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Yup crazy accumulation happening
Nice time to buy today
Day traders taking profits.
Lots of people getting filled at 1.35 setting up a new base
Some guys are picking up cheapies at 1.36 but majority of loading is happening at 1.37!!! She ain't going anywhere!
DD: Corker Warner Bill isn't getting support from FHFA and Corker interview from Zillow had him back-stepping on his "wind down" statement about GSEs. Sen. Maxine Waters (senior democrat on House Financial Services committee) says winding down FnF would destroy 30 year mortgagees and many believe Janet Yellen (who's primed to take Larry SUmmer's place) is in the reform (not wind down) boat as well.
Serious loading at 1.37. This is huge!
Here we go! 1.38 test again!!!
People are loading at 1.37 to take out 1.38!!
Small pull back to let more buyers in
If we break 1.38 we'll know funds are playing
DD: Corker Warner Bill isn't getting support from FHFA and Corker interview from Zillow had him back-stepping on his "wind down" statement about GSEs. Sen. Maxine Waters (senior democrat on House Financial Services committee) says winding down FnF would destroy 30 year mortgagees and many believe Janet Yellen (who's primed to take Larry SUmmer's place) is in the reform (not wind down) boat as well.
Sept 21 $46 calls are getting paid!!
I went all in at 1.15 earlier this week :)
Run baby run!!!
1.34!!
"I don't use Facebook" - oh you seem like an expert social media analyst. Please tell us all about this company!
Folks need to let it ride
1.30!!!
New blue skies. This "bubble" is a steamroller.
This is a giant game of musical chairs. Don't be the last guy standing when the music stops...
The website is suspended. You guys know that, right?
http://bitzio.com
I don't see that anywhere. What are you talking about?
All it takes is one well crafted PR to send this flying. I'd beware of David Ebersman if I was buying put contracts. Dude really knows how to work the market.
Can you paste the article? It's blocking it.
Agree to disagree?
They are not the first mover. There were other social networks before Facebook, just like there was other search engines before Google. Why is Google still the best search engine? Timing and talent. Same with Facebook, they launched at a special time -- virtualization was taking off and it allowed them to scale their infrastructure much more quickly and cheaper than the competition. Then they did something no one else did before them. They deprioritized monetization over engagement. If an ad makes users upset, they pull it. MySpace would take over your whole screen and rape user eye balls for the almighty dollar. Facebook is pioneering a whole new as concept called Native ads and users don't mind them.
You have to ask yourself. Why join another social network when EVERYONE using social networks is already on Facebook? Google+ tried to be the escape hatch... Hell they dumps billions into the product and advertising. Guess what? They can't even get their own employees to use it. What makes you think someone else can succeed where Google failed?
There will be.
They need engineers for a buyout. According to LinkedIn they don't have any (probably outsourced).
Nope. Analysts were expecting video ads to launch but they were delayed.
Many people NEED Facebook. It's become a tool to allow families and friends to stay in contact as they move around. My entire family in 4 different states se it to share moments (videos, photos, baby announcements, birthdays, etc). My family has a private group where we share these things. Facebook makes it dead simple so that grandma and grandpa can figure it out. Don't say email solves this, because it doesn't. I can't send a 30 minute choral performance over email.
That's an easy bet to make considering FB users are all moving to mobile.
Games haven't been updates in 7 months. Their iOS developer quit back in May according to LinkedIn. P&D
[B]Facebook Doesn't Want To Be Cool, It Wants To Be Electricity
Critics say Facebook is doomed because it’s not cool to teens anymore. But Mark Zuckerberg said he doesn’t care about Facebook being cool, because now its goal is to be a ubiquitous utility.
“Maybe electricity was cool when it first came out, but pretty quickly people stopped talking about it because it’s not the new thing, the real question you want to track at that point is are fewer people turning on their lights because it’s less cool?”
No, because it became essential to modern life, Zuckerberg implied in his talk with The Atlantic editor James Bennett in Washington, D.C.
Most critics decrying Facebook’s loss of swag cite anecdotes from random teenagers, or surveys that may be biased because teenagers want to seem cool by pretending they don’t like or use Facebook. Yet none of this is real evidence that Facebook has seen any meaningful loss in engagement.
Facebook, meanwhile, has consistently denied the claims of teens ditching the social network on earnings calls, with Zuckerberg most recently saying “based on our data, that just isn’t true,” and followed up saying teens have remained steadily engaged with Facebook this year.
Zuckerberg believes Facebook is effectively “post-cool” — insulated from trends, and, to some degree, its competitors. Zuckerberg joked “People assume that we’re trying to be cool. It’s never been my goal. I’m the least cool person there is. We’re almost 10 years old so we’re definitely not a niche thing anymore so that kind of angle for coolness is done for us.”
Instead, he says he wants to create something that’s a basic necessity. Responding to Bennett, Zuckerberg says that every economic epoc builds a new fundamental service like electricity. “Our society needs a new digital social fabric,” explained Zuckerberg. “We can help build it.”
When Bennett pressed Zuckerberg on the potential trade-offs between transparency and privacy, he argued that “I tend to think of it as a net positive”. Forced to decide between hiding information and “the choice to be connected to people they care about,” users will tend to shift towards more sharing.
By many counts, Facebook is succeeding at growing users and getting them to share more often. It has 1.15 billion users and 699 million use it daily. He also said today that 50% of social apps use Facebook for login.
For now, Facebook’s biggest threat isn’t being usurped by some hip new social network, but stagnation. It must relentlessly hire visionary product builders, designers, engineers and businesspeople.
When necessary it must acquire the companies where this talent resides. And it must do everything it can not to get too comfortable. Because eventually a massive shift will come that could wash away much of today’s web. Facebook will either see it coming and build or buy to adapt, or stubbornly stick to the old ways and be made irrelevant like Myspace.
I can only make one post per day do I'll make it good (dumb, I know):
1) Stop sign is GONE. This shows CBYI is doing everything they can to get current so they can hand the shell over to John! Load up!
2) Next up, symbol change!
3) John is in too deep to back out now. Backing out would severely diminish his brand with HIS investors! I believe he will close the deal, even if it has been a bit rocky.
4) This is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Know what you own and believe in it. Don't naysayers take your money!
Until tomorrow, I'm still LONG all day :)
Not happening. If I were you I'd cover.
Some one posted a photo of themselves enjoying Hangover Joes! http://instagram.com/p/eXpbAjgE3X/
The dude was already paid. His company was acquired by Facebook for a mix of cash and pre-IPO stock. It's probably hard to be motivated to work a day job when you have +$10M in the bank.
Their quarterly growth percentage is falling even though they are in an exploding market.
Example:
Q2 - 2013 Earnings
$MM - $55M
$FB - $770M (mobile only revenue)