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Stoney, while you're here, have any idea why CPST is selling off so hard right now? I'm right back down to my cost basis right now. Maybe I should get out before my blood runs on the street?

Top or bottom? Me thinks bottom.

Yeah, my thoughts are that you're a moron for bumping a black monday thread.

That guy has turned into a class-A moron.

Warren Buffett used to be one of my heroes. Now I think he's just a son of a bitch.

Blame the EPA for mandating ULSD (>60? PPM sulphur), causing refiners to pass on increased cost to diesel customers. Diesel customers, by and large, are truckers and train operators. They pass on increased costs to their contractors, who pass on the increased costs to the consumers, who have...

Agreed, I have absolute doubts that traders like you and me could have had any part in the credit crisis, or the commodity bubble. It's the leveraged hedge funds and i-bankers who shoulder, oh, maybe 99.4 percent of the burden for that. Retail traders like you and me are infinitesimally small.

I've never shorted a stock in my life. Because my brokers won't let me :p

I'll worry about keeping my head above water before I'll be inclined to donate to some sham charity.

What a day. Up 16%. Should have thrown $20,000 at it.

I never thought I'd say this, but I'm saying it - we're going to miss Bush.

Just because he feels that he has enough money to be taxed like a European doesn't mean that the rest of us feel the same. Those high-tax parrots are disgusting people who want to punish success.

I went long on CEGE yesterday right before the close. Small bite (500 shares) but right now the stock's on a tear, up almost 7 percent. Love it. I was never quite as convinced with CPST. I put $3000 into it when you posted the thread but after it went pretty much nowhere I dumped the shares...

Lost $600 on Wellcare (WCG) when I first started for-real trading. Lost another $350 on AAPL when I failed to adjust my stop down to 155 from 161 a week or so ago. Other losses have been around $100 or less, but my returns have been accordingly small. I'm a terrible trader.

That strategy for calculating return is also known as "risk premium", or the premium rate of return over the risk-free return.

ES up +11.25 pmkt

Now it's down almost 20%. Someone hates JAVA.

A Ford Econoline would fit that bill perfectly. Today's cargo van is tomorrow's mobile estate. It also helps that you can buy one in good shape for a couple grand.

Obama is one stupid mother fucker. You mean freeloading scumbags who vote for the Democrats?

Horrendous balance sheet, horrendous cash flows, price rising due to shorts covering. May yet be good for more upside tomorrow as shorts continue to cover. Earnings (losses) will be reported May 12. Up to you if you want to hold it until then.