, I'm not doing this) sell 100 contracts, I would be paid a $600 premium.  Now, we have a week to expiration.  The odds of TSLA going to $450 in a week are remote.  So, as I see it, these are the two possible scenarios.

1) TSLA remains below $450 for the next week.  The call option that I sold expires worthless and I keep $600.

2) TSLA shoots up to, say, $460.  I'm now obligated to buy 10,000 shares of TSLA at $460 and sell them at $450.  So, I would lose $10 a share x 10,000 shares, so I'd be out $100,000.

Am I missing anything here?  So, the net result is that I'm being paid $600 to carry the .01% risk (generous) of being out $100,000?  Would a brokerage even permit someone to make such a trade without sufficient assets on the books to cover that enormous potential loss?  Seeing as you can't really put a $ figure on the downside (assuming I'm not way off base here) - how does a trade like this get insured by the brokerage and why would they even let me do it?

 
All fun aside on this little venture of ours...

There are like 40 million shares at .05 that will hit the market in May. We will likely see some flashy PR's right around that time. When that volume spikes, your sell orders better already be in gents.

 
All fun aside on this little venture of ours...

There are like 40 million shares at .05 that will hit the market in May. We will likely see some flashy PR's right around that time. When that volume spikes, your sell orders better already be in gents.
What do Puerto Ricans have to do with it?

 
parasaurolophus said:
All fun aside on this little venture of ours...

There are like 40 million shares at .05 that will hit the market in May. We will likely see some flashy PR's right around that time. When that volume spikes, your sell orders better already be in gents.
So, this should go back down towards the nickel price when these flood the market? Sure, it could go back up over time, but wouldn't the prudent thing be to just wait to buy in May? Or is the risk those shares get snatched up, and we lose out on 'cheap' shares entirely? 

 
So, this should go back down towards the nickel price when these flood the market? Sure, it could go back up over time, but wouldn't the prudent thing be to just wait to buy in May? Or is the risk those shares get snatched up, and we lose out on 'cheap' shares entirely? 
The answers to these questions really depend on your overall sentiment of the company. 

I have a hard time ever viewing these things as sound future investments. They have zero revenues as far as i can tell and they just bought a mine in africa that doesnt even mine cobalt yet. The market cap is 17.5 million bucks of blue sky. 

So while they could actually mine cobalt and develop blockchain technology to do what they say, that is definitely not a guarantee and based on history of these kinds of companies, probably unlikely. 

Doesnt mean we cant make money. I have bought and sold far scammier company shares than this and turned out just fine. People buy these things hoping they have found the next gem. The key is to be realistic and make sure to be out ahead of the volume. You can almost always get to where you have some free shares if you play it right so you can sit back and watch them get obliterated down to .0001 or hit it big.

I still have some completely worthless shares of a couple penny plays in my brokerage account. I noticed last week that 2000 of them just disappeared of one. It was a spinoff dividend award of some other worthless shares. 

 
General Malaise said:
I think maybe it's time I dusted off Forrestmail™ and use dit for less nefarious purposes.  

Also, I now own 50,000 shares of this stupid thing. :bag:
Getting in for 8k shares with some of my KBLT spread.  Keep 'em coming GM!

 
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Optionsguys, a question.  I (probably) mentioned somewhere in this thread that I studied for the 7, but never took it, about 20 years ago.  As such, I have a vague memory of all the mechanics of options trading, but not a firm grasp on it.  Rest assured, I'm not making any trades until I read more, but I just want to see what I remember.  So, here's the first question.  Buying calls is pretty straightforward from what I recall.  You pay a premium to reserve the option to buy stock at a certain price.  If the stock goes up, I'm going to sell the call for a profit prior to expiration.  (Side question - any of you ever actually exercise long calls?)  If any of this is wrong, please chime in.

My question revolves around selling naked calls.  I'll provide an example...

TSLA is currently trading at $340.  Feb 02 calls with a strike price of $450 are trading at $.06 right now.  So, if I were to (example, I'm not doing this) sell 100 contracts, I would be paid a $600 premium.  Now, we have a week to expiration.  The odds of TSLA going to $450 in a week are remote.  So, as I see it, these are the two possible scenarios.

1) TSLA remains below $450 for the next week.  The call option that I sold expires worthless and I keep $600.

2) TSLA shoots up to, say, $460.  I'm now obligated to buy 10,000 shares of TSLA at $460 and sell them at $450.  So, I would lose $10 a share x 10,000 shares, so I'd be out $100,000.

Am I missing anything here?  So, the net result is that I'm being paid $600 to carry the .01% risk (generous) of being out $100,000?  Would a brokerage even permit someone to make such a trade without sufficient assets on the books to cover that enormous potential loss?  Seeing as you can't really put a $ figure on the downside (assuming I'm not way off base here) - how does a trade like this get insured by the brokerage and why would they even let me do it?
According to this  your margin requirement would be $340,000. YMMV depending on the broker but cboe prob lists the min.

 
So what is the ceiling for Amazon this year? It seems like it's unstoppable. 
I feel I've missed that growth for the most part- Kind of heavy into BABA and looking at JD.

But what do I know. I have a strong position in AMZN in the low 300s and sold off at 400

 
So what is the ceiling for Amazon this year? It seems like it's unstoppable. 
It's getting overextended by every measure (both technical and fundamental, even for a growth stock), they're going to need to blow their earnings out beyond belief to keep this rally going (which is certainly possible)... I intend on holding it forever, but I did take 1/3 of my position off at $1,300 :wall:

 
It's getting overextended by every measure (both technical and fundamental, even for a growth stock), they're going to need to blow their earnings out beyond belief to keep this rally going (which is certainly possible)... I intend on holding it forever, but I did take 1/3 of my position off at $1,300 :wall:
Lol why would you do that. I'm looking to buy more. 

 
Lol why would you do that. I'm looking to buy more. 
My average is in $700's, you can never lose by taking profits - nonetheless, yea, too premature. Still, it was only 1/3 of my position.

We're starting to get to that euphoric state where nothing can go wrong. A lot of people have made fortunes on Amazon, they'll be looking to protect those profits at the first sign of weakness. 

Some pullback would be healthy for it, TBH. 

 
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My average is in $700's, you can never lose by taking profits - nonetheless, yea, too premature. Still, it was only 1/3 of my position.

We're starting to get to that euphoric state where nothing can go wrong. A lot of people have made fortunes on Amazon, they'll be looking to protect those profits at the first sign of weakness. 

Some pullback would be healthy for it, TBH. 
I can see that. I planned to hold it for a long time so I'm just going to ride the rocket. 

 
I can see that. I planned to hold it for a long time so I'm just going to ride the rocket. 
If you want more and plan on holding forever, easiest and most effective strategy is to just cost average instead of buying it all at once... Set aside a period either once a month or more preferably once a quarter and say "I'm going to buy XYZ shares on this date regardless of anything." Stay consistent with it.

It keeps going up, you keep winning, it pulls back, you buy cheaper shares in the future. 

 
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On Friday I made a couple of UVXY options... seemed a safer way to play volatility

I called $10 and $10.50 to close this Friday on 1700 total share.

Sold off 400 just now to recoup 75% of investment and retain 1300 share.

This seems more low risk than the way Bob and I have been funding TVIX @St. Louis Bob

 
On Friday I made a couple of UVXY options... seemed a safer way to play volatility

I called $10 and $10.50 to close this Friday on 1700 total share.

Sold off 400 just now to recoup 75% of investment and retain 1300 share.

This seems more low risk than the way Bob and I have been funding TVIX @St. Louis Bob
Your risk is more defined there. If you're calling $10 and the price (just as a hypothetical) was 20 cents, your max loss on 1,700 total shares is $3,400.

Nonetheless, don't get too cute with the options, that's shark territory, I've learned my lessons over there. 

 
Your risk is more defined there. If you're calling $10 and the price (just as a hypothetical) was 20 cents, your max loss on 1,700 total shares is $3,400.

Nonetheless, don't get too cute with the options, that's shark territory, I've learned my lessons over there. 
Yes, I only do option where if I lose it all, I'm okay.

I'm also building a big future option on TRVG at $7.50. Only $1.30 and its at 8.92 now. Its been spiking up to around 10 and I have 2/6 weeks to find a profitable exit. I also own a lot of TRVG outright, one of my favorites

 
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This year I moved  most of my position  from CDs/Money Markets, mainly into GS, TGT, BABA, also moderate positions in TRIL and ICPT, the last two from this years stock pick contest.

 
Bombadier BDRAF is interesting. Moved up sharply on Friday news and continues up today. 

Boeing Co. (BA) suffered a bruising defeat after a U.S trade panel Friday rejected its complaint of being harmed by Bombardier Inc. (BDRAF), effectively blocking a Trump administration proposal for steep tariffs against the Canadian jet maker.

Its in the $3 range, which is fun

 
I feel I've missed that growth for the most part- Kind of heavy into BABA and looking at JD.

But what do I know. I have a strong position in AMZN in the low 300s and sold off at 400
I was in at low 300s and sold at 800 ish and used profits to put in a pool....it's a nice pool but damnit it keeps getting more expensive.

 
Decided to spread my risk south, picking up some PNXLF (ARGENTINA LITHIUM &ENERGY CORP)

Sounded impressive when drunk shopping late last night. IN at 36 cents

 
Thinking of going a big chunk into APL ahead of earnings. THoughts?
Meh, I'm starting to believe into iphone X demand dwindling - regardless of what they did in Q4, if that doesn't remain very strong, this is on the way back to $150. 

The R/R is better elsewhere, IMO. 

 

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