Long with calls. 50 contracts, to be exact (Jan 08), and that ain't no chump change. MSFT will run to $35+ warts and all.
Let's not get crazy. :)
Hedge funds are on the periphery of the issue, though. The issue is how 'failures to deliver" are dealt with. If you loan me money in a...
Yes. If you posted that originally (or whoever did), I want to thank you (or them) very, very much. It offers great insight into one of the...
Any balls I had have been removed by galactically stupid talk of shorting GS. Live and learn.
http://www.businessjive.com/nss/darkside.html
Your points are sound. Hedge funds are creating a likely market crisis, however. I define (subjectively) a crisis as a pronounced crash in...
Thanks for posting this article, OHC. It's fascinating. :)
If I had bought or held stocks in 2003, when the Naz was at 1,100 and the DJIA was at 8,000... ....I'd be taking all my chips off the table...
Ah. Got it. :D Teh stocks are guaranteed to go to the moon!
Umm....yeeeaaah. Were you born after 2001?
I blew it on GS, actually going so far as to talk of shorting it several days. Don't I feel like the f*cking jackass.
And if more cash plows into the equity markets...
Since we're likely headed for a 5 year DOW and S&P 500 high, and the highest NASDAQ in 4 (is it 4?) years.... ...does this rally have legs,...
Things are too bullish for me. My contrarian brain is telling me we're in for a rocky fall.
Crude oil storage room is literally running out. Inventories are at a 8 1/2 year high, and storage facilities have raised their prices...
I'm shorting like crazy. I figure at least 50% (probably more) of those long in commods the last year or so would rather take their profits and...
Wiser words are rarely spoken. Everytime necessity has called me away for an extended period, at least one stock has burned my ass.
Not technically a trade, but shorts on PD shore were purdy!
Copper is toast.
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