^^ 10.61% return in 1 hour

I was getting worried as the stick price began to creep back up towards its intraday high

1/9/2007 2:59:57 PM

I made a quick buck on Apple today too.
I decided to get out before tomorrow. The stock usually slides a bit the day after Macworld or a big announcement like this. I'm hoping to get into it long term and I'd like to wait for it to dip a bit more before doing so.

I believe I might also start buying up some GE, mainly as a long-term stable blue-chip stock.
TRID seems to have recovered a bit today from yesterday's losses.

1/9/2007 3:20:36 PM

y'know with all of my talk about AAPL in the first post of the thread, i never bought any. It was $80 then.

1/9/2007 3:30:13 PM

^
bobby d's hype, plus cramer's hype, plus iphone hype, why not? haha
i didn't either

that FXI link you posted was the same one i found too

1/9/2007 3:31:59 PM

Anyone know what happened with the Bellsouth/AT&T deal? Specifically I'm looking for how many shares of AT&T the BLS owners received in the deal...

1/9/2007 3:35:59 PM

if it makes you feel any better i sold all of my AAPL on 8/19/05 for $42.50




[Edited on January 9, 2007 at 3:38 PM. Reason : .]

1/9/2007 3:38:12 PM

^ so you are selling naked calls? Isn't that pretty risky, or do you just have to follow it very closely?

1/9/2007 5:19:00 PM

yeah, i would have put myself out there a lot more if there wasn't the chance that the stock would continue to climb and i would be screwed.

1/9/2007 6:01:16 PM

anyone watching Garmin (GRMN)?

1/9/2007 11:48:04 PM

what's your take on GRMN?

got out of ILF - unfortunately people on TV already started badmouthing it before i got around to placing the trade.

i'm tempted to ride some of Apple's momentum...

1/10/2007 10:09:22 AM

also sold all my XLE, and a little over half of my EWZ

1/10/2007 10:20:40 AM

GRMN had a good run over the past few weeks until someone downgraded their recommendation to neutral yesterday.

I'm fairly certain that it will bounce back sooner rather than later. Historically they unveil new products in January and have yet to do so at this point.

1/10/2007 12:18:06 PM

wouldn't now be a *good* time to buy XLE and hold it for a while, or maybe start DCA'ing money into XLE while it is down...

1/10/2007 2:48:09 PM

yeah, i like the business prospects for GRMN a lot. if the price will stay down (or preferably fall another 50 cents or $1), long enough for my money transfer to scottrade to go through, i want to get in on it.

1/10/2007 3:56:05 PM

^ yeah, i got in right before xmas at 49.67 then watched it climb up to 55+

if i had more money to spare i would pick up some more this week

1/10/2007 4:02:40 PM

i've already made ~12% on XLE. will probably get back into it when it gets lower.

plus i wanted to free up some $ for PKW and IAI

1/10/2007 4:25:17 PM

^oh yeah, just wondering if my thought process was somewhat correct...since I own NO energy stock

thanks

1/10/2007 4:37:10 PM

GD is up 8% in the 7 days since I bought in - most likely because of W's decision to send more troops and equipment overseas.

Guess that makes me a war profiteer.

1/11/2007 2:14:31 PM

heh, I like to think of it as recouping wasted tax dollars.

1/11/2007 2:29:41 PM

GOOG and TIE both up 2% today. I'm considering selling TIE in a bit if it goes up a little more.

1/11/2007 5:59:04 PM

Got an offer from First Command as an advisor today....gonna move back to Fayetteville and do it. The don't sell individual stocks which I don't like but they are going to roll out a fee for service platform so I will at least be able to build a model stock portfolio and tell my clients how to use it and jump online for their trades.

The company gives you 300 existing clients and there is no real "cold-calling." The only catches are that I am self-contracted although they do give me a draw and that I have to furnish my own office....so if you guys know of anybody looking to unload a nice L-desk or anything.....

But back on topic.....

I made 11% on UPS since August in 2006
and 12% on SLASX (no-load mutual fund)
SKYW continues to be an airline that does very well for me.
And as soon as Mesa gets back up a few points I am going to dump it!

....but then again I am going to have to dump all of it so I can get my biz started

1/12/2007 1:22:29 AM

picked up a bit of CSCO earlier this week




[Edited on January 12, 2007 at 11:27 AM. Reason : .]

1/12/2007 11:27:22 AM

XM and sirius merger rumors are pushing the stocks of both up. If they do merge, which one should I sell or should I hold on to both?

[Edited on January 12, 2007 at 7:18 PM. Reason : sdf]

1/12/2007 7:18:03 PM

Why do I always read the articles about not being able to figure out the fees for mutual funds? Can't you easily look the fees up on morningstar or something?

1/13/2007 11:44:06 AM

So, is an ETF like a stock and an index fund like a mutual fund?

Let say I wanted to buy something which represents the Dow. Which type would that be?

1/13/2007 12:01:35 PM

an ETF is like a mutual fund that trades like a stock.

Since you don't get the higher fees with an ETF, you won't find many actively managed ETFs as you would with mutual funds. Basically, while you can get both a mutual fund as well as an ETF that mirrors, say, the DJIA, the ETF will have lower expenses. All Index funds that I own are ETFs.

Some examples:

• Dow Jones Industrial Average (30 large stocks; popular indicator) (ETF: DIA)
• NYSE Composite Index (all companies on the NYSE) (ETF: NYC)
• NASDAQ Composite Index (all companies on the NASDAQ; technology-heavy) (ETF: ONEQ)
• NASDAQ-100 Index (100 large NASDAQ non-financial stocks) (ETF: QQQQ)
• S&P 500 Index (500 large companies; general market analysis) (ETF: SPY)
• Russell 2000 Index (small-cap stocks) (ETF: IWM)
• Wilshire 5000 Index (total U.S. market) (ETF: TMW)

1/13/2007 3:59:37 PM

Quote :

"Got an offer from First Command as an advisor today....gonna move back to Fayetteville and do it."

i've never heard anything good about First Command, and I've heard a few really bad things.

1/13/2007 7:18:55 PM

Here is what Jim Cramer and I think about stocks for 2007:

BBI- Blockbuster
CVS- Pharmacy
MRVC -
MDRX- Allscripts
SIX - Six Flags
LVLT- Level Three Com

1/14/2007 12:37:56 AM

^Im not so sure about those, if you want substantial lucrative gaines.

1/14/2007 2:32:16 AM

Quote :

"Here is what Jim Cramer and I think about stocks for 2007:"

Let me fix that.

Quote :

"Here's what Cramer said, and I'm repeating and acting like I thought of these too."

there.

1/14/2007 8:47:05 AM

i've been hearing several analysts and economists predicting a pullback/correction in mid February

1/15/2007 4:22:31 PM

If it was created in 1974 why does morningstar only have info from 1999

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilshire_5000

http://quicktake.morningstar.com/FundNet/TotalReturns.aspx?Country=USA&Symbol=WFIVX&fdtab=returns

1/15/2007 9:42:20 PM

Quote :

"Why do I always read the articles about not being able to figure out the fees for mutual funds? Can't you easily look the fees up on morningstar or something?"

Truthfully you can't. Those are reported prospectus expense ratios. The actual expense ratios are generally higher because of portfolio turnover and unforeseen expenses. First off, for every 100% turnover in a fund, assume about a 1% increase in the expense ratio. They aren't required to report that in the prospectus and they don't. Fee services are the best way to get at the true fees. Morningstar reports last years actual fee if you click the expanded "fees and expenses" link, but another problem is that many funds put a temporary max on the management fee for a while and then when it goes off, the fees hit the fan.

1/15/2007 10:56:50 PM

bought 20 shares of Garmin (GRMN) at $51.51

1/16/2007 10:59:03 AM

there are virtually no bears out there - it worries me

1/16/2007 12:24:30 PM

Anyone know anything about IAR?

1/17/2007 3:40:41 PM

^^ I've heard from many bears, they're outnumbered, but I'd say 30/70 bear/bull

as for this board though, it's all bulls cause half these guys are Warren Buffett prodigies

1/17/2007 7:59:56 PM

Today was pretty bad for me.

1/18/2007 5:51:36 PM

i bought CSCO a dollar or two too soon - should've waited

in any case, its still a long term buy and hold

1/19/2007 10:51:37 AM

Quote :

"Anyone know anything about IAR?"

They print phone books. I have some shares from when it was spun off by Verizon last November. I plan to dump it in a few days when I do my monthly buying and selling.

1/19/2007 11:21:32 AM

TRID to announce Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2007 Earnings

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070118/clth514.html?.v=62

Quote :

"SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Trident Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRID - News), a leader in high-performance semiconductor system solutions for the multimedia and digital television markets will hold a conference call for interested parties of the financial community at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Wednesday, January 24, 2007. The Company will release earnings after the market close on the same day"

This is huge because TRID has not announced earnings in two quarters due to all of the option scandal mess. If it's as good as has been projected, TRID should take off finally. Or if it hasn't, well.... that will suck.

1/19/2007 11:51:58 AM

^^^ yeah, i bought GRMN a dollar too soon as well, but i still feel good about the purchase.

^^^^ yeah, yesterday was a killer for me.

1/19/2007 12:03:16 PM

Bobby and I can hold prayer sessions for TRID that it'll go up, lol.

1/19/2007 2:59:04 PM

Any of you guys see this? (hope it isn't posted elsewhere)
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/01/19/ap3344407.html
When I read that Google is coming to NC, I was seriously hoping that they were coming to the Triangle. No such luck.

1/19/2007 3:02:35 PM

yeah, i don't know why they picked Lenoir. what a shit town.

also, Google already has an NC location ... in Chapel Hill, though it only has
5 employees. I believe its in one of the offices above Cosmic Cantina.
http://localtechwire.com/business/local_tech_wire/news/story/1126258/

1/19/2007 3:22:31 PM

just sold all my ADRA and EEM

will probably cost averge and increase my ADRE holdings when it dips

1/19/2007 4:00:39 PM

^^ we need to lure them to Centennial Campus

1/19/2007 5:15:08 PM

^ That's where I was hoping they were coming...alas, they decided to set up shop in Podunk, NC.

[Edited on January 19, 2007 at 5:35 PM. Reason : ]

1/19/2007 5:35:05 PM

Today is yucky.

1/22/2007 2:23:02 PM

yes, but its been on its way for a while now

1/22/2007 2:38:45 PM