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Assuming a house cost 200k in 2001 and by 2006 it was 300k. a 16% drop makes the house today cost 252k. BUT...you forgot to add what it would've gained had there been no housing bubble. The historical 200 year average yearly gain of a house is about 3 or 4% per year i believe. So 200k times...

JPMs cap went up 12.8 billion. BSC had 11.7 billion of assets as of last quarter. I would say it went up just right.

Apparently the caller was a little freaked out with wanting to pull their money from BSC. There is absolutely no news about our brokers right now, but do the math. 4 billion dollars lost in 1 day. Most likely by alot of speculators. With the amount of shares that traded hands Im betting at...

Yeah, its just silly of me to panic isnt it? Maybe every time i start to panic i should listen to this guy. http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=ae47b67d-2523-4946-a2ad-aadc68176f67

On my scottrade account I see the high of the day is 2795. Did someone actually put in a limit order to buy at that level and forget to put a decimal point in the middle? Ouch

I gotta say, there was more than a few people that bought BSC in the 30s on friday ON MARGIN and all in. Accounts were blown and they have negative balances now. A guy with a 25k account that bought Bear, got margin called today and owes his broker most likely between 20 to 22k today. To show...

My post was a joke for those of you that didnt get it. :)

Bear was killed this morning and the meat sold for 2 bucks. Now it will never be a "bear" market. :D I ended up selling this morning for 3.64 wondering why people would pay 3.64 for a 2 dollar stock. Now it seems people will pay up to 5 dollars for a 2 dollar stock.

I watched it go there. Didnt go as fast as if it was a fat finger trade, so im assuming everyone got optimistic at that time then said...hold on...better sell while the gettin's good.

Im reading on other message boards of people that owe their brokers tommorrow. One guy had 1300 shares at 36 and another guy had 2000 shares at 32. Both all in on that stock. Some other people that didnt lose everything say they are pulling their money tommorrow. Im wondering if we are...

-4155.60 + 14 in commissions.

yeah and they've consistently kept over 10 billion in assets in the last 3 years. Its like BSC just gave JPM billions for nothing. And what happened to CITIC? They had 1 billion cash in hand ready to go. They couldnt have said "Hey we will give you the whole company for a billion?" Would've...

And you know i never would have got in that stock in the first place, but I just happened to check out the news and heard about the BSC bail out. The stock had gone from 26 to 35 and was climbing...when it was about 36 i put a market order to buy 120 shares and got filled at 36.63 It went to...

AH i see. Guess im screwed then :(

Ok, i had a simple scottrade retail margin account. On friday I bought 120 shares of BSC for 36.63. I wasnt sure if it would go through cause I had bought about 5 other securities that week and i know pattern day trading rules are suppose to kick in for little guys like me. Well It went...

Why DONT they just go bankrupt? Assets - Liabilities = Owners equity. Isnt that what they teach in accounting 101? Sell everything off and pay shareholders 80$ per share!

I read this http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKWEN451820080316?rpc=44 And see that its an "Anonymous" caller that told the WSJ about the deal. Hell, I think I will call bloomberg and CNN "anonymously" and say the deal is about to be closed at 50!

Looks like the deal says 20, but there has got to be at least 30 to 50 million in shorts out there that have to cover. Wouldnt this push the price up? Everyone knows now they will get 20 so wont BSC have to trade higher than this all day?

Looks like the new "rumor" is 20.

Thats a 16 point hit for me from when i got in. Ouch :(