Portfolio of the Week

[IIC]

Rob...put in in NAPS long at the open...unless I change my mind...IIC

Editing a typo above...I meant put "me" in

[billyjoe]

Doug,
I want to know what you knew about CTIC and when you knew it. Is a POTW player allowed to concede? Doug, in real life have you ever made a trade such as +20% in 2 minutes ? I'll bet you have some great stories to tell.

-----------billyjoe

[IIC]

Doug,
I want to know what you knew about CTIC and when you knew it. Is a POTW player allowed to concede? Doug, in real life have you ever made a trade such as +20% in 2 minutes ? I'll bet you have some great stories to tell.

-----------billyjoe

I was reading news before the market opened. Figured it to gap...was hoping for 20 cents and I got .21. if I had traded it in real life I'd estimate that I probably would've been able to get about .15 on it.

I used to trade news...it is fun...but it takes a lot of time and a lot of being in the right place at the right time. The most I remember making in a couple of minutes is 18%. Many of the news plays run then they pullback...then sometimes they run again...I would usually sell them at the first sign of a p/b so in many cases I only grabbed 5-10% of a 20, 30, 40%+ run. I know a lot of times after I clicked buy confirm I immediately put in a sell order...I always played the news with market orders so I wouldn't miss them or get stuck with them. Most orders I put in now are limit.

Today I had 2 limit orders in that never got filled...I cancelled them when I went to take a shower...they were on OMNI and RMBS. I usually cancel a limit order right away if the stock takes off...I don't want it on the way back down.

...Doug(IIC)


This came out at 3am PDT today:

Cell Therapeutics Inc. Announces Worldwide License And Co-Development Pact For Development And Commercialization Of XYOTAX(TM), An Investigational Agent For Treatment Of Women With Non-small Cell Lung Cancer And Other Cancers>CTIC

[IIC]

BTW Billy...If you are real nice to me I might tell you what I know about NAPS

[billyjoe]

Doug,
You might be my best bud here. OK , give me the info.

-----------billyjoe

[IIC]

Doug,
You might be my best bud here. OK , give me the info.

-----------billyjoe

C'mon Billy...Send me 30 grand tonite and I'll trade it for 'ya in the morn.

Seriously though...it was up 12% a/h on news...not a big secret.

I will watch the p/m action to see if I will leave it...Just because a stock goes up a/h does not mean a whole lot.

But on REAL news plays you have to see the news during market hours...Now, the BIG question...Where do you get the fastest R/T news during market hours???

[spikefader]

Rob,
Any EBAY news today? What's the deal with a $1 hit on this one?

Ain't it obvious NB?
http://www.technicaltrades.net/2006/09/14/ebay-again/ and this chart count is still valid at this stage.

[Rob]

So how many shares are you shorting, Spike?

[IIC]

Out NAPS...Done for the week on the contest...IIC

[Rob]

Week 38 (12), Day 2

Look at that li'l hustler, Sticky, go, would ya!

[IIC]

WTG Stickey...Man, I sure screwed up this week...Now I'm at everyone's mercy...Doug(IIC)

[Lyehopper]

Lyehopper, I know practically nothing about tractors, but a "drawbar" would not be the same thing as a "top link," would it?

No, a top-link is the third element in a three point hitch.... A drawbar is simply an alloy steel bar that attaches to the tractor and is used to hitch a towable implement or wagon.

Here's the "aftermarket" drawbar. http://secure.ssbtractor.com/cgi-bin/quikstore.cgi

Here's a toplink. http://secure.ssbtractor.com/cgi-bin/quikstore.cgi

Looks like the links don't work so here they are....

The drawbar for my 2840 (a tractor that I seldom use) came up missing and I couldn't find it anywhere. After several phone calls I found that it had been borrowed from me by a fella who works for me part time. His father had broken the drawbar in his 2640 while cutting hay a few weeks ago, I was in Roanoke and he was in a bind so he "borrowed" the drawbar.... but it would not work. So he left it at his "daddy's barn" and forgot to return it. .... He brought it back this morning.

I loaned this same guy a (high dollar) registered Simmental Bull to breed his cows with last December. I asked him about six weeks ago to get the bull up in a corral so I could get him back because I have a group of cows I want to put him with this December.... I wanted him pin him up and make sure he's nice and fat before I turn him in with 50 horny cows (a bull will lose a couple hundred pounds breeding all those cows btw, that's why IIC's so skinny I guess) ANYWAY!..... He never called me back.... so I called his Daddy and asked when I could get my Bull. His daddy said that my bull wasn't in his pasture and that he thought he was breeding a neighboring farmers cows..... So after further due diligence I finally find my freakin' bull FOUR farms away breeding a ragtag bunch of skanky cows that are being kept in a single strand of electric wire! (I'm lucky he wasn't at Smith Mountain Lake by now!!!!).... So Saturday I get a bunch of corral panels together and a bucket of grain (and my stock trailer) and head off to retrieve my bull. I had him loaded in about fifteen minutes and headed home..... NEIGHBORS! SHEESH!

[Lyehopper]

Lye,
Any old orchard tractors in your area? We've got a '34 McCormick Deering O-12 that my grandpa bought new and we'd like to get it running again.

----------billyjoe

I'd say there are Billy.... Wow! I'd love to have that tractor. If you ever want to rid yourself of it please let me know. What parts do you need?

[peanuts]

... So after further due diligence I finally find my freakin' bull FOUR farms away breeding a ragtag bunch of skanky cows that are being kept in a single strand of electric wire! (I'm lucky he wasn't at Smith Mountain Lake by now!!!!).... So Saturday I get a bunch of corral panels together and a bucket of grain (and my stock trailer) and head off to retrieve my bull. I had him loaded in about fifteen minutes and headed home..... NEIGHBORS! SHEESH!

You better get some penecillin for your bull before you let him at your cows. Don't want to spread "the itch" from the trashy skank heifers down the road... I thought you said AI?

[Lyehopper]

You better get some penecillin for your bull before you let him at your cows. Don't want to spread "the itch" from the trashy skank heifers down the road... I thought you said AI?

You misunderstood.... I'm gonna IA my heifers.... Now Peanuts,You do know the difference between a cow and a heifer don't you?

This is a six year old mature bull and he's pretty HUUUGE.... He'll go in with a group of mature brood cows. I would never breed a 2,200 pound Simmental bull to 850-900 pound heifers. Plus his calves tend to be a little big for first calf heifers.... His average calf weighs about 90+ pounds.

I plan to AI the heifers with Black Angus semen from a low birth weight proven bull. http://agonline.com/rei/angblkepd.asp?ID=36

Now they'll be able to handle a bull like him on their second calf. I'll post a picture of him if I can remember to take one tomorrow.