cdynaco

I thought he was referring to the spam link that allegedly went to charter.

cdynaco

No! lol

I've been pretty defensive and have a good chunk in cash - which pays nothing. So I bought a bit of VG short term corporate from TDA's free trade list - VCSH - 2.4% est yld. I have a little in BSV too - 1.9% est yld.

I truly loathe bond funds but I hate making 0 on cash. That is literally my only complaint with TDA. I mean how can Danversbank pay me 3% on online checking and TDBank pay me 0?

So I nibbled just a bit in these two short bond funds. Most my defense is still in cash waiting. It has been so insane lunging between spike, falling knife, to dead cat bounce; that I'm watching and waiting until there's some kind of confidence in upward momentum. As you know, Sep is usually the worst month - I think investors do their tax loss selling earlier and earlier so Sep is typically pretty bad. This year its August.

I sometimes wish we had an investment discussion thread in politic section or somewhere, but I know it would get spammed up with pink sheeters.

denlem

It's a legit link and goes to Charter. It would be nice if the account is real. It's nice to see them reaching out, especially on a Mustang forum!

Scothew

it seems right. I'll go back and cehck the IP. But do it at your own discretion man, as a former employee, the company must have really changed for them to be this proactive.

Scothew

Yeah its a charter IP out of St. Louis.

denlem

I just started playing around with options the end of last year. I only have my Mustang down payment money to play with so I play with cheap options with high premiums. I usually sell puts. It's nice when you find a $3.00 stock that has a put with a $2.50 strike price that i can sell for 30 cents close to expiration.

I was up about 12% for the year until everything started tanking. Now i'm negative.

Scothew

Also google umatter2charter, looks like they are legit. All over the place, facebook, twitter, etc etc. They are just trying to be "hip"

AlsCobra

Investment discussion thread would be informative. Just starting to do a little research on it myself. Go for it.

cdynaco

OK Scott, this has happened twice since last night. I hit 'submit' and the page hangs. When I hit 'refresh' (2 or 3 times usually), not only did it lose my post, but the log on page came up. So the TMS hang logged me out!

I have 8 other tabs open that are loading fine. Wassup?

cdynaco

I'll try again...

True dat! I stand corrected. Who knew they were Nathaning?

denlem

Social media can say a lot theses days. Ford is here helping, and we all watch TV too, so I guess it shouldn't be too odd to see Charter here as well.

I'll have to give it a shot. If it gets my cable card active without having to take time off from work and wait for installer to come and do nothing but make a phone call just like I can do, it'll be worth it.

cdynaco

I wish I understood options - to earn the premium during volatile times.

I've learned the hard way - thru the 2k tech bear and the Great Implosion bear (plus as I'm getting older) - that a balanced portfolio and asset allocation are key. Don't always hit the grand salami but you keep a bit more of what you gained.

They said the market has corrected 16% but I'm only down 8%.

I often joke with a few friends that I'm getting a lot better at trading. I'm finally losing less!

codeman94

That's nuts! Maybe someone on TMS works for charter And told them them about it. It's just seems terrible unlikely that they would find that post in that forum by chance.

cdynaco

Check it out - I went to the Vanguard site to confirm the ex-div date (thought I screwed up for a minute) and it looks like I made the actual final trade of the day on that. Lil ol' me sittin' at the ranch while surfin' tms. lol

cdynaco

btw, has anyone heard from Jillers since bricks were dropping from the sky? Haven't see her post since she commented about the equake from her office.

denlem

Options are easy once you understand it. When you sell a put, you get paid and it gives you the right to buy a stock at that strike price. In reality, you want the stock to go up above the strike price by expiration. If it does, it expires worthless and you keep the premium.

Today I sold 3 puts with a $2.50 strike price. The stock is at $2.63. I got paid 70 cents per share. Each put is 100 shares. So I was paid a total of $210 minus my $5.00 commission. Now if that stock stays above $2.50 at expiration in September, I walk away with that $205 as profit. If the drops below $2.50, i'm stuck buying it at that strike price. But since I was paid 70 cents on that option, that stock really only would cost me $1.80. So I just turn around and sell the stock if the price is above that. My profit drops, but i'm profitable down to $1.80.

denlem

They must do searches for themselves to try to find things like that. I'll ask about it when I talk to someone.

cdynaco

Did you have to buy the put first - to be able to sell it? And/or did you have to buy the shares first - to be able to sell a put?

I assume the fundamentals of the underlying stock are less important than which way it moves, right? I mean who cares about the company - your just trying to make money based on the strike price right?

Are these mini's? What exchange or broker are you on?

Scothew

I thought Jill had posted nad said everythign was cool.

cdynaco

OK - that first TMS tab still won't refresh. I just had to open another new tabs (or 3 or 4) to get TMS to finally load.

This has been happening over and over the last few months. Yet my signal on Hughes ranges from 75 - 80, clear skies above.

And others have posted how slow the site has become. Sorry to whine at you, but this site never has loaded as good as you had it before the new guys changed server cos. And lately its getting worse.