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>Joke of the day
anyone over rank 100

>> No.210560

Sold PLUG at 10, bought back in at 6.50.
This is almost too easy.

>> No.210561

>>210555
>anyone over rank 100
Forever a goy;_;

>> No.210559

just sold FCEL for 2k profit

>> No.210565

>these IRL PLUG gains
God bless capitalism.

>> No.210566

EVERYBODY GET THE FUCK BACK ON THE PLUG TRAIN

>> No.210570

>>210566
TO THE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

>> No.210574

Now that plug has had their earnings and will likely become a boring stock what's the next pick?

>> No.210576

>>210570

This is ground control, space shuttle PLUG ready for liftoff

>> No.210582

>>210576
Engine malfunction ground control, seems we're not gonna see the moon today

>> No.210583

>>210566
>>210570
>>210574
>>210576
>>210582
thread hidden

>> No.210586

shorting plug now, counting on it hitting 7 within the hour

>> No.210588

>>210586
Looks lile you're not too wrong.

>> No.210590

>>210586
reasoning?

>> No.210589

>>210586
this

>> No.210592

>>210586
$900 on an 16k short in 30 seconds
THANK YOU BASED PLUG

>> No.210596

>>210592
2700 long

when will you join the long master race?

>> No.210602

>>210590
Plug is a shitty stock that is overhyped
Their earning report is adequate but not at what they are worth

>> No.210607

>>210602
watch while we make the mulla faggot

>> No.210611

>>210602
I'm waiting for the secondary dump after ER.

>> No.210613
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>>210611
earnings are out though?

>>210602
fair enough but you could have made that valuation a lot of times up to 11 but didnt? wondering why now specifically. technical or?

PIC: how long I am right now

>> No.210614

Is anyone watching MEI?
Their ER seemed really positive, yet the stock is tanking today.

>> No.210615

>>210613
The hype made it grow, I wasn't gonna short it mid growth and missed the short from 11-6 due to class>>210611
http://www.thestreet.com/story/12528085/1/surpise-plug-power-plug-didnt-do-too-bad-this-quarter.html

>> No.210616

Who here shorting PLUG?

>> No.210621

im a fucking loser

>> No.210625

MDBX ! Now is the time and for real life not this mamby panby world

>> No.210628

>>210616
Think it'll drop below opening?

>> No.210629

>>210625
Short it?

>> No.210631

>>210621
>Not even gamma

Why would you even try?

>> No.210632

Twenty first century fox!

>> No.210633

7.5 BASED PLUG

>> No.210635

>>210633
Looks like it's free falling

>> No.210637

>>210633
7.3
lel

>> No.210642

>mfw shorted at 8

>> No.210646

>>210642
take profits

resistance here

>> No.210644

>>210629
Yeah, the whole pump is over.

>> No.210645

>>210621
unlist you dont cheat

>> No.210651

>>210642
tried to short at 8.3 but within seconds it fell from that to 8.08

>> No.210653

>>210646
I know, I will. All 50000 of them.

I still have a bunch in RUSS, which made me about 12000 over the past week and doesn't lool like it'll slow.

>> No.210657

>Set a limit order for PLUG to sell at $8 and $9, with both orders taking up different proportions of my total shares
>refresh only to find all of my shares sold at the then current market price of $7.95

What did I do wrong?

>> No.210659

>>210657
You didn't review your order before you hit confirm.

>> No.210660

>>210653
nice :)

RUSS was the biggest 'sure thing' ive seen in a long time

>> No.210666

Real life owners of PHOT should short it now

>> No.210667

>>210660
I wonder, is trading actually this easy all the time? Just a simple knowledge of geopolitics will nake you thousands. Doesn't take a genius to open a newspaper and realize that global sanctions on Russia will make their markets tumble, then you just find a security or derivative that is based om that.

>> No.210671

>>210653
>>210660
Are you guys shorting RUSS?

>> No.210678

>>210660
If only I understood what they do, I would of bought in

>> No.210679

>>210671
RUSS is an inverse leveraged. It is a short position.

>> No.210681

>>210667
It isnt always this obvious and to this scale.

Usually trading the news is not as simple and by the time you've read it the move has already gone as far as it will go.

in my experience anyway. BIG news stories? sure. Ive made a lot that way - but they dont happen frequently enough for me

>> No.210683

FITX PHOT CBIS LATF MJNA MDBX ALL TO HAVE SERIOUS MOVEMENT IN NEXT TWO WEEKS

>> No.210686

>>210678
Well now you know!

Don't get impatient when you're still learning, there are opportunities everywhere in many different forms

>> No.210695

>2014
>getting involved in pump and dumps
kek

>> No.210692

>>210667
There will be no global sanctions on Russia, Europe needs their oil lines flowing.

>> No.210693

>>210683
>been invested into CBIS for years
>recently took positions in MDBX, GRNH, and CANN
Why the ones you mentioned? Why not CANN or GRNH?

>> No.210705

>>210695
>2014
>being sour that you didnt find a way to profit from them

>> No.210708

>>210695
Agreed, everyone here seems overconfident. It's easy to think you can take advantage of the pump and dump and ride the bubble, but you'd have to be very very careful.

Would you play with fire?

Most of the fuckers here shouldn't be getting ahead of themselves just quite yet.

>> No.210712

sold at 7.4

now at 7.1

>> No.210716

shorted $PLUG at 6.60 , didn't bought yet. Hope it crashes :s

>> No.210718

>>210708
Nigga who the fuck didnt play with fire when they were younger?

>> No.210720

Can amyone explain to me how the prices work? I just set an order to short PLUG at what the window said was 7.05. I look at my transactions and apparently it executed at 7.56, when all it was was a market order. Any reason for this?

>> No.210721

>>210716
ouch dat luck

tell me you shorted it again at 8 as well

>> No.210725

>>210720

market order

ouch

>> No.210728

>>210725
So does a markrt order just default and buy whatever is lowest and short whatever is highest? I thought stops didn't help much either as those were just market orders triggered at certain prices?

>> No.210730

>>210728
because this game has a 20 minute market delay

>> No.210732

>>210728
I think they just fill you on whatever is going. Market order stop losses are my last resort...

limit (LMT) is your best bet most of the time

there are other types and hybrids but I have no idea how they work

>> No.210736

currently waiting for GTAT to hit 16.5 before I buy in

>> No.210741

>>210736
>read that as GTA

Was really confused

>> No.210745

>>210741
I'd also buy GTA at 16.5

>> No.210763

>>210736
can you elaborate and pitch please?

>> No.210767

>>210763
Its just my solid go to company when nothing on the market is catching my eye, it varies a decent bit day to day if I can pick it up at 16.50 it will probably hit 17 today

>> No.210779

>>210767
It might even pass the 17s today:
http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2014/03/13/618110/10072529/en/GT-Advanced-Technologies-Announces-Merlin-TM-an-Innovative-Solar-Module-Metallization-and-Interconnect-Technology.html

>> No.210793

Do you guys think nimble is going to turn up today?

>> No.210802

VAPR brands international blows. I got skunked and bought at .40 and it has no hope. Pump? Pump pump?

>> No.210807

So if Ukraine actually loses the Crimea and the referendum happens this weekend, how do you guys think Russian markets will react?

>> No.210812

>>210807

Rise for a few days then drop.

>> No.210823

>PLUG back on the rise

STOP TUGGING AT MY HEARTSTRINGS YOU DEAD HORSE!!

>> No.210835

>PLUG's all time high is 1497

And we think its getting pumped now, jesus christ

>> No.210839

>>210555
very low volume on plugs rise---its going to go down unless people start stepping in.

>> No.210844

>>210839
And there we have it, it''s out of steam-
Anyone with L2 know how many orders left?

>> No.210847

Why didn't anyone buy RUSS yesterday?

>> No.210850

>>210847
What do you think about YANG?

>> No.210855

>>210823
shorting it again started at 7.83 heres hoping for 7.30

>> No.210857

patience, patience...

>> No.210863

>>210850
What's the weakness in China?

>> No.210867

shit liquidity

>hft apologists

>> No.210871

>>210847
Bought about 50000 worth of it at 18, when all this talk of sanctions was just beginning

>> No.210887

>those 4000+ on the 1855 bid

>> No.210898

>>210887

it all got wiped out lel

>> No.210902
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>>210898

>> No.210906

>>210902
>filename

>>210898
Are they still talking about PLUG?

>> No.210908

>>210898

fucking brutal

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>>210906

S&P futures

>> No.210924

>>210921
Lel

>> No.210934

SELL EVERYTHING

>> No.210947

it's going down i'm yelling timber

>> No.210963

Everybody buy VAPR and HEMP, easy undervalued. Same weigh MJNA

>> No.210968

DAILY REMINDER THAT 9/10 IN THE TOP 10 ARE CHEATERS

>> No.210973

FUCK I MISSED IT

FUCK YOU BOWEL MOVEMENTS

>> No.210974

FOXA

>> No.210976

>>210968
> rank 562

>> No.210982
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210982

26,000 contracts

>> No.210988

>>210982

looks like the big bid from 55 puked

>> No.210992

>>210982
Haha uvxy killing it

>> No.210993

GO LOCALS GO

>> No.210994

CANCEL ALL ORDERS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=079RCUtk8s4

WE'RE IN BEAR MARKET

>> No.211003

VAPR is a hunk of garbage

>> No.211010

>dat $TICK flip

i love these days

>> No.211013

So why is my order still pending for shares?

Is it because nobody is selling?

>> No.211033

...and we retrace to 1852

if a trader commits suicide in the next few weeks, we'll know who it was

>> No.211038

filled the gap from 3/3, we can now explode higher to SPX 2400

>> No.211070

How do you guys actually decide what stocks to buy? It seems like I'm overwhelmed with choice and I don't really know what to start researching.

>> No.211076

It looks like the Dow might go below 50ma. Bought SDOW today.

>> No.211084

>>211070
I can't say too much, but I try to find an industry I actually have interest in first, then go from there

>> No.211087

>>211070
part of deciding what to buy it figuring out what kind of trader you are.
Day trader >high volume, high volitility, upwards trending
swing trader >low volitility, swings way up, then way down - repeatedly
Long term >a stock you like, something you believe in that you think will go up for years steadily.

>> No.211097

Aeropostale is jumping up pretty high,

I'm a little late on the jump, just bought, but i think this will be good.

>> No.211116

Why am I such a fucking pussy?

>See PLUG at $5.98, know it will go up, don't buy
>Up 30%
>Know $RUSS will go up but keep waiting for dips
>Up 15% today

Fuck...I need to actually get involved. This is real money by the way i'd fucking back the truck up on play money.

>> No.211120

>>211116
I think the idea is to make lots of smaller profits rather than trying to really hit it big all the time. If you know something will go up, then buy it. You're not losing money, just not making as much as is theoretically possible.

>> No.211124

>>211120

I know thats why most of my money is making 5%-10% losses this week because of the bear market and my buying 'safe dividend stocks'.

>> No.211137

>>211116
you didnt know it would go back up. you are fogging your mind with hindsight.


and RUSS - why on earth would you wait for dips... I seriously hope you havent been waiting for dips since this whole russia thing started...

yeah dont buy safe dividend stocks if its a small account (<100k). it'l get you nowhere imo

>> No.211140

>>211120

Also jokes on me, I can't even buy russ with my broker.

>> No.211141

>>210683
Any sources for the Marry Jane boom? I'm not doubting it but Id like some reading on it.

>> No.211162

>>211141
Know a few boiler room pumpers. Youre golden

>> No.211165

1846 probably won't hold

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>>211162
Says the faggot pumper.

>> No.211178

>>211140

Actually they probably do but I'll have to do the lying thing and say I'm an expert in a financial business. O well probably too late now...what I did the last two days.

>> No.211223

>>211165

and there it goes

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211268

>yfw the market correction has finally arrived

>> No.211298

Why aren't you guys riding the goddamn RUSS train? Muh rank.

>> No.211304

>>211298

Because I don't want to fade Vladimir Putin in a battle against Barack Obama.

>> No.211310

>>211268
1516 next stop on INDU

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211346

Just bought 2500 shares of AMD with my new broker account

>> No.211348

>>210736

Down to about 16 a share now, is it a good buy now?

>> No.211355

>>211346
Welcher Broker?

>> No.211361

>>211355
Brokerjet
War vorher bei der raiffeisenbank mit elendig hohen gebühren...

>> No.211391

>>210683
just bought 50 shares of FITX yolo

>> No.211397

>>211391
4 fucking dollars? What fees did you pay?

>> No.211413

>>211346

Any reason? I have $750 worth about this price but cant see any reason to buy more as I'm just going to sell before earnings.

>> No.211425

>>211413
>Any reason?
There is still some console hype to come I think...

>sell before earnings
That's my plan

>> No.211426

>>211413
Just went in big on amd, this bby is going up

>> No.211436

I just went all in shorting MEET, god I hope their earnings report sucks tomorrow.

>> No.211452

>>211137
Im thinking about throwing down $10,000 on $RUSS.

Terrible idea? Hoping for just a 10% gain would be nice, so RUSS would have to hit around $27 tomorrow.

>> No.211455

>>211425
Earning will beat expectations, count on 5% at least---nvidia is losing too (good for amd)

>> No.211508

>>211455
..and we are back

>Babbies first AMD ER

We all thought that once upon a time.

>> No.211566

>>211116
Not everyone is cut out for daytrading

>> No.211940

>>211455
>>211425
>playing AMD

Why? Their movement is so little and constantly in the red. Why AMD of all stocks?

>> No.211954

>>211940
It's movement is predictable. You can easily buy when it hits its lows and sell at the peaks with a reasonable sense of consistency

>> No.211963

>>211954

Basically it's one of the largest pump and dump schemes.

>> No.211987

>>211954
Havent their earnings fluctuated?

I recall after their ER their stock tanks multiple times.

But they also received some good upswings after reports.

Got any stats to back up your claim?

>> No.211992

are you guys buying or shorting AMD now?

>> No.211997

>>211992

assWipe is probably right on this one.

>Sell two days before ER
>Buy day after ER

>> No.212002

Been scalping TSLA all week. +$2,800 so far. Any other stock with 10%+ volatility?

>> No.212022

so buy amd now, sell 15th of april, buy on the 18th? hmm.

>> No.212026

>>212022

Pretty much and shill the fuck out of it around the 10th.

>> No.212075

>>212026
wow anon thanks. im comparing the stock price to the dates of the ER and it seems legit. at least for last year or so anyways.

>> No.212193

>>212075
Biz's first get rich quick scheme I love it.

>> No.212197

Didn't people think AAPL's share price before earnings was a guaranteed thing too?

If I recall there was that one rogue trader who bet billions on it and got fucked over.

>> No.212200

>>212197
Never bet what you can't afford to lose. I'm going to try this AMD thing with a few hundred dollars, maybe $1000 tops. Not my entire portfolio.

>> No.212212

>>210835
Stock splits and/or secondary offerings. 1497 back then is not the same share of the company as it would be now.

>> No.212229

>>211268
Fortunately the stock I bought this morning (WFC) barely did anything.

I really hope the correction is over, and now we just start going back up though. I need another 5 months before I can sell my SCTY for capital gains rates.

>> No.212243

>>212200
i'll probably throw the same amount at it. don't think i'll purchase until it has two straight days of gains. will sell 2-3 days before the ER no matter what.

oddly enough, i'm half way through livermores book as of last night and was googling this morning for consistent stocks exactly like this. know of anymore?

>> No.212249

>>212243
I made a bundle on RRD doing the same thing. They have a quarterly dividend that bumps them up a few points before the ex date, then they drop down. If you get lazy and miss it you at least get the dividend.

Last time I bought it it was at 13 and i dropped it at 20. It hasn't been dropping like I want it to though.

>> No.212260

>>212229
Ayyaz?

>> No.212277

how does a stocks volume increase without a split?

>> No.212285

>>212249
thanks brah

>> No.212286

>>212229
With how Asian markets are looking this morning, tomorrow will be another rough day.

>> No.212433

>>212260
No

>> No.212436

>>212277
Secondary share offering. They just sell more shares, so each share represents a lower percentage of ownership of the company.

>> No.212442

>>212436
how can you tell how much of a company is in shares already?

>> No.212450

>>212442
Market cap = number of outstanding shares times share price
Two of the above are listed on any website that lists stocks. Some probably have all three.

>> No.212645

AMBA is going to jupiter.

>> No.213041

bump

>> No.213043

>>213041
don't bump yesterday's thread dipshit, create a new one

>> No.213050

Shorting PRAN and PLUG is literally the easiest money ever

>> No.213053

TODAY'S THREAD

>>213052

>>213052

>>213052

>> No.213057

>>213050
ye like the people who shorted plug yesterday lol

>> No.214695

IBM is so fucking low, I'm buying

>> No.215859 [DELETED] 

>>210555
What do you guys think about BBRY?