Wednesday, August 27, 2008

UYG

Booked 19.25 buy @ 19.75

11 comments:

  1. What the hell...added at 3.04$ (AZK)

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  2. Closed out my GE short for 1.5%. 28 is major support for GE. Lets hope it holds.

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  3. AZK's a good company.
    I have no problem holding the nice amount of shares I'm currently underwater on.

    Screw GE. I used to really like that company until they basically became financial instrument whores. I actually made money off them last year during their nice x-mas run, but want nothing to do with them for now.

    Their stock performance tends to be pretty slow and boring.

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  4. Lat,

    I agree with you about the financials...but they have paid a huge (and disproportionate) price for the their financial association.

    I love their other business with water and industrials however. I just pull 1.5%/month via covered calls and plus the div. Not bad to have as part of the portfolio. Stable...and with option writing a pretty nice return.

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  5. Coin - like I said before, I never scoff at another's profits ;)

    Nice work.

    The good part of your plan is that it's hard for GE to really mess the bed; they've been punished already for their bad bets, and I agree, they do have some excellent segements to their biz.

    Still, I feel like sometimes their stock is like watching grass grow...

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  6. Here is a hypothetical. If you knew that you could make 20% in GE if the stock did nothing.....would you rather be bored and have 20% in the bank, or trade the miners and financials have the potential to make 40% or lose 40%?

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  7. I bought SKF right before close, but because it was so stressful I forgot to make it a limit so I paid 128

    I'm pretty pissed about that, but I guess the smart ones get outsmarted by the smarter ones.

    Tomorrow is payback time :)

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  8. Fish-

    It happens. Couple of weeks ago for example:

    I put a limit order in for AUY @ 10.96.
    It got filled, then AUY dropped another 0.20.
    I put in another limit order at 10.70 hoping to double up.
    It filled REAL quick b/c I put it in as a SELL instead of a BUY.
    Oops.

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