This is the Weekly Investment & Finance Thread (August-19-23 edition)---- Posted on 08/19/2013 2:53:27 AM PDT by expat_panama
This is the Weekly Investment & Finance Thread (August-19-23 edition)----
Trying to focus on the markets for today and each day and the economic news
This is where you can exchange some investment opinions and advice
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I guess they have vast real estate holdings and probably other assets, but I would be venturing in something where I have no experience.
Agreed.
It didn’t help that Drama Queen Ackman poisoned the well. There is a certain protocol to follow when you are on the BOD.
Good for you to get out of (I will look up THM tomorrow. Are you looking to get out of the market altogether?
I wish I could. I'm hooked like a junkie tho. Always looking for a bargain.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3045791/posts?page=35#35
I like bargains, too. They are only relative to what the market determines on any given day. I look for good name stocks in the $15 to $50+ range.
My bargain the other day backfired on me. I was happily day trading, making a little here and there, low risk, done with my trade for that day. So I see the prices, a bargain, so I decide to buy my trade for the next day.
Well it gapped down the next morning, went into meltdown. Gapped down the next morning (Fri). Gapped down Monday but a short tail. Now it is rebounding. I hope it gets back to my price, it's a dollar short now, but could take weeks or never.
What happened was the company got a good quarterly report. I didn't read the third analysis, gave it a C rating, avoid, look for exit, a GOOD CANDIDATE TO SHORT.
That's what happened. I got caught in a huge selloff just like that. I think it's a manipulative tactic so a lot of men in Wall Street can clean up. I'm really pi$$ed about it. I refused to panic and sell, had over $14K riding on it.
I think my brokerage is subscribing to and steering investors to stocks of their choice. Stocks that usually don't go anywhere. One day up. The other down. So the next it is up, it makes it look like oh goody I'm really ahead. But behind that facade are a string of losses and gains reflected in that price in MY account. It's just the up percentage for that day.
It appears several intrepid investors ignore the avoids, ignore the dips, just buy, hold, and manage to make good on it.
Can't know. Depends on the setup. Headwinds and catalysts, etc. At .39 it was a steal so I scooped up a bunch. I see several I want to buy. APA and CAT are the only things I'm looking at that look reasonable. But I'm trying to hold off for a Sept. drop.
APA and CAT are going down... (ME trouble, China trouble). Try the biotech - BBH (an ETF) has been great this year. Have almost a double in NPSP. Wish I had held on to NFLX (pe now 325) or bought TSLA (projected pe 262) - eye-popping PEs not for me. P (pandora) 33% in 2 months. REGI rages on (56% up in staged buys since January); UNTD, 70% in staged buys over a year.
Fluctuations in Currencies Roil Markets
Lawmakers and central bankers in India, Indonesia, Turkey and several emerging-market economies are scrambling to contain the damage from falling currencies and to keep foreign investors from heading for the exits.
If there is more than a hint that "tapering" is now or will shortly become Fed (haha) policy, look out below.
Just a thought. Good trading to all!
Worth watching.
I’m hard pressed to see anything happening other than the fact that the deflation threat’s going to keep interest low for a while to come.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm...
Hmmm is right. Had to recheck my inflation no’s & found that while the PPI was flat the CPI was at 2% per year. That’s pretty much what we want but it’s not anyway what we’d call ‘deflationary’.
Time for rates to climb back up & add a $T in interest payments to federal outlays...
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell sharply Wednesday after the Federal Reserve disclosed that its top officials were mostly in agreement that the central bank should end its massive bond-buying program. (full story)
That was yesterday, but as things are begin to settle--
LONDON (AP) — Solid economic figures out of China and Europe helped lift the mood in financial markets Thursday in a week when investors have been largely fretting over when the U.S. Federal Reserve will start to reduce its monetary stimulus. (full story)
--we begin today's trading with metals flat and stocks upbeat. The adventure continues...
I love the honesty of Wall Street. Unlike an oily used car salesman who tries to convince you he wants to be your friend, WS tells you they just want your money. Yee-haw!! Another day of fun and games.
Wall St. doesn't tell us anything, pundits do. On top of that they get paid to write the goofy stuff readers want and not for being right. It's the old saying 'garbage out is garbage out'.
I've got a couple and wondered why just ticks on the minute charts. According to my one minute chart, it started about 12:14:59 but I noticed the ticks over 1/2 hour ago.
I wondered why the quotes stopped on 3 stocks I keep windows open on for up to the second quotes. They're not scrolling.
It will be one mell of a hess to fix. I've read about flash crashes but nothing like this before.
Ha! Glad I sold out this morning. I booked some meager profits and and sat down. I had some AAMRQ but the whole thing was riding on a court approved merger. Holder and the DOJ was against the merger but if it went through the stock would more than double. I lost my guts and sold at a small profit.
huh. My Scottrade NASDAQ graph stopped feeding new numbers around 12:19 my time —15 min. ago...
tx for the headsup!
Mine stopped just like yours did also freestockcharts 5 min which I use.
Then I spotted this thread.
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