Ouch.

10/19/2007 4:40:38 PM

I'm glad most of my stops hit yesterday.

Right now I'm watching PJC. It's going to continue to plummet for awhile yet, but then it'll be a good time to buy.

10/19/2007 5:41:03 PM

From rotten.com:

Quote :

"Oct 19 1987 The New York Stock Exchange suffers its worst crash in history, when the market suddenly loses $500B. The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 22.6%, twice the amount of the 1929 crash."

Spooky considering the sell off....

10/19/2007 6:59:09 PM

well then i guess I hope history repeats itself to spark the biggest bull ran, looks like its bread and water for the short term

10/19/2007 7:16:21 PM

bought Staples today (SPLS; Motley Fool pick) and Schlumberger (SLB; took an 11% beating today, so I jumped in).

both pretty much impulse buys, which i never really do with stocks (or anything else, really). I feel ok about SPLS...the Fool guys know more than I do and I'm sure they researched the hell out of it. I just wanted to jump in on today's slide, and I was kinda busy this afternoon and didn't have time to do even a day's worth of reading up on the companies.

hopefully this won't bite me in the ass.

[Edited on October 19, 2007 at 8:14 PM. Reason : SPLS was also down 2.5% today]

10/19/2007 8:13:34 PM

fyi

http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/pdfs/web2.0.pdf

10/22/2007 10:25:41 AM

Rugby scrum?

10/22/2007 10:29:57 AM

Anyone else having issues with Firefox and the Scottrade website? It occasionally kills Firefox when I hit refresh or if I click on something. Slightly annoying...

10/22/2007 10:45:38 AM

GOOG is up, CROX is down, XOM is way down.
Perhaps this is a good opportunity to buy some CROX.

10/22/2007 11:52:10 AM

Should have bought some GRMN when it was at that low point a few days ago...

10/22/2007 2:05:28 PM

Quadruple posting FTW...

50,000 gPhones in the hands of developers by Christmas?
http://www.tech.co.uk/gadgets/phones/mobile-phones/news/htc-to-ship-50000-google-phones-by-christmas?articleid=1904579255

10/22/2007 2:10:28 PM

time to break up the posts...

good to see more is coming out about the google phone. hopefully they will do it right.

10/22/2007 3:16:23 PM

Can someone tell me what happened to Gateway? Last I heard Acer was attempting to purchase GTW but now I cannot find anything on GTW.

Did the trading symbol change due to this purchase?






[Edited on October 22, 2007 at 7:33 PM. Reason : typo]

10/22/2007 7:32:41 PM

yeah, acer bought them. how could you not find anything on that?

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/aug2007/gb20070827_278512.htm

FTA, "Acer had been rumored to be looking at Packard Bell, too"

wtf, packard bell? I didn't know they were still around. I had a packard bell back in like 1989.

10/22/2007 8:50:42 PM

Interesting, I thought Packard Bell became HP like 10 years ago!

Thanks for your response, though.

10/22/2007 9:23:01 PM

AAPL up $12 after hours...

10/22/2007 10:42:13 PM

sure am glad I held on to my AAPL and GOOG stock last week...

Im still a bit skeptical about the market in general though...

10/23/2007 8:12:57 AM

good day for me so far

MICC up 16%
ANW up 4%

10/23/2007 11:21:21 AM

MICC up 21.5% and still climbing.

10/23/2007 12:24:02 PM

FYI TRID reports earnings on thursday.

I'm thinking seriously about buying more before then.

10/23/2007 1:43:31 PM

i haven't had time to evaluate anything recently, so i may just buy a little MICC on faith in Bobby & Motley-Caps.

CROX scares me. i would rather buy UA.

i am terrible at timing earnings (except for BIDU), so i'm staying out of TRID for now.

10/23/2007 1:53:36 PM

Yay GOOG -- up $25/share.

10/23/2007 4:49:00 PM

IBN is the real deal long term. i got in a few months back and recently got my dad in it too.

didn't buy MICC yet... bought ASIA on seeing unusual volume instead.

might get VMW ahead of earnings.

10/24/2007 10:18:58 AM

sold my EFA position and bought more TRID -- 188 shares @ 13.15

10/24/2007 10:31:57 AM

Ouch. What's going on today?

10/24/2007 11:48:11 AM

credit crunch and existing home sales down 8 percent, lowest in 8 years

10/24/2007 11:58:52 AM

Riverbed may be a good buy now ... down 27% today, probably an overreaction. I think you can get a good 10-15% of that back. Its also a potential takeover target for cisco/juniper type players(especially at these lower prices).

10/24/2007 2:13:11 PM

wtf is riverbed

10/24/2007 2:15:13 PM

RVBD

10/24/2007 3:59:15 PM

TRID dropped pretty low just prior to earnings...

Only 2 possible scenarios:
1. bad news got leaked
2. Someone is pushing the price down to buy it back hard

fingers = crossed
asshole = puckered reamed

[Edited on October 25, 2007 at 4:48 PM. Reason : reamed]

10/25/2007 4:24:57 PM

i hope you aren't still heavy into TRID

10/26/2007 10:09:38 AM

General question regarding taxing (My friend asked me so I thought of posting it on here).

Example:

Person bought stocks worth a $1000 and then it went up and he sold them all for $1500. So he "realized" the profit made...

He used that same $1500 to purchase more stock, but then the value went down to $400 (so there was a $1100 loss), what happens as far as taxes are concerned?

He is left with only $400 so does he still have to pay taxes for the original $1500 he sold a week prior to that loss?

Thoughts, anyone?


[Edited on October 26, 2007 at 10:12 AM. Reason : typo]

10/26/2007 10:12:24 AM

I'm pretty sure losses can offset gains for the calendar year. So no he wouldn't have to pay.

10/26/2007 10:21:55 AM

I think you can right off up to like $3,000 per year, so if you're down for the entire year, you can write off up to 3K of your losses, as I hope it wouldn't be more than 3 esp this year

10/26/2007 10:59:25 AM

think TRID will "dead cat bounce"?

Wish I had some cash available.

10/26/2007 11:04:19 AM

if you're net negative, not only do you avoid taxes, but you can carry forward losses to offset gains next year.

got SOHU a couple of days ago. looks real ahead of next week's earnings.


also

http://www.fool.com/investing/international/2007/10/19/get-out-of-china-while-you-still-can.aspx


[Edited on October 26, 2007 at 12:48 PM. Reason : ]

10/26/2007 12:23:53 PM

Also...

http://www.fool.com/investing/international/2007/10/24/get-into-china-while-you-still-can.aspx

10/26/2007 8:56:22 PM

i put more in latin american stocks then in china, and i think ive faired out pretty well.

I might buy some stuff in Whole foods and other organic grocery stores. I havent made a definate move yet, but i know i have to take some out of ISC motorsports and my aggressive growth mutual fund and select computers and make a move.

10/26/2007 9:07:21 PM

I know I will prob eat my words, but I'm happy with my 23.24% portfolio gain this year so far.

10/27/2007 10:00:56 PM

There are so many conflicting points of view...

To invest in TRID or not to invest?

10/29/2007 10:27:32 AM

^ remember to remember the difference between speculating and investing. buying TRID in hopes of a sharp bounceback is speculative. if you're going to try and catch a falling knife, make sure you do it with beer money and not rent money. there is so much other stuff out there that's working -- shit even MSFT looks like a real thing again -- you should spend very little mental bandwith and money on TRID.


in other news: they go out and get the biggest customer known to mankind, the US military:

http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=137546&WT.svl=wire1_1



[Edited on October 29, 2007 at 11:56 AM. Reason : ]

10/29/2007 11:52:17 AM

Looks like I could stand to put some money into VMW and CROX. Gotta sell off some other stuff though. Probably sell some MS, DIS, SO, CDL, and DFS to make room...

[Edited on October 29, 2007 at 12:06 PM. Reason : ]

10/29/2007 12:05:52 PM

BIDU is flying high today.
*slaps self for not buying*

10/29/2007 1:09:51 PM

^ up 4%

SOHU is about to be up 9% including afterhours. my whole China basket is doing well except STV...which i may cost average into.

that said i took some profits today here and there.

[Edited on October 29, 2007 at 5:57 PM. Reason : ]

there's a number of intriguing IPOs slated in the coming weeks. check out ipohome.com and click around to see what's coming up


[Edited on October 29, 2007 at 6:00 PM. Reason : ]

10/29/2007 5:52:15 PM

Frequently-mentioned TIE is up to 36, finally. Can dump this biatch

[Edited on October 29, 2007 at 6:16 PM. Reason : Under happier circumstances than TRID, for sure.]

10/29/2007 6:13:43 PM

Sweet -- I now have a 100% return on GOOG.

10/30/2007 9:42:40 AM

^ excellent! take off the table what you put in and just keep the house money in there.

i got into GXDX @ 25 - we'll see how it goes.

10/30/2007 11:11:56 AM

I think the CFC drama as of late is quite interesting.
1 billion in losses, but they say they will return to profit by end of quarter
CEO is under SEC investigation and has sold $130 million worth of shares this year...


and the stock amazingly was up 30% friday on this news...

10/30/2007 12:56:34 PM

Smith & Wesson is down 40% today on bad earnings.

I think I might pick some up.

[Edited on October 30, 2007 at 1:45 PM. Reason : SWHC]

10/30/2007 1:44:50 PM

i think that's the second time in recent history that's happened to them

big estimates, and good numbers--but not good enough to reach the bar they set

10/30/2007 2:37:05 PM