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7/15/2008 4:07:05 PM

-5.20% was my final lol

adobe was my only real positive

[Edited on July 15, 2008 at 4:14 PM. Reason : and NUAN]

7/15/2008 4:14:23 PM

ESLR up 1.05 was my main help, also got a positive day from CPST, rest were still neutral or red

7/15/2008 4:24:21 PM

Visa is freaking killing me. About the time I wanted to sell it and spread it around some is when it started to tank

7/15/2008 10:05:49 PM

SEC bans naked short selling on 19 financials
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080716/bs_nm/sec_shortselling_dc_6

Interesting that Bank of America and Citi are on this list, but WaMu and Wachovia are not.

Seems as if fed.gov is not only installing price controls, but is directly determining who will survive and who will not?

7/16/2008 9:30:06 AM

hmmm that's weird

7/16/2008 9:33:48 AM

ive gone from having a decent +% for the year down to -11%

7/16/2008 9:36:15 AM

^^^ That is just ridiculous. I don't see how they can implement something like that if it doesn't cover all equities or at the very least all equities within a given sector.

Talk about undermining the confidence in the market.

Forget inflation & liquidity fears. Legislative risk is probably the biggest factor out there now. How the hell can you feel confident taking positions when Washington lets it be known they intend to interfere with extreme measures.

[Edited on July 16, 2008 at 9:40 AM. Reason : a]

7/16/2008 9:40:46 AM

poor old V getting beat up again! down to 66.97 (-1.40)

7/16/2008 9:46:40 AM

Well one lesson I have learned in the last few weeks is anytime a stock is on the plus side for me I am getting a stop in at least at my break even price. Things are too volatile here lately to be trying to ride little dips, Id rather be safe and make sure I lock in at least a little profit on a dip in case it really dips then I can rebuy. Sure at some point its gonna dip to my stop, sell off, then probably hit a good run and Ill be angry, but beats trying to ride small dips which end up turning into large dips like they have as of late.

7/16/2008 10:00:05 AM

WFC leaped up today

7/16/2008 1:29:21 PM

Let's hope this keep going up to help make up the losses from previous down days.

7/16/2008 3:22:35 PM

yeah I will gladly take a few more days like today, only thing that would be better is if gas/oil stocks werent all taking a hit it seems, but I only own one and it isnt down too much so I wont complain.

+1.75% for the day, does that mean I lose the game again? lol

[Edited on July 16, 2008 at 4:03 PM. Reason : .]

7/16/2008 3:43:52 PM

i dunno, i gained about 1% today..

7/16/2008 4:04:34 PM

i did about 25% today, but i need some stock picks for tomorrow

7/16/2008 5:19:19 PM

what was your starting amount of cash or stock value, what did you buy or own that netted you a 25% increase?

7/16/2008 5:24:10 PM

I can't find one stock up 25%, maybe he meant 2.5%....Oil folks are just taking profits, it'll spike up again, I'm looking at RIG and NOV, anyone else hold either of these? Anyone else hold any of the ag stocks, POT-MON-MOS-AGU etc?

7/16/2008 5:47:27 PM

If you short any of the financials like freddie, fannie, lehman, etc I suppose you could have picked up 25% today

7/16/2008 5:56:56 PM

huh?

they were all up 30,30, and 26% today

XLF was up almost 12.5% today

[Edited on July 16, 2008 at 7:34 PM. Reason : .]

7/16/2008 7:31:21 PM

wells? bbt?

7/16/2008 7:32:56 PM

http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=533988&page=1

fyi

7/16/2008 7:34:51 PM

damn i cant believe bb&t had such a bounce today.

7/16/2008 7:37:18 PM

I had mostly banks,

washington mutual, WM
NCC
FHN
ZION

most of them were 25 to 30% up today

7/16/2008 9:05:31 PM

Fake money doesnt count, its a hell of a lot easier to get ballsy and put money into financials right now when its not your actual money haha

I am interested to see how today goes, lots of earnings today including AMD, IBM, Coke, JP Morgan, Google, Merrill Lynch, Microsoft, Nokia, BB&T, as well as a whole slew of other financials.

[Edited on July 17, 2008 at 8:01 AM. Reason : .]

7/17/2008 7:38:50 AM

haha, so our stock split yesterday and all the sites are totally screwed up on our +/- % today. some places are showing us huge negative because of the split, others are showing that we are +43 pts when we are really only like +2.00 (from like 85 to 87). guess these sites dont handle splits well in calcs?

7/17/2008 9:58:27 AM

the second RY gets to 45 I'm selling half of what I've got there. I might cry if it decides to dip into the 30s again though.

7/17/2008 11:26:58 AM

Day's Range: 42.64 - 44.20
52wk Range: 39.62 - 59.29


i'd hold on to it. RBC is very strong while all the other banks continue to suck.

7/17/2008 11:33:12 AM

yea, but I have to liquidate some to pay bills/tuition/etc... I'm wishing I got out last november when it was right at 60 (just under). The only reason I'd leave half of what's there at the moment is because it's not one the worse off institutions at the moment.

7/17/2008 11:49:53 AM

With oil down a lot of stocks associated with it are taking a hit, may be a good time to buy in as lets face it oil is not limitless so the price is going to keep going up over time.

7/17/2008 1:14:51 PM

^ i hear you brotha.

..but with trying to game that, its the quick and the dead.

i've been coming and going on positions all over the place, but i'm not spreading the word because i don't want anyone following me into an ill-timed trade like DCR

7/17/2008 1:43:53 PM

HK and PQ are absolutely killing me today. I've been averaging down with HK today though as it continues to drop.

7/17/2008 1:46:22 PM

i put more into CHK instead of HK

..this is the news they can move on:

http://oilshalegas.com/haynesvilleshale.html

HK seems to swing more, so it could be a no guts no glory type deal for me, but CHK has a lot of other stuff going for it

7/17/2008 1:59:02 PM

Yeh, I thought about putting some in CHK as well. These big swings from HK suck. I'm hoping CHK eventually buys them out though. That and/or hopefully CHK earnings will beat expectations and lead to a sector rise at which point I will decrease my position in HK.

7/17/2008 2:07:17 PM

Dont worry I was in DCR as well but not as much as you I dont believe

My old standby GTE is back to almost 6 a share, debating selling a few things to get back into it after I see what happens with oil pricing and how things are reacting to it.

[Edited on July 17, 2008 at 2:18 PM. Reason : .]

7/17/2008 2:09:09 PM

im riding the financials till tomorrow

7/17/2008 2:26:11 PM

fake money still doesnt count

7/17/2008 2:44:00 PM

Quote :

"Fake money doesnt count, its a hell of a lot easier to get ballsy and put money into financials right now when its not your actual money haha"

7/17/2008 2:44:09 PM

BREAKING
NEWS
Google reports quarterly earnings of $4.63 a share, missing Wall Street projections. Shares fall about 10% after hours. More soon.

7/17/2008 4:17:01 PM

Yep down $50 a share after hours already, ouch! Looks like several others missed as well and are down quite a bit. Expect tech stocks to cliffdive tomorrow with MSFT and GOOG down after hours.

7/17/2008 4:23:12 PM

and i hope financials keep going up

7/17/2008 4:24:08 PM

MER may have fucked that wish up for you as well

7/17/2008 4:28:29 PM

damn

7/17/2008 4:41:49 PM

This is why I hate the markets.

Google: "Profit rose 35%!!!"
Market: "35%? Fuck that -- not enough!!"

*stock plummets*

7/17/2008 5:26:54 PM

If Citi is has a bad report before the bell tomorrow we could be looking a good capitulation. Several hundred points worth.

As a side note I think Wells upping the dividend was an unnecessary piece of bravado. Everyone knows they are in deep in mortgage and home equity. Their Tier One capital looks great right now but this crisis is far from over.

7/17/2008 5:52:33 PM

how is it looking for CITI?

im looking for a big winner for my fake money

7/17/2008 9:45:46 PM

Today should be an interesting day with Citi not sucking so much and several companies sucking it up yesterday. No clue what will happen with financials, I would imagine tech is going to take a big hit though. Not lookin forward to opening as I know im taking a bit hit already with ESLR barely missing numbers but still taken over a dollar hit after hours .

[Edited on July 18, 2008 at 8:29 AM. Reason : .]

7/18/2008 8:28:37 AM

anyone think AMD could be a good buy with how low they are right now?

7/18/2008 10:28:58 AM

re: CHK

Quote :

"Chesapeake Energy CEO buys $43 mln in stock By Steve Gelsi CHK 55.65, +0.91, +1.7%) Chairman and CEO Aubrey McClendon purchased 750,000 shares of his company at a price of $57.25 a share on July 15, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The market value of the purchased shares was about $43 million. He now owns 33.45 million shares, with a market value of about $1.9 billion. End of Story"

7/18/2008 10:36:03 AM

so our peeps are going to have a sit down in Geneva with the Iranians -- i hope it drives oil down

7/18/2008 1:32:54 PM

Can we just have oil go to $150 next week so I can sell? Then it can go down all it wants.

7/18/2008 1:57:13 PM