5/29/2008 3:28:27 PM

thanks for the help dave

5/29/2008 3:31:56 PM

^^It was a small joke, chill.

5/29/2008 3:38:26 PM

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"Who else uses it?"

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Crap, I'll be in my Arabic class tomorrow during the market open. Guess I won't be able to get in on it as soon as I had hoped...
10-10:15 I'm between classes. Maybe I can get Scottrade to help me out.

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Well I finally opened up a scottrade account

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Nice, another good drop today ...

Gotta start transferring all my cashes into scottrade

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everyone uses scottrade

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i ended up buying some Canadian National Railway (CNI). Still have a few hundred bucks left in my Scottrade acct

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^ scottrade

5/29/2008 3:40:04 PM

Awesome. Have you been happy with them?

5/29/2008 3:43:46 PM

I wouldn't use and recommend them if I wasn't happy with them.

5/29/2008 3:44:33 PM

Easy turbo, I didn't read your thread.

5/29/2008 3:54:00 PM

Turbo? My thread?

5/29/2008 4:05:12 PM

whats up with Dell, being up 10% after hours

5/29/2008 5:16:13 PM

Earnings came out today and looked pretty decent

5/29/2008 5:22:07 PM

I use Schwab and it's not terrible, not the cheapest but pretty high quality info/research. Unfortunately, by law I am only allowed to trade with 3 brokers

[Edited on May 29, 2008 at 6:32 PM. Reason : In reference to Mattxxx's question, I'm not just nattering to myself]

5/29/2008 6:31:27 PM

i'm assuming scottrade is the cheapest though?

5/29/2008 7:45:20 PM

I use scottrade as well. I don't have any complaints, and I'm pretty sure 7$ trades are the cheapest around

[Edited on May 29, 2008 at 8:26 PM. Reason : 7]

5/29/2008 8:26:35 PM

Good, I'm not to proud of Ameritrade.

5/29/2008 8:52:25 PM

Well i sold oil yesterday (thank god) and was waffling between mastercard and google. Naturally I chose the one that didnt go up 8% on the day.

Fuck.

5/29/2008 11:57:33 PM

not the stock market, but if you can trade FX, USD is looking pretty attractive right now...

5/30/2008 7:09:55 AM

^^ how are yo trading oil? USO or something similar?

5/30/2008 8:19:50 AM

Damn, I wish I had read this thread BEFORE I opened my E*Trade account. The time it takes to transfer money is ridiculous, not to mention, I'm paying $6 extra per trade when the money finally shows up in my account.

5/30/2008 11:43:36 AM

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"^^ how are yo trading oil? USO or something similar?"

1: Go to gas station, buy a shit ton of gasoline.
2: Wait 1 month, sell on the street for current retail price...which will probably be 2x what you bought it for.

Really though, I have no idea. I'm still all about V.

5/30/2008 1:40:35 PM

Well, signed up today and made my first deposit. I'm very happy with the turnaround time (I bank with Wacovia, btw). I went by their office during my lunch break and talked to a guy there, very professional and knowledgable (as far as I could tell). I should've got somebody's name as a referral so you coulda had some free trades.

Bought some RIMM, BP, International Rectifier (work w/ em), and Hyundai.

[Edited on May 30, 2008 at 2:03 PM. Reason : .]

5/30/2008 1:52:17 PM

Just sold all my V. Byebye V.

5/30/2008 2:45:43 PM

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"how are yo trading oil USO or something similar?"

yeah i was trading OIL ... its an Ipath crude total return index

5/31/2008 8:50:02 AM

OK I want to open up a roth ira but I want one roth account under my brokerage, and I want the other under a mutual fund company. Reason behind this is so that any trades into the mutual fund are free when done directly.

Is there a special account or an easy way to send money back and forth between the two roth accounts and not get hit w/ taxes/penalties for removal? Or do I have to ACAT (account transfer) when I want to move money from the fund to the brokerage roth?

Can I just electronically move money from one roth to the other without taking a hit?

6/1/2008 12:07:20 AM

Ken Thompson kicked to the curb

[Edited on June 2, 2008 at 9:15 AM. Reason : Looks like that American Studies degree from UNC didn't tell him how to run a company.]

6/2/2008 9:11:51 AM

Bleh, rough start.

6/2/2008 10:40:01 AM

Yup...

6/2/2008 11:50:10 AM

Let's change "rough start" to "rough day".

I don't have a single stock that is currently up.

6/2/2008 1:32:30 PM

i had a handful that posted gains. pretty much matched the market decline across the portfolio, though.

bought some Morningstar (MORN).

6/2/2008 3:00:00 PM

Sheesh slow day. I sold RIMM...it pissed me off. I bought more IRF though, it's done pretty well.

6/2/2008 3:27:50 PM

^^ What was your thinking on MORN? I looked at it and nothing really jumped out at me.

6/2/2008 3:33:18 PM

picked up some IAU, CLF, and reloaded some BIDU for old times sake

6/2/2008 4:11:50 PM

+RIG, +XIDE today.

6/2/2008 4:13:52 PM

Wtf is Baidu again?

6/2/2008 4:17:22 PM

Chinese Google?

6/2/2008 4:19:22 PM

That was my impression from their website.

6/2/2008 4:20:39 PM

Half mine were up today, half down. CSCO keeps flirting with my target sell price but everytime it gets close it decides to take a dump .

6/2/2008 4:28:58 PM

First Solar hitting 2 1/2 month lows, long opportunity(?).......Anyone on here trade the shippers: egle, fro, drys, dsx, or nm??????

6/2/2008 4:30:10 PM

hard to tell.

if oil rolls over it may take all the energy names for a dip. maybe then is a good time.

i'm hoping oil drops below 120 in one of these corrections that last several days -- i can then get long dated calls on some energy names.

however, hope is not a viable investment thesis

6/2/2008 6:48:08 PM

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"^^ What was your thinking on MORN? I looked at it and nothing really jumped out at me. "

nothing really jumped out at me, either, but Motley Fool has recommended it twice in the last 3 months, i believe. Most of my stocks I've picked on my own--and generally done pretty well--but I've learned to be careful betting against those guys, and for them to be THAT confident and on fire about it means something.

so, to be perfectly honest, i did something i don't like to do and simply bought on someone else's tip. it was down 2% today. I wanted to buy in on SOMETHING with today's pullback, and was busy flying and didn't have time to research or think much.

6/2/2008 10:52:58 PM

DUG seems like a mistake

should've bought DCR instead

6/3/2008 11:57:03 AM

I picked up some Garmin (GRMN) yesterday pretty much on blind faith.

^ Do you think it's too late to jump on the DCR bandwagon?

6/3/2008 2:59:52 PM

Damn, MOS took off today.

6/3/2008 3:46:53 PM

^^ not if you do it with the money set aside for risky speculation -- you have to watch it to make sure you don't lose your shirt

6/3/2008 3:59:14 PM

my limit order went through for DCR @ 1.23

lets see how this goes

6/3/2008 7:18:01 PM

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"First Solar hitting 2 1/2 month lows, long opportunity(?)"

i love alternative energy - it is what got me interested in stocks in the first place - but i would not touch FSLR. yeah it's down, but it is still has a P/E over 100...that is just ridiculous, i don't care how much of a competitive advantage they supposedly have. especially in an industry that is so speculative. solar in particular scares me with how inflated it is right now.

if you like alt energy for long term, pick an ETF that covers all your bases. my favorite is PBD because of its international exposure and limited exposure to solar (a lot of wind energy companies that are BIG overseas). PBW spreads the wealth out quite a bit too. GEX is ok, but a little top heavy for my taste.

also you can go backdoor green with Chevron (world's largest geothermal producer), GE, and my favorite...Waste Management. WMI is basically the only game in town for trash removal...plus also a leader in recycling and its landfill methane gas-to-energy program is becoming profitable. And with a P/E in the mid-teens, the price is right.

6/3/2008 8:16:39 PM

Im thinking of getting NVDA, this is my first go at the stock market. What do you guys think?

6/4/2008 4:16:09 AM

First go at the stock market or first go at stocks?

6/4/2008 8:18:39 AM

getting some more DCR in another account...limit at 1.38

6/4/2008 10:58:02 AM

first go at stocks. ^^

6/4/2008 12:37:16 PM

sold ~2000 shares of CSCO.

no doom and gloom here, I just need cash to close on a new house in a little over 2 weeks.

6/4/2008 12:46:44 PM