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Ducksforcup said:
Good to see this thread revived!

Market has been a strange Duck lately. Tons of volatility.

Who knows when the Fed will raise interest rates? :laugh: Increasingly looking like it won't happen in December now.
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I don't know when they will raise, I wouldn't rule out December yet, but I could see them holding off till March. Got to think they will raise by then.

I'm a bit surprised by oil holding up so well, bio-tech has gotten killed but talk about attractive prices. Great time to dollar cost average into them.
 
montreal said:
I don't know when they will raise, I wouldn't rule out December yet, but I could see them holding off till March. Got to think they will raise by then.

I'm a bit surprised by oil holding up so well, bio-tech has gotten killed but talk about attractive prices. Great time to dollar cost average into them.
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You see anything attractive on the TSX in the biotech sector? I was following TTPH for awhile, watched them fall from 35 to 7. It's around 9 now, and was thinking of taking a small position.

Oil stocks are moving, finally. Thanks, Putin.
 
stingo said:
You see anything attractive on the TSX in the biotech sector? I was following TTPH for awhile, watched them fall from 35 to 7. It's around 9 now, and was thinking of taking a small position.

Oil stocks are moving, finally. Thanks, Putin.
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I don't trade off the TSX, just Nasd/NYSE. I bought into TTPH, like them a lot. The drop was overblown, if you have a long term outlook. So many bio's are extremely attractive but I'm buying small amounts in each in case they take another down turn (bio's are not for everybody since they are so volatile)

I am still holding off on getting back into oil, but keeping a close eye on it.
 
I have a long term outlook on biotechs. 5-7 years?

I've been eyeing up "long run exploration" on the TSX. A couple months ago I bought in and got out on the run up. Oil continued to get killed and the stock fell to 0.29 cents a share. BUT ... A Chinese energy company offered 1.30 per share and long run agreed. This is what caused the run up in the first place. And it fell back down, I'm assuming by pro traders shorting it in order to quadruple their $$$ instead of merely doubling it.

http://longrun.mwnewsroom.com/press...n-private-placemen-tsx-lre-201508041020055001

There's the news release from the company.

I'm going to see where oil goes tmw and start my position.

There's also a large kill fee if the deal doesn't go through. Can't see why it won't??
 
stingo said:
I have a long term outlook on biotechs. 5-7 years?
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depends on where each individual biotech is at in terms of phase I, phase II or phase III. It takes so long to get through each level depending on what kind of disease they are fighting. The late stage ones will likely have a much shorter time horizon and the early stages could be 5-10 years easily. Bio's are just so risky but that's why they are so attractive as they offer so much upside.

TTPH should be back on track in 2-3 years or less hopefully. Right now bio's are getting crushed but if you dollar cost average in, it can be a great addition to ones portfolio.

Here's some bigger ones I like, BLUE, BRMN, GWPH, GILD, REGN

Some mid's, PTCT, SGEN, JUNO, ITCI, CEMP, SRPT, XON

Some smaller ones, SGYP, SYN, IDRA, TNXP, OMER, PGNX, AQXP, CNAT
 
stingo said:
Thank you. What do you think of that view on long run ? Am I way off base?
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I never heard of long run and mainly just trade US companies. In the past this isn't a strong time for oil but I've been surprised at how well it's held up as I thought for sure it would be low 40's or even high 30's by now. I'm still not sold that the bottom is in but with Putin in Syria and the Iran deal looking like it will go through perhaps this will push oil higher. There's also the US in Texas is looking to end the ban on exporting oil which goes back to the early '70's and if that goes through I would be interested to see what kind of impact it has on price.
 
It's definitely getting interesting. Opec meeting next week with non-opec members - Mexico, Norway, Brazil, etc. Venezuela wants the oil price back at 70. Needs it back at 100, but 70 will be enough for now. Can't see the Saudi's caving. Not yet anyway.
 
This thread has been a good read. For the more experienced people in this thread what are your favorite websites/apps to read charts, news etc....

I am a complete newbie and I am just starting to research how this all works. Any sources of information would be beneficial to me.
 
steafo said:
This thread has been a good read. For the more experienced people in this thread what are your favorite websites/apps to read charts, news etc....

I am a complete newbie and I am just starting to research how this all works. Any sources of information would be beneficial to me.
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The book that really helped me learn charts was How to Make Money in Stocks by William J. O'Neil. He runs the newspaper Investors Business Daily.

I use yahoo finance for just general stuff, so I'm on there every day.

The important thing if you are new imo, is to learn the basics first. How the stock market works, difference between Nasd and NYSE, difference between Value and Growth stocks. Different types of financial instruments. (It helped me to learn them one at a time, so I heavily focused on stocks first, then options, then say bonds, etc...)
 
Jiminy Cricket said:
Don`t lis`ten to any of the Nerd`s in this T`hread. Many People think, Buy Low, Sell High. But it`s not that Sim`ple. My Gr8 Grappable Gran Pappable was so G`ood at S`tockin`g, that Many though`t he was In`sider Tradin`g. :laugh::laugh::laugh: He Had one Piece of S`imple advice: `Buy High, Sell Higher. :nod:` The Reaso`n bein`g is, Is that u can Make more M`oney that way.

So R`em`ber: Buy High, Sell Higher. :amazed:
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What is "high" anyway. You mean buy only very expensive companies like apple, and sell them with 0,52312% profit the same day? If so, what are you injecting? The profit is mainly generated with difference of buy-in and sell-out prices. If you think you can live with minimal profits per stock, you must already own billions that you can play with, otherwise the payments for banks are going to be bigger than the profit.
 
Ducksforcup said:
Who knows when the Fed will raise interest rates? :laugh: Increasingly looking like it won't happen in December now.
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Based on what we should be waiting them to raise interest rates? Definitely interesting, maybe it would be time to buy that ridiculously cheap interest roof for a house loan..
 
QnebO said:
What is "high" anyway. You mean buy only very expensive companies like apple, and sell them with 0,52312% profit the same day? If so, what are you injecting? The profit is mainly generated with difference of buy-in and sell-out prices. If you think you can live with minimal profits per stock, you must already own billions that you can play with, otherwise the payments for banks are going to be bigger than the profit.
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I think great grammapable palpable knows what he's talking about. They thought he was insider trading he was so good .
 
Mike Emrick said:
I think great grammapable palpable knows what he's talking about. They thought he was insider trading he was so good .
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I'm trying to make him troll more and look like I believe it. It's like counter-trolling. But do not tell him.

Or I just wasn't awake
 
I've always wanted to get in on this. I see things like weed stocks jumping following Trudeau's election, which is something a person could take a pretty decent gamble on. It was fairly clear Trudeau was going to win so there was some predictability there.

My issues are as follows:

How much cash would a guy need to have in an account to sort of get going at relatively low stakes?

What online brokerage is good for Canadians AND would accept a sort of low stakes deposit to start?
 
Russian and China stocks in general raising, any #HFINSIDER knowledge about it?
 
Big fan of Google Finance, but Yahoo Finance is good as well. Like using "The Motley Fool" and "Barrons" for analyst reports.

Stocks across the board with a huge day today (mostly due to likely increased ECB stimulus).
 
Windows 10 economy app is the best for me. It also has great service in Finnish and listing news from Finnish papers ect. In addition to, of course, international stuff.
 
Crazy market, so many attractive prices. AMBA is falling like a rock, never owned it before but thinking of getting in. SKX I own, it's just coming off a 3-1 split but it's down huge in after-hours due to earnings, I actually like what I red and if it drops into the low 30's it's a buy for sure. TASR is another one I own that is still very cheap compared to future earnings.

ACHN is going to be a big winner, the bio-techs are getting killed right now but at some point the bleeding will stop and someone is going to make a killing picking up the cheap shares. Keeping my eye on VRX, almost bought some at 90 but if they did fudge sales #'s that's going to be very ugly on top of it already dropping from over 260 to under 90 in less then 3 months. Ouch.

CarlWinslow said:
I've always wanted to get in on this. I see things like weed stocks jumping following Trudeau's election, which is something a person could take a pretty decent gamble on. It was fairly clear Trudeau was going to win so there was some predictability there.

My issues are as follows:

How much cash would a guy need to have in an account to sort of get going at relatively low stakes?

What online brokerage is good for Canadians AND would accept a sort of low stakes deposit to start?
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I can't really help you there as I live in the states. I use Scottrade, but most online brokers you can set up accounts for 2K or so, have heard of others that are less but I would just add that the less money the harder it can be to make money.

I was in weed stocks when they were really hot and was lucky to get out in all but one. That sector has been crushed after it was insanely hot. I would never recommend OTC stocks (and even more so to the pink sheet stocks) to anyone as they are very risky on top of the regular equity risk as they have unregulated risk meaning they can just about do or say anything.
 
weed stocks, boys. weed stocks. what an incredible run these past two weeks. got out today with 6x returns. ogi.v, cgc.v

CarlWinslow - Just open a trading account with your bank. You can trade online, buy and sell. I'm with TD. I had to call and make an appointment with the bank. You can start with as much cash as you wish, as long as you have enough to cover the share price and the trade price. I pay 9.99 per trade, but they all differ. But t's really risky. Someone is going to get left holding the bag at some point.
 
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