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researcher: DRYS
Smart move. My play in the industry is EXM. Sold some covered calls last week and closed out the position today.
CRNT: ari
Oy vey. Perhaps a big tax-selling dump today? It is on my end of year clearance sale list. I'm buying. Thanks.
bbotcs
DonsHub:; OT Old news. Last year a guy at Hopkins, I believe, determined that the machines aren't hack-proof. We need to go back to the paper ballots or the old machines with the levers. Think Pakistani terrorists. Think geniuses. Think plotting to fix the outcome of a U.S. election. Plausible.
2008 is going to be the year in which is get rich because I am only going to invest in the hot momentum plays, like First Solar. I'll watch the tape until I am crosseyed to find my picks. Will also play the reverse index EFTs.
Dear Mr. Roguedolphin:
I think dumping a great deal of your cash in the remnimbi is a super idea.
Yours sincerely,
Jim Rogers
LOL!!!
latin blood:
That is a thought. Holding stocks in multi-national corporations like KO might be the way to go if there is a worldwide financial crisis. Utilities with very low debt would be another safe haven, imo. And of course gold. Even if the price were to drop off of a cliff, you still own an asset in the ground.
Thanks Lentinman and SSKILLZ1 for another great contest.
Congrats to Gilead!
Now here is an unpleasant thought. The ol' "what if". What if our real property is worth half of its current value in say, 2 years. And to add insult to injury the dollar remains weak.
In a country that has huge national debt and huge personal debt and a weak currency, the standard of living has to go way down. Years ago I believed that it would happen. Never thought a real estate bubble would be the trigger. China is propping us up by keeping their currency on par with ours and by buying our debt.
Now lets get really morbid. What if a pandemic like the Spanish flu hits China, taking out maybe 10 percent of people under age 25. Then what? Recession or worse.
Interesting news this week: DOW and a Kuwait-government-owned enterprise have formed a joint venture in 5 of DOW's divisions. DOW is going to be a powerhouse. All roads that once led to Rome will lead to DOW headquarters. Let's just hope that DOW headquarters isn't moved to Kuwait! Sheik Mo of Dubai missed out on this one!
Lentinman:
Bro. If you are in an iced area, stay in. The best you can hope for in a bad fall in broken ribs and that ain't no picnic.
BBTOC
researcher59: I think that his table pounder is FTK. LOL.
OT: Anyone having trouble with their Yahoo! stock portfolios? I cannot access mine.
CPSH: bigpike
The hybrid market is what caught my eye. Thanks for the link. I am looking forward to dd'ing this stock.
bbotcs
CPSH--Anyone know anything about this company? It caught my eye yesterday because it was up a nice percentage on very low volume. The company makes metal matrix composities for the auto industry and other applications. (Don't ask me waht a metal matrix composite is). What is interesting perhaps is that Q3 results were off because demand from 2 major customers was depressed but "increased demand from other customers more than offset the temporary decreases in demand from these 2 major customers. Demand from these 2 customers has returned as of the date of this press release"(11/12).
SO, I'm expecting a good Q4 from this outfit. For 9 months ended 9/29, the companies diluted eps was 5 cents, same as last year.
I could be on to something. But I still haven't figured out what it is that they make exactly.
I don't own any. "No thanks, just looking".
gilead23: I pounded on MATK earlier this year, and it crept up from a low of something around $23 to about $31 (briefly). Then it tanked and embarassed me. Check it out today!
kipp440: Interesting, but how do we play it?
2morrowsGains: FTK Might attract some buying from index funds. Anyone with sense believes that longer term, oil will go to at least $100 a barrel and stay there or higher. Exxon-Mobil's corporate behavior suggests that we are past peak oil, there are no new big fields out there, and it is downhill from here (or uphill if you are an energy user). FTK's chemicals should be in big demand for a long time.
I'm holding for the day when FTK is $100 a share. Optimistic--yes. Unrealistic--no.
Lentinman:
Thanks. That is exactly the kind of information I was looking for.
Dancin' Larry Craig is a strong proponent of nuclear energy, but unfortunately, he is going to shuffle off to buffalo country. Hope the Congress doesn't become anti-nuclear energy.
That would be a big setback for this country, imo.
bbotcs
Predicition: The hot group/industry in 2008 will be nuclear energy stocks. Constellation Energy and a French company, AREVA, have submitted a design certification application for a French-style nuke plant to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
I predict that this is where the action will be in 2008, especially as it becomes apparent that the world is past peak oil. We need some VM plays. Uranium?
reseracher59: OFI
Looks like it is going to marinate in the low $3's for months and months and month.
JMO.
IHub has a really cool feature. You can give a poster a gift subscription. Here is how it is works. Click on the poster's name and that takes you to his or her profile. There is an icon of a wrapped package, a gift, with the notation to the effect "give this guy a gift subscription".
Nice way to pay back someone who have you a bountiful tip or otherwise helped you make a pile of dough. Now, if they only had an icon of an axe. Okay, that was harsh.
Hey, eagle. This board is ours. Yee-haw. Rogue isn't a private member and wall-russ and Lentinman have neutralized each other.
My hero of the week award goes to the woman who dropped the nut who was going to commit mayhem at that Colorodo church. They said he killed himself. Don't believe that. Think they are trying to protect her from prosecution, or I should say persecution.
roguedolphin: Why don't you get a private membership so you can post on the Survey Board?
OFI: Wish I had bailed out at $5. I knew food inflation would be a big negative. Getting cost of goods sold under control is going to be a major challenge. Once again, I'm stuck in the mud. At least management is working on the problem. P.S. I couldn't force myself to add shares unless the price drops below $2, which I very much doubt will happen. Ha! I sold out at $5 for a relative I had gotten in the stock, saying that the stock wasn't going anywhere. Well it has--down!
ari5000:
I sold 1/3rd of my SKF in one account. The secret to playing the reverse indexs EFTs is to ladder your holdings. My cost range was $77 to $109.
Smart move, ari. Congrats.
bbotcs
curlews:
Lucky AND smart, I'd say. Congrats. EOM
Live42Day: FXP. Up 6+points. We'll get another chance.
Shucks. Could have made 5+ points in SKF. I KNEW the rate cut was going to be 1/4 and I knew that there would be disappointment and a sell off. Ouch, ouch. (That was me kicking myself in the rear.)
Zen lunatic420:
Not exactly on your topic, but your post got me thinking. I never have liked companies with a lot of debt. What happens to companies who need to refinance their debt during a credit crunch. Film at 11, as they say.
bbotcs
roguedolphin:
Martin Weiss said that lowering interest rates is one thing, getting banks to make loans is another. So why is the Fed lowering again? It will solve nothing. Nothing.
If Bernanke lowers 1/2 point, I'll take that as a sign that the U.S. economy is totally in the tank.
Now the pundits on CNBC are calling for a 1/2 point cut in interst rates tomorrow. Once this December rally is over, look out below.
researcher59: OFI
Today's approximately 25 cent recovery from the intra-day low might be a good sign. We'll know tomorrow.
bbotcs
Here's a thought. Bernanke lowers interest rates 1/4 point and it appears that there will be no more lowerings. Then what? The market tanked the last time that it seemed the rate cuts were over. Why wouldn't the same thing happen again?
This stock market is for suckers, and I guess I'm a sucker.
bbotcs
nelson1234:
I'll PM my TDAmeritrade account number to you. If you don't want the free CERLP shares, just have them drop them in my account! LOL! bbotcs
Bobwins:
Guess what? You and I are the linchpins. We, the taxpayers, will have to underwrite those bonds through higher property and personal income taxes.
As far as I am concerned, States and counties can stop free el-hi educations via the public school systems. Let the parents pay for their children's educations. That is what parents in rural China have to do. Yes, even in China education is not free-- you have to pony up the money to educate little Ping and Li.
Check your State and county budgets. You will be shocked at the amount of money that is poured into education. Then ask a college instructor whether they think their students are as educationally qualified for higher learning as prior generations.
Calling Shiek Mo, calling Shiek Mo.
SSKILLZ1: OFI dropped below $3 this a.m. Trading about 40 cents off of the 52-week low. CFO resigned not so long ago. Not looking too promising, but we'll see later this week.
MBIA: Perhaps they flew to Dubai and Sheik Mo is gonna bail them out. (That's "Big Mo" to you and me!).
bbotcs
CXPO: Thanks Bob. I bought 50 shares several weeks ago because I didn't want to feel left out!
SSKILLZ1: OFI
Thanks for your insights. My position is underwater so I have to hold. I won't sell for a tax loss because there is some hope here. If tax-loss selling drives it to a ridiculous level, then I might even add.
Here is one of the things I've learned over the years--If a company you own is not going out of business, add shares if the price gets ridiculously low. The old averaging down routine. Cannot say what would be a ridiculous price until the earnings are out.
I was concerned that the company, being in the food industry, might employ illegals. But even if that were the case, it wouldn't hurt them in the near term because the government crackdown seems to have come to a halt--election year coming up.
OFI no longers worries me like it once did.
Fingers crossed.
bbotcs
Anyone bargain hunting? OFI? VSR? TGA (undervalued by 40 percent)? If ETFC survives it will be a total homerun.