Stocks and Trading Thread - Channeling your inner Mono

[MadImmortalMan]

Did a rough calculation, looks like I've lost about a thousand in the value of my silver.

Don't you physically have it? What is it, those little chips?

[Ed Anger]

Did a rough calculation, looks like I've lost about a thousand in the value of my silver.

Don't you physically have it? What is it, those little chips?

Little tiny rectangles.

[MadImmortalMan]

There are reports of PM dealer premiums going up a lot, and the prices of physical metals not crashing like the paper metals etfs. I guess a gold in the hand is worth more than two in the GLD.

[MadImmortalMan]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-12/paulson-loses-more-than-300-million-as-gold-falls.html

I wonder what that's up to now.

[Caliga]

Just put some money into iShares Korean index ETF.

Anyone have any experience with country-specific ETFs?

At one point when I was ETF shopping I looked at a few national index funds like that one but none were at the right strike price for me at the time.

[Caliga]

I have around $3K sitting idle in my Ameritrade money market ATM.  Suggestions?  Nothing is jumping out and me, screaming "buy me!" right now.

[MadImmortalMan]

Go short cupcakes.

[MadImmortalMan]

Honestly, I'm not liking the look of real estate anymore at the moment. Foreclosures about to flush through my local market. Or much else for that matter. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood.

[Caliga]

Go short cupcakes.

HA.  I knew this day was coming.

[Admiral Yi]

I have around $3K sitting idle in my Ameritrade money market ATM.  Suggestions?  Nothing is jumping out and me, screaming "buy me!" right now.

My next purchase is going to be a Mexico ETF.  I think they're poised to go big.  The pretty boy socialist presidente is turning out to be union killer and monopoly destroyer.

[Phillip V]

I am considering buying more Apple at $400 or below.

[alfred russel]

I have around $3K sitting idle in my Ameritrade money market ATM.  Suggestions?  Nothing is jumping out and me, screaming "buy me!" right now.

My next purchase is going to be a Mexico ETF.  I think they're poised to go big.  The pretty boy socialist presidente is turning out to be union killer and monopoly destroyer.

I think Mexico's biggest problems are that it isn't safe and has an unstable rule of law, not its unions or monopolies.

[Phillip V]

I have around $3K sitting idle in my Ameritrade money market ATM.  Suggestions?  Nothing is jumping out and me, screaming "buy me!" right now.

My next purchase is going to be a Mexico ETF.  I think they're poised to go big.  The pretty boy socialist presidente is turning out to be union killer and monopoly destroyer.

I think Mexico's biggest problems are that it isn't safe and has an unstable rule of law, not its unions or monopolies.

Exaggeration on violence and only in certain areas. Compare to United States.

Meanwhile, investors are loving the President's economic moves:



http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324010704578416870746707576.html

[Alcibiades]

Really, because I know a few years back during the surge Mexico had more murders than Iraq, to put it into perspective. 

[MadImmortalMan]

I think it's time to take a speculative short position on the S&P as a whole.