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I've Googled around, but can't seem to find a good, definitive guide on how to make an earnings play. Can you direct me to a specific article that provides a good outline of how to make an earnings play? What are the key metrics that you look at before making an earnings play? Specifically...

...perhaps the expectation that Verizon will renegotiate, and/or scrap the deal, is already incorporated into the current price. There were two sharp downspikes on Thursday.

Goddammit I sat short on Yahoo all day, but never got the move that I was waiting for. I hope that the market doesn't make a fool of me.

Imagine for a moment being an institutional investor, with a big stake in YHOO; say, more than 100k shares. You'd be ishtting your pants, scrambling to find ways to dump the stock without putting the price down on yourself. You know that headline is coming soon: "Verizon Yahoo Deal Scrapped,"...

Shorted back in at a better time. Made my $50 back plus some. Can't wait to see what happens with this one tomorrow. Yahoo execs are NOT happy campers right now. You see this thing nose dive today?

Will this second data breach kill the Verizon-Yahoo deal? One data breach is bad enough; let alone TWO, with a 4.8B deal hanging by a thread? Furthermore, before all this, Marissa Mayer did them no favors. At this point, I wouldn't be caught dead long on Yahoo! REPORT: Verizon could ditch 4.8B...

Please be careful brother. With the fed interest rate rise, and hawkish statements about three more raises this year, the Powers at Be may be putting the brakes on.

If there's one thing that the market has taught me, it's to quickly dump anything that shows me an unexpected loss.

Covered at a $50 loss. Emotional trading is a bad idea.

For Christ's sake, how can they possibly expect to get bought out by VZ or anyone if they keep getting broken into! I shorted 200 in a rather emotional sell. YHOO you'd better keep going down. What a hassle.. now I have to change a bunch of passwords. I'm not qualified to give investment...

What do you now trade?

Thanks Robert :)

Is there an alternative to the SPY that is cheaper per share? My betting strat calls for leveraging up when certain price patterns occur (specifically, reverse movement in a derivative Elliott wave). For example, if the price is moving for me, I'd like to leverage up 200/300/500 shares to 1000...

Don't fight the market! I can research night and day, write algorithms, draw endless trendlines, apply every mathematical formula out there, say to myself "this doesn't make sense!" 1000 times, or <insert strat here>, but if the market is moving against me, DON'T FIGHT IT. It's a battle I can't...

Yes, the jargon can be tricky. In the context of Federal Reserve Interest Rates, they mean the rate banks charge when they loan to each other. The Federal Reserve sets this rate, and It's not the same interest rates that you get on, say, a home mortgage. Raising these rates makes money more...

I've Googled around, but there's a lot of conflicting information out there, so I come to you, here at Elite Trader, for The Truth. As I understand it, for U.S. equities: Market Order. Executes at the best available price standing on the book. Example: Bid/Ask for MSFT stands at $60.42/$60.43...

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Good Morning, Traders. I've been Googling around for 15 minutes, but for some reason, am finding this seemingly simple piece of information difficult to obtain. I did find the following, but it's not downloadable: http://www.marketvolume.com/indexes_exchanges/r3000_components.asp Can someone...

Thx Vanzi, I didn't know that this order type existed!

Happens all the time. The HS/HFT firm algos can access deep book data, and trade against the order queue on a daily basis. If they take a position and see volume piling up on the opposite side, they dump it to the person in line behind them.