Recent content by corbel

I'm very long AAPL but feel it will correct for a small length of time, in the near future If you want to short apple, I'd suggest dealing with options so you don't risk much...or have a very close stop loss. (I'm currently short Apple, with a target of 450. No stop loss since it's an option)

Currently the iphone 3gs is free with a contract. Next year the iphone 4 will (probably) be free with a contract. Not that it's hard for economics to override cachet here, but at this rate it will take a long time to happen

Ecosystem. example: a lot of cars are rolling off the assembly line today with built-in ipod/iphone connectors. Though maybe not the best example, that showcases how easy it is for someone to bring an iphone into their lives, and why someone would want to keep iphone in their lives. That...

iPhone demand is so high that it sparks scarcity riots. iPhone demand is so high that entire countries run out of the product within 10 minutes of launch. And the 5 isn't even out yet

Nice, and good call getting out of it when you did. After earning maybe look at getting back in

Advice for the future: - You may not want to short a stock where the phone sells out in an entire region in under 10 minutes (Hong Kong), and an entire country in three hours (China) - You may not want to short a stock where the company just expanded into 20+ countries - You may not...

Don't let everyone's comments get you down. You don't need to know what "forex" means if you're simply trading some stocks (although you'll learn what it means after reading people's posts enough). Also, what type of career are you envisioning? There are maybe two or three dozen career paths...

If you buy a mutual fund with IB, and hold it for 30 days, after that 30 day period you can purchase 75% more. Say I buy a mutual fund for $10,000. After 30 days, I'll be able to buy an additional $7,500

no need to be mean, tycoonman (lol, but still, no need to be mean)

MB trading looks perfect for me at $4.95 a trade. Thanks! (and thanks olias as well...the only reason IB didn't work for me is because my trading strategy depends on a 1 cent profit, and the round trip at IB is 1 cent a share. Otherwise I would go with them)

Does anyone know of a broker whose commissions are less than $10 per trade that also works with Ninjatrader? I'm currently using Ninjatrader with TD Ameritrade, and while trade sizes are say 100-200, in order to pull a profit with TD I have to make trades like 2000 large :( Any suggestions...

We have the lowest tax bills since World War II and everyone's complaining.

Good info! Exactly the info I needed (but if anyone else has any advice, experience, info, I'd love to hear it!)

So...noob question I know, but it's something I've never done before. How do I actually invest in an emerging market? Like, say I want to invest in Afghanistan. Do I go look for an ETF? Is there like...a stock that's designated as "the Afghanistan emerging market stock"?