<p>I’m close to completely hedged in spy. Others I’m not but I’m not that nervous yet because I think there is more upside in the near term. I’m nervous by nature with everything. I was up 10k in the morning and down 10k at the close but that doesn’t make me any more nervous than if my car broke down.</p>
<p>I guess I don’t get why you care about the qe talk. Are you day trading doct? Are you trying to swing trade? </p>
<p>If I am a longer term buyer, I like these selloffs. I sold puts as intc dropped. If I am going to hold intc for 3 years, Why would I want to pay 24.5 if I can pay 24? </p>
<p>Now if I am swinging or daytrading that is different.</p>
<p>You’re misinterpreting what I said. For me the talk about qe is ridiculous. QE isn’t ending until the economy has significant improvement which should be supportive of stocks. I didn’t sell anything today - I bought more qqq near the close and tried to buy aapl. In some sense I hope the market mistakenly sells off on QE tapering and hopefully it drops by 10%. I want to go much longer this market then I am now. Right now my positions are close to matching the market performance especially since I have a large position in dxj.</p>
<p>And now some comic relief from the lunatic fringe: [Bernanke</a> out by August, QE ends, rates up: Crash - Paul B. Farrell - MarketWatch](<a href=“Bernanke out by August, QE ends, rates up: Crash - MarketWatch”>Bernanke out by August, QE ends, rates up: Crash - MarketWatch)</p>
<p>Ok…</p>
<p>MarketWatch seems to have the widest variety of “journalists”.</p>
<p>Wow…Japan is getting crushed.</p>
<p>US market is down a little more than a half percent…</p>
<p>I guess investors didn’t like China’s news…</p>
<p><a href=“Bloomberg - Are you a robot?”>Bloomberg - Are you a robot?;
<p>I guess tomorrow could be ugly for me…</p>
<p>7% seems crazy to me. I think that Japan’s economy is doing quite well. Their stock market might be ahead of their economy though. It is up 50%, right? I guess that 7% in that context is not that bad.</p>
<p>Looks to me like there is a market buy order in xxx. I don’t want say the symbol but we know which one I am talking about.</p>
<p>I bot a little today. Just a little…</p>
<p>I have no idea what you’re referring to</p>
<p>He is talking about the stock you were talking about AHT.</p>
<p>I am talking about the issue that is thin… Come on you guys…</p>
<p>BCEagle 91 knows.</p>
<p>I did not buy that issue…</p>
<p>The stock is up about .60 since the order was received. </p>
<p>My strong opinion…</p>
<p>The buyer is up on that trade.</p>
<p>Well you’re a smart guy so I really don’t know. I sold my dxj for a slight profit but I have sold it in the past for a significant profit. Bought 6/22 csco 20 calls = 3.6.</p>
<p>I am still short puts in dxj…</p>
<p>I think I want to own dxj lower. Lom</p>
<p>“Intel told reporters that the new chip family draws 50% less power than the current members of its Core processor line on “active” workloads, such as watching a movie or playing a videogame. … Haswell, the fourth generation of Intel’s Core line, in idle mode offers two to three times the battery life of the current Core chips, the company says. Its standby power consumption was described as 20 times lower than Intel’s 2011 Core line, known as Sandy Bridge.”</p>
<p>[Intel</a> Discloses Power Savings of Next Chip Line - Digits - WSJ](<a href=“Intel Discloses Power Savings of Next Chip Line - WSJ”>Intel Discloses Power Savings of Next Chip Line - WSJ)</p>
<p>BCEagle91, I love the link. Thanks.</p>
<p>Dang, I’ve gotta say, it amazes me the differences that can happen with these over just a few years. I thought my Sandy Bridge i5 2500K put out very little heat. I can’t imagine how little power a media center running a SSD with one of these guys would take.</p>
<p>Doug Kass likes Apple stock. </p>
<p>[Kass:</a> Apple Is Ripe for a Buy - TheStreet](<a href=“http://www.thestreet.com/story/11932385/1/kass-apple-is-ripe-for-a-buy.html?puc=_atb_html_pla1&cm_ven=EMAIL_atb_html]Kass:”>http://www.thestreet.com/story/11932385/1/kass-apple-is-ripe-for-a-buy.html?puc=_atb_html_pla1&cm_ven=EMAIL_atb_html)</p>
<p>My home desktop is a Core i7 Nehalem (Penryn - Nehalem - Sandy Bridge - Ivy Bridge - Haswell) and has a TDP of 130 watts. I don’t think that it has the low power states that Sandy Bridge - Haswell have. My guess is that I could save 100 watts on average, maybe more, going from Nehalem - Haswell with perhaps twice the performance. Is that worthwhile? I could save 1 KW/day which is about 12 cents or maybe $35/year. It would run cooler too. I do like the idea of saving on power though I wouldn’t recoup the system upgrade costs. It would allow me to play with AVX2 extensions (Ivy Bridge added the first round of 256-bit registers and converted some of the 128-bit register instructions to operate on 256-bit registers; Haswell converts a ton more of the 128-bit register instructions to operate on the 256-bit registers).</p>
<p>My current home desktop doesn’t have an SSD and I’ve been debating a new machine build or adding an SSD to the old one. I imagine that power and cooling considerations will make an upgrade cycle an easy choice for employees that have machines older than Sandy Bridge. Yes, Sandy Bridge was a great processor - my daughter loves her system that I built.</p>
<p>At this point my home system is the weakest one in the house by far, which is somewhat ironic.</p>
<p>I’m overdue for an upgrade - I am running a P4 3Ghz Prescott, yes my system is closing in on 10 years old - and I am waiting for a Haswell-based system.</p>