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    Nugle
    Sep 10 10:05 AM
    Fuld to Wall of Shame - Cramer's Mad Money (9/9/08) [view article]
    BritishSteel - are you Palin in disguise? Valid points, but you are a NUTTER. Reply
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    Britishsteel
    Sep 10 07:54 AM
    Fuld to Wall of Shame - Cramer's Mad Money (9/9/08) [view article]
    # 1 always remember and never forget they are lying to you!!!!!!!!!! All of them , Cramer , kudlow, cnbc . fast money ect.. they are all media tools and the media is run by big business. The government lies about the numbers they release , market rises and then falls on revisison . This was engineered and planned out way ahead of time. read alan greenspans Book .What a piece of hubris that was BUT , it will give you insight if you read between the lines of what he wrote. Basically under his guidance and at the behest of the INVISIBLE HANDS OF GLOBALISM, [ His words not mine ] . The Unitied States went from an industrial, manufacturing economy to credit based creation society. We no longer take raw materials and produce a finished product .We ship our raw materials overseas and now buy back the finished product from them. Greenspan helped and aided and abetted the financial engineering of this credit bubble. Also google Ben bernakes speech to the conomists club in 2000 and read it a few times. Like an investigative reporter would and then compare what he wwas talking about to what is going on now.To me it was a heads up to smart money what the plan was and how it was going to unfold and it has perfectly unfolded. Thats why soros and buffet went short the dollar.
    Also read " Conquer the coming crash" by robert prechter evrything he discusses in that book has unfolded . By the way he said buy gold in 2000 when no one wanted it and silver . It was a long wait but a great hedge and a very profitable one so far.
    We as country and a people are being manipulated to help the rich get ever richer and you are witnessing the 2nd greatest transfer of wealth in the history of the united states. Our stock market and country have become socialized , and we are facing dark times.
    IT IS UP TO YOU PEOPLE TO STAND UP AND MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD!!!!!!!! DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS ARE JOINED AT THE HIP. THEY are bought and paid for by big money. VOTE 3rd party do not give your votes to either party like OBAMA said its time for a change , real change our else we will become a communist country or worse THINK FOR YOURSELF JOESIXPACK
    Yoiu have been hypnotized by the media , they sell it and you live the role. Form your own opinion not the editorial you read in the wall stree journal or any other paper remember ITS BIASED
    got to FEDUPUSA.ORG AND www.tickerforum.org/cg... to be more informed. THIS is the real Deal not the crap you are being spoonfed while you watch sex and violence on tv.     Reply
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    sr9web
    Sep 10 01:28 AM
    Fuld to Wall of Shame - Cramer's Mad Money (9/9/08) [view article]
    Britishsteel - your viewpoint seems very plausable. How did you come to this conclusion? What data sources are you ingesting on this topic? Reply
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    omooc
    Sep 09 10:54 PM
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    Fuld to Wall of Shame - Cramer's Mad Money (9/9/08) [view article]
    Well said, Britishsteel. It seems that China is now blamed for everything -- she is to blame for doing something (e.g, carbon emission), and she is to blame for not doing something (not buying more of this and that). I no longer listen to Cramer on account of his China-bashing. Reply
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    Britishsteel
    Sep 09 10:47 PM
    Fuld to Wall of Shame - Cramer's Mad Money (9/9/08) [view article]
    Cramer you are full of it , the decline in commodities is due to the lack of liquidity . Lehman has been cut off from credit so they had to unwind positions that helped create the bubble that rose from investment banks being allowed to borrow from the discount window. They were granted this privilige so they could unwind their bad bets in the subprime market , along with other investment banks. Instead they used the money to hedge their losses by driving up commodities. and once they were givien a margin call when oil went against them every other hedge fund that joined that crowded trade had to unwind too. And soon they will start that trade up again and oil, gold and silver and coal will reach new highs. China still needs certain commodities although steel is not needed now due to global slowdown. Stop lying to everyone will ya? Reply
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    workedlate
    Sep 09 06:19 PM
    Jim Cramer's 10 Predictions for 2008 [view article]
    good calls Cramer.......if anyone has any capital left .......you have 4 months to recover Reply
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    John Egan
    Aug 26 01:26 PM
    Google and Apple Defy Declining Customer-Satisfaction Trends [view article]
    Sorry... I have to disagree.... I rented a mid-compact GM ""something&... in Hawaii... It seats five and had room for luggage... It really was a plasticky poorly made vehicle and suffered pretty bad gas mileage for the week we drove it. Compare that to the Fiat diesel we rented in Italy. No comparison... The Fiat wins hands down... Nor did it spew clouds of black smoke or clank like you have a bad case of rod-knock like American diesels seem to do. In fact it was real peppy and smooth.

    Then look at engine life expectancy. I was looking at buying a used Mustang, but settled on a used BMW. Why? For the same price I found that the life expectancy of the Mustang engine (based on anecdotal info...) was a little over 100K miles, whereas the BMW would run to 250K miles....And the mileage was better.

    I suggest you read the article in Wired where Jay Leno explains what is wrong with American manufacturers.... In essence he notes that American manufacturers penalize buyers for buying a cheap car. As he notes, there is no reason why a cheap car can't also be a quality investment. And, I agree.

    jegan ;-)     Reply
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    carguyc6
    Aug 26 01:04 PM
    Google and Apple Defy Declining Customer-Satisfaction Trends [view article]
    As an analyst in GM's Quality department, I spend the better part of each working day immersed in quality and customer satisfaction data. Given the dramatic improvements I've seen in GM's product portfolio over the past few years I was puzzled by the results of the ACSI. Granted, GM still has some less than stellar products in it's portfolio that are nearing the end of their lifecycles but it would be hard to argue that the recent crop of new products such as the Chevrolet Malibu, Cadillac CTS, Buick Enclave, Saturn Aura and Outlook, etc. aren't indeed class leading products. Don't take my word for it, read the media reviews or better yet, drive one. Understandably, I had a difficult time rationalizing significant improvements in GM's portfolio with subsequent declines in customer satisfaction so I did some investigation. It turns out that the declines in the ASCI have nothing to do with the product itself. Quite the contrary actually, since customer satisfaction with GM products, according to the study, remains high, along with value for the money. What drove the scores down this year are consumer perceptions of the financial condition of GM and the other domestic automakers (big surprise!) and perceptions of poor fuel economy. Perceptions of poor fuel economy don't necessarily reflect reality either. GM currently has 17 models in its portfolio that get 30+ mpg according to the EPA, more than any other automaker. Reply
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    fuzzywzhe
    Aug 07 08:10 AM
    Jim Cramer's 10 Predictions for 2008 [view article]
    I know it's very hard for everybody to accept but:

    "Information"... fed to you by commercial advertising on television isn't information at all. It's designed to sell products, not to inform you. The only thing that the network cares about his Nielson Ratings, not his accuracy.

    This goes for all "news" on television. If lying about weapons of mass destruction gets viewership, they'll do it. And if talking about Afghanistan reduces viewership, they won't do it. They are in the business of making money through ad revenue, not to inform you.

    If you want to know what is going on, you're currently sitting in front of the most powerful communication tool ever created by mankind. It's not just for porn anymore. Make some use of it, stupid.

    But there is an good side to all of this - it's a lot easier for me to make money when there are so many stupid traders in the market. A lot easier. I suppose I should be grateful for the idiot box churning out so many idiots.     Reply
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    Philip Davis
    Jul 27 01:56 PM
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    Options Trader: Friday Outlook [view article]
    Thanks Lobster. If you want to get an idea of what we do in member chat, I did take the time to address BSchecker's "concerns" to the trades he asked about in the next post. I don't claim to be perfect - we have wins and misses but the nature of the hedged strategy we run is that we cash in our wins and usually we can roll our misses and turn them into wins at a later date. With a diversified portfolio, time is on your side and, as I we like to say at PSW, there's always an option...


    WM/Calvin - Of course there's a possibility but $2 would very likely be on the way to $0 as the bank is already priced for bankruptcy. Like the stand we took on C in the teens, sometimes you just have to look at a stock and say "Yes, I would buy the whole company at that price." WM tested $3 and bounced sharply back on the 14th and we're hoping that line holds for the rest of the month. On this play, if we have faith that the downside is $3 on our $3.10 net entry and the upside is $4, it's a pretty good risk/reward spread.

    Also, you have to look at the fundamentals. Congress is passing a housing bill that Bush said he would sign. The concerns on the banks is primarily based on concerns of the value of their housing portfolios due to high default rates so fixing the housing problem fixes the banks. While it might not make everything all better, it sure might mean that some part of the 85% drop in value for WM may be recovered, giving us a nice win.


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    Calvin C.
    Jul 26 09:42 PM
    Options Trader: Friday Outlook [view article]
    Anyone see the possibility of WM going lower into the 2s territory? Reply
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    lobsterboy
    Jul 26 04:31 PM
    Options Trader: Friday Outlook [view article]
    Phil,
    thanks for responding to me, I do appreciate it. I have read your update daily and do so enjoy the pictures you add to the articles. I guess more information is better and since I am not a member of your news letter I couldn't speak to the pics you make, but I do know this you have is some cases provided some thoughtful insight and for that I say thanks.
    The reason I like this forum is just b/c it's not yahoo.
    Thanks,
    Lobster     Reply
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    CoverIsBette
    r
    Jul 25 09:51 PM
    Options Trader: Friday Outlook [view article]
    I applaud Phil for finding a stock so cheap with such a high out-of-the-money Call that it makes this trade (WM) work.
    Awesome! I would love to be able to repeat this strategy, but many of my favorite cheap stocks have such a cheap near term Call price, the covered call trade is not worth it.
    Guess you have to pay the fee to get more of this pin action?
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    Philip Davis
    Jul 25 06:21 PM
    My Website
    Options Trader: Friday Outlook [view article]
    BSchecker, Rumplewhatever, Contender - as much as it pleases me that you hang on my every word like you do (it's a powerful thing to take up so much of someone else's life), it seems the curse of the Midianites is upon you and that's a sad thing so I will help anyone who asks for it and you can dream about me this weekend or obsess over me during your waking hours but that's no reason I can't chat with real people on this site.

    Lobsterboy - what would you have me respond to? They make things up that aren't true and expect me to spend time defending myself, not worth my time. We have over 1,000 members now and a couple of them must be satisfied and I still post on SA for free because they gave me an early break (well before I had a pay service) and I'm loyal to them and allow them to publish my morning posts. How do you see my providing to SA for free something that other people pay for to be "just using this webside to get more clients"? If anything, it costs me clients as it's a very low cost alternative for people who don't want to pay for membership.

    If these boys want to attempt to turn this site into the YHOO message board, that's not my problem and even their obsession with me isn't my problem, clearly it's theirs. There are people I don't like and I just don't read them, much less hang on their every word. Stalkers go with the territory, most of the popular writers I talk to have their obsessed anti-fans. I'm harsh on Cramer, Bush and Whitney myself so I guess it all goes with the territory but I don't see them interrupting their lives to address my concerns.

    What bothers me is I used to enjoy having conversations with readers here as there are lots of really smart people who read SA but, as you point out, my disinterest in rising to their bait is taken by someone like you to be an admission of guilt of some kind so I'm saying this once here and that's it. I am very amused by the fact that I, Phil Davis, occupy the thoughts of these people to this extent while if I don't happen to click over here for a day, they don't even exist to me at all. Just think of the disproportionate impact I'm having!

    So I've decided to simply respond to the people who have real questions (why should they suffer) but, overall, it sure is nice to be ranked as one of SA's most commented authors!



    CROX/Likestock - What a disaster! I have to give props to Ahmit, who totally called this one while I trusted the management. I still can't figure out what they did with all the money as sales were "only" off 2% for the Quarter, down $4M from last year, yet the company managed to not make the $48M they made last Q2. Our bullish case was based on the 80% increase in international sales that were reported in Q1 and had increased to over 1/2 of total sales. Now that's drying up too but it's the MASSIVE missed guidance by management that makes me want to give up on them.

    Our position, which had been rolled and doubled several times from our original play (but we sold many calls against them along the way so, until today, we were in decent shape) was the Sept $6 calls with a $2.85 basis against which we'd last sold the $9s for $1.15.

    It's rare but there's really nothing to save in this trade, all we could do was sell the current $5s for .70 and use that money to roll back to the Dec $5s and hope we find some way to make back the $1.70.

    Usually, if you get blown out of a hedged position (and almost all of our positons are hedged) the best course of action is to sell another option with good premium that pays for you to roll yourself back in time and closer to the money but you never want your caller to have position advantage over you, in case there is a sharp bounce.


    I would say that this is the type of strategy we teach but Lobsterboy would think I was soliciting so I'll just say that there are many fine web sites that teach using stock options as a hedging tool and those strategies can get you through many tough times but there's really nothing that's going to save you from a 50% drop pre-market and that's why position management MUST be a part of any good portfolio strategy (many fine sites teach that as well).

    Murphy - this is all your fault as your link caught my attention and I decided to respond to you but first I had to do a little housekeeping! First point is XLF is financial so I'm not sure we're talking apples to apples subsituting a health-ETF basket but I think you were thinkining about the XLV.

    We use the XLF because the risk of owning any single bank is pretty insane. We took gambles on C and BAC pre earnings as well as LEH and JPM as they were ones we were pretty sure were going to beat. We also took the XLF and had a variety of covers and naked positions among the 5.

    You can pursue a similar strategy targeting health care but one interesting use of an ETF, if you are playing a major component of it, is to go long on the single stock and short on the ETF ahead of earning. Bad earnings from a major player in a sector can bring down the whole ETF but good earnings from one stand-out don't always translate into a sector break-out.

    All portfolio management is about balance and it's not the sort of thing you can learn without practice but, as Mr. Miyagi says "Once you find balance, you can accomplish anything."

    Have a good weekend all,

    - Phil
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    lobsterboy
    Jul 25 05:10 PM
    Options Trader: Friday Outlook [view article]
    phil, might be a good time to either reply to this or stop posting. I have read your posts and I do find some of those things you say insightful or interesting. However, if your just using this website to get more clients service your no better than the people you put down everyday. And you'll have to live with that. Reply
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