The investment..speculation, out right gambling thread

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<p>It is the implied volatility based on yesterday’s close (ivolatility.com) = 25.4%</p>

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<p>Great. Thanks. I appreciate your doing this.</p>

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<p>I like this link that calculates bond losses so I am saving it here…</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.vanguard.com/pdf/icrrol.pdf[/url]”>http://www.vanguard.com/pdf/icrrol.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I love the spin. US markets benefiting from money fleeing markets and banks in Europe and the rest of the world. My portfolio had a good day today, even with high % cash balances. My trading… not so much… too many distractions. :D</p>

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<p>Too many distractions? That is a tease NJres. :)</p>

<p>Did nothing today. Got pennied a lot. Put an offer in the market…the market changed and somebody bettered my offer by a penny…</p>

<p>Oh well…</p>

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<p>The Canadian stock that’s causing all of my foreign tax credit carryover problems:</p>

<p>[PBA</a> - SharpCharts Workbench - StockCharts.com](<a href=“StockCharts.com”>PBA | SharpCharts | StockCharts.com)</p>

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<p>Pba spiked up today. That is a big move for pba. Nice BCEagle91.</p>

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<p>It got several upgrades with targets in the $33 to $36 area. If you look at the chart, it basically chopped around in a range for 14 trading sessions before breaking out which is what you like to see for a breakout even though holding it for those trading sessions is a royal pain. A technician would buy the breakout of the rectangle.</p>

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<p>Looks good…</p>

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<p>“Authorities said David Riley, a former chief information officer at Foundry Networks Inc, leaked tips about the company’s pending $3 billion takeover in 2008 by Brocade Communications Systems Inc (BRCM.O), to hedge fund analyst Matthew Teeple.”</p>

<p>You’re the CIO, you’re going to make a fortune on your stock options on the buyout and you leak it to a hedge fund manager? For what, some more money? How much is enough?</p>

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<p>Interesting comments from Art Cashin on cnbc this morning. He talked about the rectangular box that the market is in and it means a big move either up or down. He also mentioned how everybody is concerned with Cyprus and yet Argentina is close to default but since its currency is not connected to anything else would not have the potential contagion impact that Cyprus has.</p>

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<p>Argentina had a currency crisis in 2001 that wiped out the economy. They pegged their currency to the USD as I recall. I am surprised they are having problems again but their country has always been full of stupid leaders and crooks.</p>

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<p>BCEagle91, how greedy are some people? Why do they have to scam?</p>

<p>Doct, how wide is the rectangle? How many s&p or dow points?</p>

<p>I don’t see a rectangle… Do you?</p>

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<p>Rectangle is 9 trading days on the $indu. They are usually continuation patterns. $indu target is 14,900 - 15,000.</p>

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<p>I see the 9 days. Whenever you have such a tight trading range (I usually look at bollinger bands), the constriction doesn’t last. I haven’t studied this for longer periods of time but I’ve found that for day trading that the breakout is usually in the direction that the macd and stochastics are trending</p>

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<p>3 percent moves are large now? That is a similar move to the one Stovall of s&p expects…</p>

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<p>Just noticed it on my CandleGlance Dividends Page: BCE had a big move yesterday too, somewhat similar to PBA’s move - large consolidation and then Boom!</p>

<p>[BCE</a> - SharpCharts Workbench - StockCharts.com](<a href=“StockCharts.com”>BCE | SharpCharts | StockCharts.com)</p>

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<p>Yeah, fees are killers. My son realized this after I showed him his Mass OBRA account and them taking the fees out of his retirement savings there. My employer has Fidelity Brokeragelink and I have all of my 401K money in that brokerage account. I can trade stocks, bonds, gold bullion, ETFs, Mutual Funds and who knows what else. The commission costs on stock and ETF trades are $7 one-way. I don’t know the costs on Mutual Funds but I don’t use them so I really don’t care. Fidelity BrokerageLink is the greatest 401K thing since sliced bread. Originally when I got it,
it was $200 per year for the option which I gladly paid. Then they got rid of the fee after a year. I imagine that some employees complained about the choices in our regular 401K (mutual funds) and BrokerageLink is a good way to get rid of those complaints - it’s hard to complain when you can invest in just about anything you want to - the only things you can’t do that I’d like to do are shorting individual stocks and trading options.</p>

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<p>The underwriters in pba were able to sell and fill its over allotment. Another sign the secondary went well.</p>

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