(02-25-2021, 10:25 AM)fenders53 Wrote:

(02-25-2021, 10:00 AM)divmenow Wrote: Bought some LDOS. Between the earnings miss and short report I haven’t seen it this low in a while. So I said why not lol. You in on this one too Fenders ?

I haven't researched it.  Hadn't heard of it until you and Otter were discussing it last week.  I am trying to not add too many more new names.  We'll see how long that lasts. 

What I need is for tech to get hammered for real again, but this market is resilient.

Very small trades this morning.  Added a few shares to DG-ARKF  Sold a few SLV puts.

(04-20-2021, 02:21 PM)stockguru Wrote:

(04-20-2021, 01:17 PM)ken-do-nim Wrote: NAIL tripped its circuit breaker and is gone.  Now I get to learn how to watch a triple leveraged fund and know when it is time to get it back into the fold.  LABU, for instance, is still in "good riddance" territory.  NAIL (nor LABU) won't return to the taxable portfolio though; it will only come back in the ROTH.  I had bought it back in May of last year so the rise from $20/share to $80/share is all short term gains... yikes!  

I took the NAIL proceeds and sprinkled it around to the other triples which were all on sale today (TECL, TQQQ, SPXL, RETL, etc.).  I also bought more CSCO and CURE (the only triple which is still rising, because it is 10% JNJ).

You ever hear that saying. Buy low and sell high 

Your buying high and expecting higher 

Question. Just curious why you buy everything in the same sector or sector like? These type of etf's are all up too much, and the market will soon price them right. As of now was over valued. One big correction and these will get whopped 

I thought you learned your lesson on MARA 

And no I'm no attacking you lol. All these investors expect a triple from here when they already tripled lol. No one is happy with 5% anymore. Everyone expects 100-200 percent lol

My buying is to buy stocks when there out of favor and leave the high flyers alone. These high flyers are going to get hit hard in the coming months.

I'm already short on 8 names and that list is growing....

(04-20-2021, 02:21 PM)stockguru Wrote:

(04-20-2021, 01:17 PM)ken-do-nim Wrote: NAIL tripped its circuit breaker and is gone.  Now I get to learn how to watch a triple leveraged fund and know when it is time to get it back into the fold.  LABU, for instance, is still in "good riddance" territory.  NAIL (nor LABU) won't return to the taxable portfolio though; it will only come back in the ROTH.  I had bought it back in May of last year so the rise from $20/share to $80/share is all short term gains... yikes!  

I took the NAIL proceeds and sprinkled it around to the other triples which were all on sale today (TECL, TQQQ, SPXL, RETL, etc.).  I also bought more CSCO and CURE (the only triple which is still rising, because it is 10% JNJ).

You ever hear that saying. Buy low and sell high 

Your buying high and expecting higher 

Question. Just curious why you buy everything in the same sector or sector like? These type of etf's are all up too much, and the market will soon price them right. As of now was over valued. One big correction and these will get whopped 

I thought you learned your lesson on MARA 

And no I'm no attacking you lol. All these investors expect a triple from here when they already tripled lol. No one is happy with 5% anymore. Everyone expects 100-200 percent lol

My buying is to buy stocks when there out of favor and leave the high flyers alone. These high flyers are going to get hit hard in the coming months.

I'm already short on 8 names and that list is growing....

(04-20-2021, 02:42 PM)ken-do-nim Wrote:

(02-25-2021, 10:25 AM)fenders53 Wrote:

(02-25-2021, 10:00 AM)divmenow Wrote: Bought some LDOS. Between the earnings miss and short report I haven’t seen it this low in a while. So I said why not lol. You in on this one too Fenders ?

I haven't researched it.  Hadn't heard of it until you and Otter were discussing it last week.  I am trying to not add too many more new names.  We'll see how long that lasts. 

What I need is for tech to get hammered for real again, but this market is resilient.

Very small trades this morning.  Added a few shares to DG-ARKF  Sold a few SLV puts.

(04-20-2021, 02:21 PM)stockguru Wrote:

(04-20-2021, 01:17 PM)ken-do-nim Wrote: NAIL tripped its circuit breaker and is gone.  Now I get to learn how to watch a triple leveraged fund and know when it is time to get it back into the fold.  LABU, for instance, is still in "good riddance" territory.  NAIL (nor LABU) won't return to the taxable portfolio though; it will only come back in the ROTH.  I had bought it back in May of last year so the rise from $20/share to $80/share is all short term gains... yikes!  

I took the NAIL proceeds and sprinkled it around to the other triples which were all on sale today (TECL, TQQQ, SPXL, RETL, etc.).  I also bought more CSCO and CURE (the only triple which is still rising, because it is 10% JNJ).

You ever hear that saying. Buy low and sell high 

Your buying high and expecting higher 

Question. Just curious why you buy everything in the same sector or sector like? These type of etf's are all up too much, and the market will soon price them right. As of now was over valued. One big correction and these will get whopped 

I thought you learned your lesson on MARA 

And no I'm no attacking you lol. All these investors expect a triple from here when they already tripled lol. No one is happy with 5% anymore. Everyone expects 100-200 percent lol

My buying is to buy stocks when there out of favor and leave the high flyers alone. These high flyers are going to get hit hard in the coming months.

I'm already short on 8 names and that list is growing....

TECL and TQQQ are the same sector, different weighting on mostly the same stocks (Apple, Microsoft, etc.).  SPXL is the S&P 500 tripled.  RETL is the retail sector (Gamestop, 1-800-Flowers, etc.), CURE is pharmaceuticals, DFEN is the defense sector (Lockheed Martin, etc.).  I like to think I'm buying different sectors.

The lesson with MARA was I threw money at a stock my ex-sister-in-law said was hot.

But after two days of losses, I'm hopefully buying at a discount.  Also, I think we are entering a choppy period but not an overall end to the bull market, so triples should still do well.  Also most of my high yielders are doing well, even HRZN is back up today.

(04-20-2021, 02:45 PM)divmenow Wrote:

(04-20-2021, 02:21 PM)stockguru Wrote:

(04-20-2021, 01:17 PM)ken-do-nim Wrote: NAIL tripped its circuit breaker and is gone.  Now I get to learn how to watch a triple leveraged fund and know when it is time to get it back into the fold.  LABU, for instance, is still in "good riddance" territory.  NAIL (nor LABU) won't return to the taxable portfolio though; it will only come back in the ROTH.  I had bought it back in May of last year so the rise from $20/share to $80/share is all short term gains... yikes!  

I took the NAIL proceeds and sprinkled it around to the other triples which were all on sale today (TECL, TQQQ, SPXL, RETL, etc.).  I also bought more CSCO and CURE (the only triple which is still rising, because it is 10% JNJ).

You ever hear that saying. Buy low and sell high 

Your buying high and expecting higher 

Question. Just curious why you buy everything in the same sector or sector like? These type of etf's are all up too much, and the market will soon price them right. As of now was over valued. One big correction and these will get whopped 

I thought you learned your lesson on MARA 

And no I'm no attacking you lol. All these investors expect a triple from here when they already tripled lol. No one is happy with 5% anymore. Everyone expects 100-200 percent lol

My buying is to buy stocks when there out of favor and leave the high flyers alone. These high flyers are going to get hit hard in the coming months.

I'm already short on 8 names and that list is growing....

Stop with the attacking on poor ken-do-nim lol. But I do agree with you on the buying spree of ETF's 

I would much rather just put it all in SOXL. And forget the rest lol. At least you get a small dip here. I actually bought 200 shares just now only because it holds AVGO and NVDA. And both names I love. 

BTW what did you do with MARA. Still hold or did you cut your losses?

(04-20-2021, 04:01 PM)NilesMike Wrote: Buying high and selling higher is not bad. It's just different than buying low and selling high. Sometimes breakouts fail and sometimes you catch a falling knife. Same difference.

(04-20-2021, 04:44 PM)ken-do-nim Wrote: Yay, love of triples is spreading!

SOXL is great but it's actually at the same price it was on January 15th, so it's not had a great 2021 yet.

(04-20-2021, 10:30 AM)crimsonghost747 Wrote:

(04-19-2021, 06:09 AM)NilesMike Wrote: VXX directly, yes.

This is looking like an excellent trade so far!
I also managed to grab some VXX options... indeed as Binary said, we can still trade the VXX options.

Think about that though. How amazing our regulatory systems are. We aren't allowed to touch US ETFs or similar. (official reasoning, I believe, is because they don't provide the prospectus in our native language.... but obviously the real reason is that everyone was pouring money into them instead of similar products managed by European banks because the US ones just had lower fees)


But we are allowed to trade options on those same underlying ETFs and similar. As if that would somehow be less risky than actually owning the underlying asset.