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Re: Stock scream room

Post by ochotona » Fri Oct 28, 2016 2:33 pm

What the heck happened at 1 PM eastern time today?
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by buddtholomew » Fri Oct 28, 2016 4:34 pm

ochotona wrote:What the heck happened at 1 PM eastern time today?
Hitlery is back in the news - reopening email investigation.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by ochotona » Fri Oct 28, 2016 6:15 pm

buddtholomew wrote:
ochotona wrote:What the heck happened at 1 PM eastern time today?
Hitlery is back in the news - reopening email investigation.
It moved the market that much? A buy order went through that I wasn't quite expecting, but then the price popped back up. It worked out well, but it was so strange.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by ochotona » Wed Nov 09, 2016 9:35 pm

I put in a stock buy order at -1% relative to Tuesday's close, and it hit ! Then it kept on going up all day long today !
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by dualstow » Tue May 23, 2017 10:10 am

Time for another trim. My S&P shares are just below doubling, 99.93%
(from the thread, "I think I'll rebalance today")

My indie stocks doubled overall yesterday for the first time in my lifetime. 2004 was when I first started really buying, and I mostly stopped around 2010, opting for index funds. I'm not a good picker. I just held on for the dividends. What a feeling. Ready for the value to get cut in half now...
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by ochotona » Fri Jun 09, 2017 9:45 pm

FB -3.28%
NFLX -4.73%
AAPL -3.88%
GOOG -3.41%
MSFT -2.27
AMZN -3.16%
TSLA -3..43%
TWTR -3.92%
SNAP -4.08%

I wonder what will be going through tech investors' minds this weekend? Buy the f***ing dip? Or sell? Monday might be interesting.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by Kbg » Fri Jun 09, 2017 11:07 pm

Phhhhfffbbbtttt...nothing. My NVDA crashed better than any of those wusses today.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by ochotona » Wed Jun 21, 2017 8:26 pm

I'm going to convert to mutual funds, so there's no ticker to watch all day long.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by dualstow » Wed Jun 21, 2017 8:31 pm

ochotona wrote:I'm going to convert to mutual funds, so there's no ticker to watch all day long.
VITAX?
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by ochotona » Thu Jun 22, 2017 6:16 am

I am a Schwabbie, so SWPPX or SWISX
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by dualstow » Wed Jul 05, 2017 2:05 pm

Kbg wrote:Phhhhfffbbbtttt...nothing. My NVDA crashed better than any of those wusses today.
Oh, how I wish I'd bought NVDA. Most of the bitcoin and ether miners are using it, apparently.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by Kbg » Wed Jul 05, 2017 3:24 pm

Yeah, it has been a good ride. Bumpy though.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by dualstow » Mon Aug 14, 2017 12:14 pm

The market is so resilient, isn't it? North Korea, no problem. Domestic strife, fine.
The market knows that everything is fine.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by ochotona » Sun Aug 20, 2017 8:31 am

dualstow wrote:The market is so resilient, isn't it? North Korea, no problem. Domestic strife, fine.
The market knows that everything is fine.
https://youtu.be/cCKONHUigVk
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by ochotona » Sun Aug 27, 2017 7:14 pm

I wonder if Houston will impact the market on Monday. Talk about Black Swans.
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Post by Tyler » Mon Aug 28, 2017 12:53 pm

ochotona wrote:I wonder if Houston will impact the market on Monday. Talk about Black Swans.
Apparently gold floats.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by dualstow » Mon Aug 28, 2017 1:07 pm

ochotona wrote:I wonder if Houston will impact the market on Monday. Talk about Black Swans.
Is it really a Black Swan though?
Tyler wrote:Apparently gold floats.
ha!
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by ochotona » Tue Aug 29, 2017 7:47 am

The severity and economic impact was a black "egret". I think the market doesn't know how to price it yet. This area has a huge GDP, larger than many nations.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by ochotona » Tue Aug 29, 2017 3:04 pm

The Gross Metropolitan Product (GMP) of Houston-Sugar Land-Woodlands is $0.5 trillion, about the same as Sweden or Poland. The GDP of Greece is $0.19 trillion.

Houston is home to half of the Fortune 500 companies in Texas. Houston trails only New York City for most names on the list.

We are shut down. The market has NOT priced this in.
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Post by Xan » Tue Aug 29, 2017 3:23 pm

ochotona wrote:The Gross Metropolitan Product (GMP) of Houston-Sugar Land-Woodlands is $0.5 trillion, about the same as Sweden or Poland. The GDP of Greece is $0.19 trillion.

Houston is home to half of the Fortune 500 companies in Texas. Houston trails only New York City for most names on the list.

We are shut down. The market has NOT priced this in.
Have you sold your stocks?
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by ochotona » Tue Aug 29, 2017 3:38 pm

Xan wrote:
ochotona wrote:The Gross Metropolitan Product (GMP) of Houston-Sugar Land-Woodlands is $0.5 trillion, about the same as Sweden or Poland. The GDP of Greece is $0.19 trillion.

Houston is home to half of the Fortune 500 companies in Texas. Houston trails only New York City for most names on the list.

We are shut down. The market has NOT priced this in.
Have you sold your stocks?
No, I'm a trend-follower. I'll take a loss, then I'll sell {then they'll go up} >:(
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Post by Mr Vacuum » Thu Aug 31, 2017 5:55 pm

ochotona wrote:The Gross Metropolitan Product (GMP) of Houston-Sugar Land-Woodlands is $0.5 trillion, about the same as Sweden or Poland. The GDP of Greece is $0.19 trillion.

Houston is home to half of the Fortune 500 companies in Texas. Houston trails only New York City for most names on the list.

We are shut down. The market has NOT priced this in.
Still nothing. I hear gas prices are rising, but the stock market and energy sector carry on.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by ochotona » Fri Sep 01, 2017 9:24 am

Mr Vacuum wrote:Still nothing. I hear gas prices are rising, but the stock market and energy sector carry on.
FYI, the campuses of BP, ConocoPhillips, and Shell are underwater. We'll see who gets to work next week. Many of their employees are in shelters because they are flooded out, they have no cars to get to work. 10% of structures on the County tax rolls have water in them.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by Mr Vacuum » Fri Sep 01, 2017 11:07 am

ochotona wrote:
Mr Vacuum wrote:Still nothing. I hear gas prices are rising, but the stock market and energy sector carry on.
FYI, the campuses of BP, ConocoPhillips, and Shell are underwater. We'll see who gets to work next week. Many of their employees are in shelters because they are flooded out, they have no cars to get to work. 10% of structures on the County tax rolls have water in them.
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Re: Stock scream room

Post by sophie » Fri Sep 01, 2017 2:54 pm

Absolute market price fluctuation is probably not a good barometer for such events:

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/5-worst-d ... ct-cm68124

Perhaps it's not the absolute gains or losses, but rather the performance relative to what it might have been absent the hurricane. It may be that without it, stocks would have jumped after seeing the August jobs report. Instead, they've been fairly flat or gone up only slightly.

This is kind of like Obama's problem after the economic stimulus: there was no way to know if it worked or not.
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