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Keep an eye on NUC.V (Uranium)
It's consolidating right now after a great run. Next leg up shouldn't be to far off. I think ...
LOL, beat you. In at 1.19. This was way oversold. Great company which now again has the leadership it needs.
Heads up: PDP.T good news out. Should also help CLL.T
CLL ... FWIW, I just bought back what I sold yesterday above $4.
Swami: It's more than just talk now:
http://www.stockhouse.com/news/news.asp?newsid=3027723&tick=SCC
RS: What do you expect for SCC?
TIA
Don't forget all the glittery and not so glittery stuff in the ground.
Swami: Are you valuing credit card div around $8 (12+8=20) or are you assigning value to their retail business?
Any guesses on the final price?
Anyone still holding HBC?
Zucker offers to buy HBC
Friday, October 28, 2005
Globe and Mail Update
U.S. investor Jerry Zucker has made a cash offer for all outstanding shares of Hudson's Bay Co.
He'll offer $14.75 a share. The shares closed Thursday at $12.63.
More to come . . .
© The Globe and Mail
A call for help …
Friend of mine was web surfing and pop up came up on his screen Norton flashed up and
Said there was a potential threat. Authorized Norton to delete the threat.
Then AV_Gold software came up on his screen. They indicated there was a threat
To his system and wanted him to download there product to scan for “ the viruses
They put on his system. Closed the application off. Went to his desktop to find
That had been hijacked. Screen is a HTML format indicating his computer is infected
And to click here to remove the problem. “No Way Jose” Went back to Norton to do
a complete system scan, after the scan, Norton shows the threats, but errors come up
Indicating Norton cannot remove the virus. Seems the virus has turned off the delete features of Norton.
Over to his browser, which has also been hijacked, current page is “one click searches”
Went to Spybot and ran a check and found 2 items, AV-Gold and CoolWWWSearch, He delete the items and they keep reappearing when he repeated the Spybot check.
He has the latest Norton 2005 version, and during the scan and the errors pop up
Norton indicates to reinstall the program, by uninstalling the software and do a fresh
Install, he gets a few seconds into the install and it fails.
Blue screen error message:
Fatal error occurred in IE at 0028:C0011E36 in VXD VMM(01) 00010E36. Error was caused by Trojan-Spy.HTML.Snitfraud.c
He is running XP Pro with SP1 on that PC
Any help would be greatly appreciated
kidl
Forgot to cancel my UEX 2.75 buy before going out. Darned old age! Now sitting with a tight stop and fingers and toes crossed.
VSE ... Not sure how many times I promised myself to stay away. It's like a New Years resolution. It doesn't last. LOL
So did I. Also had a buy in at 2.75. Looks like I was a dime to low.
UEX is a market sell for me at the open
kidl
Sasser email virus writer gets suspended sentence … Ridiculous!
http://software.silicon.com/malware/0,3800003100,39150174,00.htm
Why did you decide to hang on to 30k?
Thanks for the heads up on HP.
Good thing I saw your post late. Got in at .105 and .11 and out with a .17 average.
There you go:
Here are all the trades for T: RNC on 6/ 16/2005.
31 Records Returned
Trades
Exchange Date Price Change Volume Buyer Seller Markers
T 2005-06-16 13:18:28 0.89 0.05 500 36 Latimer 88 E-TRADE K
T 2005-06-16 13:18:28 0.89 0.05 500 44 Jones Gable 88 E-TRADE K
T 2005-06-16 12:05:50 0.89 0.05 2,000 36 Latimer 7 TD Sec K
T 2005-06-16 12:05:50 0.89 0.05 1,000 44 Jones Gable 7 TD Sec K
T 2005-06-16 12:04:21 0.90 0.06 3,000 85 Scotia 44 Jones Gable K
T 2005-06-16 12:04:21 0.90 0.06 5,000 85 Scotia 94 Hampton K
T 2005-06-16 11:57:23 0.89 0.05 3,000 36 Latimer 44 Jones Gable K
T 2005-06-16 11:56:40 0.89 0.05 5,500 36 Latimer 33 Canaccord K
T 2005-06-16 11:56:31 0.88 0.04 500 36 Latimer 121 Jennings K
T 2005-06-16 11:54:52 0.88 0.04 200 33 Canaccord 44 Jones Gable E
T 2005-06-16 11:54:52 0.88 0.04 500 33 Canaccord 121 Jennings K
T 2005-06-16 11:54:52 0.88 0.04 500 33 Canaccord 44 Jones Gable K
T 2005-06-16 11:27:42 0.88 0.04 24,000 33 Canaccord 121 Jennings K
T 2005-06-16 11:27:18 0.88 0.04 8,500 33 Canaccord 121 Jennings K
T 2005-06-16 11:24:35 0.88 0.04 1,500 9 BMO Nesbitt 121 Jennings K
T 2005-06-16 11:24:35 0.88 0.04 1,000 9 BMO Nesbitt 44 Jones Gable K
T 2005-06-16 11:22:58 0.87 0.03 2,500 33 Canaccord 9 BMO Nesbitt K
T 2005-06-16 11:21:44 0.87 0.03 150 36 Latimer 44 Jones Gable E
T 2005-06-16 11:21:44 0.87 0.03 2,500 36 Latimer 9 BMO Nesbitt K
T 2005-06-16 11:21:44 0.87 0.03 1,000 36 Latimer 44 Jones Gable K
T 2005-06-16 10:50:32 0.88 0.04 500 27 Dundee 121 Jennings K
T 2005-06-16 10:50:32 0.88 0.04 4,500 27 Dundee 44 Jones Gable K
T 2005-06-16 10:06:16 0.85 0.04 9 44 Jones Gable 9 BMO Nesbitt E
T 2005-06-16 10:05:31 0.88 0.04 9,500 79 CIBC 121 Jennings K
T 2005-06-16 09:53:49 0.88 0.04 500 79 CIBC 7 TD Sec K
T 2005-06-16 09:53:49 0.88 0.04 500 44 Jones Gable 7 TD Sec K
T 2005-06-16 09:38:46 0.89 0.05 300 9 BMO Nesbitt 44 Jones Gable E
T 2005-06-16 09:38:46 0.89 0.05 500 9 BMO Nesbitt 33 Canaccord K
T 2005-06-16 09:38:46 0.89 0.05 500 9 BMO Nesbitt 44 Jones Gable K
T 2005-06-16 09:30:18 0.89 0.05 300 9 BMO Nesbitt 44 Jones Gable E
T 2005-06-16 09:30:18 0.89 0.05 1,000 7 TD Sec 33 Canaccord KL
NT news should provide great trading ops
Any opinions on NT?
TIA
kidl
Not gung ho enough not to sell his position at the end of February. $16 to $22 in a few months. The guy is good.
Good morning everyone
GOOG ... Check it out. It's going nuts
SCC ... Sears might be a good short today. Q1 results were pretty ugly.
Hi,
Is anyone here using VoIP? Been hearing a lot lately about http://www.skype.com/
Comments, good or bad, would be appreciated.
kidl
By JUDITH BURNS
Friday, April 08, 2005
Associated Press
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WASHINGTON — “Be cool” is good advice for day-traders, according to an academic study that found those with the most intense emotions had the worst performance.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the State University of New York determined traders did best when their emotions weren't running too hot or cold.
“Emotion seems to be important for proper decision-making, but only in reasonable doses,” said Andrew Lo, a finance professor and director of MIT's Laboratory for Financial Engineering.
Mr. Lo, who co-authored the study with Dmitry Repin, also of MIT, and Brett Steenbarger, of SUNY's Upstate Medical University, tracked dozens of day-traders over the course of five weeks in the summer of 2002, when the market dropped about 20 per cent.
Day-traders who participated in the study provided a daily assessment of their emotional state, along with details on their daily trading, including profits and losses. The traders, who were enrolled in an on-line trading program, had accounts ranging from $200 (U.S.) to $1.8-million and varying degrees of success at trading on paper and in reality.
Traders with extremely intense emotions had the worst overall trading performance, researchers found. Traders with the best performance had reactions somewhere in the middle, stronger than those reporting little emotional response, but not intensely happy when their trades did well or down in the dumps when they didn't.
“Having an intermediate range of emotion response seems to be the sweet spot,” said Lo.
Researchers also found there isn't necessarily a trading personality marked by aggressiveness, for instance. The researchers said that suggests “different personality types may be able to perform trading functions equally well after proper instruction and practice,” provided they don't get too emotional about profits or losses.
Mr. Lo said the researchers some day hope to create tests that employers could use to evaluate whether applicants would make good traders. They also would like to develop an on-line program that would allow individual investors to determine if they are too emotional to make wise financial decisions for themselves.
For now, the researchers are focusing on studying short-term traders and Mr. Lo acknowledged it isn't clear if results from that group will hold true for long-term investors.
“Warren Buffett is a successful investor,” said Mr. Lo. “I'm not sure how he would do as a day-trader.”
© The Globe and Mail
Thanks x 2
Just received this virus warning from a friend. Does anyone here know if this is for real?
Subject: : VERY IMPORTANT
This message is of importance - so that you are not caught, please take note.
During the next several weeks be VERY cautious about opening or
launching any e-mails that refer to the World Trade Center or 9/11 in any way, regardless of who sent it. PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY. FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW, "WTC" STANDS FOR THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. REALLY DANGEROUS BECAUSE PEOPLE WILL OPEN IT RIGHT AWAY, THINKING ITS A STORY RELATING TO 9/11!
BIGGG TROUBLE !!!! DO NOT OPEN "WTC Survivor " It is a virus that will erase your whole "C" drive.. It will come to you in the form of an E-Mail from a familiar person. I repeat, a friend sent it to me, but called and warned me before I opened it. He was not so lucky and now he can't even start his computer!
Forward this to everyone in your address book. I would rather
receive this 25 times than not at all. So, if you receive an email called "WTC Survivor", do not open it. Delete it right away! This virus removes all dynamic link libraries (.dll files) from your computer.
PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE!
Yes, just got in now
Just tried to log in to my wife's email. No go either. Mine probably works because I am still logged in from yesterday.
FWIW
I am on Sympatico HS. Emails are working fine.
Good morning
An unexpected move in the Stelco saga ... All offers rejected.
This will be worth watching / trading.
UTS.T should be in play today.
"UTS JV with Petro Canada"
http://www.stockhouse.com/news/news.asp?newsid=2665345&tick=UTS
Hawk,
I don't think it's required trading unless the trader/investor can't differentiate between momentum trading and investing.
Having lurked on this board a long time, I trust the few people left on this forum know the difference
JMHO
kidl
Swami: I wouldn’t be surprised to see that $11 again at which point a TO offer at 50% of book might just fly. Heller is not delivering one iota of what he promised. The only thing keeping HBC in the black is the credit card division.
Still a solid TO play.
CRY just keeps going and going. Amazing!
Someone here was playing HBC. Hopefully no longer long at this point. Zucker is setting his buyout price ...
Zucker dismayed by HBC outlook
By MARINA STRAUSS
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Wealthy U.S. businessman and takeover artist Jerry Zucker is upset that Hudson's Bay Co., of which he is the largest shareholder, may not hit its long-term financial goals.
Mr. Zucker's dissatisfaction with HBC could be critical to the retailer's future. His stake in the company puts him just a hair's breadth away from having to bid for the entire company if he boosts his holding any more. A takeover would give him the ultimate say in HBC's direction.
While he is not tipping his hand about his intentions, he is clearly unhappy with the company's performance. Late Wednesday, HBC, which owns the Bay and Zellers, lowered its 2004 operating profit forecast for the third time and said it was reviewing its ambitious five-year plan launched in September of 2003.
“Clearly we, and I'm certain all shareholders, are very disappointed in these results,” said Robert Johnston, vice-president's of Mr. Zucker's South Carolina-based company.
Even more “disconcerting” was HBC's revelation that it was studying its five-year financial goals, Mr. Johnston added.
“We don't really understand what's gone wrong here,” he said. “It's not been disclosed . . . We're long-term investors. We're patient investors. But we also don't want to see major surprises on a regular basis.”
HBC spokesman Rob Moore said any company with a long-term plan “is constantly reviewing it.”
He said the retailer will provide more details about its performance on March 10, when it will issue year-end results.
“I'm not trying to say that an explanation isn't warranted,” he said, adding that because of regulatory rules, “I can't give it out in bits and pieces.”
Less than three months ago, HBC executives reassured investors that it was on track to achieve those five-year targets.
In the fall of 2003, Mr. Zucker bought into HBC based on long-range projections aimed at tripling annual operating profit to $2.85 a share and bolstering sales by 20 per cent to $9-billion.
This week, HBC dropped its 2004 profit outlook to between 80 and 83 cents a share — excluding one-time items — from between 95 cents and $1.05, which had already been cut from the original forecast of between $1.15 and $1.25.
HBC blamed weak fourth-quarter sales and profit margins.
Mr. Zucker, who keeps a low profile, owns 19.99 per cent of HBC and must bid for the rest of the shares if he increases his holding to more than 20 per cent, under HBC's shareholder rights agreement.
Mr. Zucker still believes that HBC is “a great company with great potential. We want to see that potential start to come to life,” Mr. Johnston said.
Asked whether he believes the company needs new leadership, Mr. Johnston said he wouldn't talk about management, of which he has been very supportive.
Still, he is looking for improvements. “This is a company with $30-a-share book value, delivering 80 to 83 cents a share. It is not a good return on that investment . . . If something is not working, it's time to fix it and fix it right away.”
Zellers, for example, has made great strides but its performance is inconsistent as it battles behemoth Wal-Mart Canada Corp. in the discount sector, he said. Zellers customers often can't find in-demand products on the shelves, or have to negotiate boxes in the aisles, he said.
Some analysts dropped ratings and/or estimates for HBC, pointing to yet another disappointment.
“This news is a disappointment even in the context of what was not expected to be a stellar quarter,” Patricia Baker, retailing analyst at Merrill Lynch, wrote in a report, lowering her year-end profit forecast to 80 cents from 96 cents.
Keith Howlett, retailing analyst at Desjardins Securities, said changes in the department store sector may be afoot in the next 12 months.
He pointed to Mr. Zucker's possible takeover of HBC, as well as rumoured changes at Sears Canada Inc. Its U.S. parent, Sears Roebuck, is being taken over by Edward Lampert's Kmart.
“We continue to believe that Lampert and Zucker will, one way or the other, bring changes to the Canadian department store industry, so as to [create] value for themselves and other shareholders.”
Meanwhile, HBC has let go between 150 and 170 employees since the beginning of the year in a move it expects to generate annual savings of about $11-million a year, Mr. Moore said. The employees are in a range of positions, from head office to store management, he said.
The company is taking a charge of 5 cents a share in the fourth quarter and 6 cents a share in the first quarter of next year to cover the severance payments.
At the beginning of the month, HBC launched a top-level reorganization. “We're still committed to the strategy we have in place,” Mr. Moore said. “Clearly there is a disappointment that we did not execute to the strategy.”
HBC shares slipped 36 cents to $12.98 on the Toronto Stock Exchange on Thursday.
© The Globe and Mail
No need to test. It's just as I thought. The answer is right on the SW website:
TSX/TSX-V Depth By Price shows the top five bid / ask dollar amounts on the board. The size available (in thousands) at each price, and the number of orders at each price. Special terms orders, such as all-or-nothing, are not included.
TSX-V Depth By Order is also available for the TSX-V only indicating the top 10 individual bid/ask orders, plus price, size and brokerage house. Special terms orders are not included.
TSX/TSX-V Market Book. This shows you every individual order in the trading engine, including special terms orders.
kanwal: Just so I get this straight. These orders show up in the market book but not in the market depth.
Correct?
UT: That HLO 0.95 was flow-through. Watch out when they become free trading. After tax cost is probably around 0.45
Peter Brown ... Canada's microcap "pope" ... Canaccord
And just like the church ... He will giveth, he will taketh. LOL
Just for fun ...
Have a peek at LBV.v
Ain't it lovely when a bottom fish POS moves
The good old VSE ... LOL