***Tripster's 2008 Investments (Ongoing thread)***

I just took a bow out of apple with a $1800 loss, I couldn't stand it anymore. However my Etrade is doing well. I just skimmed about $600 off the top when it reached 5.20 today, so that softened that Apple fiasco. I will get back into Etrade next week at 4.50 or less, hopefully.:yes:
 
Peace hustlers and gentlemen! Feels good to be on the winning side of this market for a change. Much appreciation to those who share their knowledge. Tripster I have taken some time to look into DIGA which you briefly touched on earlier. Right now it says."DIGA has failed to meet NASDAQ Capital Market continued listing requirement(s)." Is that something to be concerned about? Also PEG(PSE&G)had the 2 for 1 stock split Feb.5th. Current price $45.65. Does anyone forsee a good buying opportunity? The dividend is good to. Appreciate any input. Peace.
 
Peace hustlers and gentlemen! Feels good to be on the winning side of this market for a change. Much appreciation to those who share their knowledge. Tripster I have taken some time to look into DIGA which you briefly touched on earlier. Right now it says."DIGA has failed to meet NASDAQ Capital Market continued listing requirement(s)." Is that something to be concerned about? Also PEG(PSE&G)had the 2 for 1 stock split Feb.5th. Current price $45.65. Does anyone forsee a good buying opportunity? The dividend is good to. Appreciate any input. Peace.

They have to get their value (DIGA) to $1 or be "delisted" (taken off of the NASDAQ) and placed into "pink sheet" (penny stock) status. It is something to be concerned about from the perspective of being able to actively trade the stock on a broader market. Most online brokers won't let you buy "penny stocks", you have to use a regular broker to place those orders. For me, this company is a LONG, LONG term investment (7-10 years), so I'm in it for the stretch and I'm not in for a lot of money so my downside risk is low. :yes:
 
Peace to all you brothers providing this information.
For years i lurked but today I come out into the light:yes:

I have been following your picks,they have really been on point but i recently jumped on sirius because of the merger or buy out from xm. I wanted to get some opions on if its good idea.

And does anyone have any knowledge on pennystocks?
i ask this question before about penny stocks also didnt get a respond. but u can check out www.sharebuilder.com
 
I remind myself everymorning not to fall in love with ETFC. What could be my darling stock of '08.If I had more funds I would have taken the chance to get in GRMN today. Hows everyone doing out there?
 
BIDU earnings come out after the bell today. Not sure how it will turn out so I took a little off the top in profit. We'll see....
 
Good Thread Fam!
I got in on ETFC at 4.60 now it's at 5.10, I'm treating this one as a long hold, but how much you you guys see this one capping out at?
Holding some apple too, got in at 135.14, but I have a good feeling about this one.. look for apple to make some major announcements along the line of IT Enterprise services. Countrywide is another story, not really sure how to deal with this one .. i got in at 6.8499 now it's at about 7.11, I know BOA pumped some money their way but I'm not sure when we'll see this one have any significant gains.

FYI- I'm NEW to all of this and this tread is part of the reason I opened an account. :cool::dance:

Let me know what you guys think.
 
Welp, BIDU's up 31 pts today to 276. Sold 50 shares that I bought at 221. Made $2,750. Got another 300 shares with a cost basis of around 237, but I'm holding those until $305 maybe $310. Then I'm going to short 100 shares all the way down to $250 and continue the cycle.

Good times!:yes:
 
Tripster,

still making a bunch of money on POT.


(POT: Potash , not weed :lol:)
 
do you own any of these stocks? sounds a bit like you're doing a ''pump-and-dump"


The goal is not to buy a stock you love or believe in, not in this market right now.


AAPL is a stock I love. Its getting beat up in this economy. Stock went from $200 Dec 31 to $129.


The goal is to get in make some money.
 
Yeah, I lost a bundle with Apple but I am day trading the shit out of ETFC, I need to get my Apple losses back.
 
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Has any one here ever received a publication called the Fagan Report. I wanted to get some reviews or perspectives on the accuracy of the picks. the most recent pick has been AMNT , its a pink sheet stock , and i bought at $1.25 last week and today it topped at $1.90, closed at $1.75

This is some of the report;
Amish Naturals (AMNT) is rapidly increasing its buy-out profile with several key acquisitions and distribution deals; now is the optimum time to reload on AMNT up to my strict buy-ceiling of $2.00 per share. AMNT shares are currently trading right at the $1.50 level. With the company’s line of organic pastas now entering Food Lion’s 1,200+ stores throughout the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic states, Amish Naturals is heading toward major brand-name recognition via its numerous U.S. distribution agreements. Stand closely by for my comprehensive report, which details why food industry titan, ConAgra, may be about to pounce on Amish Naturals for a huge buy-out win for early AMNT shareholders.

In just the last few months, Amish Naturals has launched a private label division and has added five new chains to its retail distribution, including Shaw’s Supermarkets, with over 210 stores in six New England States, Dave’s Markets in Rhode Island, Farm Fresh in Virginia, Fiesta Stores in Texas, and Fresh Direct in New York. The company also acquired Los Angeles-based Prima Pasta, Inc., a leading manufacturer of artisan pasta – and Ohio-based Amish Wholesale Bakery, whose products are available at hundreds of retail outlets including Whole Foods Markets. Amish Naturals has distribution agreements in-place with Tree of Life, the top U.S. distributor of gourmet food products – Nature’s Best, the largest private natural-foods wholesaler in the U.S. – and United Natural Foods, the largest publicly traded natural-foods distributor in the nation. You should be buying AMNT now at the $1.50 range – right at the beginning of this major North American expansion.

Amish Naturals (AMNT) is in the right place at the optimum time. The company is rapidly expanding its presence in the booming $13 Billion organic-foods sector, and ConAgra has already shown 2 of the 3 preemptive signals of a potential buy-out move on Amish Naturals. I fully expect the AMNT shares you buy today to move substantially higher in the near-term, and the company should be on-track to obtain a senior-exchange listing, such as the Amex, within the next few business quarters. Make sure you own a substantial position in Amish Naturals (AMNT) at current price levels near the $1.50 per share range -- do not go over my current buy-ceiling set at $2.00.


Are these reports good reference sheets or garbage.
thanks
 
Kaya, why has POT been steadily increasing in value for the last two years? The stock has nearly sextupled since 2006


1. The world is hungry.

2. Alternative energy needs fertilizers to grow (corn, ethanol etc)

POT manufactures potash etc i.e. fertilizers.

China's & India's middle class is growing, so is a number of African countries. They start to eat more meat i.e. more cattle => more grain => more fertilizers.


POT is a good short or long term stock.

It's a winner.


I bought at $135 and made $1800 in 2 weeks and still going strong.



I'm trying my hand at Agri stocks.....


Bought POT this week at 135.00
 
Welp, BIDU's up 31 pts today to 276. Sold 50 shares that I bought at 221. Made $2,750. Got another 300 shares with a cost basis of around 237, but I'm holding those until $305 maybe $310. Then I'm going to short 100 shares all the way down to $250 and continue the cycle.

Good times!:yes:

Congrats on the trade bro. I was on the opposite side of it.

I don't know but it sounds like you might have been a little too greedy if you didn't take 292 or 280 but you have your system and it's working and you are a bit more disciplined that I am so I don't want to tell you anything about your game.

Oh yeah. Might I add that I blew it on BIDU I bet heavy on it tanking from guiding down. Seems my analysis that led me to believe it was guiding down was good but the reaction was not what I expected. The traders changed the game. When 4:00 came and I didn't close the position it hit me that they might change the game as they did with AMZN and spin it that way and my worse fear was realized. The worse part about having options or stock futures is there is no after hours trading so you cant get out if you change your mind after 4pm strikes
 
Congrats on the trade bro. I was on the opposite side of it.

I don't know but it sounds like you might have been a little too greedy if you didn't take 292 or 280 but you have your system and it's working and you are a bit more disciplined that I am so I don't want to tell you anything about your game.

Oh yeah. Might I add that I blew it on BIDU I bet heavy on it tanking from guiding down. Seems my analysis that led me to believe it was guiding down was good but the reaction was not what I expected. The traders changed the game. When 4:00 came and I didn't close the position it hit me that they might change the game as they did with AMZN and spin it that way and my worse fear was realized. The worse part about having options or stock futures is there is no after hours trading so you cant get out if you change your mind after 4pm strikes




Have you scooped up any POT ?
 
Have you scooped up any POT ?

Unfortunately I haven't. It's a great company. The guys on fast money pumps it a lot and so does Cramer. It's one of the anointed stocks. The company has pricing power. Any company that can still name their price when people are thinking we were moving into a recession is a good company.

Unfortunately I was trying to score big on other stocks. I am still fine tuning my strategy. Since I don't trade the stocks (options) it needs more adjusting.
 
1. The world is hungry.

2. Alternative energy needs fertilizers to grow (corn, ethanol etc)

POT manufactures potash etc i.e. fertilizers.

China's & India's middle class is growing, so is a number of African countries. They start to eat more meat i.e. more cattle => more grain => more fertilizers.


POT is a good short or long term stock.

It's a winner.


I bought at $135 and made $1800 in 2 weeks and still going strong.


Good pick Kaya, I may just have to mess with this one. :yes:
 
I was looking around torrent sites for some tutorials and found this gem. :yes: Empowerment comes through education and school is now in session:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OQPRCCCG
total file size is about 327MB
each lecture is a series of MP3's

Burn them to CD, play them on your MP3 player or PC!

Big Picture Investing: How, When, and Why the Stock Market Moves
14 Lectures (Portable Professor Series)


Professor Peter Navarro - (University of California-Irvine)
Peter Navarro is a business professor at the University of California-Irvine. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, and is the author of the best-selling investment book If It’s Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks.

Typically, advice on investing comes in the form of tips regarding a particular stock or portfolio, but the stock market-like everything in the global community-is profoundly affected by large-scale events. In this remarkable series of lectures, best-selling author and business professor Peter Navarro shows how an awareness of macroeconomic forces is absolutely essential for the savvy investor. Navarro outlines the historical relationship between world events and the stock market, and outlines investment strategies designed to take advantage of the response to future events on the floors of the world's stock exchanges.

Professor Navarro:
"Welcome to this course on Big Picture Investing! This course is a very hands-on companion to my two books on investing. In the best-selling If It's Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks, I introduced the revolutionary concept of Big Picture Investing as a way to not only profit—but also protect your portfolio from heavy losses. Since the publication of that book, I have received countless requests to illustrate, in a very detailed way, just how to apply Big Picture Investing to the day-to-day management on individual portfolios. Hence, this exciting audio course and its companion textbook—When the Market Moves, Will You Be Ready?"

"Each lecture will be followed by some review questions as well as a set of very important and interesting exercises. I offer these questions and exercises because I believe that to truly master a set of ideas, you must do much more than simply, and passively, listen. Instead you must also actively apply that comprehension to very practical applications."

Course Syllabus

Lecture 1 An Introduction to Big Picture Investing.

Lecture 2 The Three Golden Rules and Four Stages of Big Picture Investing

Lecture 3 How the Corporate Earnings News and “Exogenous Shocks” Move the Markets

Lecture 4 How Fiscal and Monetary Policy Move the Markets

Lecture 5 How the Macroeconomic Calendar Moves the Market

Lecture 6 How Stock Prices Move Over the Course of the Business and Stock Market Cycles and the Patterns of Sector Rotation

Lecture 7 The Interest Rate Cycle and Yield Curve as Leading Indicators of Stock Price Movements

Lecture 8 How—and How Not!—to Find Winning Stocks

Lecture 9 How to Properly Screen Your Stock Market Picks Using Both Fundamental and Technical Analysis

Lecture 10 Managing Your Portfolio and Its Many Risks

Lecture 11 Managing Your Money: The Key to Long Term Investing

Lecture 12 How to Buy and Sell Your Stocks Efficiently: The Art of Trade Execution

Lecture 13 How to Manage Your Portfolio Over the Internet

Lecture 14 A Day in the Life of a Big Picture Investor


I have only listened to a few minutes of lecture 1. I am assuming that all of the mp3's work. Any feedback would be welcome here.

Just what I needed...many thanks Cobra!!

Trip, from a south-kacker to a north-kacker...YOU'RE THE MAN!! I have at least 5g's to play with that i'll be hitting you on pm about :yes:
 
Dont' know if it's been posted but MON is a great stock. Right now it's at 115.25 but it barely dips below .10,ever.
 
Good too see the board ran w/ my agriculture picks,,,POT/MOS/AGU/MON...seems like MOS will outperform all the others, its shown alot of strenght of late....
Now I drop on all, one of the best opportunities in a long time....
BUY,,SWC & PAL...BUY, buy plenty, and watch,...big story already coming clear w. the rapidly increasing prices of Platinum Metal Group...buy stock,buy call...don't say damn, I misssed it,,watch & see.

Also..sleeper Agriculture pick..COIN
 
The goal is not to buy a stock you love or believe in, not in this market right now.


AAPL is a stock I love. Its getting beat up in this economy. Stock went from $200 Dec 31 to $129.


The goal is to get in make some money.


Yeah I got in on AAPL when it was $123.91. Its back down to $124.63 and I'm hoping it won't go any lower.

I'm taking a slight beating on AMD but I'm hoping they can turn it around. If not I may cut my losses.
 
From Jan 15th Post..Returns on the ones I dropped:
POT 1/18-$122 NOW $147,+20.50%
MOS 1/18-$80 NOW $103, +28.75%
PAL 1/18-$3.76 NOW $7.00, +86.17%
SWC 1/18-$8.13 NOW $16.10,+98.03%

Hows them returns?????????

People get some PAL & SWC,,,the game has only now begun....


Great thread...One thing I will say to anyone NOW entering the public markets is be very cautious, the economy may be facing some of the roughest times in quite a while. You look at all the big tech names & it's easy to think they are immune to economic slowdowns, but in truth they are the ones that take a big hit. Any company deriving most it's revenues from consumer's disposable incomes (like say AAPL), will find that less folks will be running to buy their products when they don't have that money to spend. There are sectors of the market that will do well regardless of the dowturning economy (Agriculture/Financials,yes Finacials lol,Precious Metal EFTs/Stocks).The maket is one of those bend/don't break scenarious, likely the Feds will frop rates again & stocks will push higher, but keep an eye on earnings, just today Intel missed & they got beaten down 15% down to $19, yesterday it was CitiBank, if more & more co's keep falling short, it's a very poor sign of things to come....
Some of my faves are POT,MOS,PAL,SWC (last 2 are precious metal stocks in the platinum production area...2008 should be a standout for Metals..)
 
:eek:Damn POPO you and Trip is like the BGOL Fools(better than the Motley Fools)! My tax return is on the way...damn buying all the bullshit Im investing in myself. :dance:
Get money!
 
From Jan 15th Post..Returns on the ones I dropped:
POT 1/18-$122 NOW $147,+20.50%
MOS 1/18-$80 NOW $103, +28.75%
PAL 1/18-$3.76 NOW $7.00, +86.17%
SWC 1/18-$8.13 NOW $16.10,+98.03%

Hows them returns?????????

People get some PAL & SWC,,,the game has only now begun....


Damn, you got anymore advisable picks? (typing this like a crack addict:lol:)
 
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