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I have a significant stake in their debt. I am not going to disclose the amount because for one I am a little superstitious about that sort of thing and second you would not believe me if I told you anyways. But you are correct regarding the common stock, a stop loss is not going to do you...

Please make sure you have a full understanding of the underlying of what you are writing and have done the "math" with respect to leverage. Today, your margin requirement to maintain that position might seem small. But with a strong move against you, that margin requirement amount can sky rocket...

So true. I would have tripped over myself putting together an enormous secondary offering. Anyone have puts on this?? Even with the huge IV priced in, the near term $30 strike puts were still something like a 4 bagger.

So in a word then, your opinion is BBI = fail Is that correct? The nice thing about this stock/company is that in the next 45 days or so, they are releasing earnings and the end result of their debt recap negotiations. So this will be one case where most likely we get a turning point and...

Do you by chance work for the street.com ??:) [ Inside joke; they are huge BBI negative spinners] Amazing how things can always have a spin to them. Well to shed a little more on your referenced above points: The store closings are part of their digital plan. They will recoop $250M...

And here is a little perspective for you. Coinstar just reported earnings which everyone was just giddy about. Their first quarter revs were $263.2M from Redbox DVD business, which accounts for 75% of total company rev. But these numbers are not affected by the 28 day rule agreements, nor...

On the brink of their collapse, Sirius actually had $4B in debt and their near term corp notes were trading at 15 cents on the dollar. Blockbuster currently has $975M in debt. $300M of this is in the form of 2012 sub notes and the rest is a very recent restructured chunk of secured debt put...

Now I understand your comment. My original post was actually directed to the OP and his question should he take it off the table from his $45 PPS entry. When I read your post, I immediately thought of those calls I missed as well. :mad:

I missed your little observation on the float. Its amazing how NFLX moves intraday. Don't feel too bad about the put. The morning after their earnings announcement, when it opened flirting with $100. I was literally a mouse click away from getting near term $100 calls for like $1.80. Within 30...

Nice trade. I would definitely take some off the table. One of the big catalysts of this recent run was the fact that NFLX quite some time ago did a huge stock buy back on the cheap. Presently they only have a 43M float. So you can see how these huge run ups and gap downs ocur. At this...

From Friday's close, PIR is a nearly an 80 bagger from the lows. And actually it was trading for at least a few weeks in the .15ish range. SIRI was another one that was on the brink of becoming single digit penny stock and now trades over $1. GGP monster move, DAN made an insane move. DDRX...

The recent run reminds me of mid/later 2007, when the market would just go up every single day and rally on bad news time and time again. Finally peaking near Dow 14,400. There were like 2 to 3 new threads DAILY concerning the infamous price protection team and how the market will keep going up...

Thanks I was kind of flirting with that. I should have mentioned this but I am actually running 4 different machines all hardline (no wireless) through this modem/router connection. And all have the same connectivity results. Two are macs and two are PC's. And the MAC that I tested directly...

Good point. I bet I am not on a direct plain to the central office. So would say that coax/cable medium/service is superior?

Same thing with me. They were saying its my router. That I should hook up directly to the modem, yeah right. But I get the same blazing 1000ish kbps directly connected. I am short by about only 9000 kbps.

So I finally upgraded my lame lighter DSL plan which pumps out download speeds of 700ish kbps max to a 10 mbps plan. However when I run a speed test on several different websites, it gets up to like 1 mbps and chokes/stops. I also notice no difference really in watching videos, etc. meaning...

My "complex" reference comment was not geared to you, or anyone in your discussion in this thread. I meant, within the context of the average prospect or individual on the street. Annuities are like a jungle for sure. I concur with you. If you were to really crunch numbers running present...

The whole point of a retirement account is not to bet on anything. Leave your trading mentality at the door. I would recommend you put together a high quality trench corp note portoflio of bonds YOU cherry pick. Do not buy a bond mutual fund, there is still principle risk. There are some...

Apparently guidelines for ROTH eligibility are not as "tough" given the context of this thread as traditional IRA. However what specifically defines "compensation". With traditional IRA's it has to be in the form of wages, salaries, or bonus. It can not be from dividend income/interest, etc...

(About 8 years ago I developed a really nice scalping system on super high volume/liquid DOT exchange traded funds. This is now long gone and due to the fact that I could not develop jack squat after this time, I basically in a nutshell became an equities "gambler.") I was wondering for folks...