The TLFs INSIDER TRADER!

[thaibound]

just for shits, i checked out some of the recommendations made here. where a poster suggested more than one stock, i just went with the first one he named according to my admittedly hasty calculations, here's what you would have done taking stock advice from guys who dig ladyboys (not vice versa!):

BGEM (neogzim24): ytd: -48% (ouch)
LID (bicycle pump) ytd: +2.5%
AAPL (deepthroat) ytd: +20% (THE best company in the world?)
DB (dieter) ytd: -14%
ED (pigdogg) ytd: -2.2% (but figuring in high dividend, it's about even)
GLD (allstar88 said 'gold', gld etf simplest): ytd: +12%
Tan4U (putanegra): no information available
ASX red (Ninewives): ytd (est) +3%
SPY/DIA (bumpasticka said 'bullish mkt', so here's the over-all mkt): ytd +2.3%
RVT (stewart) ytd: +9%
GOOG (manarak: from posting>today): -12% (but i'm a buyer, despite china)
LBLB (snick): -0.00% (i figure nobody invested, so nobody lost -- so it did better than goog)

-note: past returns are no indication of future earnings. except with regard to LBLB

[manarak]

(thaibound @ May 18 2010,00:22) just for shits, i checked out some of the recommendations made here. where a poster suggested more than one stock, i just went with the first one he named according to my admittedly hasty calculations, here's what you would have done taking stock advice from guys who dig ladyboys (not vice versa!):

BGEM (neogzim24): ytd: -48% (ouch)
LID (bicycle pump) ytd: +2.5%
AAPL (deepthroat) ytd: +20% (THE best company in the world?)
DB (dieter) ytd:  -14%
ED (pigdogg) ytd: -2.2% (but figuring in high dividend, it's about even)
GLD (allstar88 said 'gold', gld etf simplest): ytd: +12%
Tan4U (putanegra): no information available
ASX red (Ninewives):  ytd (est) +3%
SPY/DIA (bumpasticka said 'bullish mkt', so here's the over-all mkt): ytd +2.3%
RVT (stewart) ytd: +9%
GOOG (manarak: from posting>today): -12%  (but i'm a buyer, despite china)
LBLB (snick): -0.00% (i figure nobody invested, so nobody lost -- so it did better than goog)

-note: past returns are no indication of future earnings. except with regard to LBLB  

where are my earlier recommendations, you crook?


ADU.AX
LYC.AX
PRU.AX


hehe.

GOOG is a long term thought. take 5 years as investment horizon.

[SamplerDoc]

Sell your 2009 Winners, I did

[SamplerDoc]

(SamplerDoc @ Jun. 16 2009,10:40) Keep F (Ford) long and buy more on any dips below 5.
Not sure, then look at the charts.... up to over 6 from 1 just a few months ago

Looks like F did very well, going from 1.25 per share to over 14 per share. I sold some at 12.25 per share but what a winner

[thaibound]

(manarak @ May 17 2010,12:21) where are my earlier recommendations, you crook?


ADU.AX
LYC.AX
PRU.AX


hehe.

GOOG is a long term thought. take 5 years as investment horizon.

sorry manarak,
i'm too lazy to find ytd's on every pick, especially ones ending in ".AX"

but glad to hear you're still with me on GOOG because i admit this china thing has me worried. i'm told next year's urban dictionary might add another definition for "googled":
adv., meaning: having been kicked to the curb by china.

[manarak]

(thaibound @ May 18 2010,03:30)

(manarak @ May 17 2010,12:21) where are my earlier recommendations, you crook?


ADU.AX
LYC.AX
PRU.AX


hehe.

GOOG is a long term thought. take 5 years as investment horizon.

sorry manarak,  
i'm too lazy to find ytd's on every pick, especially ones ending in ".AX"

but glad to hear you're still with me on GOOG because i admit this china thing has me worried. i'm told next year's urban dictionary might add another definition for "googled":
adv., meaning: having been kicked to the curb by china.

and GOOG was maybe -12%... in USD.

Check again in THB, CHF or EUR ?

[manarak]

These commissions in oz are crazy - these days i mainly trade the warrant market, whilst you can only employ vanilla positions, it has low transaction costs and good liquidity.

About the commissions... open an account with Interactive Brokers.

But you'll have to know what you're doing...

[El_hefe]

thaibound said:

just for shits, i checked out some of the recommendations made here. where a poster suggested more than one stock, i just went with the first one he named according to my admittedly hasty calculations, here's what you would have done taking stock advice from guys who dig ladyboys (not vice versa!):

Well, if you define recommendations as a "Buy"...... I suggested selling APPL around 4/26, that's a nice $15/share profit above today's price. (I will buy it again tho, good company.)

What I did with that money today was buy Goldman Sachs when it went below $140/share, a bit of a gamble what with the future prosecutions ahead, but I'm hoping "Best of Breed" wins over "Broken up by the SEC". It's a long term hold I think, but who knows what will happen with them.

[manarak]

arf, PRU.AX -10% today...

[azza33]

(SamplerDoc @ May 18 2010,03:04) Sell your 2009 Winners, I did

It's not the winners that are the problem - what did you do with the losers?  

[azza33]

(manarak @ May 18 2010,06:49)

(thaibound @ May 18 2010,03:30)

(manarak @ May 17 2010,12:21) where are my earlier recommendations, you crook?


ADU.AX
LYC.AX
PRU.AX


hehe.

GOOG is a long term thought. take 5 years as investment horizon.

sorry manarak,  
i'm too lazy to find ytd's on every pick, especially ones ending in ".AX"

but glad to hear you're still with me on GOOG because i admit this china thing has me worried. i'm told next year's urban dictionary might add another definition for "googled":
adv., meaning: having been kicked to the curb by china.

and GOOG was maybe -12%... in USD.

Check again in THB, CHF or EUR ?

Ummm good try but down is down & you know it.

The net effects of currency are luck.

Now if the world is about to go ass up - investing in gold would be a double bonus for Aussies

[Torurot]

The "market" is a rigged game. Pam Martens has a series of these. Will the government get to the bottom of the scamming? Not likely. It would step on too many contributors toes...
A CounterPunch Special Report
Trader's Harrowing Tape of Market Plunge Reveals Big Name Sellers
SEC Admits to Inadequate Tools to Conduct Investigation
http://counterpunch.org/martens05172010.html
By PAM MARTENS May 17, 2010

SEC Chair Mary Schapiro made a stunning admission during House subcommittee hearings last week seeking answers to the May 6 hit and run in the stock market which briefly trimmed 998 points off the Dow and caused massive losses to small investors who had placed stop loss orders on individual stocks.

According to Ms. Schapiro, the SEC has no consolidated audit trail that captures time and sales in a chronological order among the 40 or more electronic trading platforms and exchanges that constitute today€™s deeply fragmented U.S. stock market.......

[Bumpa STIKKA]

TWO SIMILAR THREADS MERGED!

[azza33]

(Torurot @ May 18 2010,18:12) SEC Chair Mary Schapiro made a stunning admission during House subcommittee hearings last week seeking answers to the May 6 hit and run in the stock market which briefly trimmed 998 points off the Dow and caused massive losses to small investors who had placed stop loss orders on individual stocks.

According to Ms. Schapiro, the SEC has no consolidated audit trail that captures time and sales in a chronological order among the 40 or more electronic trading platforms and exchanges that constitute today€™s deeply fragmented U.S. stock market.......

umm... i don't find that surprising at all... why would anyone?

And the mini crash was just a liquidity problem stemming from automatic protection systems at the NYSE - nothing sinister. As soon as liquidity returned prices normalised. Now blue chip owners understand the joy of trading penny dreadful  

[Bumpa STIKKA]

How the major stock indexes fared on Thursday 22 May 2010...

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 376 points, its biggest one-day point drop since February 2009. The Standard & Poor's 500 index is now down almost 12 percent from its 2010 high close on April 23, putting the widely used market gauge in what's called a correction, or a drop of 10 percent or more from a recent high. It's the first correction since stock indexes hit 12-year lows in March last year.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 376.36, or 3.6 percent, to 10,068.01.

The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 43.46, or 3.9 percent, to 1,071.59.

The Nasdaq composite index fell 94.36, or 4.1 percent, to 2,204.01.

For the week:

The Dow is down 552.15, or 5.2 percent.

The S&P is down 64.09, or 5.6 percent.

The Nasdaq is down 142.84, or 6.1 percent.

For the year to date:

The Dow is down 360.04, or 3.4 percent.

The S&P is down 43.51, or 3.9 percent.

The Nasdaq is down 65.14, or 2.9 percent.

There's gonna be some bargains out there next week...