GregFokker Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 EBAY sure looks toppy, but no signal yet, unless someone else can define it an post, jickiss will watch. Ebay looks very ripe. It's continued to rise this year, long after the Naz and most of its P.O.S. components already topped. Are there LEAPs puts on Ebay? Anybody know where I could find a quote? It's an idea for a cash account which isn't allowed to short, but can buy options ... Try http://www.pcquote.com/options/ Also, the CBOE site should have chains. Leap putz for EBAY: http://www.pcquote.com/options/optionstrin...x=21&submit.y=1 Premiums are ...hefty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeerMarket Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 Iamgold shareholders reject Wheaton River merger Wheaton vote to go ahead despite Iamgold rejection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucid and confused Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 Lots of low float craziness via the small cap air cargo services, notables include AIRT, WLDA, which then excited other less notable, and even smaller cap transport stocks, ANS andPRRR. The quizzical nature of these moves on the break of the larger transports and rising oil prices suggests (to me at least) that the move in the transports may finally be over. In the same vein (vain?) that the crap (the true crap) always reaches a froth before the burst, ala the internut craziness (of all too many companies which no longer exist) which preceded the mini-collapse of 4 yrs past. Maybe, maybe not. My calls on this forum have been spot on 100% wrong, the most recent one being DRL which incedentally rose 5% from my short call. SO perhaps I can be the token contrarian indicator as my alias suggests I'm muy/mucho confused and confusticated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bullseatshitndie Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 on daily dow, it was bears game to win or lose after the bull trap above the downtrend line from the highs. 40+ pts away from 200day ma. wouldn't be surprised to see it dip below temporarily tomorrow to fake some people out, then get some sideways/up action for a few days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bullseatshitndie Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 on daily spx, have to fall to 1100 area to get to 200day. prices did hit 50% retrace of may low today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 Ebay looks very ripe... I like the EBAY Oct 100 puts at 12.50, that's dirt cheap with the stock at 90 (in the money by 10) and the timing is right to catch the bulk of the autumn meltdown. A no-brainer double. --sound of grill sizzling in background-- symbol XBA VT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bullseatshitndie Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 weekly vix starting to look like the perfect bottom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAREister Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 Mr TwoScrews says thusly: The logical conclusion of protectionism is Neofeudalism, in which each village lives self-sufficiently behind its own security walls. At an agrarian standard of living, the earth's carrying capacity would be reduced by 90 to 98%. To which BARE replies with the lyric of a song: "Thank GAWD I'm a country boy!!!" lolol It's always amusing to listen to city slikkers pontificate upon matters agrarian and rurual, nearly all of whom lack any direct experience of same. There isn't going to be a "conclusion" of protectionism, once it REALLY gets going. It's evolution will hardly be "logical", either. In fact, it will be quite messy, contentious, and chaotic and no one has the FOGGIEST idea of what events it WILL unleash. Protectionism is as inevitable as night following the day, now, given the fell clutch of deflation into which much of the globe has fallen, as this mounting acrimony between SA's two economic giants belies, and that is only an opening salvo in a thunderous and protracted campaign of heavy shelling by numerous combatants. Of course, Mr TwoScrews and his pampered conservative colleagues, thoroughly brainwashed as to the virtues of 'free (snorjt) trade' for the hoi poloi/great unwashed, overlook annoying details, such as that reported in the FINANCIAL TIMES SNOT 'long' ago that the present system will, over the course of the next twenty years, usher over TWO BILLION hapless souls into the squalor and despair of the world's SLUMS. But that's OK to the accolytes of free trade, who will continue to lead their comfortable consumerist lifestyles at the expense of most of the rest of humanity, as we Yanks have done with impunity for oh, say, the past 50 years. Ass to this biznez of carrying capacity: again, Mr TwoScrews hasn't the foggiest of what 'agrarian' stds of living are capable of suporting, globally, in this writer's opinion. Economies that have suddenly plunged into the tank, such as Russia's have managed to produce for their hundreds of millions. Where's the data/source of such an outlandish claim? There are some who say the planet is already well beyond its carrying capacity. That will be rectified one way or anUDDER, if true - in the fullness of time. BARE doubts 'protectionism' will be its denoument. It will probably be something much more visceral and dramatic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 yet, as this mounting acrimony between Stoolville's two intellectual giants belies, there remains a reticent mutual respect between them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brisbane Bear Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 What is most fascinating to watch is how the Real estate industry tries to pretend that everything is A-OK, most try to put the best possible spin on things , outwardly trying to appear calm and collected whilst inwardly sweating bullets,maybe the newer types actually believe the spin and bullshit that the more seasoned real estate pro's spin whilst they themselves madly scramble to get the f**k out of Dodge. We have quickly gone from having people camping out waiting for the latest land release to now having the "gimmicks" where the first 50 land buyers go into a raffle to win $250k...the next stage resembles the harsh reality of Glen Gary,Glen Ross.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Ant Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 Hello from London. First full day here. Could not resist. Nice to see the tankage. By next Monday I'm sure all this will be reversed and then some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 "In turn, recognizing the looming disaster, Chairman Greenspan has resorted to ?Unconventional Measures? in order to ?Manage? the U.S. Economy. The ?Command Economy? now represents something Mother Russia would embrace." "A favorite writer of mine, ?Wyndsurf?, has long referred to the Economic machinations of this Nation as the ?Hedge Fund Economy?. No truer words have served to describe the current state of financial affairs. Windy has been beating this drum for several years now and his accounts look to be about as accurate as any I?ve read to date." RECIPROCAL FOLLY by John Mackenzie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 Joe Sixpack stumbles into a $400,000 Home 3 years ago and reaps a windfall, selling it for $775,000 today to "trade up" to something more suitable for someone of his proven financial acumen. But wait, better total up the transaction cost and extra spending over the last 3 years of upgraded lifestyle... 775,00-400,000 = 375,000 gross profit -30,000 sales commission -120,000 two flashy new vehicles bought with Ditech refi cash -25,000 new furniture -50,000 inside remodeling -40,000 outside landscaping -45,000 three annual vacations suitable for a real estate genius -54,000 1,500 monthly extra credit card spending by wife --------- -364,000 ...leaving 11,000 net profit to be leveraged up into a creative mortgage to move into the new $1.7 Million showcase Home, which will be liquidated at auction for $900,000 eighteen months from now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 more fun with arithmetic: last quarter YHOO announced profits of one hundred Million during the quarter the market capitalization of its stock increased by seventeen thousand Million a thousand Million here, a thousand Million there, pretty soon you're talking real money well, not exactly "real" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The brown one Posted July 6, 2004 Report Share Posted July 6, 2004 Mebbee late and irrelevant but I just noticed that eBay has become an offerer of credit--if you're a US citizen then you're eligible for an eBay credit account! Too little too late--sales must be flagging(or flogging must be flagging) at eBay.I can say that it's only an impression I have and solely based on the prices paid for a very small part of the photo market--but--prices are deflating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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