Recent content by charliehm

Does anyone have experience with trading ETF’s in the after-market? I’m a newbie at this. Toward the end of today’s normal session, I went long an ETF at a price that ended up being its closing price, 18.21. But when I pulled a quote at Yahoo Finance just now, they reported the higher...

AAA, 4 monitors is a limit for me only due to desk size , eyeball attention, and budget constraints. As other posters point out, 16 plus monitors is possible. But what few people appreciate is how easy and cheap it is to move from 1 monitor to 3 or 4, which creates a managable and...

Yes, XP (Home) will support an AGP card (e.g., a Matrox dual head) and at least 2 PCI video cards (which can be fairly low-end, e.g., 1-2 MB) on the same mobo (depending on how many free PCI slots your have, of course), for four monitors total, which is what I'm running. XP will reject...

Rather than using averaging down to repair a trade that is moving against you, look at the market and see if another position in the same security on the same side of the market is warranted. Sometimes prices are stumbling around as the specialist plays his games, but the direction is...

Writing the previous served its purpose of catharsis and redirection, and I'm discontinuing it with this entry. Everyone has their own idea of what the trading process is like, and for me it is fishing, along the lines of the following which I posted at the Motley Fool board for bonds last...

I'm just an bond and mutual fund investor trying to learn to trade stocks, and this journal is just me writing to myself, thinking about what I need to do to fix a problem I've created for myself. Don't brother reading unless you truly have nothing better to do or are finding yourself in the...

Thug_Life, Scottrade's datafeed is represented as being real time, but they run a late tape, at least that was my experience when I compared their feed against IB's a couple weeks ago by running T&S for INTC from each of them simultaneously on my monitors. Scotrade was leap-frogging trades...

The ethics of the ML situation aside, how did anyone handle it as a trading problem, which it also was? Did you short immediately upon the news they were being indicted, or did you wait until the screams of outrage reached a crescendo (and the price a near bottom) and then do a value play...

"Although IB may not be by itself in there response. Wonder how other OLB's would respond? " ---------------------- Almost the same fraud was run on me at Waterhouse a week ago, where I had a small, $10k account holding an orphaned mutual fund left over from the days when the firm was Jack...

"He that cannot abide a bid market deserves not a good one" (English proverb, unattributed)

P2, Whitman's criteria of "safe and cheap" don't exclude "troubled" companies. In fact, those are the only kind that are cheap. But what he also requires is a strong enough balance sheet that their current troubles, for which the market is punishing them pricewise, can be overcome. Two...

P2, On how to do basic financial analysis, any college textbook on financial accounting will familize you with the special language and format they use and the often counter-intuitive assumptions that drive the accounting process. The last chapters are where they deal with ratios and...