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Stock-Age: Stocks, Options and Dividends oh my!
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Ether_Snake
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Amazing that DDD isn't down since the year started. They posted better than expected preliminary results today, was up 14% at one point. Maybe in 50 years I'll be back in the black on this one
edit: Nikkei down another 5%. If 2000-2016 is any indication, the Nikkei never plunged this much without going to down to 7000-9000, so it may have another 40% at least to drop.
I call Nikkei at 9000 within a year. Currently at 14k.
edit: Nikkei down another 5%. If 2000-2016 is any indication, the Nikkei never plunged this much without going to down to 7000-9000, so it may have another 40% at least to drop.
I call Nikkei at 9000 within a year. Currently at 14k.
Ether_Snake
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ClosingADoor
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My finance stock (INGA) up 5% again. Let's see if it can stick this time and go up again, or we're heading down more. If so, crazy dividend levels coming (7% yesterday when I bought).
Anyone rolling the dice with SUNE or UNIS? I got out of UNIS today and took profit. Their merger deadline with AMGEN is Monday. What happened last time is they extended the deadline and their stock tanked to .8 a share and slowly rose to 1.08 the closer the deadline came. SUNE has a lawsuit being heard against it Tuesday. If the case gets dismissed SUNE would rocket to a $4-6 share basically immediately. SUNE is also a good long with large projects in the future as long as they avoid BK.
I like SCSO to top out at $26-27 Tuesday.
I like SCSO to top out at $26-27 Tuesday.
Ether_Snake
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Anyone can tell me why long term bonds like BLV etf move in a somewhat inverted relation to the DOW/S&P? I might have asked that before, still don't get it.
ClosingADoor
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I think it's because when stock goes down, people look for safer investments, pushing the prices of bonds up due to more demand. Long term bonds are pretty safe mostly. When the stock market goes up, investing there is less risky so you can put your money to better use on it, so the value of bonds go down due to less demand.
Ether_Snake
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Yeah that was what I was told in another thread. Thanjs
SCTY killing shorts today.
Saw SCTY rising today, I immediately thought of you, haha. Today surge wiped out 1/3 of my loss since January. Crossing my finger it continues.
ClosingADoor
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My broker doesn't have much of the American stocks outside of highly traded ones Might be for the best and prevent me from taking stupid risks.
Anybody here in European stock?
Got a little more of DAI. See how it goes. Looking at getting a bit more SIE also. If those German stocks go back up towards the level of late last year I'll be making some pretty nice profits. And the companies I'm in seem to be healthy enough and turning good profits.
Oil is going up (RDSA for me), but still need 10% to get in the green. Should have bought when it was in the 18s. Back to 21 now. But had no leftover money in my account then.
Might be for the best and prevent me from taking stupid risks.Anybody here in European stock?
Got a little more of DAI. See how it goes. Looking at getting a bit more SIE also. If those German stocks go back up towards the level of late last year I'll be making some pretty nice profits. And the companies I'm in seem to be healthy enough and turning good profits.
Oil is going up (RDSA for me), but still need 10% to get in the green. Should have bought when it was in the 18s. Back to 21 now. But had no leftover money in my account then.
Today's market rally today is so good it's kinda of scary. Hopefully it doesn't crash hard tomorrow from overshooting. I've become so pessimistic.
Not sure if I should cash out today on some of my picks. Just made a lot of gain from PSX, and SCTY decided to be contrary and be one of the red among these rises. Putting a stop limit sell on every single one of them before I go to sleep today.
Not sure if I should cash out today on some of my picks. Just made a lot of gain from PSX, and SCTY decided to be contrary and be one of the red among these rises. Putting a stop limit sell on every single one of them before I go to sleep today.
Ether_Snake
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Wow DDD SSYS SCTY PBR VJET have been doing amazing over the past three days. Daily double digit gains everywhere. Probably means they'll crash hard soon since I own those.
It's the time of year when the Fed puts the banks through it's "stress tests".
It will pretty interesting to see what comes of this. The last few years you have seen them doing ok, Last year the only one that failed was BoA. Now this is pretty interesting. You have seen the banks set aside extra capital to handle potential bad loans(Oil/energy). This time around you would think BoA learned from it's dumb mistake. They were not allowed to raise dividends and had to cancel it's stock buy back program last year because of an accounting mistake. The banks had a good year in 2015. They reported pretty good earnings the last quarter.
The major set backs have been the loans and their investment divisions but those should be recovering. I'm really tempted to buy BoA. If they pass the stress tests they should be able to increase their dividend payout and buy back some stock. Maybe a good bump comes out of this?
Should've bought SCTY at 17
So it looks like I might be jumping the gun a little. This year it seems to be a little later than usual.
It will pretty interesting to see what comes of this. The last few years you have seen them doing ok, Last year the only one that failed was BoA. Now this is pretty interesting. You have seen the banks set aside extra capital to handle potential bad loans(Oil/energy). This time around you would think BoA learned from it's dumb mistake. They were not allowed to raise dividends and had to cancel it's stock buy back program last year because of an accounting mistake. The banks had a good year in 2015. They reported pretty good earnings the last quarter.
The major set backs have been the loans and their investment divisions but those should be recovering. I'm really tempted to buy BoA. If they pass the stress tests they should be able to increase their dividend payout and buy back some stock. Maybe a good bump comes out of this?
Should've bought SCTY at 17
So it looks like I might be jumping the gun a little. This year it seems to be a little later than usual.
Ether_Snake
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Couldn't the fact that banks need to hold reserves more than in pre-2008 partially explain the reduced inflationary effect of low interest rates? I would assume that essentially the fed has been handing over money to banks as a form of pre-bailout, and banks are expected to report having "held" on said money through the stress test, so that if shit hits the fan the banks will already have the bailout money.
So banks are supposed to lend more thanks to low rates, but they have to hold a large percentage of that money. Or maybe it's insignificant.
So banks are supposed to lend more thanks to low rates, but they have to hold a large percentage of that money. Or maybe it's insignificant.
ClosingADoor
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Good for you right? Put a stop limit on the minimum you want to make, lock in profit and buy back later.
Ether_Snake
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DDD up 25% today. Still down 75% on it
Dr. Feel Good
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Does anyone have a good reference guide of stocks to look into? Not necessarily just Fortune 500 but I'd like to get more involved with tracking certain smaller and mid size stocks within certain industries but a lot of the time I don't even know what companies are out there. Anyone have recommendations?
If you are just looking for a list of companies, you could work through some indices (Russel Mid Cap/Russel Small Cap, or industry specific indices.). The Finviz screener works great too. You could filter by industry/sector and market cap, for instance.
TheRagnCajun
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Any Canadians worried about the housing market this year? I don't expect a crash, but a long, drawn-out correction as interest rates start to rise. I'm worried that will put a big squeeze on banks like RBC and TD that have leveraged heavily on mortgages. I know Canada has more regulations, CMHC, and less sub-prime loans. But we're actually worse than the US in 2008 when it comes to metrics like: debt-to-income ratio, home ownership ratio, and captial:leverage ratios of the big banks. We are far more indebted than the US ever was. The home buying is going to slow to a crawl, so will development and lending. I'm not bearish on the Canadian economy as a whole, but I'm worried about the big banks like TD and RBC in particular.
Ether_Snake
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Yeah it's long overdue, difficult to time. All mortages that have a down payment of less than 20% are insured by the CMHC, so that in itself is a huge risk passed from the banks to the government. So it's really the Canadian government that is at risk first.
I can see things going down and the government selling off CMHC at firesale prices.
I can see things going down and the government selling off CMHC at firesale prices.
Melon Husk
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All about the major indices' support lines today.
edit: is it really that obvious? easy for the bears.
edit: is it really that obvious? easy for the bears.
Melon Husk
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Shorts say the short case remains obvious, but today's got that bullish tingle.
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2100 or bust.
Came across this lonely comment while reading the papers http://www.wsj.com/articles/adp-rep...rch-payrolls-matching-expectations-1459341578
Which I thought was worth sharing.
edit 2: IWM 120 or bust.
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Came across this lonely comment while reading the papers http://www.wsj.com/articles/adp-rep...rch-payrolls-matching-expectations-1459341578
Which I thought was worth sharing.
edit 2: IWM 120 or bust.
ClosingADoor
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Nice and green all around. Let's keep it up for a bit. RDSA up 4%+
Ether_Snake
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Twitter never looks good to me, never will.
Melon Husk
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The bots are dueling again next week on the SPY. 208 is key. 7 year trend vs 1 year trend...
We might have an epic rally in September if it's headed towards the 7 year.
We might have an epic rally in September if it's headed towards the 7 year.
Anybody have suggestions on light reading to get my mind set on investing again?
Going to be reading The Intelligent Investor and probably reread One Up On Wall Street, but would like something else. Not looking for stock picks or anything right now, just want to get my head back in the game and probably stick to value stocks, but am interested in anything to expand my knowledge base.
For the next while I probably won't have good access to the internet, so would prefer anything that is available in hard copy. Wouldn't mind reading about some types of technical investing, so anything that goes into that style a little more would be great. Appreciate any suggestions.
Going to be reading The Intelligent Investor and probably reread One Up On Wall Street, but would like something else. Not looking for stock picks or anything right now, just want to get my head back in the game and probably stick to value stocks, but am interested in anything to expand my knowledge base.
For the next while I probably won't have good access to the internet, so would prefer anything that is available in hard copy. Wouldn't mind reading about some types of technical investing, so anything that goes into that style a little more would be great. Appreciate any suggestions.
Large Professor
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- You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits by Joel Greenblatt
It's a great book on spin-offs and other special situations.
- the big short by Michael Lewis. Or read the best chapter of the book (imho) here: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/04/wall-street-excerpt-201004
Thanks for that link, intense read. Almost a tiny bit unhappy that I know this probably was the best chapter, is the book still worth it?
Large Professor
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It's not like the rest of the book is garbage, so I would say yes.
mmazurkiewicz
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whats the best site for big headlines and all financial news?
it used to be marketwatch for me before the redesign. now i genuinely feel lost for info without it.
cnbc was a backup site but doesn't really offer offer pure company news, and instead adds a bunch of lifestyle and other nonsense into their headline lists.
it used to be marketwatch for me before the redesign. now i genuinely feel lost for info without it.
cnbc was a backup site but doesn't really offer offer pure company news, and instead adds a bunch of lifestyle and other nonsense into their headline lists.
ClosingADoor
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Debating if I should put some more money in oil companies... Almost out of the red with it now and should rise a bit more. Dividend of almost 8%, but that probably won't last forever.
Large Professor
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It kinda depends on this meeting: http://www.wsj.com/articles/investors-on-edge-ahead-of-oil-producers-doha-meeting-1460464106