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E*TRADE Financial: It Was Good to Be Long

BTW, Dan Blue, it's interesting to note that all 31 of your comments posted here are all relating to ETFC's greatness and ETFC's greatness alone....surely a wise investor like yourself has an opinion on more than one stock, right???

Now I'll get out of your way and let the pumping continue....lol

E*TRADE Financial: It Was Good to Be Long

Will everyone get over E*Trade, please? No one is going to make a dime on that POS. Everyone's been saying a buyout and a huge run up is just around the corner for the last year. I was in and out of this thing months ago at the same prices we're seeing now. It's a joke and with that many shares outstanding, it'll never see the sweet side of $5 ever again.

Metrics, Mortgages and Analysts

I'm with Wez....long etfc but these articles are getting out of hand.

S&P Upgrades E*Trade Despite Struggling Financial Sector Peers

I work in the investment industry and have access to Schwab's Institutional Brokerage site. They have all types of research available for Institutional clients. This research isn't super secret or any different then what the general trading public can get but it also may not come free to the general trading public. I think S&P is $2k a year and, unless you have that kind of juice with your OLB, you may not see those reports as part of your account services....

S&P Upgrades E*Trade Despite Struggling Financial Sector Peers

Believe me, I don't base my decisions on whatever the analysts say. I was just confirming the upgrade from the article and passing on whatever else I saw to the investing public. I don't do any personal trading on the Schwab platform and didn't know if the general public had access to whatever I can see on the institutional side. I'm long ETFC and expect good things from it....

S&P Upgrades E*Trade Despite Struggling Financial Sector Peers

Schwab Institutional has the updated S&P report showing the upgrade. GS (who Schwab is retiring in favor of CS research) is pretty quiet on them but did lower eps estimates two months ago after earnings came out. Schwab's own research product isn't too kind to them either.

E*Trade's 'First In, First Out' Position: Yes, 111M Shorts Can Be Wrong

Ugh....

I have a small position in etfc and think it might get back in the 7-8 range. However, this broad is killing me.

The Online Brokerage Wars: E*Trade Offers Compelling Risk/Reward

Banc of America Investments!!!! The portal sucks, there's no research and the only reason I use it is because my friend works for them and I trade for $0/up to a zillion shares of anything. If I didn't have access to industry research through work, this would be the most useless online brokerage service, EVER.

Oh, and I own some etfc and am wondering if I should buy more. It's a small position but the price can't get much worse given the information we're hearing about their operations....