<p>^^No you’re not alone. My home laptop where I use google chrome had the same message. My phone allowed me access as did my ipad.</p>
<p>Firefox blocks but there’s an option to go to the page anyways.</p>
<p>The warning sounded scary. To me, it read, “If you proceed, your computer will catch a fire and explode in your face. Are you sure…”</p>
<p>If your anti-malware systems are up to date and you do regular scans on your systems, then you shouldn’t be too worried about catching a virus but you might have to deal with removing one.</p>
<p>Anti-Malware software can produce false positive reports.</p>
<p>There have been many reports of banner-ad infections. Websites that generate ad-revenue from banner ads connect to the ad-site and display their ads. Those ad sites get customers and don’t necessarily screen their ads for malware so that you can indirectly get a virus from an ad, even though the site and the advertising company had nothing to do with it.</p>
<p>I have Ad-Block+ and other browser protections installed so I don’t see those ads and therefore can’t get infected via this route.</p>
<p>As far as that aapl calendar options trade, he thought that the stock had hit an intermediate term bottom. At the May expiration, since he paid $7 for the trade, it has to be above 467 at the May expiration. It looks like he doesn’t want to hold it that long but to make money with the April call he sold decreasing in value faster than the May (the longer dated expiration with more time value). In the words of Melissa Lee, he wants to turn time into money and the stock to stay around 460.</p>
<p>Doct, that is right. It is an interesting trade. I am trying to do a calendar trade myself in another issue. Having trouble getting it done because the options are inactive in the further out months. Anyway, that trade is a bullish trade up to a point. Then it turns bearish. If the stock keeps rising, this trade can become a loser. It would be annoying to be bullish on a stock, put on a position, have the stock rise, and still lose. 460 is prime.</p>
<p>Actually Nathan’s riskreversal.com site has some interesting stuff.</p>
<p>Some good points in this article: [Three</a> Reasons Why You Can Beat The Professional Investors - Seeking Alpha](<a href=“Three Reasons Why You Can Beat The Professional Investors | Seeking Alpha”>Three Reasons Why You Can Beat The Professional Investors | Seeking Alpha)</p>
<p>Risk reversal site looks pretty good. I will check out the other link later.</p>
<p>I went through the Nike Conference Call this morning. They really blew it out of the ballpark and have executed superbly over the last year. They had a hint of problems in the March 2012 report on the China slowdown and that slowdown hit their bottom line in the June report. The had a 38% drop from the May highs to the June lows. But they had started working on turning things around from the spring. They had a 30% margin improvements from lower material costs and higher retail prices and it looks like they’ve managed to keep a lid on inventory overhang and discounting. Opening factory outlets and selling online allows them to make a healthy profit on excess inventory so that they don’t have to unload to discounters. I shop at the factory outlet sometimes. The prices are better than retail and they have much better selection compared to discounters.</p>
<p>The problem is that they gapped up on Friday and left a big, white candle. What do you do with that? It’s definitely going to retrace, perhaps even to the breakout point. I think that I would buy the retrace of that gap.</p>
<p>NKE retraced when it gapped down in June 2012. It makes sense it will retrace down near 53 at some point. But is there still room for long term growth in such a mature market? With NKE I would say maybe.</p>
<p>I look at the percentage of people that run and train in the US and I think that companies selling sports products have a huge potential market. I see people on the diet/exercise thread starting C25K programs and that has to be a microcosm of 50+ year-old people figuring that they have to do something about their health.</p>
<p>But I wouldn’t buy that chart pattern.</p>
<p>Some gaps do not have to be retraced. Also it depends on whether a stock really is a long term hold or more of a trade. If I am going to hold something for 10 years, I might buy the stock even with a gap because the gap loses significance over time. If I am going to hold the stock for several months or less, the gap has more significance. If I dont know how long I am going to hold a stock, I might buy a partial position and hope it pulls back. If it doesn’t at least I still hold some shares. There is no perfect answer to buying a gap. Maybe the market will sell off one day and take nke down with it.</p>
<p>I don’t buy nke clothes, but my wife got tired of my workout clothes because they weren’t really workout clothes and she bought me some nke workout clothes along with north face and champion.</p>
<p>The other thing that a trader can do is sell puts in nke at a price closer to where he wants to buy the stock. If it goes down to that price, the trader owns it. If it doesn’t, the trader makes the premium. The problem with this is if the stock plummets, you end up buying the stock at a higher price than the plummeted price. If the stock rallies, you don’t really capture the upside. You can also buy some stock and sell puts. This lowers your average purchase price while giving you some upside. </p>
<p>There are spread strategies too, to get you long, but they are a little more complicated and those strategies have risk. It would be great to be able to buy things without risk.</p>
<p>11% up in nke on Friday. I agree with you BCeagle - I wouldn’t buy nke here. 11% is a pretty big up day and I would expect it to come back somewhat and if it doesn’t, you can always buy it. What was their guidance - it must have been quite good. Did they say anything about business in China. Its hard to get a read on it with all the conflicting news.</p>
<p>They have an inventory hangover in China and they are going to have to work through that but they had inventory hangovers in 2011 in the US and Europe and they worked through those. I picked up a lot of Nike stuff at Marshalls. It’s a lot harder to do that these days as there isn’t much to be had at the discounters.</p>
<p>2014 guidance, high single-digits revenue growth, mid-teens profit growth.</p>
<p>I am going to stay with what I wrote. I like it and I think I am going to put my money where my mouth is…</p>
<p>It is not that contradictory to what BCEagle91 wrote. </p>
<p>I will make this bet. Nke is not going to lose that gain in a month.</p>
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<p>You don’t need to make a bet to prove anything to us.</p>
<p>Well - depending on what happens with Cyprus, I may fiddle with aapl again - like a moth drawn to light.</p>
<p>Thanks. I appreciate that. I like your posts on nke which is why I am considering actually putting on the trades. I hope it does sell off on Monday. </p>
<p>For a short term trade, I probably wouldn’t buy the stock either. I don’t really like to chase these gaps. I am not going to do that.</p>
<p>I am not really disagreeing about filling this gap. It could…all your posts on nke are good.</p>
<p>I want to buy nke lower than it is trading for today. That is where the strategies come in… Just to be clear.</p>