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I couldn't help but notice how many in the media give the Romney campaign credit for surges in the market. I've even heard it stated as fact that "the markets jumped after Romney wins the first presidential debate, particularly in the coal stocks" ahem. So why did, ANR jump 8% today after...

He often talks about the concept of trading around a core. He explains very well the strategy of selling some off every time your stock goes up 3-5%, then just buying more every time it goes down 3-5%. Basically swing trading, only your are constantly holding on to a core position, while buying...

Yeah, cd, I put my question at the end of my edit. If I am wrong about this, Why am I wrong? If its so much different with tos or Hoadly, then Why? I mean really, Why would it be different with them? Is it mostly a game of volume (popularity) that determines which companies are the best...

Why not go out with Options? I get why we like options- because we can make good returns if our predictions turn out as expected, but... I've heard often that going far out (that is to say buying contracts that don't expire this month or the next, but in the months following those), is...

Intel INTC, Silver ishares SLV, AIG, CIEN, Netflix NFLX, Skechers SKX, and Vodifone VOD. On Friday I tossed out Coca-Cola KO, Directv DTV, 3D Printing DDD, and Southern Copper SCCO. On Tuesday I'm picking up Sony SNE, Coinstar CSTR, Verifone PAY, and I don't know, maybe a little...

At least 2.5 %

It's missing from my portfolio. It's price range is between $10 and $100 per share. It's heavily traded- at least a million trades /day average. It has a big dividend that has been continually increased for a decade or more. It's currently down between 10 and 50% from its 1 yr...

I think whether it goes way up or down from here is pure speculation, but I'm wagering a small bet it will go up to 70 or 80. Four reasons being : 1. it has broken out of a downward trend line that started in feb. 2. what's his face from citigroup said it could be a 10 bagger, and that gives...

Nice thread! It is interesting to me that most (if not all) of the above Market Wizards all seem to put alot of focus on stop losses. That is cutting your losses very short. I won't try to argue this, as it really does seem elementary- the theory being that if you cut your losses short and...

Both my brother and brother-in-law said to others while they were alive that they have thought about it, but could never actually do it, knowing how bad it would hurt others. I guess at some point the pain of failure and loss can overcome just about anything else that is going on inside. Many of...

That makes sense. But what if I never sold any stock for a profit. And instead my holdings had gained 50k in value? In other words, I buy 50k in XYZ at the beginning of 2012, and at the end of the year my stock is valued at 100k. Am I to pay an income tax in this situation?

Just like any good stock, there is always a bottom as long as you stay in the game long enough to find it. Good job on the turn around ,cd! It is peculiar how some people have no problems with one failure after another, while others can't live with it. I've come to have a great respect for...

Let's say hypothetically that I have turned $50,ooo profit during the first 11.5 months of 2012. Then during the last week or two of DEC, I invest all of it back into the market where it will remain until sometime in 2013. What percentage would I be income taxed if my re-ienvestment was put...

It was my understanding that it's the bulls and bears who are manipulating the market, and it is the pigs(the ones who don't have a clue what the market will do, but still like to throw their money in) that get slaughtered. Have I been mistaken?

Thanks for your sympathy, and your two cents.

It may just be a simple misunderstanding. I think you are misunderstanding that I was trying to tell you and, "others", to stay off of roller coaster gambling sprees. I wasn't speaking to you or anyone else on this forum. I was addressing oldtime, a person who sounds like they may have been...

oldtime, I am 38 yrs old and one thing I can tell you for certain is my brother who was a little over a year older than me, was able to own a firearm, and he shot himself in the head. He was probably the most talented, and loving man I'd ever known. He lost close to a million dollars in the...

I don't buy what don't appreciate.

It see alot of stocks took a hit then. I wasn't invested in the market then so, I don't have have any correlations with world events to attribute it to. Just wondering what the media blamed it on, or what some of you think. I always here the dot com phenom caused the dot com bubble at the...

Ni ce! what have you been trading?