anyone buying glw ahead of earnings?

7/29/2008 11:14:44 AM

i want to. if i can get my shit straight i am.

wanted to buy Juniper last week too before their earnings, but missed the boat on that one too

[Edited on July 29, 2008 at 4:27 PM. Reason : .]

7/29/2008 4:26:37 PM

^^ i suck at timing earnings. i bought it a while back

7/30/2008 1:02:11 PM

i wish BDK would come back down into the mid-50's so i can buy already

7/30/2008 1:46:30 PM

Mastercard reports tomorrow, big day hopefully

7/30/2008 4:00:07 PM

V today and trading was halted

7/30/2008 4:33:34 PM

Beat earnings estimates by 11 cents

7/30/2008 4:46:08 PM

bad news on GDP and jobs and after two days of gains, the market is....flat. i know oil has been down but i just do not understand the basis of the buying interest this week, particularly in financials and retail. we are arguably in recession and will not break out of this credit crisis/housing slump at LEAST until 2009. expect another pullback in the coming week...

7/31/2008 11:04:47 AM

grrrr.... I am so sick of losing money.

7/31/2008 12:17:55 PM

lol the point of the stock market is to buy low and keep it for like many numerous years...you are like 22 years old

7/31/2008 12:20:13 PM

Thanks for the econ 101 lesson.

7/31/2008 1:02:35 PM

you are very welcome...likewise i'd like to thank you for the lesson in shitty sarcasm

7/31/2008 1:09:42 PM

i always thought the point was to make as much money as possible

7/31/2008 1:11:38 PM

No, you never sell, just keep buying low until you die.

7/31/2008 2:04:55 PM

^^^^^ I guess it's a GREAT thing these stocks have been in my name for over 15 years then?

OH WAIT, I lost tons already from what I had, which wasn't much to begin with, seeing as this is all I have to support myself and pay for graduate school.

go back to chit chat

7/31/2008 3:16:58 PM

^ummmmmm how bout you leave the moderator jobs to the moderators...i was already warned about this thread(which imo, ^ is worse than any of the 3 posts i had, because you made the effort to reply to something that was a moot point and over a few hours old) and didn't plan on posting in here anymore


anyways, back to the topic, my portfolio is up about 4.75% this year

7/31/2008 3:20:56 PM

Sheesh. How many times you going to edit that post?

401K is down 11%
Company stock in ESPP is up 18%

7/31/2008 3:49:15 PM

Quote :

"anyways, back to the topic, my portfolio is up about 4.75% this year"

Which stocks or funds are you in?

7/31/2008 3:55:36 PM

3 year old cds?

7/31/2008 4:02:12 PM

Quote :

"For the period (01/01/2008 - 07/30/2008) -11.96% "

woot, it's getting better!

7/31/2008 4:27:02 PM

ytd- I'm at about -10%. not as bad as the other financials though. :/

7/31/2008 4:45:09 PM

Its obviously my fault guys, the 2 days I am out of town and dont look at the market one bit we have two really nice days, come back into town today and the kiss of death strikes again. Be prepared August 12-14 I will again be out of town so feel free to load up!

7/31/2008 4:48:34 PM

Yeah, I was down 14% 2 days ago and check today and got a nice surprise.

7/31/2008 5:01:58 PM

I've been playing the cnbc stock challenge, the winner was annouced today

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=806158505&play=1

watch the annoucer joking about the guy being bald, then hear him talk about why he's bald

7/31/2008 5:34:02 PM

well if my usual trend holds, today will finish bad (hopefully not any worse than already) tomorrow and wednesday will be pretty good, but then thur, fri and monday will be horrid again.

8/4/2008 11:12:14 AM

this is my first official day of trading with real money
my first two buys were sambw and cpbrw

sambw opened at 0.03 and went to 0.04
except is screwed up the buy order and put buy at 0.02 and missed the 33% gain
oh well

8/4/2008 12:31:50 PM

...

[Edited on August 4, 2008 at 1:20 PM. Reason : ]

8/4/2008 1:19:36 PM

Alright I'm back to civilization after spending a week diving in Chuuk Lagoon. What'd I miss.....???

8/4/2008 3:56:27 PM

nice run today. i beat the market by a little.

whatever...if it crashes again, i'll be ready to buy some more

8/6/2008 12:01:03 AM

what are yall's thoughts on penny stocks
im thinking of signing up to one of these penny stock websites to get stock picks

8/6/2008 11:05:43 AM

8/6/2008 11:27:17 AM

my 401k is still doing terrible this year now bah

8/6/2008 11:28:17 AM

How bad?

Personal Rate of Return from 01/01/2008 to 08/05/2008 is -11.7%

[Edited on August 6, 2008 at 11:35 AM. Reason : ]

8/6/2008 11:28:59 AM

my 401k is down 11.5% so far this year, but has been starting to rebuild. My first year pushing into it, and employer match comes in a month so its all good.

8/6/2008 11:37:07 AM

It's only once a year?

8/6/2008 12:01:09 PM

^^^ about the same like -11.2% I know everyones is, I didnt meant to say mine was doing worse than others but I was positive until the past few weeks

8/6/2008 12:57:25 PM

^^ my anniversary is September 5, I think it is a per-paycheck thing.


[Edited on August 6, 2008 at 1:04 PM. Reason : nvm]

8/6/2008 1:01:22 PM

Ohhh. I see what you are saying now. Yeah, it's usually per paycheck once you are eligible. 6 % automatic raise ftw.

8/6/2008 1:15:03 PM

Quote :

"I was positive until the past few weeks "

Damn dude. What the hell kind of crazy asset allocation do you have.

8/6/2008 1:39:45 PM

I'm calling shenanigans

8/6/2008 4:49:03 PM

^^ i was briefly positive a couple of months ago...now i'm back down about 9.5%

(this is in my brokerage acct, not my IRA which is full of index funds)

8/6/2008 6:48:26 PM

Anybody else have SIRI? I'm trying to figure out what happened to it today. My history shows a name change but it's still on the ticker.

8/6/2008 6:50:50 PM

^^^it was a few weeks farther back than I thought but, 6 weeks ago:

Quote :

"im sitting at about +5% in my 401k atm for the year."

im like 30% spread out among small cap growth and value, 40% spread out among large cap value, growth, and some other index, 20% in foreign stocks, 10% in company stock which has been beating the market consistently since Ive worked here.

[Edited on August 6, 2008 at 7:06 PM. Reason : ]

8/6/2008 7:05:55 PM

What is the prevailing wisdom on oil sagging? Have our driving habits put that much of a dent into the demand?

8/8/2008 11:48:22 AM

no

8/8/2008 11:57:08 AM

http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/08/betting-on-bear.html

I don't know a ton about option trading (only what a put and call is) but can someone explain these numbers?

Trying to figure out how $1.7 million equals 5.7 million options and $270 million in profit, etc.

8/11/2008 12:06:36 PM

So someone bought puts on 5.7M shares of Bear stock

Those puts cost of $1.7M at the time they were purchased.


At by the time Bear collapsed the same puts were worth $270M.


Basically the puts orginally went for 30 cents and then sold for $47

8/11/2008 12:16:34 PM

You can understand why I am confused. You're telling me the puts cost 30 cents, but this is at the link

Quote :

"It was pretty clear at the time that Bear was in deep trouble. And as we noted on the evening of March 10 (Rumor of the Day: Bear Goes Belly Up), paying $4 for a $60 put was expensive."

Wouldn't it be, if the puts cost $4, you get 425000 of them for 1.7 mil to exercise at ~$65. And the stock went effectively to zero?

Thats the only way I arrive at $270 mill with the numbers in the link

[Edited on August 11, 2008 at 12:29 PM. Reason : x]

8/11/2008 12:22:46 PM

Accordingly to the article a $60 put cost $4

However, a $30 put cost $0.30

That's a steep drop but with a few days to expiry it is not unreasonable.

As a caveat, I am taking all this info from the article. I do not have any independent verification of options prices and so I don't know if there is a typo.


Now that I think about there must have been some typo or error because $30 put cannot go for $47.


[Edited on August 11, 2008 at 12:31 PM. Reason : .]

8/11/2008 12:29:31 PM

Yeah, I can't figure it out either...granted, I don't know much about options, but I'm stumped.

Edit:

Ok, I got it now, you gotta follow the bloomberg link to get more info

Quote :

"The 57,000 puts that traded March 11 at the $30 strike price and the 1,649 that traded at $25 were collectively worth about $1.7 million, Bloomberg data show. Each put is equal to 100 shares of stock. "

[Edited on August 11, 2008 at 12:36 PM. Reason : x]

8/11/2008 12:33:43 PM