I think about my Sony (SNE) stock as I'm having sex...not kidding

2/14/2007 5:32:07 PM

Awesome...GES beat expectations for the quarter, raised expectations for the year, announced a stock split (meh), AND announced a new quarterly dividend. Up almost 5% in after hours.

2/14/2007 5:32:44 PM

bought 156 shares of KOMG @ 32.20

2/15/2007 9:39:28 AM

What do you do again Bobby?

2/15/2007 9:58:14 AM

whatever it takes to retire as soon as possible

but I play a network engineer on TV.

2/15/2007 10:11:45 AM

BIDU has some kind of mystical grip on me...

2/16/2007 1:58:30 PM

I forgot the markets are closed today.

2/19/2007 9:47:06 AM

Bah, damn you president's day.

2/19/2007 9:57:29 AM

anyone own sirius? got any plans for tomorrow or just holding for now?

2/20/2007 12:10:21 AM

I don't own either XMSR or SIRI but I'm curious what tomorrow will bring for both.

Hopefully TIE will keep going up like it's been doing recently. My policy of holding on is slowly starting to pay off: so far I'm up 24% with TIE and up 23% with STX. While my GOOG is up 36% I've been slightly disappointed as of late. I've seen it hit $500 several times now and haven't sold any just hoping that it'd break the magic barrier and keep going. $500 would give me a ~45% increase...don't get me wrong, I'm happy with 36% but I'm also a greedy capitalist. Coming up in late March I'll have held it for a year, and if I sell it after then it'll be considered a long-term capital gain (assuming it doesn't drop below my buying point).

If Delta goes back up in the near future, I'm going to sell. I don't want my shares canceled if they come out of bankruptcy later this year.

2/20/2007 1:47:01 AM

4.6 shares of SIRI for each share of XMSR (21% Premium). Will the merger be approved?

2/20/2007 1:59:37 AM

TIE up ~2.5%.

2/20/2007 11:09:00 AM

Even if the merger is approved, how long before we will be able to listen to stations that were previously on the company that we didn't originally have service with....ie if we have XM when will we be able to get Sirius stations? Aren't they talking 3-5 years before that would happen? So it will still be two totally different services until then right?

2/20/2007 11:17:34 AM

seeing as how nothing spectacular happened today I'll just stay long on SIRI. I think theyre already cash flow positive and considering their low churn rate should continue to stay that way.
i doubt the merger will go through but we'll see.

2/20/2007 2:25:35 PM

i should have stuck it out a little longer with TIE.

2/20/2007 2:27:10 PM

I bought SIRI around the time that they picked up howard stern.

It took a nice dip soon after and has been chugging around $4 as long as i can remember.

2/20/2007 3:23:40 PM

I went ahead and picked up some more ETV today at 20.09.

Its a solid little ETF that hasn't had much growth (and probably never will) but it pays a 10% dividend so its nice to sit on.

2/20/2007 4:06:52 PM

I had a very nice day today. Thanks TIE.

2/20/2007 8:23:35 PM

Why did TIE go up so much today? I also have SIRI and XMSR, so today was a good day . Hopefully they translate to long term gains.


(up ~30% over 6 months)

[Edited on February 20, 2007 at 8:32 PM. Reason : sdf]

2/20/2007 8:28:31 PM

Quote :

"bought 156 shares of KOMG @ 32.20"

reasoning behind it?

2/20/2007 11:18:58 PM

I posted an analysis on it a page or three ago, but the gist of it was last quarter's revenues jumped 37% YOY, and projected 20% YOY revenue growth in the current quarter.

Then there's the 6.81 P/E

KOMG makes the thin-film media used in HDDs, and is a major supplier to Seagate, Western Digital, and Hitachi, which accounts for a very large chunk of the HDD market.

2/21/2007 12:23:33 AM

whats the easiest way for me to buy some stock??
whats the starting amount i need to put in, i know where i wanna go with it and that im gonna hold it for awhile

just need to know the basics.

2/21/2007 12:32:35 AM

I personally use TDAmeritrade.

http://www.poweretrade.com
http://www.fidelity.com
http://www.scottrade.com
http://www.ShareBuilder.com
http://www.tdameritrade.com
http://www.schwab.com

Comparison of some brokers: http://www.fool.com/dbc/tables/compare.htm

You'll have to look at the websites to see what the minimum account balances are. Look carefully at the fees as well; some have account inactivity fees (require a minimum number of trades per quarter) and others have specific requirements (trade volume, account balance, etc.) that need to be met in order to get low priced trades. Your bank may also offer some broker-type services as well.

2/21/2007 8:05:47 AM

I hope these first few minutes aren't indicative of the rest of the day.

2/21/2007 9:56:41 AM

can't complain too much after the run it's been making lately.

anyone care to comment on how far I should let SBUX fall before going ahead and buying in? anyone else watching it and wanting to buy?

2/21/2007 11:55:24 AM

maybe this is the start of that correction i've been so wrong about thus far

2/21/2007 12:54:01 PM

^^ I've been watching SBUX and contemplating myself when to jump in. I was hoping to let it fall a little more (say $30-$31 range) before I got in though.

[Edited on February 21, 2007 at 1:48 PM. Reason : $]

2/21/2007 1:48:22 PM

I'm torn between picking up GS or JPM.

Any thoughts?

2/21/2007 3:44:00 PM

also look at Lehman, Lazard, Merrill, and Morgan Stanley...

...and look at the brokers' etfs.


but, if i had to pick one and only one, i'd pick Goldman.




[Edited on February 21, 2007 at 4:48 PM. Reason : fgdfgdfgdf]

2/21/2007 4:47:36 PM

I've been eyeing JPM as a replacement for GE in my Dow stocks.

I sold CTSH today for +51%. I was happy with that one.

2/21/2007 5:23:39 PM

yeah, i'm up 32.5% on CTSH...just waiting for the 1 year mark and hoping it doesn't fall before them. i'm not too worried about not getting a good return on that one, though, and I'll probably look to jump back in it on a dip.

2/21/2007 6:33:53 PM

i know this has already been discussed, but i found this article interesting...
http://seekingalpha.com/article/11461

its an academic study on making money off of cramer's picks

2/22/2007 12:06:22 AM

yeah, i'm riding with house money on CTSH

2/22/2007 10:50:08 AM

wtf is happening to TIE?

2/22/2007 11:40:07 AM

?

it's down less than 1%

not bad at all after the run it's had this week.

2/22/2007 11:54:26 AM

i've out performed the hell out of the market everyday this week

2/22/2007 4:23:18 PM

Well...it's Friday.
Wonder how much profit-taking there will be.

2/23/2007 9:43:28 AM

KOMG is up >5%
TIE up 3.39%
TRID up 3.74%
UCTT up 9%

2/23/2007 10:13:50 AM

Mr. Big Shot editing the html. I thought I was going insane for a second.

2/23/2007 10:30:36 AM

I wish I currently owned more than just KOMG.

I owned UCTT a couple months ago, wish i had held on to it longer.

2/23/2007 10:39:54 AM

you guys ever watch Fast Money? its pretty good. get insights from 4 fund managers/traders instead of just one. sometimes they start busting on each other and it gets funny. its on weeknights at 8 on cnbc.

2/23/2007 12:25:47 PM

^ I haven't seen it, but I'll try to check it out.


Anyone own or watch PDS?

They're a Canadian drilling and oilfield services company.

low p/e: 5.91
nice dividend: 8.7%
way off their 52 week high, and a couple of bucks above their 52 week low.

2/23/2007 12:42:54 PM

Nope, but they look like a potential buy.
Anyone still own STX other than me? I just got my dividends the other day. $10, woohoo.
Is there a way to tell Scottrade to automatically reinvest my dividends? My full service account does this but I'm not sure how to get Scottrade to do it.

[Edited on February 23, 2007 at 2:10 PM. Reason : ]

2/23/2007 2:10:37 PM

kind of a gamble,

but bought 111 shares of KONG @ 8.93

2/23/2007 3:50:53 PM

8 straight months of the S&P closing higher -- last time that happened was 1983 -- you know what else happened in 1983...

2/23/2007 4:27:08 PM

damn, i actually made (a little) money today...on a friday...when all of the markets fell!

2/23/2007 4:33:54 PM

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003549559
Interesting article.

2/23/2007 4:43:11 PM

Quote :

"8 straight months of the S&P closing higher -- last time that happened was 1983 -- you know what else happened in 1983..."

So lets just say that one plans on buying a large amount of SPY as a no hassle investment in the near future.. would you advise against this, maybe wait a few months?

2/23/2007 4:46:30 PM

USU took off after doing nothing for a long time. I'm sure that its because I wrote calls on all of my shares.

2/23/2007 4:54:10 PM

looks like the market's gonna start off on the right foot

Quote :

"S&P futures vs fair value: +4.2. Nasdaq futures vs fair value: +9.8. The stage remains set for stocks to open sharply higher as news of the largest private-equity deal ever helps to silence concerns about current valuations and recent talks that a correction or consolidation is long overdue. Meanwhile, Apple (AAPL) is up 1% in pre-market action following upbeat commentary out of Goldman Sachs about iPhone sales prospects. Technology is getting an additional boost from Yahoo! (YHOO) after comScore said ad click through rates have risen after the launch of Project Panama."

2/26/2007 9:19:55 AM