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Did you see SFI today? My 10,000 shares took me on a rollercoaster ride. Closed green!
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Yes, not sure what to do about EGLE. Have to look at the chart again. Was carrying almost $300 loss so getting out here even looks good. Or course, $6. exit would be better.
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Nice trade on SFI.
I'm still long, but watching. When the indexes go red early like today, bears attack anything with high Beta. Still looks like tug of war to me. No winners yet, but a lot of potential $$$ during the volatiliy playing the swings.
Have a great nite,
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SFI did you sell at 3.55? Closed at 3.88
Bulls and Bears still fighting on this one.
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Ssshhh, I like EGLE going up. Green is good. Been red on that one for a little while. Oh, and I did get back in SOMX, but then had to go out and did not get to sell. So I'll hold overnite, though bios are not my usual overnite play. Definitely have to get out before weekend, just a personal rule. Never hold a bio or bank over the weekend.
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SFI, yes still holding. You?
Today's candle on EGLE could have been indecision, though there were a lot of sellers. Held again, but better move soon, getting impatient. LOL
Sold SOMX 3.62 from 3.38 only 1000 shares cause I'm not fond of bios. Then it went up a little and I almost bought back. Good thing I didn't, closed at 3.48 Might take another look in the morning.
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Interesting, I am long SFI 10,000 shares @ 3.73 with a tight stop. Indicators are toppy.
The company has a lot of good news coming, but is not one to put out many pr's. The Citi upgrade was nice. Tug of war right here, but has been one of my favorite flippers.
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SFI bulls and bears really going at it today.
EGLE hurting my feelings too! Looking for a little pop to get out, then I'll wait for signs of a turn. Was just too early this time. Money wasted just sitting, can use it elsewhere.
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PACR I sold at 4.74
Big ask came in at 4.75 and I jumped ship. 2k shares made about $300. by holding one night. Nice profit, I'll look for another dip and think about getting back in.
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EGLE cam back, though I almost sold. Held PACR overnight, maybe market is better tomorrow. Picked up a little SOMX. SFI moved up again on the shortsqweeze ranking. Now it is 2,195. I thought SFI was a little weak, but it still has volume so we'll see what it can do.
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SFI Shortsqweeze ranking 2,195 tonight. Up three hundred points since yesterday.
ISTAR FINANCIAL INC $ 3.84
SFI 0.05
Short Interest (Shares Short) 21,711,900
Days To Cover (Short Interest Ratio) 24.0
Short Percent of Float 22.94 %
Short Interest - Prior 20,892,000
Short % Increase / Decrease 3.92 %
Short Squeeze Ranking™ 2,195
% From 52-Wk High ($ 4.28 ) -11.46 %
% From 52-Wk Low ($ 0.76 ) 80.21 %
% From 200-Day MA ($ 2.68 ) 30.21 %
% From 50-Day MA ($ 3.06 ) 20.31 %
Price % Change (52-Week) 398.70 %
Shares Float 94,665,858
Total Shares Outstanding 97,451,921
% Owned by Insiders 5.00 %
% Owned by Institutions 48.70 %
Market Cap. $ 374,215,377
Trading Volume - Today 2,181,199
Trading Volume - Average 904,700
Trading Volume - Today vs. Average 241.10 %
Earnings Per Share -7.88
PE Ratio
Record Date 2010-FebA
Sector Financial
Industry Credit Services
Exchange NY
Simple question. Is it possible to trade without emotion when you own 10,000 shares of a stock and every penny it moves is $100.?
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SFI bid keeps growing. Market makers NYSE and CINN giving it a boost.
EGLE Still in at a loss which is getting bigger. Lot of sellers this morning, but whole market was red. Level 2 looks like it found some support around 4.90 If it doesn't hold I'll be out soon. Course soon as I sell the rocket will take off. LOL
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PACR Probably good you don't watch the market all day. They took it way down this morning. I almost thought is would fill the gap all the way to $4.00, but low was $4.40
I grabbed a few at 4.57 on the way back up, probably a daytrade. Will see how the rest of the day goes.
GLTY,
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Guess he could keep buying, claim he owned the company and then wait for SPNG to reply.
Sorry, don't know how this doubled.
Guess he could keep buying, claim he owned the company and then wait for SPNG to reply.
Do you think he is trying to buy the whole company? Doesn't take deep pockets to buy at these prices.
Nice find. Great predefined scans there and all in one place.
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PACR Took a look at the chart. Daily and weekly look toppy to me. Think you are right about $5. being key. Will be nice if the volume continues and the indexes keep edging up. A little consolidation would be healthy.
Daily chart, big white candle on 11/4/09 was with 9 million volume. A day like that would blow through $5.00 easy.
One thing I did notice is monthly chart is beautiful and has plenty of room to move higher. Don't usually look at those charts and not sure how it will play out.
Good luck, think I am late to the party here, but may watch for the $5. break to see if it looks sustainable.
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btw PACR has been doing quite well. Where is everyone who should be talking on this board? Best kept secret?
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Ameritrade lets me use any money that is three days past the original buy date.
Example: I buy stock A and sell three days later I can use that money again to buy stock B, then sell whenever I want but not allowed to buy stock C until three days from the stock B buy date.
So if I buy and sell B on same day have to wait three days to buy C. Haven't been in prison yet. LOL
I definitely would be flagged as pattern day trader, but keep cash account. No margin. In order to always have money I try to Use no more than one third of my account on any given day. Ex: If there is $30,000 in my account I can flip $10,000 the first day, $10,000 the second day, and $10,000 the third day. When the fourth day comes around the $10,000 from the first day is available. Messes the whole plan up if I hold something more than three days.
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Bet you are more confused than ever now.
SFI check it out. 1,899 ranking on shortsqweeze.com Chart is getting to the top, but scare the shorts and all bets are off.
http://www.shortsqueeze.com/?symbol=sfi
ISTAR FINANCIAL INC $ 3.79
SFI 0.23
Short Interest (Shares Short) 21,711,900
Days To Cover (Short Interest Ratio) 24.0
Short Percent of Float 22.94 %
Short Interest - Prior 20,892,000
Short % Increase / Decrease 3.92 %
Short Squeeze Ranking™ 1,899
% From 52-Wk High ($ 4.28 ) -12.93 %
% From 52-Wk Low ($ 0.76 ) 79.95 %
% From 200-Day MA ($ 2.67 ) 29.55 %
% From 50-Day MA ($ 3.03 ) 20.05 %
Price % Change (52-Week) 345.00 %
Shares Float 94,665,858
Total Shares Outstanding 97,451,921
% Owned by Insiders 5.00 %
% Owned by Institutions 48.70 %
Market Cap. $ 369,342,781
Trading Volume - Today 2,377,562
Trading Volume - Average 904,700
Trading Volume - Today vs. Average 262.80 %
Earnings Per Share -7.88
PE Ratio
Record Date 2010-FebA
Sector Financial
Industry Credit Services
Exchange NY
Does this mean there really is a Cris Galo? There used to be a lot of bashers claiming he never existed.
So, is this why Hayter took over? What happens if he reverse merges BIHC into some other company before the SEC moves? They seem to have been taking their time.
What do you mean you can't sell? I always sell whenever I want. Just can't reuse the money for three days from the original buy day.
SFI nearly gave me heart attack today.(Trading without emotion, yeah right!) Looks like we are real close to the top and wanted to get out before it falls again. Then I looked at shortsqweeze.com and they have SFI ranked at 1,899. Not sure I have ever seen one ranked that high before so I held. It will be very volatile. The 52 week high is $4.28 and if it got there it would surely fly. Fifty cents away any poitive news could do it. Watching closely.
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Nice wondered why it went up today. Didn't trade much. Watched most of my picks go up, but didn't chase.....got back in SFI.
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Didn't get a chance to look at chart. Had an online class tonight on how to trade with Level 2 and was busy with some other stuff.
I see they do drilling. They do more oil or nat gas? Oil is going up again and might be good there. Gas is not doing so well. In this country biggest users are industry and many of them are slower or shut down. Even utilities that use gas are using less. Doesn't mean stock won't run and growth is expected long term.
Is this one a master limited partnership? I am in PBT which is one. My only real long term hold(actually in wife's IRA). Had it a couple years now. Think it is at about the same price where I bought. Has been higher and much lower, but I did get dividends the whole time so all is good I guess.
Enough about fundies. HA
I'm watching XNPT, SFI, PACR, BEE, maybe even CBEY, CCJ, and SRZ.
Will probably pick two maybe three to flip this week, unless something better comes up.
Good Trading,
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SFI took off. LOL
Sold my entire position, may regret it but made nice $$$$.
Will look for a dip to buy back in unless of course it breaks out, then I'll try to catch the run early. Don't know how much higher it can go before the shorts start to worry. 25% of float is shorted. After today the Shortsqweeze.com ranking went up to 1,498 How much more will it take to burn them? I am watching closely.
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Yes the losses can mount fast. I finally started using stops and sticking with them. Before when a stock went down I would say oh it will be okay, it will bounce back. Then become a "stuckholder" and have the capital tied up for who knows how long. Now it it goes to $200 or $300 loss I am out, period. I will use the capital somewhere else. Each person should have a limit they are willing to lose and stick with it. There are thousands of stocks and many new stories to be told. Plenty of chances to make a profit as long as there is still capital to use.
As for analyst. Oh, don't get me started. LOL I swear they are just a bunch of crooks. Have seen them downgrade a stock just so they could buy in on the cheap before a run or to prevent a quick run up so they can get out of their short positions. They will also upgrade a stock when it is near the top so they can get out with the most profit. What a joke. And the analyst that downgraded CREE, he was probably buying all week that week and laughing all the way to the bank now.
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Oh and selling CREE was probably a good idea. I sold BRK.B last week and a friend was telling me how much it went up this week. When I checked it is now about a dollar more than where I sold, but I had 250 shares. Tying up $19,000 for $250 profit might make some people happy, but just does not seem like the best use of capital to me.
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I'll take a look at PTEN Sunday nite when I'm looking over ideas for next week.
I love Ameritrade. Use the strategydesk platform, but am trying to learn the think or swim platform and change over. They bought out think or swim and offer it free now. I also get Level 2 and lots of other freebies like market trade ideas and web based education. Have even gone to a couple of their live seminars. All great stuff.
Enjoy the weekend.
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Hey not my best week. Made $13,000 first week of January. Took $8,000 out of my brokerage account to spend.
But can't make that much every week. Took some time off and had a couple lousy weeks, but getting back in the groove.
I'm holding EGLE, my only open positon, with about a $80 loss. If it goes to $200 loss will sell. Learning to manage risks, cut my losses.
Trading full time now so capital preservation is really important.
Have a great weekend!
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Missed that one.
I flipped SFI, XNPT, BEE, PLAB, SIRI, PACR, USU, and BRK.B this week. Almost five grand in profits. Really nice week.
One open position EGLE
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Did nice with SFI and XNPT today.
Augusta,
Go for it. I'll have to check back later in the weekend to look over some of the charts. My T/A skills are finally improving. Closed all but one position today and ready with cash for next week.
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OMG, you linked about a billion charts. LOL
Any favorites for next week?
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Hi Vianna, just checking in. Hope you are doing well.
Saw FFGO was trading big volume again.
GLTY,
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