Talking stocks, trading, and investing in general

[stevent]



Interactive Brokers has a lot of good features and certainly is low cost.

Yes IB is the best.

 

[yjeezle]

even low volume?

 

[stevent]



even low volume?

Yeah I don't trade that much, still ~$1 a trade for almost everything, 4 euros for european markets, 6HKD for Hong Kong I think? Pretty good rates for the Nikkei as well.

They do have a minimum though of $10000. If you are 21 and younger then it's $3000. You also are given no service of any kind really so you should have a basic idea of what you are doing.

 

[otc]

and there goes the AGNC capital raise

I'd been waiting for this after the last dividend as a point to buy some more shares (in the past they have done well at recovering from the devaluation quickly)

May be buying some more today

 

[CYstyle]

What do you guys make out of this ongoing rally? We were on the "brink" of a bear market and a double dip recession, now we appear to be golden. Sell this rally and wait for a pull back in the near future?

 

[NameBack]



What do you guys make out of this ongoing rally? We were on the "brink" of a bear market and a double dip recession, now we appear to be golden. Sell this rally and wait for a pull back in the near future?

I'm just gonna do what the algorithm tells me. It called this rally two days ago so I'm just going with the flow.

 

[javyn]

Holy moly nice job NB.

 

[GreenFrog]



I'm just gonna do what the algorithm tells me. It called this rally two days ago so I'm just going with the flow.

your algo predicted that the Eurozone would get its **** together today? wow.

 

[JSSM]

Deadly7- you are right. Sorry about that. That being said i think there are better options over Sprint.

As for Mad Money. Jim Cramer does know what he's talking about. However, I basically watch for entertainment. But he does have a pretty good record if you look back to the things he recommends.

We need to find some stocks that have yet to pop! Tried my luck in penny stocks, and lost ******--never again.

Cramer knows more than he leads on. He acts like a clown on the show, but a couple of interviews you can find on YouTube show he is at least more in touch with how it works than just about any other presenter on tv (not hard, since they're all incompetent). CYStyle: I hope neither your nor anyone else is trading on information listed within this thread. If you can't spot the sucker at the table...

 

[NameBack]



your algo predicted that the Eurozone would get its **** together today? wow.

It predicted that going long was going to be a good call. And let's be honest, this rally was as much about the markets as it was about political events -- this plan is hardly a guaranteed rescue. If anything, I sincerely doubt its efficacy, but the market is in rally mode, so "good" news gets magnified as a big rally. This has been the trend for some time now.

 

[GreenFrog]



It predicted that going long was going to be a good call. And let's be honest, this rally was as much about the markets as it was about political events -- this plan is hardly a guaranteed rescue. If anything, I sincerely doubt its efficacy, but the market is in rally mode, so "good" news gets magnified as a big rally. This has been the trend for some time now.

Right. I 100% agree with you on how the tiniest bit of +/- news gets magnified and the market goes up and down dramatically. For example, today's huge rally was just that. But the rally was an effect of the Eurozone's agreement to terms -- a qualitative event. Sure, your algo predicted the correct trend, but your algo is only limited to quantitative data. I guess I'm trying to say that it was merely a coincidence that the market rallied as your algo predicted. It very much so could have went in the opposite direction if this meeting came out without any agreement between the nations.

But I wouldn't be surprised if the market falls sharply again tomorrow or on Monday. The agreements they came upon today were so high level and there's no real plan of attack.

 

[CYstyle]



Cramer knows more than he leads on. He acts like a clown on the show, but a couple of interviews you can find on YouTube show he is at least more in touch with how it works than just about any other presenter on tv (not hard, since they're all incompetent).
CYStyle: I hope neither your nor anyone else is trading on information listed within this thread. If you can't spot the sucker at the table...

I do all my own research etc. My portfolio's up 68%+ I just like to see other people opinions and perspectives.

 

[JSSM]

Cramer knows more than he leads on. He acts like a clown on the show, but a couple of interviews you can find on YouTube show he is at least more in touch with how it works than just about any other presenter on tv (not hard, since they're all incompetent).
CYStyle: I hope neither your nor anyone else is trading on information listed within this thread. If you can't spot the sucker at the table...

I do all my own research etc. My portfolio's up 68%+ I just like to see other people opinions and perspectives.

The problem with this is that anyone that bought and held some s&p contracts over the last year could be up significantly. It would be interesting if you made money during the recent downward move.

 

[Saltricks]

After a conversation with my fulbright scholarship friend at MIT about the future of stem cells, I decided to buy 5000 shares of GERN this morning. 13 percent rally before the day is out .

 

[GreenFrog]



After a conversation with my fulbright scholarship friend at MIT about the future of stem cells, I decided to buy 5000 shares of GERN this morning. 13 percent rally before the day is out .

lol i cant believe that's on the NASDAQ.. it's practically a penny stock!

would you run into liquidity issues if you tried to dump your shares right now?