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Funny i just went there to buy a book for my trip.
Wallstreetraiders,
be more specific, which pick use symbol in your >?
cya
Well while im gone make sure my stocks go up. OK=]
Wamuq was good for the kids .. Cya soon vacation 4 me
Sliding Oil Won't Sink Solar (Video, Sept. 19)
Falling oil prices are dragging down solar stocks, but Tom Zarella, CEO of GT Solar (SOLR Quote - Cramer on SOLR - Stock Picks), says the alternative energy business will weather the storm.
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Ksquared about time
I person marked you thanks for your input here
MY thoughts SOLR, good for the short term, but could be really great if you take a longer approach as well. Wouldn't it be nice to be holding if it hit 30-50. Remember this is a relatively new ipo.
The U.S. Senate on Tuesday [Sept. 23] approved about $18 billion of renewable-energy tax credits after repeated failed attempts to do so this year.
The 93-2 vote cleared a major hurdle for extending a set of tax credits for businesses and residents investing in renewable energy, from building and operating power plants to installing small wind turbines on residential properties.
Solar, wind and other renewable-energy investors and executives have been anxiously waiting on Congress to extend a set of investment-tax credits that would offset 30 percent of the cost of a solar project.
"We know with certainty that the extension of these credits sends out a green ripple effect: solar projects on hold can now move forward, America creates new green-collar jobs with over 214,000 in California alone, and businesses and homeowners can count on lower energy bills in a time of economic hardship," said Barry Cinnamon, CEO of Akeena Solar (AKNS Quote - Cramer on AKNS - Stock Picks), in a statement.
Read the full version of Green Energy Sector Gets Boost From Senate.
Solar Energy: Can You Afford It? (Video, Oct. 1)
Julia Hamm of the Solar Electric Power Association tells Debra Borchardt that solar is striving to become more affordable for the residential market.
To watch the full video, click the player below:
Solar Energy: Can You Afford It?
From Solar's Outlook Gets a Bit Sunnier:
The key industry players badly need to assure investors that they will not simply be a flash in the pan. The House still needs to sign off on the bill as well. It is also worth noting that the $18 billion package is completely offset by the reduction in benefits to the oil and gas industry.
Shares in the group have soared and plunged, depending on broader sentiment, as these stocks carry very high betas. Yet institutions have largely placed their bets on First Solar (FSLR Quote - Cramer on FSLR - Stock Picks), which is the only stock in the group closer to its 52-week high than its 52-week low, and which is valued at a lush 13.3 times projected 2008 sales on an enterprise value basis.
Notably... the China-based solar plays... sport the lowest valuations, in large part because of the absolute decimation of the broader Chinese market.
But investors need to stay focused on the fact that industry growth can stay above 25% for the next three to five years, as the legislative backdrop is likely to become yet more favorable. Both presidential candidates have expressed a great deal of support for an expansion in credits and subsidies for alternative energy.
Read the full version of Solar's Outlook Gets a Bit Sunnier (RealMoney access required).
From Despite Financial Crisis, Clean Energy Firms Seek Capital:
Until it filed for bankruptcy protection last week, Lehman [Brothers] had been a popular underwriter for companies raising funds, by issuing shares or borrowing money. The investment bank's collapse prompted statements from companies such as SunPower (SPWR Quote - Cramer on SPWR - Stock Picks) Evergreen Solar (ESLR Quote - Cramer on ESLR - Stock Picks) explaining the financial impact of Lehman's fall.
Investors said the market's turmoil will likely suppress any appetite for initial public offerings for now. Solar- and wind-energy companies also will likely find it difficult to raise money in the near future to build power plants or factories.
Some companies don't want to wait until the markets stabilize. LDK Solar (LDK Quote - Cramer on LDK - Stock Picks), for example, announced last week that it intended to raise $200 million.
Read the full version of Despite Financial Crisis, Clean Energy Firms Seek Capital. (Related: On Aug. 29, the Associated Press reported that China-based LDK Solar projected its 2009 revenue to be between $2.8 billion and $3 billion.)
From For Solar Stocks, Cash Flow Is King:
Many of the publicly traded solar companies have built up substantial debt already, making banks even more reluctant to extend them new loans. SunPower, for example, had $225 million in long-term debt at the end of the June quarter, while Evergreen had $108 million.
Maybe solar companies can raise capital through the debt market, relying on convertible bonds to fuel their growth. But as with stock offerings, one has to wonder how exactly this is going to work.
We're down to two independent bulge-bracket firms [Goldman Sachs (GS Quote - Cramer on GS - Stock Picks) and Morgan Stanley (MS Quote - Cramer on MS - Stock Picks)] -- and they may not be as bulletproof as we thought. They also face the daunting task of peddling bonds to a market that is suspicious of even the top-rated companies, let alone smaller, younger companies with a lot of risk built into their business model. And that is what we have with solar.
Because for all the promise of growth facing solar energy, it has an awful lot of threats.
Read the full version of For Solar Stocks, Cash Flow Is King (RealMoney access required).
Sliding Oil Won't Sink Solar (Video, Sept. 19)
Falling oil prices are dragging down solar stocks, but Tom Zarella, CEO of GT Solar (SOLR Quote - Cramer on SOLR - Stock Picks), says the alternative energy business will weather the storm.
To watch the video, click the player below:
Plus, don't miss this recent solar-focused video on TheStreet.com TV: China Watch Mail Bag: Solar Sense (Sept. 20: One viewer is particularly interested in Solarfun Power (SOLF Quote - Cramer on SOLF - Stock Picks), China Sunergy (CSUN Quote - Cramer on CSUN - Stock Picks) and Yingli Green Sunergy (YGE Quote - Cramer on YGE - Stock Picks). Staff writer Chuck Marvin gives his pick of the litter, plus some other solar picks he likes a little bit more.)
From Analysts Pick 2009's Solar Winners: Suntech:
"The year 2009 could start to show signs of bifurcation between long-term winners and the companies with a 'me-too' strategy in the solar sector," wrote Lazard Capital Markets analyst Sanjay Shrestha of Lazard Capital Markets in a research note Friday [Sept. 5].
Jeff Osborne, an analyst at Thomas Weisel Parners, has already aired his pick of winners.
"We see Suntech (STP Quote - Cramer on STP - Stock Picks) (high volume, low cost), SunPower (high performance and vertical integration), and First Solar (low cost, high volume) weathering the storm well," Osborne wrote in a research note.
Read the full version of Analysts Pick 2009's Solar Winners: Suntech.
From Thin-Film Solar Set to Take Market Share:
"The thin-film [photovoltaics] sector is going to make a major impact on the overall growth of the PV industry in the next five years," wrote authors Sorin Grama and Travis Bradford, both of the Prometheus Institute. "It will change the economics to customers, trigger a more competitive landscape for all solar-energy technologies and force capital markets to assess and adapt yet again to a changing solar landscape."
Read the full version of Thin-Film Solar Set to Take Market Share.
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Kool bud be well
I hope more remember first time 500%+ will see. 1.27 it hit 10
Pilot, would you like to help mod?
looking for help building a table to help track the performance of our picks since board was created, this is got to be the most talented group of traders on the net. Consistently picking 100-2000%+ swings.
This board was started 5 mos ago, I can't even count how many 100% gainers here,not to mention 300%+++. I would love to find someone to help and take posts from this board and make a table with picks entrys and what return they delivered, but im too busy finding the stocks.
Lets try to find some members to help us do that and i know some other posters here have also put some great picks as well. Tag made a nice call on my beloved solf the other day.
Yeah almost 100% for my entry, but I sold it way to early. Im glad you held onto it longer, but my abk did well for me so cant complain. As long as we making money here, whats to complain about.
I will be in and out next few days, but will keep trying to check in.
WAMUQ well over 100% now for me weeeeee
10.12 you read for 12+
Get ready for SOLR
about to leave cafe but SOLR will be over 12 very soon, then hopefully new highs after that on swing.
I like cpst here, last time i bought near these levels for swing i got 3+ bucks.
Maybe my SOLR will hit 12 today,
watch end of day
Called Abk 2.40 now 3.60 Dtg 1.80 now over 2.10 swing!! Ill be back
Nice to see my abk green!
Im on the road. i bought some and just putting it away holding long last time i bought near 1, i got near 4 bucks. SOlr hanging in there, and i bought a tiny bit of dtg abk for long swings.
Ill check back again.
WAMUQ gapping again today .10 x .105
Thank you sir
woot!
Not bad Taguchi=]
lang just for you
but also put link in ibox to help others.
http://www.pivotpointcalculator.com/Default.aspx
you know what im thinking about this?
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Bush approves $25 billion loan package for auto makers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Tuesday signed into law a mammoth spending bill to keep the government running until early March 2009 that includes a $25 billion loan package for troubled automakers. ADVERTISEMENT
The action came after the Senate over the weekend gave final congressional approval to the more than $630 billion spending bill that was needed to finance defense, education, farm, health, foreign aid and other government programs after the current fiscal year expired on September 30.
The spending legislation allows a ban on offshore drilling to expire on September 30. Democrats had hoped to extend the ban, but did not have the votes to overcome strong opposition from Republicans.
Bush, in a statement announcing that he had signed the legislation, said the measures to lift the ban on offshore drilling "will allow us to reduce our dependence on foreign oil."
The bill sets aside $7.5 billion in taxpayer funds needed to guarantee $25 billion in low-interest loans to help General Motors Corp, Ford Motor Co and Chrysler LLC produce more fuel-efficient cars and trucks.
U.S. automakers have said the taxpayer-backed loan package
would give them access to capital at a time when credit markets are shut and they are being driven to invest in new technologies to meet tough new federal fuel economy standards.
The $25 billion loan package, the biggest federal subsidy for the auto industry since the 1980 bailout of Chrysler, cleared Congress last weekend when the focus was on the debate over the $700 billion financial rescue package.
GM, Ford and Chrylser had said they could manage without the federal loans but also suggested that without the federal subsidy thousands more industry jobs could be at risk.
Both presidential candidates, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, backed the auto loan package, which had strong support in battleground election states like Michigan and Ohio.
U.S. auto sales have been slumping for three consecutive years, forcing Detroit automakers to slash jobs and cap new investment. Through August, U.S. sales were down 11 percent and on track to hit the lowest level in 15 years.
The loan package was authorized -- but not funded -- in a 2007 energy law that requires automakers to improve the fuel efficiency of their vehicles by 40 percent by 2020.
Major automakers have said that will require up to $100 billion in combined new investment to retool factories and invest in new technology, including next-generation battery-packs for electric vehicles.
Industry executives, including GM Chief Executive Rick Wagoner and Chrysler Chief Executive Bob Nardelli, said they would press for liberal federal guidelines once the law was sent to regulators in order to use the funds to offset the cost of a wide range of investment.
Japanese automakers Toyota Motor Corp and Honda Motor Co could be eligible for the low-cost federal funding but have said they have no intention of applying for the loans.
Congress passed the massive spending bill before the new fiscal year began October 1 because lawmakers failed to approve any of the 12 spending bills needed every year to fund government operations.
(Reporting by Tabassum Zakaria and Kevin Krolicki; editing by Carol Bishopric)
Gecko give ya the night off?
Where you been bud?
Bang! Here it is, I told you i would find ya.
person mark and board added.
$$$$$$
Edwardo
Im coming for a boardmark and a person mark for you next.
cheers, don't forget to put me on priority alert for the hot pennies, all i do is big boards lately I need some wild wild west in my life, though wamuq is doing me nicely.
LOl, i didn't come here to throw down on the verbal abuse. I just wasn't going to take it. Hey all in good fun, have a wonderful night including Mr. Sparks.
ciao!
Ok ill chime in from the road, food for thought
ABK watch it closely i got my orders triggered to buy if it moves up. Chart at pivot point. Would like to run this one like last time for 400-500% long. Stay tuned.
Livermore quote
"What beat me was not having brains enough to stick to my own game –
that is, to play the market only when I was satisfied that precedents
favoured my play. There is the plain fool, who does the wrong thing at
all times everywhere, but there is also the Wall Street fool, who
thinks he must trade all the time. No man can have adequate reasons
for buying or selling stocks daily – or sufficient knowledge to make
his play an intelligent play."
Rocken!
Thanks....
Corn plummeting.
Relax lets take 1 step at a time. geez lol
ALoha, board mark
Sorry to come off that way, confidence should not be construed as arrogance. Sometimes the typed word confuses meaning, im just a humble man. I know you are capable on your own, but sometimes friends bring gifts.
I'll go jump out of a building now since i apparently offended someone. I got nothing but love to give.
Laters.....
throwing it up on watch, thank you sir. Ill be in and out next few days.