I had promised that I was going to start my own thread regarding stock investments and the markets. So many things have happened since last time I was here and I really do not feel like sharing my knowledge. But a promise is a promise and there have been few people that have emailed me and supported me.

This thread will deal with investing in the stock markets. I will not discuss individual stocks but discuss ETFs like SPY, DIA, IWM and QQQQ. The one good thing about trading ETFs compared to individual stocks is the the ETFs provide instant diversification among similar companies within the same sector.

I will post more as we go along, regarding entry-price, profit-target and stop-losses. I do not think that any ETF is good or bad. It is good only if I'm making money and bad if I'm losig money.

If you have not been in the market so far, please read this as an information piece only rather than my recommendations. There is risk involved and you should know how much risk to take on any position.

Any suggestations, comments and criticisms are welcome as long as it is market related. If this thread gets out of hand and we start discussing off-topics, I'll stop posting.

Have a happy new year!!!! May 2007 bring you and your family lots of joys and riches.

I will be working on the write-up for the scan this weekend and will email it to anyone that has contributed to this thread. I do not want to post it. Just trading futures intra-day and holding stocks as a swing term trade.

Forgot to mention, Bri welcome back!!!

hey there all,

the market is slowly inching in the green.  Let us hope that this doldrums with oil prices and bad economic results sway away soon.

Emini,
now that you have some food for thoughts with the newbies flashing there know hows, I guess you are having a good time with this thread.  I see some of them happen to be on the learning curve like myself, but some of them are as cocky as hell. *smile*.

I miss TT bhai. He used to be so much fun. If you are reading this TT bhai - please come back.

Best!
Bricolage.

come on BRIC, i hope u are not referring to me as cocky ;)   as soon as i posted.. i tried to delete that screenshot i posted but i could not.. it doesnt look possible.. oh well..  not trying to be cocky or over confident...

im still learning.. and i have to learn when to exit.. because i have been burnt by not having a exit strategy...

regarding oil, i dont see how oil can come down much more. US hurricane season is starting, and global economy may pickup. i think this could be a good time to buy Oil.

Latoboy, you lil piece of shit.  You post your trading returns from May 6th?  Why not post the latest 3 days of consecutive statements, faggot?  Lost money then, azzhole?  Anyone can show returns of 100% or more a day without ackowledging their losses of the same or more the next day.  C'mon idiot, you trade a DEMO account and you act like you roll with the BIG boys?  Get a life, lil penny hoarding low-life.

Emini, apologies for the digression here but had to do this as this fag has been a troll following my every oists around.  Hope alls well and as per our conversation, let me know when you drop by here. 

One Speculative Play:

Buy SEED before closing bell today and Sell within First 30 minutes of trading on Tuesday. SEED is reporting earnings after market close on monday.

Latoboy, I'm still in BLD but if you are not already in it don't get in now. The day I ran the scan the volume was more than 100,000 but did not look at the historical volume. It is quiet low. Today it is about 24,000 and yesterday was about 7000.

Signing bowl, I will stay away from SEED. The chart looks ugly.

Everyone else, let's get back to talking about markets in this thread.

Here comes one more new trader.  Thanks to emini; IB is very cheap compare to scottrade and things like that. I have been trading on IB for about a couple months now. Having fun so far! Made some money and lost some on some stupid option plays (bought puts on LEH even after knowing that they had $98B of liquidity). Anyway, let's share some money making ideas! Several heads are definately better than one head.

Emini, I got into SEED before i could see yr post. I got in at $6.26 . I have sell stop at $5.94 . I see a huge support at 6. If it breaks that monday, i will take my loss. Otherwise, i will stay till tuesday morning. I am just expecting a dollar upside in it.

I have the stock scan ready. If you have contributed to this thread in a positive way, please send me your email address and I can send the scan to you.

Thank u very much Emini for the stock scan. Really appreciate you.

Thanks Much Emini for the scan. It looks very interesting. I need to spend little more time on it.

You all have a great trading week ahead.

Best!
Bricolage

singing_bowl,   looks like u have a chance to sell your SEED at a nice profit this morning...

but regarding the earnings , Study the chart of VDSI to figure out why I THINK that's not a winning idea.

Exited out of BLD with a loss. It's junk. I had few more emails about the scan and will send it to you later tomorrow. I don't have it on me right now. Make sure you send me the email address because I cannot send an attachment through sajha email.

For the people that have the scan copy and have a longer time horizon, ROYL would have paid off handsomely if you were to follow the 50 dma.

guys pls read this article.....this guy is right most of the time....

http://biz.yahoo.com/usnews/080530/30_permabear_peter_schiffs_worst_case_scenario.html

I got out of SEED at 6.15 . I would have done as Latoboy suggested.....I would have made little money. ROYL is flying. Latoboy, do not try to catch this flying bird.

singing_bowl, check out CRR, looks like it is getting ready to break out...