Stock market tips and experiences

[slamako]

I'm looking at the weekly's for NDX, SPX, RUT and $DJI and maybe starting this week or next, we may be entering a little down phase. Anybody else see this?

With my swing trading, I may switch my longs to some shorts.

TZA
VXX
FAZ

come to mind. Anybody have another other shorts worth looking at?

Not fully into options, but will try later on this year....

[turbosc297]

Went long BBRY today 14.58
Been holding some BBRY April calls also
Anyone else have high hopes for the z10 on tomorrow's report?

Also long DNDN today at $4.68. We'll see how that goes

[Inspired]

Bad idea to hold anything through earnings...

[amanda hor$t]

now on cnbc: foxconn not getting as many orders from aapl and dell, employees simply have nothing to do. i actually heard this over a month ago (around the same time i called $300 for aapl)

[PSUSMU]

Originally Posted by turbosc297

Went long BBRY today 14.58
Been holding some BBRY April calls also
Anyone else have high hopes for the z10 on tomorrow's report?

Also long DNDN today at $4.68. We'll see how that goes

While I'm long BBRY in the 13s, I don't understand why you would gamble like that pre-earnings.

Originally Posted by Inspired

Bad idea to hold anything through earnings...

Not if you're long and believe in future growth..

[turbosc297]

I'm not too concerned about what happens to bbry tomorrow. I believe the z10 and q10, combined with the new os, will get bbry back on track by the end of the year (in the phone market anyways). If earnings are positive tomorrow, ill take my profit via selling my april calls, if not then ill wait it out...

Anyone have thoughts on AMD? Thinking about going long with Rory Reid in charge and landing the ps4 an possibly Xbox, among other things.

[mact3333]

Originally Posted by mact3333

Looking for sharp selloff on short term basis...but no longer bearish for IT and LT...we will get some bad news soon(Iran, Euro CDS probs, etc) and this will lead to sharp selloff...but selloff will be fast and sharp and most wont be positioned for it as it will happen fairly quickly.

But after selloff, odds now favor a run at the all time highs in Dow and SPX...dont see a significant selloff until summer...jmho.

As posted in Feb 2012'...so, did we take out the all time as predicted?...dont worry, there will be more...

[r0wr]

Originally Posted by mact3333

All I can say about AAPL right now is that we are at critical level at 475...it can pull back from here since its had a decent run but mkts need to accept prices above this level(475.00) before it really takes off...could take abit of time though...I would be a buyer if it pulls back(and I will buy more if it pulls back to 460ish level).

Cant get too specific right now as I can't look at charts, as I forgot my laptop today..

Rallysport, damn you , you got in lower than I did!...good work..

Still in at 470?

[mact3333]

Originally Posted by r0wr

Still in at 470?

No, never that high...in at 445 and 425 though...but cautious now...needs to get above 50dma

Markets feel toppy on ST basis hence I'm hedged with short positions now.

[Vanity]

Originally Posted by mact3333

No, never that high...in at 445 and 425 though...but cautious now...needs to get above 50dma

Markets feel toppy on ST basis hence I'm hedged with short positions now.

Yep. Potential for a good pull back before a grind higher. Everyone take a look at treasuries last little while. Smart money is making a large move in. VIX has been in a consolidation for the last couple weeks too. Something will need to give.

[r0wr]

Originally Posted by mact3333

No, never that high...in at 445 and 425 though...but cautious now...needs to get above 50dma

Markets feel toppy on ST basis hence I'm hedged with short positions now.

I've been short since 470. My target is $275, not that it matters to you. Just throwing it out there. I personally believe Apple is gonna snap soon.

[Greatdane84]

I'm hoping for a spike in precious metals. Been keepin my eye on AAU. There more of an exploration of gold and silver company and then usually sell the sites off. I'm only interested cause one of their 100% owned properties keeps showing more and more results. Don't see it happening this year. But this could blow up and for the low $2's its worth a gamble

[TunedM2C]

I was thinking about throwing cash into FNMA as a long term investment. Thoughts?

[stylinexpat]

Originally Posted by Tuned1M

I was thinking about throwing cash into FNMA as a long term investment. Thoughts?

Long term should be good after it pulls back. Been on a bull run recently. Preferred one is better though I believe.

Was just barely over $3 the other week and hit $4.5 recently Up a good 50% within a month

http://www.google.com/finance?q=OTC%...cj_IYOhkAXy7AE

[Hisam135i]

Just figured I would post up the details of all my trades from this year with my new Forex account. you can view the results Quarter 1 results here

http://www.mt4i.com/users/hisams

[rich123321]

Anyone here investing in graphene? What are your thoughts?

[Greatdane84]

Originally Posted by rich123321

Anyone here investing in graphene? What are your thoughts?

I think you got time to play other stocks for shorter/quicker returns, unless your thinking long term.

[mact3333]

Still long FB, AAPL, BBRY...been out of metals for over a month now.

We will continue to grind out new highs...mom and pop need to come in...then the fast money will be made to the downside, but this wont happen until next yr most likely.

Will send out the Defcon 4 alerts when the time is right...

[Inspired]

I still think we will go into correction very soon. We barely had a hiccup since January 1st on all major indices. SPX has been extremely strong all year. IMO, the faster we continue to climb, the faster we will eventually fall. Wouldn't be surprised at all if the SPY will drop 10-20 points and restest the 50MA on the weekly.

[r0wr]

Originally Posted by mact3333

Still long FB, AAPL, BBRY...been out of metals for over a month now.

We will continue to grind out new highs...mom and pop need to come in...then the fast money will be made to the downside, but this wont happen until next yr most likely.

Will send out the Defcon 4 alerts when the time is right...

I'm short both FB and AAPL

Originally Posted by Inspired

I still think we will go into correction very soon. We barely had a hiccup since January 1st on all major indices. SPX has been extremely strong all year. IMO, the faster we continue to climb, the faster we will eventually fall. Wouldn't be surprised at all if the SPY will drop 10-20 points and restest the 50MA on the weekly.

I think we see a big rally in the next coming week. A very unique thing happened today and that is that SPX daily bar open AND closed above it's BB top. If you go and look back on the data, when this happens, we have strong ups there afterwards and then eventually a drop which is generally a 2nd buy opportunity before we truly drop and have a big correction.

Look at November 2010 where we had the same situation. Dip occurred at the end of the month into December and was a good buy opportunity. It continued going up for quite some time but there was no reversal.

Fast forward to July of 2011 and you can see that we opened and closed again above the BB. Mid July was the dip to buy, we retired for the top and then fell hard.

[Hisam135i]

Really? no one said anything about yesterday hahaha

[mdosu]

Originally Posted by Hisam135i

Really? no one said anything about yesterday hahaha

lol, my co-worker is in a 3x leveraged SP500 ETF, he got his ass handed to him yesterday (i think about a cool $10k loss). 3 trading days ago, I told him that the direction is unknown at the 1590 level, and that I'm staying in cash to see what the momentum will look like. Lucky for him, there's not enough vol in a broad market index for him to eat a major decay for this leveraged ETF.

Last week's Fed Minutes, China data and economic releases all were contradicting each other in terms of continued asset purchase direction and economic strength.

The only part I regret is not buying into yesterday's close. Today's push up looks great in terms of a 1 day gain. This 1550-1560 level seems reasonable to me for the rest of this month.