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Flying or driving?
won't ask
Beautiful!!
There is no way I'm going to catch up reading 248,166 posts
Hope you guys had a good summer!
haha I thought maybe he was trading forex or something! lol
Good luck to you. Are you trading any while there?
NO THANK YOU my dear!
As soon as the kids graduate (soon) I'm selling my house and moving some place warmer for the winters and a small condo here for the summers!
My father use to do that when we were younger. Lived in TX during the winter months and north during the summer.
Am I late my love? lol
I think we're going to have one hell of a freezing winter!
Heya SB what have you been trading lately?
Hi Christopher,
It was pouring down raining and cold here so didn't get many trick or treaters :(
Looks like you had fun but may be sufferin a bit today!
Trading TNA today. Goofed off this morning and missed a great set up but luckily got an opportunity at $42.29 to $43.19.
Hope you're doing well!
ROFLMAO!!!
Margin Call
Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons and Demi Moore
Good movie about what goes on behind closed doors
Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, "Margin Call" is a thriller entangling the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. When entry-level analyst Peter Sullivan unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster ride ensues as decisions both financial and moral catapult the lives of all involved to the brink of disaster. Expanding the parameters of genre, "Margin Call" is a riveting examination of the human components of a subject too often relegated to partisan issues of black and white.
Professional Review:
It may have happened something like this. "Margin Call" depicts the last night of good times on Wall Street, as a deadly certainty travels up the executive ladder at an investment firm: Disastrous speculation in the mortgage markets is leading to the firm's collapse. We can still recall those days in the summer of 2008, during the Obama-McCain campaign, when America seemed awash in prosperity, and the stock market was setting records. Then one firm after another was forced to declare bankruptcy, the nation's economic structure was threatened, and Congress ponied up its huge bailout.
"Margin Call" begins on a day at an unnamed investment firm that must certainly have an inkling of what's coming, since 80 percent of the work force is laid off. One of the victims is Eric (Stanley Tucci), a senior risks analyst who like many of his colleagues was incapable of seeing that the real estate market was built as a house of cards. Although writer-director J.C. Chandor's film has sympathy for most of its characters, it is important to remember that they all felt they had to play along with the deals that were bringing their firms such huge profits and bonuses.
On his way out the door, Eric slips a USB drive to Peter (Zachary Quinto), a younger analyst who wasn't fired. There's information on it that disturbs him. So it should. While the office is empty, and the survivors are out partying to celebrate not being fired, Peter realizes the firm and the market are clearly trembling on the brink. He contacts his supervisor, Will (Paul Bettany), who takes one look and calls his boss, Sam (Kevin Spacey). Others are called in for an all-night emergency meeting until at dawn as a helicopter brings in CEO John Tuld (Jeremy Irons).
You don't need to understand a lot about the markets to follow the film. John is a cool, polished Brit who likes to say things like, "Speak to me in plain terms," because his job requires him to manage the corporation but not necessarily understand its business. Indeed, as we now know, a fresh young college graduate could have looked at the balance sheets and clearly seen Wall Street was doomed.
It is up to John to make the margin call. In other words, to order his company to start dumping worthless holdings before the word spread that they are worthless — essentially, betraying their customers. It has now been established that some firms created hedge funds intended to fail, so they could make money betting against them. These they sold to their customers knowing they were worthless.
I think the movie is about how its characters are concerned only by the welfare of their corporations. There is no larger sense of the public good. Corporations are amoral, and exist to survive and succeed, at whatever human cost. This is what the Occupy Wall Street protesters are angry about: They are not against capitalism, but about Wall Street dishonesty and greed.
"Margin Call" employs an excellent cast who can make financial talk into compelling dialogue. They also can reflect the enormity of what is happening: Their company and their lives are being rendered meaningless. This scenario was enacted at many Wall Street institutions on the autumn of 2008, and fundamental financial reform is still being opposed. No particular firm is named, but doesn't it seem to you that the name of the Jeremy Irons character, "John Tuld," has an echo of Richard Fuld, CEO of Lehman Brothers, who collected enormous bonuses for leading his company into bankruptcy?
Irons is sly in the role, a man who knows his own financial stability is unassailable, who considers his job as an amoral exercise, who has made it to the top by not particularly caring about people. A great corporate executive must have a strain of ruthlessness. I also admired Kevin Spacey, who projects incisive intelligence in his very manner, and Demi Moore, as a senior executive who has risen to just below the glass ceiling and knows she will stay there.
The physical world of the film itself is effective. It's all glass, steel and protocol, long black cars and executive perks, luxurious lifestyles paid for with what was inescapably fraud. One of the characters has a sick dog. The dog is the only creature in the entire film that anyone likes.
that's me!
work for a month and take the rest of the year off :)~
I want to see you there (and other places )
hey cosmo,
Hope you're doing well.
No, not at all. I just prefer to spend time on twitter with folks with the same interests. I took a break for the summer but started back up again in October 1 just trading TNA/TZA every day.
Yesterday, went short 500 TNA @ $41.25 and covered AH @ $40.45 (ha should have covered today!).
I also like following folks on Tim's profit.ly because you see "verified" traders trading and not just what people say they're trading on a message board :)
Take care!
haha good morning darlin!
that guy seriously cracks me up. I subscribe to him just to get a good giggle!
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That is adorable!!
I thought the other one was intention (a happy face).
how have you been Buyit?
Thanks for posting that. Put it on "keep."
Been trading TNA/TZA instead of stocks just about daily now. Nice few days TNA had!
Have a good weekend SSS
nice to revisit with gloom and doom :)
Z!!!!!! xoxoxo
I knew you would :)
how have you been?
let me see
1 tenant demolished a property had to fix up again
2 sold one property but bank of america missed the closing date 3 times so they had to go with another lender
3 vacation abroad
4 one kid going off to college soon
took the summer off to deal with everything going on and then a vacation :) Been trading TZA/TNA on and off but that's it really.
Hope you guys have been well and making lots of $
good evening bleeker :)
no, which is that one?
haven't been keeping up with much except TZA and TNA back and forth.
but isn't r/s typical?
funny thing, as hard as I wanted to, i'm too exhausted to even come back with something witty to that!
been a busy/hectic summer but thanks for the "tina" signals :)
Missed me?
haha yeah it is ;)
Just curious,
Have there been a lot of subscribers who now have the new app on their iphones/ipads?
Enjoyed testing it out in the beginning as it's a cool new enhancement :)
Wow! Amazing ibox Diggles :)
oh, well....nevermind.
good morning Larry. Smart man!
Yikes get it out ASAP before it causes structural damage.
Did you call your insurance agent?
Most don't cover flooding unless you have a special policy but it is covered depending on the wording of your claim (under covered perils section).
They give it to you and then take it away (exclusions) that's why it's very important to read the policy carefully and most agents don't even know how to read them!
I never noticed you added an assistant here.
Are you going to post anymore big board or bio stock charts Z?
cute acc!
I'd rather the media over dramatizes and get little any day!
hope you're doing well.
Thanks Lizzy
We didn't get too much out of the norm.
Hope you had a good weekend.
Hi Chris,
School is back in session here.
Oldest only needs a few more credits and will be done and has two jobs.
Youngest has her first job.
Thank god for jobs. Less hours to worry about them.
Hope your summer has been going well.
Hi KC,
Sorry for the late response. I was having my car serviced when you left a message and unlike the old days when you had an answering machine that would blink, unless you actually pick up the phone to make a call, you don't know there's a vm! Plus now with school starting up and both kids have jobs, my new title is taxi driver around here all the time.
We didn't get much of anything besides a little bit of rain and some wind but didn't do much more than knocking some pine cones down.
Hope everyone else had just as boring of a hurricane as I did!
Have a good week.
Phone lines aren't working.
Hit NC as well. Scariest thing I've felt weather wise before.
sirens going off outside.
We just got hit too but minor here.
felt my desk and ground shaking. Thought someone was doing construction outside or something and hubby just called and said they got it where he works as well.
he had to leave off the phone fast so not sure what's up there.
hope you're ok gail.
I spoke too soon make that +219.67% and going!