Inflation and low interest will destroy retirees.

Re-submit your post in response to a Zeev post - he'll never see it addressed to "none".

That's what I've been working on for three years....

Was that little up and down dance after the Fed call normal?

Those creeps scared me out of some nice trading posistions and I only made half what I could have.

THERE IS TOO MUCH TO LEARN HERE!!!

I succumbed - sold GNSS short at 15.24...

Just a small position. But I am no longer pure.


In edit - covered at 15.13 - too many blocks sold around 15.20. BUT I DID IT!! LOL!!

Can someone explain?

I have two level II screens, one through e-trade the other through Ameritrade. Ameritrade shows the bid on ARDM 300@2.49 by ADFN. E-trade shows both ADFN and INCA for 300 each @2.49.

Why the discrepancy?

What is the best way to get pre-market action on NYSE? I have a bid of 6.60 and ask of 6.78 showing on my Ameritrade account, 6.39 and 6.52 showing on my e-trade Level II screen.

Scottrade is hopeless...

duplicate

Please do forward that correspondance. I am very interested.

I have been thinking about moving the account since the first day of the switch. Will be opening up another account soon but things are moving pretty well now and I am reluctant to break the rythm :)

The problem with IB is for trades over 2000 shrs they get to be too expensive.

It's Datek/Ameritrade that I'm getting the slow fills on. Of course freetrade is probably the same. Am planning to do the same thing, fund a small account and try it. Only problem is I'm making too much money right now so want to wait till things slow up a bit to make changes *grin*.

If Fed holds, will we see a hard spike down on "disappointment" so the big boys can pick up some more inventory?

This would explain why they have been pumping another cut.

I bought OMG for a swing but didn't even try to trade it because I didn't have level II. What do you use for trading signals on a NYSE stock? Placed a market order and got the stock at $6.45 when other sales going on at $6.42 so do I always use limit orders when trading?

The only other NYSE stock I ever bought was CRY on their original dump so I feel like I'm going blind here.

I had another stupid go-around with Ameritrade this week. BDAL wouldn't trade. Had to call twice and spend about an hour on the phone. First time they blamed it on SelectNet, second time someone found the real problem, it was entered in the database as OTCBB and wouldn't let me trade it. Fortunately it was a slow trader and I still got my trade, but I am not happy with the "it's not our fault" attitude.

I still think they are working the spread on the trades - is there a way to confirm this? Trades are posting much slower, the feel is different.

I actually had to back off trading for the last hour today. I had done so well this week that I was completely freaked out!

I've been working so hard at learning for several years now and now I realize that I have learned a lot, just didn't have the right opportunites to use what I'd learned. When the market does turn down again I think it will be easier for me to back off and wait for the next wave. Unless, of course, I finally learn to short....

Don't follow it, but a quick look at the charts says it may be turning. It seems the whole sector is going off.

ASTM just skyrocketed to .32 after weeks of .25 and below. GZMO went from .97 recently to a high of 2.66 today, BIOM popped this week too.

I believe ORCH will jump on earnings 11/7. They've been holding it under tight control for weeks, accumulating and I believe preparing for a blowoff.

My portfolio is up about 80% since this rally started, I'm totally amazed!

What would the cause of that be???

In at 6.58 for a swing.

Gregory Peck..

Is it possible that the insanity in OMG is directly attributable to the margin situatioin of the insiders? Could their broker be the one that started the ball rolling?

Again, thinking like a criminal....

A lot of bios that are going down price wise have an MACD at a 45deg up trend. I have been wondering that means that they are being consumed while still breathing.

I've been doing well trading SEPR for the last couple of days. It seems to be trading solidly upward.

Anyone having trouble with fills?

I am having trouble getting stock sold at bid with Ameritrade - they are saying it is because Selectnet is down.

Does anyone make anything of the fact that the dips down are more accute in the current graph?

Thinking like a criminal here, but wouldn't a big unrealistic tout for a cut be a good setup for an accumulation dump and a contiunation of the upward trend?

I guess that you can say BTK is in for a big fall (down) or that it is in for a big fall (autumn). So I guess you have to be right on this one :)

swing traders, check NTEC. Haven't done much DD but I like the chart and it's playing like an accumulation run.

It's an addiction - maybe we should start a recovery chapter for bottom feeders...

First rule should be:

Only play with a stock within three days of a big dump on news. Negative dump on positive news included.

Just traded well on NTEC - no news and caught it low. They'll still probably hold it down for three days now so I sold 2/3 of the position.

I just placed a limit order for SEPR and it took a while to go through. Is it possible that AMERITRADE is not passing my orders straight through?

The fills just feel different from DATEK.

Still seeing some nice accumulation runs in biotech: SEPR,MDCO,NTEC.

ALKS breaking out a bit and MLNM may also be breaking out of a trading range.

It feels like the real deal, but I have to warn you, I'm still very much in a learning curve here.

OMG - another thought.. Don't these things usually take at least three days to resolve? This gives the big boys a chance to collect those margin call shares.

Well, I could start comparing the chart to good biotechs that have trial results that are not so hot. They have been overly punished and come back. The question is will it take days, weeks or months for the comeback?

Another possibility - The boys with the bucks used it as an excuse to induce a bubble, con j6pk out of his hard earned money, and then popped the buble.

OMG - can you summarize the story behind this? Tried to get a feel from Yahoo but there was too much drek on the board.

Have you read about the Gulf War vets who are murdering their wives? There is a strong possibility that they were exposed to something that has affected them psychologically.

And you didn't mention the vets that smoked dope in the war zone..

You forgot to mention the DC sniper and the guy who shot up the nursing school in AZ yesterday.

Still haven't had the inclination to go short. I guess I just haven't found anything seductive enough.

Thought about SEPR at 9 but had some nice longs goig when it started to fall apart and couldn't get in. Now I'm wondering if I should even consider it.

171,000 traded at 9 just before it started to slide (14:19). Makes me think that yesterday's weakness was just a fake-out.

O.T. Some of you expressed interest in my e-mail

Subject:
Martyrdom
Date:
Fri, 25 Oct 2002 22:13:01 -0700
From:
"Raja Chemayel" <chemayel@yahoo.com>
To:
paula@soasgems.com




"...a four-wheel-drive vehicle laden with about 175 pounds of explosives
rammed into the rear of a commuter bus on a busy highway in northern Israel
today, turning the bus into a fireball that burned some passengers alive
and set off the ammunition of soldiers riding inside. At least 14 people
were killed, along with the bomber, and 50 were injured...

...Car bombs have become a trademark of Islamic Jihad, which has claimed
responsibility for a large percentage of the more than 20 car bombings
that have been used in attacks against Israeli buses, marketplaces, city
centers and a Tel Aviv disco..."


Well done El Jihad.

Israelis says their God promised them our land, but in our land we are
the Gods
and the only promise we made is that all invaders must bite dust.

Revolution till victory!
chemayel@yahoo.com

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PACUSA/join
http://profiles.yahoo.com/lieutenant_ryan08/
blue_forrest@hotmail.com
red_card@hotmail.com

You'd better call DATEK (ameritrade) to get the straight scoop in ISLAND. Trades now get routed to CINN but their software hasn't changed and I don't know what happens when you do an "ISLAND ONLY" order.

DATEK was associated with island but is no longer, do a search on ISLAND AND DATEK on this thread and you will come up with a couple of comments.