Portfolio of the Week

[New-born baby]

Short Amln

Rob,
SHORT AMLN for me please

[Rob]

Reg SHO 'n' Stuff

BillyJoe, Lyehopper, et al,

Regulation SHO is, at best, quite difficult to understand. After hunting around on the Internet and reading several attempts at clarifying the regulation, I've only gained a little comprehension of it. Apparently the list of stocks appearing on the Reg SHO list can change on a daily basis and may vary from one broker/dealer to another.

Here are a couple of sites I found interesting or helpful:
Division of Market Regulation: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions Concerning Regulation SHO (see especially the example in Question 5., which was linked from the NASDAQ Reg SHO Security List, which, in turn, was linked from a blog site called Penny Stocks, where the person who wrote the article entitled "The Short Squeeze," dated 10/7/06, evidently did quite a lot of personal research on it.

According to Yahoo's Key Stats page on PEIX, 22% of the float is shorted, so someone out there is shorting the stuffing out of it.

In view of all that, I'm going to let your PEIX short ride, BillyJoe.

This question about shorting and determining whether shares are actually shortable continues to frustrate me. I'd really like to just do away with shorting altogether for this contest, but mutiny would probably ensue. Speaking of the rules, there should be a rule to dock by 5% the score of any participant who posts a graphic image in excess of 700 pixels in width to this thread. Hmm.

[jiesen]

Yeah Thanks! Jiesen. I don’t like or know much about the tech. sector but for this stock I like it because they make MP3 players and telephones. I also love that their earning rocketed to 800% and sale of 46% each for four quarters. Those are the numbers I like to see and also up in volume.

What was your entry price? If I had money I would purchased it sometime the first two weeks of September somewhere between $10 and $11.

I don’t have a clue of who loves this stock but I like to see it $18.

Hmm, where to start with this one...

Well, Ive been following XING ever since the day I noticed it jump from $7 to $70 in one day. I first bought in around $3 after the long slide from $70, and watched it continue to fall to around $0.75, then recover again to about $15 a few times before it fell again to $6 last year, where I finally gave in and sold most of my position. Unfortunately, I had made lots of trades along the way in and out of this guy, so even though I should have had a nice double out of this if I had just invested, rather than traded, (or more if I had just sold at $12 or $14 when I had the chance) I made no money. Actually, the amount I came out down on these trades is rougly equivalent to the commission on the hundreds (literally) of trades I made.

I take it more as a lesson learned in trading/investing than anything else. Anyway, I'm done trading on XING news, and if I can get out at $17-18 on the shares I have left, I'll have come out a bit ahead in the end. Its easy to say now, but I really should have just bought those $3 shares and left it alone... at any rate, to answer your question, the shares I have are split equally in two accounts, one position was bought at $5 about 4 years ago and never traded again. The other position was bought around $8, but with the rest of the trading I did, the cost basis is well above $10.

I also learned a fairly expensive lesson by trading XING options, and reviewing my trades at tax time. Ill share my findings with you for free: steer clear of options until you *really* know what youre doing.

[skiracer]

BillyJoe, Lyehopper, et al,

Regulation SHO is, at best, quite difficult to understand. After hunting around on the Internet and reading several attempts at clarifying the regulation, I've only gained a little comprehension of it. Apparently the list of stocks appearing on the Reg SHO list can change on a daily basis and may vary from one broker/dealer to another.

Here are a couple of sites I found interesting or helpful:
Division of Market Regulation: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions Concerning Regulation SHO (see especially the example in Question 5., which was linked from the NASDAQ Reg SHO Security List, which, in turn, was linked from a blog site called Penny Stocks, where the person who wrote the article entitled "The Short Squeeze," dated 10/7/06, evidently did quite a lot of personal research on it.

According to Yahoo's Key Stats page on PEIX, 22% of the float is shorted, so someone out there is shorting the stuffing out of it.

In view of all that, I'm going to let your PEIX short ride, BillyJoe.

This question about shorting and determining whether shares are actually shortable continues to frustrate me. I'd really like to just do away with shorting altogether for this contest, but mutiny would probably ensue. Speaking of the rules, there should be a rule to dock by 5% the score of any participant who posts a graphic image in excess of 700 pixels in width to this thread. Hmm.

Rob,
Just curious. Was that last chart I posted on the previous page to large. NB and mine were about the same width. I've been keeping them much smaller and thought I was within your parameters.

[mimo_100]

BillyJoe, Lyehopper, et al,

Regulation SHO is, at best, quite difficult to understand. After hunting around on the Internet and reading several attempts at clarifying the regulation, I've only gained a little comprehension of it. Apparently the list of stocks appearing on the Reg SHO list can change on a daily basis and may vary from one broker/dealer to another.

Here are a couple of sites I found interesting or helpful:
Division of Market Regulation: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions Concerning Regulation SHO (see especially the example in Question 5., which was linked from the NASDAQ Reg SHO Security List, which, in turn, was linked from a blog site called Penny Stocks, where the person who wrote the article entitled "The Short Squeeze," dated 10/7/06, evidently did quite a lot of personal research on it.

According to Yahoo's Key Stats page on PEIX, 22% of the float is shorted, so someone out there is shorting the stuffing out of it.

In view of all that, I'm going to let your PEIX short ride, BillyJoe.

This question about shorting and determining whether shares are actually shortable continues to frustrate me. I'd really like to just do away with shorting altogether for this contest, but mutiny would probably ensue. Speaking of the rules, there should be a rule to dock by 5% the score of any participant who posts a graphic image in excess of 700 pixels in width to this thread. Hmm.

Here is my take on Reg SHO.

The regulation was created “ostensibly” because of the many abuses and liberties that brokerage firms were taking as far as short sales. I remember one stock with around 40 million shares outstanding. 20 million shares were in the hands of the owners, and at one time there were 27 million short. How can that be? Well, the firms were shorting without ever borrowing the shares. Reg SHO was supposed to identify these stocks and stop the shorting of phantom shares.

Things haven’t changed. The regulation was put in to make it appear like something was being done, when in reality the “phantom” shorting continues on today. Think of the recent UN directive to N. Korea “there will be consequences if you test a nuclear bomb”. What has happened? Nothing What will happen? Nothing, in my opinion.

[RL]

Check this out

Will somebody check this out and let me know If It's for real.Free stock trades ZECCO.COM

[Rob]

Graphics 101

Rob,
Just curious. Was that last chart I posted on the previous page to large. NB and mine were about the same width. I've been keeping them much smaller and thought I was within your parameters.

Ski, for you and anyone else (using MS Windows) who may not know this ...

I don't know which graphics program you use to create the pictures, but I've never seen one that doesn't tell the user what the dimenions are. In MSPaint, for example, you find out the dimensions by selecting the menu item "Image," then "Attributes" from the popup menu. In Paintshop, which is the one I use, the dimensions are always displayed on the right side of the status bar.

If you save a Stockcharts.com image to your computer by right-clicking the image and using "Save Picture As... ," it's very simple to first make sure the chart size is set to 620 in width from the little "Size" drop-down they provide.

[IIC]

Ski, for you and anyone else (using MS Windows) who may not know this ...

I don't know which graphics program you use to create the pictures, but I've never seen one that doesn't tell the user what the dimenions are. In MSPaint, for example, you find out the dimensions by selecting the menu item "Image," then "Attributes" from the popup menu. In Paintshop, which is the one I use, the dimensions are always displayed on the right side of the status bar.

If you save a Stockcharts.com image to your computer by right-clicking the image and using "Save Picture As... ," it's very simple to first make sure the chart size is set to 620 in width from the little "Size" drop-down they provide.

I thought we were OK as long as it is under 700???

[Rob]

I thought we were OK as long as it is under 700???

In what bizarro world is 739 under 700?

[IIC]

In what bizarro world is 739 under 700?

You mentioned this???:

If you save a Stockcharts.com image to your computer by right-clicking the image and using "Save Picture As... ," it's very simple to first make sure the chart size is set to 620 in width from the little "Size" drop-down they provide.

[Rob]

You mentioned this???:

If you save a Stockcharts.com image to your computer by right-clicking the image and using "Save Picture As... ," it's very simple to first make sure the chart size is set to 620 in width from the little "Size" drop-down they provide.

It was a Jedi mind trick, a subliminal suggestion. I know that Stockcharts also has a 700px width option, but the problem with that is that if somebody posts a 700px-wide image and then someone else includes it in a quote, the margins in the quote will expand the post column anyway.

90% of the time I use this forum, I use a 6-year-old laptop computer with a 1024x768 display. I keep the browser window smaller so I can have several live charts in the background. Excessively wide graphics cause all the text on the same page to bleed off the edge of my browser display, which is irritating. Note that it is not I who instituted the recommendation of the 700px limit, but our beloved moderator. I just try to remind people every now and then, especially certain scofflaws, the most prominent of which whose name I don't want to mention, but it sort of rhymes with "eraser."

[Lyehopper]

In what bizarro world is 739 under 700?

SsSsSssssss!

[RL]

What the ###$%$&&&*&&&## happened

[billyjoe]

Ray,

Welcome to my world. If PEIX drops 2.80 tomorrow I could still win this thing. Why does everyone love ethanol this week ? Can't find any news on TRT.

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

[spikefader]

...I just try to remind people every now and then, especially certain scofflaws, the most prominent of which whose name I don't want to mention, but it sort of rhymes with "eraser."

Hey Ski-eraser....I mean Skiracer.......Ski....,

It's always something ain't it? The more chart the better in my book!
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Hey, by the way, what's the best Zinfandel you've had lately? Or are you strictly a cab sav-er?