Archive for October, 2009

October 29th, 2009

“I came real close to just knocking his teef down his throat” – Rampage Jackson Damn, I wish Rampage would come back to fight Rashad.  I’d love to see him beat the F out of Rashad.  Rashad is one of those people that would rub me the wrong way as well.  He is a straight [...]

Wrong again.

October 28th, 2009

Even when I win, I still lose.  Sold too early, it looks like.  Well, seeing that I’ve already made one mistake, I might as wel just make another one.  I just got out 250 shares of SBUX at $18.80 for +$420 and out 200 BBY at $38.58 for -$187. I got an email just a [...]

Lock it up.

October 28th, 2009

I’m locking in the gains here: Out 250 TWM at $30.33 for +$457 Out 250 QID at $23.01 for breakeven Out 250 TWM at $30.85 for +$587 Out 250 QID at $23.30 for +$150 Missed out on a few hundos by selling this morning, but I was trying to scale out “just in case”. I [...]

Wednesday.

October 28th, 2009

Just dumped my 500 DXD at $33.78 for +$705, 250 TWM for +$355, 250 QID for breakeven. Probably gonna dump the rest of my inverse ETFs here. Gonna hold tight to my BBY and SBUX shorts. McClellan Oscillator closed at -250 yesterday…severe oversold territory, but it doesn’t mean that we can’t go lower…just that the [...]

Tuesday.

October 27th, 2009

Looks like Google Voice allows you to switch your voicemail over to their servers now. Google Voice can now manage your cellphone’s voicemail (video) So, I switched mine over this morning.  With the switch, all voicemails are transcribed and sent to me via text message.  Also, all voicemails will be stored in my Google Voice [...]

Saturday.

October 24th, 2009

Went to play in a 4-man scramble yesterday at Pleasant Valley.  The other three guys that I played with are probably 30+ handicappers.  I fuckin looked like a pro playing with them…hah.  They’d never seen anyone hit their driver so money.  Never seen anyone with a putting stroke so solid.  It’s so funny because I [...]

Friday.

October 23rd, 2009

Upgraded to Windows 7 yesterday. I got a $29.99 copy via the student discount: http://windows7.digitalriver.com/store/mswpus/en_US/DisplayHomePage?resid=FHmj6QoBAkcAAElYfaMAAAAs&rests=1256297564285 Don’t worry, it’s not an affiliate link.  All you need is a student email address and you’re set. Anyways, it took about 5 hours to install.  I think it was mainly due to the hundreds of thousands of emails that [...]

Thursday.

October 22nd, 2009

Looks like Interactive Brokers missed by 11 cents.  20 cents per share vs. the 31 cents per share  First Call estimate.  As reported by briefing.com: “4:21PM Interactive Brokers misses by $0.11, misses on revs (IBKR) 19.56 -0.40 : Reports Q3 (Sep) earnings of $0.20 per share, $0.11 worse than the First Call consensus of $0.31; [...]

Wednesday.

October 21st, 2009

I am slowly starting to realize that information is how traders make money.  Stock charts help, fundamentals help, but information is really the biggest piece of the puzzle.  All of the successful traders that I follow usually follow what the “big guys” do.  Hedge fund managers…big institutions…Goldman Sacs…etc.  Now, read this: Galleon Insider Trading: 8 [...]

Tuesday.

October 20th, 2009

Bought 500 shares of DXD yesterday at $32.37.  DXD is the Dow30 UltraShort.  I am basing my short bias on the following indicator: This is a clear bearish divergence.  Prices are going higher, but the driving force behind the push is on the decline.  I don’t know when exactly the market will turn, but the [...]

Friday.

October 16th, 2009

Just got my Asus O!Play HDP-R1 Media Player.  It’s pretty money.  The best thing about it is that I can now stream movies/tv shows directly from my laptop (where I download stuff) to the media player to my money Samsung LCD TV.  No more copying the files to a 16GB Sandisk Cruzer USB stick and [...]

Wednesday.

October 14th, 2009

Got an email from my trading buddy today.  He’s out of his long position, and sitting at 80% cash now.  He doesn’t normally email me, unsolicited unless he’s pretty confident of what’s to come. As for me, I am still sitting on my positions.  I dumped out of all of my long IBKR for +$2.1.k [...]

Friday.

October 10th, 2009

I’m an idiot. The ticker symbol SE is not 7-Eleven. It’s a company called Spectra Energy. WTF? I’m pretty sure that my pops was trading 7-Eleven a few years ago. So, what happened to it? After some research, apparently Dallas based 7-Eleven, Inc. was bought out by a Japanese company called Seven-Eleven Japan in 2005.  [...]

Wednesday.

October 8th, 2009

I went to Starbucks the other day to try their new instant coffee line, Starbucks Via.  I did the taste test.  Regular brewed Starbucks coffee versus their instant coffee. Let me tell you, their instant coffee was very noticeably different.  As a daily coffee drinker, it was a pretty obvious choice which cup contained the [...]