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Visa: Near-Term Fluctuations Present a Buying Opportunity

>>>DOES ANYONE ON THIS POST KNOW A GOOD FORUM FOR US TO START A 'V INVESTORS FORUM' - for v investors only??

try starting a forum message board. i think you can contact the company that provides message boards and rent it for like 100 bucks a month or so.


Why waste a dime when there are so many freely available blog sites out there. (blogspot.com, blogger.com, etc)

Visa: Near-Term Fluctuations Present a Buying Opportunity

Bhaumik: I too am long (if not extremely long) on Visa. But I had this thought suddenly pop up in my head and wanted to articulate it. I dont intend to de-track from this forum's focus.

Just wanted to bounce it off some smart ppl here.

Visa: Near-Term Fluctuations Present a Buying Opportunity

I'm just brainstorming here:

What if calls and puts on the same strike price are bought?

When you know stocks will go up buy a combination of, for argument sake, 8 calls and 2 puts. Obviously you loose money on those 2 puts as the stock rises, but, on the flip side when you see the (stock) prices dipping, sell some of those 8 calls to increase the number of puts, perhaps 6. Now you got 8 (2 + 6) puts. Keep riding the puts as long as the stock dips.

Does this make sense?

Visa: Near-Term Fluctuations Present a Buying Opportunity

Bhaumik:

'He'll' Be BAAAK (when V hits 100$).

Ted, Ali, Twin: I agree with all of you regarding options - very tempting, huge quick-money-making potential BUT (and this is a big BUT, no pun intended), it's a whole lot of stress, gets very technical, and when you loose you loose big time! I know, I too have been burnt (lost $3,000) with Goog options. heck I cud have bought 6 shares (at the time).

I was lucky to have my own room at work where I cud vent my frustrations

Visa: Near-Term Fluctuations Present a Buying Opportunity

Wooohoooo!!!! APPLAUSE! The Man is Back!

Visa: Near-Term Fluctuations Present a Buying Opportunity

WOW! This has been the longest silence on this forum thus far. Just a small pullback (in V shares, and 'V Winner') shouldn't warrant such a decline in enthusiasm !?

COME ON e'V'erybody!!!

{
V Winnter
"May 08 01:20 AMA last thought- be careful the next couple of days- the stock is up 9 out of the past 10 days- and the longer the roll the more likely there will be a correction. You can only 'double down' so many days in a row. Just be careful - thats all- and-

GOOD LUCK - and good night......... "
}

Your above caution was accurate, V Winner.

V closes @ 87.20 (-1.30) -1.47%

Visa: Near-Term Fluctuations Present a Buying Opportunity

Well someone's gota stay here and blog! How else am I going to be distracted every 10-15 mins from work ;).

Tedamerica: V's current P/E ratio is 225+. Say V beats earnings estimates (in July), will the P/E ratio further rise?
If so when do we expect it (P/E) settling to a more sane region of 30's/40's ?

Enjoy the (as New Yorkers pronounce it) Koo-aww-fee.

Visa: Near-Term Fluctuations Present a Buying Opportunity

Don't wana be a kiss-ass, but I loved that response, V Winner:

"Tailor Made- I don't mind that you disagree with me- you are entitled to be wrong :-) "

I'll quote you when I use it next ;).

Visa: Near-Term Fluctuations Present a Buying Opportunity

It seems Visa is doing quite alright in the light of an overall market pullback. I'm imagining what the stock would do in the light of good news - strong quarter results, EU Visa purchase, stock buy-back, market rally,etc.

Listen to me. I sound like a pro! I think this strengthens my belief in the saying that a person is as good as the company (V Winner, Tedamerica, Adesai, et all) he keeps.

Visa: Near-Term Fluctuations Present a Buying Opportunity

Thanks, V Winner, for that ecouraging note.

I am a very small investor and am not eligible for margin (at least thats what I think). I have the basic scottrade acnt. Are you saying anyone can get margin? How does margin work anyways?

Visa: Near-Term Fluctuations Present a Buying Opportunity

* owning

Visa: Near-Term Fluctuations Present a Buying Opportunity

Gosh, I feel depressed hearing the number of (V) shares ppl are buying - 10K shares, 5k shares, etc, and here I barely have 100 shares! :(

I guess its all about perspective; perhaps someone owing only 10 shares might marvel my collection. I feel better now! :).

Visa: Near-Term Fluctuations Present a Buying Opportunity

My 2 cents, tedamerica -

'Symbol' indicates the date (month and year) the call/put is executable, ie, the time you can actually buy/sell the particular stock (in Yahoo finance these (.VEA, etc) are links that, upon clicking, show the details).

'Open Interest': Is the strike price. Per 888options.com a strike price is:

The price at which the owner of an option can purchase (call) or sell (put) the underlying stock. Used interchangeably with striking price, strike, or exercise price.

Visa: Near-Term Fluctuations Present a Buying Opportunity

I know I'm going wrong somewhere when calculating EPS (for Visa). I took 1.5 billion (Q2 revenue), divided that by 404 million (outstanding shares) and got 3.71

Can someone help me out here. Thanks.

Visa: Near-Term Fluctuations Present a Buying Opportunity

Wow V winner: you sure are an early bird (posting before 7 AM).

" Vwinner - The fast money guys? I cannot even stomach watching their show. You know what's scary is that far too many people probably consider what they say as gospel.

With Cramer - meh, it's good entertainment and I do learn thing or two from ol' Jimbo. Nevertheless, I don't think he's to be trusted all the way either.

Bottom line ALWAYS do your own research."

I am a novice (investor) and needless to say do not know what to research. Besides keeping close tabs on the latest happenings on the Co. what other areas need to be looked into and how? FYI: I have a comp. science background and am not very well versed with financial statments, balance sheets, and the like.

Thanks in advance!