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been looking at HAS recently, anyone have any thoughts/comments? I'd pick them up for sure in the 33-35 range

Something I havent seen anyone touch base on is commissions. Let's look at MSFT, with buy write you generally have 2 commission costs, one for 100 shares of MSFT, one for the call. let's say you have $5 commission charge. that's $10 total. for a MSFT 1 month away and 1 strike higher you...

sold a CAT weekly call @ 87.5 for .60 CSCO was making me a little nervous but very happy to see the move it's making today and yesterday. Credit card debt reached it's height last month at 6k. however it's now down to 2k. should hopefully knock out the rest of it this month and then begin...

just opened CAT here @ 86.86. i like the higher highs and higher lows as well as the it appears to be in an uptrend in the 6 month chart. it's also pretty attractively priced atm. Will be watching this one closely and not afraid to dump it if it starts going against me.

If you were infact already long both, wouldn't you want to disclose the information to get more longs involved after you've already initiated? I don't understand the logic in that, if you told me you were thinking about going long I would understand, but the fact you are already long doesn't...

i just took a large position in CSCO a few days ago as noted in my journal. As far as dell and HPQ..they're both dinosaurs that have seen their better days. Until they have a defined business model that shows how they will regain leadership they once had, I would never initiate a long-term...

just sold sept 28 UTX 80C @ .58 watching and waiting as csco winds up tighter

bought back my UTX call just now as UTX neared 80 which was my strike. I am letting INTC and DD get called away. Current account is $23,023 my position in INTC is one of the largest ones I've taken and I lost 14% on it, At least I'm still near high water mark thanks to my other selections.

opening up CSCO here at 18.97. I like everything about this stock right here. It's been religiously holding it's gap up that happened on 8/16. It's trading for single digit FPE, and has projected 10% earnings growth rate in current environment. To top it all off it has a 3% dividend yield...

Right, I am strongly leaning towards index etfs at this point. My only concern is the inability to go margin on etfs until I've held them for 30 days ( a lot of my positions don't even last 30 days ). Is this the current landscape for all firms or is this just a rule my firm has?

rethinking my strategy. Normally my strategy has been to call big moves in the market and pick relatively high beta stocks with large market caps. In the last 2 years I've called every big move (over 5%) correctly, however some of my stocks have been getting killed in the process...

bought back INTC 25 call @ like $0.02 last week and just sold sept22 INTC 23 call, basically looking to close this position this week. I just sold all my shares of GE at $22 My other two holdings have already itm calls sold expiring this week, looking to be all cash by friday.

Starting to wind out of current positions as I bought at the low and I've had a great run up (all except for INTC) Just sold calls: Sept22 DD@ 50 Sept22 UTX@ 80 Sept22 INTC@ 25 (if this gets called away it will be basically breakeven between dividends I've collected and other calls I've...

I buy 4-7 stocks at a time and somehow one of them always does an early forecast. I generally avoid earnings calls but kind of hard to do when companies announce mid quarter. I hate you INTC

Just wanted to do a quick update: Personal life took a turn for the worst back in April and I lost my job. I've had to withdraw ~9k to stay afloat. I am now gainfully employed yet again and look to build account up fast as I am making twice as much as I was at old job. I also intend to be...

sold NUE at 36.00 on early profit miss guidance.

quick update: on 5/1 I withdrew 5k from account, last Wednesday I made the following purchases which is my first purchase in over a month: UNP @ 110.41 NUE @ 36.06 UTX @ 73.96 DD @ 48.57 Account is now at 25,651 which reflects the withdraw of 5k Keeping an eye on calls to sell

Really unhappy with myself letting this market get the best of me. Currently have no holdings Account @ 30,415

Thank you for the comment. To address your question suggesting I have ditched my strategy rather then adept to the market. I feel like I have ditched ny strategy TO adept to the market. I still look to sell calls when it seems appropriate. however I haven't seen much opportunity. For...