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    Taking 410K to 4million by Year End 2010

    WHOA !. .. some one upgraded.. saying it is fair price.. ha ha... next stop 1000... who the hell knows.. who the hell cares.. this all looks surreal to me now !
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    Taking 410K to 4million by Year End 2010

    neke.. have u seen BIDU.. portfolio killer or maker... i KNOW you must have played big with him.. come on. /.spit it out
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    DRV - Thats it for commercial real estate and yes I am very short

    SOMETHING IS SUPER @%(* STRANGE! forget about the mortgage payments. how do they manage the other incidentals.. cleaning/ maintainence fees, landscaping, security, taxes.. electricity..??? When drive around and see the VACANT real estate, i WONDER Who the hell can pay the TAX PAYROLLS and...
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    Taking 410K to 4million by Year End 2010

    yes.. this is some thing which few will understand.. most will say it is picking up pennies in front of a steam roller.. but if you do this wisely , you will gain. i think the key thing is choosing the strike. and days left for expiration. this market suddenly kicks into another gear and...
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    Taking 410K to 4million by Year End 2010

    Bad luck buddy.. darn. so you are saying you first shorted ISRG.. then suddenly decided to go long.. in after hours.?? then (another cardinal sin) left the position and drove home. with no stops in place.. and then finally closed it . I was short both ISRG and GOOG and was sweating.. but...
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    Substitutes for inverse/leveraged ETFs?

    ha ha.. that has happened to me umpteen times.. its calld hitting below the belt... lol... also. here is how they react... say u r assigned the stock on fri. short. then on Monday. their software will detect it.. u will have till 1 pm. then u will recieve a call from them and in that...
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    Bull SpreadSpread on RIG

    my history with . RIG for a period of 14 months. I did covered calls and made a tidy sum with RIG..then OCT 2008 came.. it was 115.. i did a 85 to 100 put spread.. .(lost 4500-premium).=3800.. darn thing went to under 50... the spread saved me.. so in essence it took back 90% of the money I...
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    UAW sues GM over retiree health care payment

    This makes me roil... UAW.. the cancer, has already killed the patient GM. now it wants to extract more from the CORPSE.. LOL ============================ UAW sues GM over retiree health care payment DETROIT (AP) -- The United Auto Workers union has sued General Motors Corp., saying...
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    Taking 410K to 4million by Year End 2010

    BIDU. BIDU... .. has costed many folks HUGE LOSSES in the last week.. hence ur 1K is minimal. i think NEKE lost 90 K one week some time ago and most was on BIDU. it is a PORTFOLIO KILLER..
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    How to tell if it options were bought instead of sold

    ya.. it is confusing. never have got a correct answer. there are 2 scenarios.. when.. MMs act like bookies.. ie. they just match the buyers and sellers. and take commision in the middle and get to eat the nice spread. between the bid-ask and the 2nd is. when they have to honor each bid...
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    Optionshouse.com flat fee regardless of # of contracts?

    yup.. while it lasted, I knew folks who were buying and selling 100s of contracts .. flat fee.. it was too good to be true.. he he. no wonder it ended... now back to IB and business as usual.
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    A perfect example of what happens when you give people what they want.

    one ADVANTAGE BB has is that it allows me to RENT BLURAY movies. for which I pay 2.99 for 1 single day. . new releases. I like the instant gratification.. i dont like netflix, becuase, u are tied to a monthly subscription. and you never get NEW releases when you can HERE IS WHAT BB...
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    Even the pros blow up

    WOW. . waived the 2%... how kind of them. !
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    holy moly.. lot of folks must have got wiped out with the BIDU surge

    these are the DAMN moments we wait a lifetime for !
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    Education Stks

    also CPLA ..
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    holy moly.. lot of folks must have got wiped out with the BIDU surge

    BIDU.. surged to 620 momentarily.. plus stayed in the 590 range for some time.. must have triggered a lot of shorts covering liquidation. doesnt auto liquidation occur at 945 to 10 am.. view the spike at 956am.. boy . that must have taken out a lot of shorties..
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    Options Margin Calc

    u could theoritically open a thinkorswim. paper trading account and when u try to place a trade it will tell you how much margin you need to sell a put/call but this is dynamic. .when the position moves , the margin required also moves.. but for a ballpark it does help.. ex.. BIDU. selling...
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    Taking 410K to 4million by Year End 2010

    one last loop.. } else { if( neke.weekly_largestloss > $50,000 ) { -- happened twice this year elitetrader.post("NEKE will BLOW UP account!");
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    watch OPTION EXPIRATION week

    just look at last 6 months. and look at the OE week. look how stocks start out with a bang but are tightly held in OE week. or fall.. then offcourse after expiration, its another beast. here is an exercise someone can do , or point me to. can someone overlay the last 6 months.. SPY...
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    watch OPTION EXPIRATION week

    This time its different.. huh.? well , here is my statement.. watch action this week.. and then next. my take is.. simple... in next week. it will sell off. so that max pain for all call buyers... but after they have taken off all put buyers this week.. he he.. pain . point...
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