iBankCoin
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Joined Aug 2, 2009
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Wait, You Are a Twitter Bear?

In light of how average Joe has played this stock since IPO, I find it very much appropriate to be on the other side of your liquidation.

As you well know, even your favorite and most reliable financial professionals got this stock wrong from the start. Therefore, now that everyone is liquidating, running for the hills, and lowering price targets, I find it appropriate to step in and buy here. Why? Because everyone has been wrong from the start, why trust them now? They told you to avoid this IPO based on valuation, and only after it screamed to $50 with nobody in did they admit to getting it wrong. Even douchebags like @AlphaMatt18 were coaxed into being a Twitter bull. Once retail money chased up, they are now being executed on the way back down, and thinking “they were right, this stock is going to $30.”

This has been a great social experiment, one that we’ve been pretty well in tune with. I like my chances betting against a room full of idiots here.

Disclosure: Long March TWTR Calls

OA

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102 comments

  1. Cheesetrader

    @KSchep….PANW…..

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    • yoshii11

      yikes…so I didn’t quite expect that movement, but I’ll take it 🙂

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      • yoshii11

        yoshii11=kschep…i don’t always login to my member id…but then I was getting cloned…so if I remember, I login to this id with mariokart avatar.

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  2. spinner

    I’m not joining in but your idea is well thought out.

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  3. heisenberg

    Like it…

    Jeff, where would you locate ANGI sentiment wise…entering aversion or denial?

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  4. lol

    “Get on my level”

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  5. halloweenpleb

    I dumped $ANGI at $17.00 and for once, am not looking back

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  6. sspiff

    I covered 1/3rd today, but I am still short TWTR from the low 60’s. Thanks to the high vol I had some very wide Mar call spreads to protect the upside and i sold some OTM puts on part of the position to reduce costs. Most of the stock is still locked up till may. It does seem pretty expensive to me.

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  7. charlie

    OA, can you comment on the action in ANGI during AH? I won’t be able to make it to the live session.

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  8. juice

    da OA got style, not to mention panache

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  9. chub

    what is the link to view prior posted AHWOA sessions?

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  10. Martin

    Your MNTR weed basket jumped a nice 50% today.

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  11. Jason

    Would you guys long or short LNKD into earnings?

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  12. Jason

    I think I will YOLO a few LNKD 260 calls for $1.15.

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  13. managerlou

    I’m not at all into edibles, but I did just take a bite of MJNA.

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  14. Jason

    Added a 195 put incase it completely collapses.

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  15. Kitty

    Cheesetrader- what is your target for SCTY put ?

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    • Cheesetrader

      @Kitty – was looking for a move to 65, possibly lower – but….

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  16. Formergeek

    I know there was always the risk of big moves during earnings announcements….but how do they expect investors to return when it seems every other stock moves 20% Lord knows which way. Just totally casino now

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  17. yoshii11

    several names (and this probably isn’t any different than any other quarter) reversing recent trend action once earnings are out. aapl, nflx, goog, twtr, now lnkd. its like leading people into the trade, allowing people to chase and then let them get waxed on the earnings…up or down doesn’t matter…just reversing the action that led up to earnings. (not always the case, but has happened in a lot of the names I’ve been watching)

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  18. yoshii11

    ever notice how price action leading up to earnings led to pain after the earnings. aapl, nflx, goog, twtr, now lnkd. if you positioned yourself for a move in the opposite direction…you won. Not always the case, but this time around, those that chased into a trade before earnings experienced the pain immediately.

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    • yoshii11

      sorry, didn’t see this post way up here, expected it futher down…double post on rewrite.

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  19. zusch

    $PHOT appears to have topped out at .420. How appropriate. Thoughts?

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  20. jersey whale

    Made my first options trade today, TWTR March 55’s, someone please make me feel good about it.

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    • TheDutchTouch

      Yay!

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    • mrboulders

      this morning’s move back up from $50 should help make you feel pretty good. Incidentally, it was printing below $50 after hours yesterday.
      That uncomfortable feeling isn’t too uncommon I think. Just be sure to position size accordingly if that feeling becomes too uncomfortable. Good luck!

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  21. blammerss

    For the record, $TWTR opportunist*

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  22. Tim

    Like I said before, we raised money for twitter pre ipo between $17-23/ share.

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  23. sia

    Mehhhh, trying to time a bounce on a momo stock that is currently a falling knife. Good luck with that.

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  24. Nate

    I love posts like this Jeff 🙂

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  25. takingAlpha

    Anyone else tired of Fly’s doomsday prophecies? The next day he switches his mind and is bullish again…

    Someday he’ll be right and we will never hear the end of it.. Of course he’ll never mention every other time he was wrong.

    Go ahead Fly, bash my post. Make my day.

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  26. matt_bear

    some crazy shit going on with ANGI at the open. Wild spike both direction. Gingers not allowed in fly’s coke party?

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  27. matt_bear

    seeing TWTR’s action this morning reminds of the scene in “This is the End” when Danny McBride is cooking breakfast and makes that bird flap with his hands. Are there any photoshop pros out there? Perfect .gif candidate.

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  28. matt_bear

    BOOM.

    http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/yWhRwfMimgY/maxresdefault.jpg

    Twitter. LMAO

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    • twinkies

      @matt_bear – Hilarious. love that movie, specifically that scene.

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      • matt_bear

        McBride taking his morning piss and wiping the seat with his boot was classic. He’s a dirty slimey mf’er, but he’s hilarious.

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  29. Cheesetrader

    yolo’ed a couple LNKD next week 230s

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  30. DaJuice

    I am frustrated as hell with my positions. One goes up the other goes down (ANGI) and on and on it goes, just keeps churning while my account balance drifts down. I might just go eat sandwiches until Feb expiration and come back and see what happened.

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    • sandwich

      What? The numbers can turn green on my account? That’s a cool feature…
      I will say you can’t ask for better experience though… so I’m a grateful bastard.

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      • DaJuice

        haha, I’m going to go ahead and claim the “DaJuice bottom” in ANGI as it occurred minutes after my verbal capitulation. Luckily I didn’t act on it. Definitely learning a lot about my need for patience and not watching every tick.

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  31. blammerss

    OA, dropping the $MCP call for an easy 70%… Boom! Rage on OA!

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  32. Ricky Bobby

    OA, any thoughts on KBH?

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  33. Hideous fibs

    I must have missed a session on Social Media:
    FB – up
    All the rest struggling or simply failing

    GOOG to enter the WDAY, CRM space

    Long War machine, we are do

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  34. kschep

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suPlYwJ3YvM

    Pretty much sums up 1,107 on the RUT

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  35. hattery

    Who was it that said ICPT looked ready to breakout Friday? Nice call.
    I was tempted myself if not for the fact that the premium was super high and the bid-ask spread was a Grand Canyon…. But either way what a move.

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  36. BoilMeImIrish

    In RVBD, looks like it might be starting it’s next move.

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  37. danny1980

    As a Detective I believe you are correct on your hypothesis Lan…lol

    So I have a question for the smart people in the room?

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  38. mrboulders

    my take: the IP address has been tracked down to the address of a socially inept, ‘misunderstood’ outcast, living in his/her mother’s basement. He borrowed the money to join AHWOA as a piker, and with the subscription long since expired, his internet connection about to be cut off, and mother breathing down his neck for her money, he is desperately trying to get his last remaining option trade ($ANGI) in the money before expiry. His Oedipal-like obsession for ANGI (and Janet Yellen) forces him to impersonate successful iBC posters in the hopes of winning ANGI’s admirations. He is lonely, sad and lies in a litter of fast-food wrapper detritus and wodded kleenex.
    Feel sorry for him – he only has until the end of the month until his internet connection is severed.

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  39. Kitty

    What is TWTR’s target ? 55 or old high ?

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  40. bottom_feeder

    Nice 100% gain in March TWTR calls. Now the hard part, take it and run and potentially punk myself out of a 300% gain or stay greedy and potentially punk myself to the downside. I never get this one right. I’m such a piker. Bleh. The whole sell 1/2 thing is so playing not to lose.

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  41. Jason

    FB on the next pullback looks amazing.

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  42. hesitationmarx

    best scenario is twtr makes an equal high at 54, then buy back on dip. i still think market makes one more final dip to makea higher low. going on guts here a bit lightened a lot of my longs, buying protection and some index shorts here

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  43. rajusus

    Lan

    R u in PXD ? both CXO & PXD are on fire

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    • lanforce

      Sorry no – was waiting for the 168 mark on PXD – never happened. CRAP.

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  44. Sooz

    In all fairness TWTR hit High of 71 in AH(pre earnings) and dropped below 50 AH (24hrs later). That was a swift (-42%) correction and a win for the Bears.
    disclosure: long TWTR at $38.89
    (waiting to add back share)

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  45. yoshii11

    angi flashing her tail and now green…so up maybe 12 of 18 days…this picture says it all!!!

    http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/50256389ecad047d37000004-900-675/mckayla-maroney-pissed.jpg

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  46. mickeyrobbie

    Thoughts on holding GRPN into earnings?

    My gut says yes

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    • lanforce

      +1

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      • yoshii11

        earnings 2/20…I have 80 calls sitting on the $12 strike…will evaluate next week, but doubt I hold that many into earnings unless they’re down to pennies and it becomes a yolo at that point.

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        • sandwich

          I’m feeling the exact same way… also holding Feb $12’s

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        • yoshii11

          Now that I think about it, I might sell some $14 calls against this position. Look at the pricing of options for earnings week vs. next weeks…clearly pricing in volatility. Can’t get anything for next weeks $13 or $14 calls, but go to earnings week and you got something to work with.

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  47. Jason

    ANGI is confounding a lot of shorts. When are GRPN earnings?

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  48. matt_bear

    what the hell happened to GOGO options?

    The stock is up 60 cents from yesterday’s close but Feb 21 calls are down like 40%!?

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  49. g2345c

    BRCM (1 year, wkly chart) is approaching volume pocket. Is it right? I am learning here. Please help

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  50. mickeyrobbie

    I’m me. Why were my posts deleted?

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  51. azulgrana

    although solar response is ok, i dont think its worth writing home about, the bios and the chinese names though are another story

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  52. hesitationmarx

    TWTR wow! march 55 calls here. we hold it no matter what correct? and keep adding on dips?

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