Stock market tips and experiences

[SunnyD]

Originally Posted by mact3333

on a side note, anyone try a burger at Shake Shack?...crazy mkt's when a burger IPO explodes 150%.

150% if you could get in at $21. Their burgers are pretty good but I still prefer In n Out.

[Patrick303]

Originally Posted by mact3333

on a side note, anyone try a burger at Shake Shack?...crazy mkt's when a burger IPO explodes 150%.

BOX is another one. IPO price of $14/share and jumped 70% on opening day. The company has not had a profitable year in it's 10 year history and has competition from Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and EMC.

[r0wr]

Originally Posted by ASAP

Ha... 2% in one month champ... good luck and good luck beating the guaranteed consistency... but best of luck

Because you're guaranteed to make 2% with any type of franchise you get into, amirite?

[RandomHero]

Originally Posted by Benedict1957

RandomHero is an FA who's asshurt about the fact that people are trashing his profession in this topic. Expect more "holier than thou" posts from him where he subtly insults other people through content-less sarcasm.

Quite the contrary, and I do apologize for my poor choice of words in my previous post.

You have to remember that there are nearly 3000 posts in this thread. Not every post came from someone with such an advanced knowledge of the subject.

What concerns me is that some people may see this thread as a source of information rather than a source for informal discussion.

My only hope is that people make educated decisions for themselves rather than trust other people to make those decisions for them.

Again, my apologies for the poor word choice. Carry on.

[mact3333]

Still long silver, dumped oil short positions last week...took a nibble shorting oil again few minutes ago while up high today...if oil in dead cat bounce mode, needs to reverse by tomorrow otherwise oil making true bottom imho.

[Benedict1957]

Originally Posted by mact3333

Still long silver, dumped oil short positions last week...took a nibble shorting oil again few minutes ago while up high today...if oil in dead cat bounce mode, needs to reverse by tomorrow otherwise oil making true bottom imho.

That seems so arbitrary. I know you're not providing a technical analysis as you said "imho" but still, this is just blind speculation.

6 months into the future if oil drops substantially from its position today, you'll pat yourself on the back for "calling" the "dead cat bounce" as a predictor for its decline.

If long positions win out over the next 6 months, you'll pat yourself on the back for calling the "true bottom." Your post is so vague that you can't possibly look bad regardless of what happens to oil.

[Myrder]

Originally Posted by mact3333

on a side note, anyone try a burger at Shake Shack?...crazy mkt's when a burger IPO explodes 150%.

Burger is decent, shakes are amazing.

Originally Posted by ASAP

Ha... 2% in one month champ... good luck and good luck beating the guaranteed consistency... but best of luck

Plz show me how I can put $500k into a franchise and make $120k a year lol. Do you not have workers? overhead? costs of any sort? Franchise cut?

Or is this some sort of robotic money printing franchise?


Some light on your numbers:

According to a report on food franchising by Franchise Business Review, 51.5 percent of food franchises earn profits of less than $50,000 a year; roughly 7 percent top $250,000, with the average profit for all restaurants coming in at $82,033. That doesn't sound too bad, until you factor in the initial investment. Though some basic restaurant concepts cost less than $100,000 to open, many established brands require as much as $500,000 to start. And a full-service restaurant may require an initial investment of $1 million or more.

[ASAP]

Originally Posted by Myrder

Burger is decent, shakes are amazing.

Plz show me how I can put $500k into a franchise and make $120k a year lol. Do you not have workers? overhead? costs of any sort? Franchise cut?

Or is this some sort of robotic money printing franchise?


Some light on your numbers:

According to a report on food franchising by Franchise Business Review, 51.5 percent of food franchises earn profits of less than $50,000 a year; roughly 7 percent top $250,000, with the average profit for all restaurants coming in at $82,033. That doesn't sound too bad, until you factor in the initial investment. Though some basic restaurant concepts cost less than $100,000 to open, many established brands require as much as $500,000 to start. And a full-service restaurant may require an initial investment of $1 million or more.

Mcdonalds even with its poor earnings will easily net you that. The stores on average make over $2 mil in revenues. If you find a location that someone is selling, it can be had in the 500s arena...

[mact3333]

Originally Posted by Benedict1957

That seems so arbitrary. I know you're not providing a technical analysis as you said "imho" but still, this is just blind speculation.

6 months into the future if oil drops substantially from its position today, you'll pat yourself on the back for "calling" the "dead cat bounce" as a predictor for its decline.

If long positions win out over the next 6 months, you'll pat yourself on the back for calling the "true bottom." Your post is so vague that you can't possibly look bad regardless of what happens to oil.

I know I know, I got lucky for the 15th time well crap.......but the people who have followed this thread for 3 years knows...

All I know is I went short oil yesterday again cause the charts told me to, today oil is getting hammered over 5%...kinda like golf, the more I practice, the luckier I get....blind speculation, perhaps yes, but wonder why it works much better than 50-50?...look at the time stamp from my post yesterday and look at intraday chart on oil...

[mact3333]

In DTO yesterday at 77ish... Closed 30 min ago at 98

Will be returning to this one soon...

[mact3333]

Glad I closed the short oil position while cratering yesterday....oil up 4% today!...

[Myrder]

Originally Posted by Myrder

Picked up some DATA on Tuesday. They beat the estimates yesterday, yet are down today. I like the software and have used it extensively, I think the future is good for them.

Just updating you guys. DATA is now around $97 when I wrote this it was low Mid $60s. They have beat earnings the past 2 quarters

[NemesisX]

Originally Posted by Myrder

Just updating you guys. DATA is now around $97 when I wrote this it was low Mid $60s. They have beat earnings the past 2 quarters

Nicely done

[Myrder]

Originally Posted by NemesisX

Nicely done

Thanks! Don't worry I had a few dogs too lol, but AAPL and DATA have helped. FCX is currently one I am going to avg down on. FCX is ripe to come back up, its at 18.80 now and will be back into high 20s come July I think.

[mact3333]

Originally Posted by Myrder

Just updating you guys. DATA is now around $97 when I wrote this it was low Mid $60s. They have beat earnings the past 2 quarters

Nicely done!...

[MrPrena]

Originally Posted by NemesisX

You're tempting me to get back in right now

I'm probably going to wait it out on the sidelines. I shouldn't be too greedy, especially when I don't really know what I'm doing.

Originally Posted by MrPrena

Smart move.
AMD was one of my biggest joy of Nov2012-Jan2014 (cap gain), but has been pain in my @ss this year by getting back in.

NemesisX did you get back in to AMD? 16% intraday today.
I am still bag holding on this, but I am fairly optimistic. There will be lots of short squeeze coming.
Bought CALL to offset some losses. Didn't buy enough.

Sprint. No brainer on losses, but higher topline due to aggressive plans. If Sprint wants to join those big2, they need to start showing profit. Only sissy growth company investors sees subscription#. Sideline on Sprint.

[NemesisX]

Originally Posted by MrPrena

NemesisX did you get back in to AMD? 16% intraday today.
I am still bag holding on this, but I am fairly optimistic. There will be lots of short squeeze coming.
Bought CALL to offset some losses. Didn't buy enough.

Sprint. No brainer on losses, but higher topline due to aggressive plans. If Sprint wants to join those big2, they need to start showing profit. Only sissy growth company investors sees subscription#. Sideline on Sprint.

Unfortunately I did not I got out of AMD for a very meager capital gain as per my last post.

Twitter also had a +16% trading day on Friday, although it didn't do me any good as I don't own any shares of twitter.

GoPro has been on a huge slide since last October or so, capped off by a -13% trading day on Friday. If it ever gets near 52 week lows again I'll strongly consider buying.

[E86Z]

^^GPRO I'd consider it as well


Back in black on Twitter, we'll see how it plays out.

[Inspired]

Anyone considering USO? Looks like a solid bottom bounce might be a dead cat bounce. Flagging right now with 50MA right above though.

BABA is ugly. Some pretty good support near here but I doubt it will hold.

[MrPrena]

Originally Posted by NemesisX

Unfortunately I did not I got out of AMD for a very meager capital gain as per my last post.

Twitter also had a +16% trading day on Friday, although it didn't do me any good as I don't own any shares of twitter.

GoPro has been on a huge slide since last October or so, capped off by a -13% trading day on Friday. If it ever gets near 52 week lows again I'll strongly consider buying.

I wanna see what Costolo has in his bag of tricks before I get back in. So far, his favorite bag of tricks is 10,000 types of metrics to measure the subscribers.

Originally Posted by Inspired

Anyone considering USO? Looks like a solid bottom bounce might be a dead cat bounce. Flagging right now with 50MA right above though.

BABA is ugly. Some pretty good support near here but I doubt it will hold.

Yeah, I wanna get into USO and mix of UWTI within 2 weeks.

[mact3333]

Originally Posted by mact3333

In DTO yesterday at 77ish... Closed 30 min ago at 98

Will be returning to this one soon...

DTO now back to 76.00!...top was at 100.00 when I closed out at 98ish(last Wed)...missed the exact top by 15 minutes........actually have been long oil since I closed out short position.

Mkt ready to make a big move soon....build up phase this week.

[deeLow]

Got out of my small position today after it turned back to black.

Can't wait to get into something else this week