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TranceAddict Investors Club @ Marketocracy (pg. 90)
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| jerZ07002 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Krypton
I have an analysis on 9 sectors. The sectors are ranked by their marketgrader grade adjusted by my own scale. I compiled each sector by making an index of the top 30 market cap stocks for each sector and each stock is listed on the NYSE.
DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE = 62%
Consumer Goods = 68%
Industrials = 66%
Basic Materials = 65%
Healthcare = 65%
Technology = 65
Telecommunications = 62%
Consumer Services = 61%
Utilities = 56%
Financials = 50% |
consumer goods - that's interesting. do you expect the worldwide slowdown to knock that rating down a bit? considering walmart and other retailers are reporting lower consumer sales, i find it difficult to believe there can be sustained strength in the goods sector. |
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| Shakka |
Regarding Nvidia--just stumbled onto this article. I'm no tech geek, but Gizmodo is usually on the up-and-up as far as I know.
http://gizmodo.com/5035980/inquirer...rd-is-defective
| quote: | Last month, the Inquirer made the shocking accusation that every Nvidia graphics card with the G84 and G86 chipsets were bad (every 8-series card up to the 8800 basically). Nvidia said that's crap, but the Inquirer said it was all a big cover up. Now the Inquirer is reporting that "four board partners are seeing G92 and G94 chips going bad in the field at high rates." That would mean all of the GeForce 8800 GT, GTS and GS desktop cards, the mobile 8800s, and most of the 9600 and 9800 series graphics cards are defective.
All summed up, the Inquirer is saying almost the entire run of 8 and 9-series GeForce cards are defective and "going bad in the field at high rates." More than that, they say that Nvidia will continue to cover it up because the cost of admitting the nature of the problem would be devastating, meaning we'll never know for sure. We'll just have to watch for anecdotes to pile up. We're really hoping they're wrong on this one—that's a lot of graphics cards, and if true, it could basically destroy Nvidia. [Inquirer - Thanks Jagslive!] |
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| mndeg |
I was planning on buying puts on NVDA close but I forgot to enable options for IB. I just switched from optionsxpress to IB so looks like I will be out for another day. ugh
also had plans on puts for SNS, SONS, but money was being wired at that time. every day is costing me thousands of dollars :mad:
Aug 14 - Nordstrom :)
Aug 28 - Sears
there's opportunity every day
solars as a sector are coming out with strong earnings
LDK, JASO, YGE, SOL, FSLR, STP |
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| mndeg |
wow. I can't transfer money out of IB because I just put money in. I'm out for this entire week I think. They say I can't transfer out until 8/14.
terrible decision on my part to transfer brokerages. IB has become more of a hand holding brokerage since I left it. |
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| jerZ07002 |
| quote: | Originally posted by mndeg
wow. I can't transfer money out of IB because I just put money in. I'm out for this entire week I think. They say I can't transfer out until 8/14.
terrible decision on my part to transfer brokerages. IB has become more of a hand holding brokerage since I left it. |
i just use my bank - wachovia. It's beautiful with all my accounts linked in one interface: credit card, checking, savings, and brokerage. Transfer between the accounts is a snap, and since my CC and savings provide backdraft protection, they don't require checks to clear to access the cash. |
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| Krypton |
Does anyone know where I can find interest rates for specific credit ratings, such as...
AAA
AA
BBB
BB
etc.
etc.
etc.
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| Dervish |
Article on RBS:
| quote: | RBS charges itself £38 million for going over its limit
In line with company policy the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has sent itself a stern letter warning that as it had suddenly found itself £692 million in the red without clearing it with itself first, it would have to pay itself charges of £38 million for unauthorised borrowing.
‘You know how it is,’ said chairman Sir Tom McKillop, ‘we knew we were going to go ‘a bit over’ this year but completely forgot to phone ourselves and agree some new terms, although actually there probably wouldn’t have been much point in that really as we would have had to refuse to give ourselves any extension of facilities, given the current climate.’
‘The first thing I knew about it was when I had to write a letter to myself explaining the charges and that there would also be a further ‘maintenance charge’ of £28 million applied in September because of our actions during the last financial year,’ continued Sir Tom. ‘It arrived on my desk this morning and, though I consider myself a reasonable man, when I opened it, well, if I’m honest, I was livid.’
Over the last few years the bank has been a model customer to itself with healthy credit balances of £8.2, £9.4 and £10billion at the end of each of the last three years, ‘But some years, well, you know how it is,’ said Sir Tom, ‘you just spend that little bit too much – it happens, and the utility bills for all our branches and offices have just gone through the roof. OK, so we bought some expensive ABN stuff as well which turned out to be rubbish that we couldn’t even flog at a car boot sale, but even so, this really doesn’t help.’
But FSA Chairman Hector Sants urged RBS to get a grip and get back on track through any viable means which may include not spending so much on lunch or multi-million pound bonuses and generally sticking to a tighter budget, warning that if the situation was allowed to continue the charges could just end up rolling over into each other from one year to the next and spiralling out of control.
RBS is considering suing itself for the return of its charges pending the outcome of a court case brought against banks by the Office of Fair Trading. ‘I expect the judgement will show that we didn’t have to pay the charges to ourselves in the first place and I expect a full refund,’ said Sir Tom, ‘although if you’ll excuse me, I have to appear in court this morning to defend a case being brought against us by the OFT.’ |
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| Krypton |
| quote: | Originally posted by Dervish
Article on RBS:
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lol, what are paying overdraft fees to itself? Banks are so ing stupid these days. If I had my way, any bank that needed bailout would be nationalized, the CEO and board of directors would be fired without any severance pay whatsoever. |
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| Dervish |
Al la Northern Rock? That's proving to be a bit of a sticky wicket. I.e. you can't rights issue a nationally owned bank. Additionally just the semantics of getting charged fees by a bank you actually own as as a citizen is amusing (though not without precedent).
That RBS one was a satirical post btw lol. |
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| Shakka |
| It looks like DSL and VNBC might be the next 2 banks to fail. Sounds like they're seeing a near run on the bank. |
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| mndeg |
| quote: | Originally posted by jerZ07002
i just use my bank - wachovia. It's beautiful with all my accounts linked in one interface: credit card, checking, savings, and brokerage. Transfer between the accounts is a snap, and since my CC and savings provide backdraft protection, they don't require checks to clear to access the cash. |
does wachovia have live charting?
i think most banks cater to the buy and hold IRA/401k crowd.
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NVDA up! missed earnings, they seemed to provide better than expected guidance. overly optimistic imo. had no position in it.
Look at the SNDK chart. Amazing. 9 days up in a row |
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| Shakka |
| quote: | Originally posted by mndeg
does wachovia have live charting?
i think most banks cater to the buy and hold IRA/401k crowd.
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NVDA up! missed earnings, they seemed to provide better than expected guidance. overly optimistic imo. had no position in it.
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I think it was the $1B buyback that juiced the stock after hours. Love the way companies pull levers. |
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