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Old 09-18-2008, 11:57 AM
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Well, I played today just about as badly as it could possibly be played. I was long, sold near the bottom, went short, and lost my ass twice. I lost 12% of my capital in one day. I'm out of the ****ing market for a year, maybe more if things haven't yet settled. God help me if I touch that buy button again.

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Old 09-18-2008, 12:05 PM
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The only two potentially stupid things I did today was NOT buy AAPL @ 120.xx which I was in turmoil over and the fact that I did sell my last 50 APA once they went back to a slight profit. At least it was lost opportunity (bad) and not more lost money (worse).
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Originally Posted by martha,Sep 18 2008, 03:05 PM
The only two potentially stupid things I did today was NOT buy AAPL @ 120.xx which I was in turmoil over and the fact that I did sell my last 50 APA once they went back to a slight profit. At least it was lost opportunity (bad) and not more lost money (worse).
yea, I was sitting on the fence with both aapl and rimm when they were 120 and 90 respectively.

ah well what can you do?

Nice pick up on AAPL shares this afternoon boys
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are we having fun yet?!

and i thought the 200 up and down days were a rollercoaster... these 400 pt swings are twice as fun.
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Originally Posted by trainwreck,Sep 18 2008, 03:25 PM
are we having fun yet?!

and i thought the 200 up and down days were a rollercoaster... these 400 pt swings are twice as fun.
Traders Paradise

I love it.

Nothing like the possibility of 20% gains in a matter of half a day.
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Morgan Stanley
Open: 19.99
Low: 11.80
High: 24.56
Close: 22.55

if you had the guts to buy ms near its low, you coulda had a quick double. sick volatility today
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ROFL

bought aapl at 126 and now 133ish
Bmo.to up 9%

God I luv buying low and selling high
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Holy cow! What a huge up-move in the market. All over the IDEA of an RTC?!

If you subscribe to the panic theory then we just hit bottom because the Financial market made the front page of the LA Times today...
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I managed to buy 2 shares of AAPL with the spare change in my account for $122

LOL

Big day!
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Damn, If you did my trade of the day at 11:30 just after I announced it you woud have made a shitload of cash today

AAPL was at $125.24


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