Stocks and Trading Thread - Channeling your inner Mono

[Caliga]

 

[MadImmortalMan]

Zynga IPO?

Down 8% out of the gate. Woo.

[MadImmortalMan]

Bank of America has been bouncing along at $5 all day. Somebody really wants it to stay above 5.

[Admiral Yi]

This reminds me.  Fredo, you asked about shorting Treasuries.  A guy I work with (used to put retail customers in options, so not a bozo) said you can buy Treasury futures on the *comodity* exchange.

[Ed Anger]

I think I have 20 or 25 whole shares of Winn Dixie. I R 1%.

[MadImmortalMan]

This reminds me.  Fredo, you asked about shorting Treasuries.  A guy I work with (used to put retail customers in options, so not a bozo) said you can buy Treasury futures on the *comodity* exchange.

Quick futures symbol reference:

[MadImmortalMan]

Oracle crapped their pants and gave negative guidance. The tech spending world looks bad, so...what other companies are coming up on earnings announcements that might also be disappointments?

Calendar: http://biz.yahoo.com/research/earncal/20111221.html

Hmm. Not much in the near term. Micron tomorrow.

F5 and Western Digital Jan 18th. AMD, Intel and M$FT Jan 19th.

[Admiral Yi]

Can anyone recommend a German index fund with a low management fee?

I'm thinking of plopping my 2012 IRA contribution into Germany to take advantage of the low euro.

[MadImmortalMan]

This week last year, Jim Cramer announced that the best performing stock in the Dow in 2011 would be: Alcoa.



AA YTD down 43%

[Ed Anger]

Oh, Cramer.   

[DGuller]

Why does anyone still care, in any way, what that moron has to say about anything?

[Ed Anger]

He entertains me.

[MadImmortalMan]

Gold is crashtacular again this week. Even the September crash didn't break the long-term up trendline that began in 2008. This time it poked right through that floor. I have to believe it will find some support soon, but people trade charts--and this one looks like it's supposed to go up to touch the underside of that line at 1650 or so and then fall very hard. So I think I'll keep avoiding it for a while.

Edit: If this a great buying opportunity, I'll miss it. But I don't like the risk.

It didn't have much of the expected bump.

[Admiral Yi]

At 1500 now?

[MadImmortalMan]

1540-ish


GLD just poking under 150.