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lutach · 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by What's_nitro?

I'm waiting for A123's stock to come to market.....

Invest now!!!! Don't wait for them to become public. Give them a call and see how much they'll accept from a new investor. They've been listed in the IPO list for a while now, but nothing is happening.

Edit: They might go by AONE.

What's_nitro? · 08.06.2009, 11:46 AM

I don't have a real-life portfolio... :(

lutach · 08.06.2009, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by What's_nitro?

I don't have a real-life portfolio... :(

How far are they from you? Stop by there and see what it takes, it's better to get in now then after they go public. That's where the real money really is.

Finnster · 12:16 PM

Uk, I was doing really well last week, but some things came up and I got hammered this week. I knew one of my major positions was going to post bad Q2's, and I debated whether to sell out before the earnings report. It was up over 45% in the last 2wks. I decided to hold on to it and not trade myself out of my position, and it did get creamed.
There are somethings going on in the company, not sure if news was going to get posted up here soon, or at all before the game runs out. We shall see.

Worse yet, is I get kinda frustrated w/ the interface and timing delays sometimes. As in the stock above, I did put a limit order in about 10min before the open to buy more shares when it was due to tumble on the open, but the order didn't get filled (stock bottomed out $0.14 lower than the limit in the first 10 mins from the open, then was back up 25% an hr afterwards... dammit.)
There have been a few times where I put in a buy or sell for so much, hit OK, then get an error (too many shares, not enough cash or above daily colume limits) I hit back and change the info, but sometimes it switches the buy/sell/short or Day order/GTC back to its default, I'm in a rush and end up doing the opposite of what I meant to do.. >_<
I've been pretty busy lately and haven't been able to spend as much time as I need to and try to rush things through

I've been playing pretty aggressive w/ things as I just started and am trying to make up for time. Plus I've been using it to experiment w/ different things and some have been more successful than others. It's play money and I don't really care. Not how I trade my actual money. I don't think I could handle the daily stress if was real money going so far up and down like that... I've swung from 13th to 7th place to 15th and back up inside a week lol.

We'll see where it goes. I'd def be up for starting a new game after this one finishes. Its been a hell of a year to play it in.

lutach · 08.06.2009, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Finnster

Uk, I was doing really well last week, but some things came up and I got hammered this week. I knew one of my major positions was going to post bad Q2's, and I debated whether to sell out before the earnings report. It was up over 45% in the last 2wks. I decided to hold on to it and not trade myself out of my position, and it did get creamed. However, I did put a limit order in about 10min before the open to buy more shares when it was due to tumble on the open, but the order didn't get filled (stock bottomed out $0.14 lower than the limit in the first 10 mins from the open, then back up 25% an hr afterwards... dammit.)
There are somethings going on in the company, not sure if news was going to get posted up here soon, or at all before the game runs out. We shall see.

Worse yet, is I get kinda frustrated w/ the interface and timing delays sometimes. There have been a few times where I put in a buy or sell for so much, hit OK, then get an error (too many shares, not enough cash or above daily colume limits) I hit back and change the info, but sometimes it switches the buy/sell/short or Day order/GTC back to its default, I'm in a rush and end up doing the opposite of what I meant to do.. >_<
I've been pretty busy lately and haven't been able to spend as much time as I need to and try to rush things through

I've been playing pretty aggressive w/ things as I just started and am trying to make up for time. Plus I've been using it to experiment w/ different things and some have been more successful than others. It's play money and I don't really care. Not how I trade my actual money. I don't think I could handle the daily stress if was real money going so far up and down like that... I've swung from 13th to 7th place to 15th and back up inside a week lol.

We'll see where it goes. I'd def be up for starting a new game after this one finishes. Its been a hell of a year to play it in.

It would be nice if they could actually be more like real time. It's a pain waiting 15-20 minutes for a trade to go through. The real deal for me to start this one game, was to show my friend how you can loose or win in the stock market. He never traded before and it shows as he's in last place. I waited as much as I could before the market hit it's bottom and in those short months were it kept going down, I was in last place, but help my position. I told him to stay put and wait it out, but he didn't. It would stink for sure loosing half of the money if it was real

.

If you set up a new game, let me know and I'll join in there. This time around I'll just go with any stock I can think of that has an extreme high risk of going under

. I'll see how lucky I can really get with them.

What's_nitro? · 08.10.2009, 07:04 PM

I'm up 62% this month......... 14% overall.

lutach · 08.10.2009, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by What's_nitro?

I'm up 62% this month......... 14% overall.

Go with riskier stocks, it's just a game

. Most of the stocks that made me a lot of profit was risky.

Finnster · 08.19.2009, 02:01 PM

My yo yo-ing continues. Looked at it Monday and I was at the bottom at 15th place. Today I shot up to 6th. :) Uk, this is starting to give me vertigo. Let's see where it goes. I'd really like to end the game over 1.5M

lutach · 08.19.2009, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Finnster

My yo yo-ing continues. Looked at it Monday and I was at the bottom at 15th place. Today I shot up to 6th. :) Uk, this is starting to give me vertigo. Let's see where it goes. I'd really like to end the game over 1.5M

That shows how the market is at the moment. US should start setting a nice pace upwards and stop worrying (Or blaming) other world's market. This market might be a trader's market for a while now since there's a lot of money to be made currently.

I really thought investors had stopped their worries, but boy I was wrong. I took a pounding and now I'm not sure how to reach the $20 million mark. I'll probably just leave my stocks as is and if I have more buying power, I'll continue with buying what ever stock has a big loss in that day.

lutach · 08.19.2009, 03:29 PM

I should've kept my 200000 shares of HGSI that I had bought for around $2 and now it's close to $16.

Finnster · 08.19.2009, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by lutach

I should've kept my 200000 shares of HGSI that I had bought for around $2 and now it's close to $16.

I tried shorting that one a bit after that huge jump. Had it at 14.x, then it jumped upto 16.x.
That was when I decided I was done shorting. lol

Finnster · 08.19.2009, 04:38 PM

Market seems pretty jumpy, but has continued on a steady pace up. Hope it continues.
The one big position I had today popped quite a bit. 0.95 on Monday, jumped past 1.40 today, then fell back down into the teens. I was smarter this time and sold off quite a bit @$1.35+. The one that is killing me know is the one talked above where it spiked but I held onto it, went from $100K up to $100K down. It should move back up tho. We will see.....

lutach · 08.19.2009, 04:43 PM

I hate the fact that any little news will cause the market to either go up or down. I also hope this steady pace continues going up. There will be a movie about Lehman coming out, I hope people go nuts and push the stock up

.

Finnster · 08.19.2009, 04:43 PM

OTOH... I bought RTK a couple Fri ago @ .62. Sold it on the next Monday @ 1.35 :)
Baddass. Book profits and be happy.
Today? Jumps up to nearly $3.

Sometimes you never know.

lutach · 08.19.2009, 04:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Finnster

OTOH... I bought RTK a couple Fri ago @ .62. Sold it on the next Monday @ 1.35 :)
Baddass. Book profits and be happy.
Today? Jumps up to nearly $3.

Sometimes you never know.

I've held some of my stocks for a while now and HGSI was the one I missed big time

. I hope a time machine comes out before I die

. I'll just take the stocks from 1990 or so and pick out the freak ones that gained a lot over the years.