iBankCoin
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Joined Aug 2, 2009
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HIGH BETA HARAMBE’D

I don’t generally like big market days like this. Nothing stands out. Everything is up a little.

While most pray for big market moves, I prefer my Dow 40 days. Slow markets make fast stocks more prominent. They get more attention and action as opposed to in big market moves like this.

Speaking of big moves like today, it feels like rotation is underway a little. Last week, my stocks were stuck in the mud, except for the China stock rippage early in the week. I wonder if this is where growth stocks slow and value stocks pick up the slack.

As the week wore on, my revenge trades imploded. Like Richter Scale imploded. Today, my next favorite stock ($TWLO) is getting Harambe’d. Not to mention my $TWTR starter woke up to an epic gap down.

Suffice it to say, rhythm has been officially thrown off. Assume all your favorite stocks are about to break your heart.

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60 comments

  1. thegametheorist

    🙁

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  2. og

    Freaking TWTR.

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  3. Scott

    Yeah, I feel ya, that $TWLO gonna leave a mark

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  4. Badduck

    Wearing my balls as a hat right now. Look at the carnage over the last few days, TWTR, FIT, FEYE, VRX, TSLA, ACIA, TWLO. Looks like a full rotation into big cap growth AAPL, SINA, FB, AMZN etc.

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  5. matt_bear

    LOL!!!!!!!!

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  6. probucks

    thoughts on AMZN?

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  7. dragun

    my DB calls working out .. TWTR .. wellllll not so much

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    • Option Addict

      Gotta add down here I suppose. My plan was to add lower…lol

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      • dragun

        If you lliked it at 20 .. you gotta loooooove it at 17!!! lol

        I’m playing the TWTR calls might wait till closer to earnings. You’d think they’d try to pull a rabbit outta their arses if they can manage it. Sitting in the tall grass for now.

        Financials ETF and China ETF doin’ ok so you take it in stride

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  8. thomasjefferson

    You coached me out if beta and into the boring stuff expecting some Oct chop. I figured we’d have better luck in risk reset names. $sbux, $crm, $wba, etc. oh, and of course $twtr, oh well.

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  9. awanka

    Closed out BABA. Can’t get too greedy.

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  10. awanka

    Thanks for the CRM idea, OA. Go ahead and lean on this pig if the market has you down.

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  11. boyaj

    OA, I mean you’ve been crushing it lately. No one wants to loose money, but dude, your calls have been borderline wizardry. Something tells me your cold streak won’t last…

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  12. sethster99

    $TWTR may actually put in a bottoming candle today if it can stay around here by the close. This ain’t over yet.

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    • og

      WTF with all the rumors though. Haven’t seen something like this before. So many “sources say.”

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  13. baba

    DAL earnings this week, and UAL next week. volatility is not bad by UAL standards. Have to take a call

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  14. awanka

    My SFUN has lost 80% of its value. I tell it, you can’t hurt me anymore.

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  15. MSGT HARTMAN

    The Dumpster Dive Portfolio 6 month performance

    FIT -4.12%
    CMG -3
    GPRO +27
    TWTR +5.5

    Total: +6.7 %
    S&P +5.7 %

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  16. MSGT HARTMAN

    GAFT Portfolio 6 Month Performance

    GOOGL +7.2
    AMZN +41.6
    FB +17.7
    TSLA -19.6

    Total: +11.75%

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  17. MSGT HARTMAN

    FANG Portfolio 6 Month Performance

    FB +17.7
    AAPL +6.8
    NFLX -.5
    GOOGL +7.2

    Total: +7.8%

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  18. matt_bear

    The question is why so much attention and rumors with Twitter? Is it being held by too much retail so this was an easy fleece?

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    • Option Addict

      Held by retail? So they were holding before the run up and it’s assumed they are still holding?

      Why was it a fleece? I must be missing something here. Not sure how retail is relevant.

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    • sethster99

      Twitter has always been in the news. I remember when they kept raising the value of the company pre-IPO. It was ridiculous. They kept delaying the IPO in order to hype it more and more. Similar to Uber. Then it went public and has been junk ever since.

      The rumors are nothing unusual. They pull this shit regularly. The only reason they are talking about it so much is that Twitter is media that everyone has heard of. It’s high profile.

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  19. kamel

    bought this weeks BIDU 185 calls

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  20. Greenlander (@greenlander1)
    Greenlander (@greenlander1)

    eyeing BIIB Nov calls, stopped out of SOHU

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  21. Greenlander (@greenlander1)
    Greenlander (@greenlander1)

    ILMN looks interesting if you could hold onto it for a bit

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  22. pip53

    Bought some Wing.

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  23. ThomasJefferson

    I only bought a 1/2 size $TWTR position, anticipating the possibility of future weakness. So I forced myself to buy more right here. I understand how the report of “likely no bids” would send a stock from $25 to $20. I’m not quite sure I think a “we also heard that there would likely be no bids” report should send a company from $20 to $17. I sized to survive if I’m wrong, but still notice if I’m right (which shouldn’t really be news – that’s normally what I do).

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  24. awanka

    Had to sell CRM here for a modest gain. I can’t discount the possibility that their fucked-up CEO might try to acquire twitter. Sucks, because other than that I love the profile.

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    • Option Addict

      I sold yesterday and bought back in this morning.

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    • og

      Hasn’t Benioff been kicking ass for shareholders for years? Now he doesn’t know what he’s doing. Funny how that is.

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      • awanka

        In the long run, maybe it makes sense to acquire TWTR. I don’t know. Looking at how the stock has responded though, it would crater if such a bid were to be made.

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  25. greenlander1

    Picked up SPY calls expiring tomorrow

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    • Option Addict

      Why not calls on a stock? Like every stock out there outperforms SPY.

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      • Beechoo

        To the up and down side. Maybe to be more conservative??

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      • greenlander1

        Stopped out. Was just a 1 day play w not much time premium. Still got YRD, CRCM, and v small batch of SOHU calls that are long shot to get moving.

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  26. ThomasJefferson

    Pain day. May have sent a few contracts out to sea.

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  27. awanka

    Stalking BIDU and NTDOY(lol). So hard to pull the trigger on days like today.

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  28. kamel

    AA reporting today for the start of the earnings season giving an excuse to drive prices lower?

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  29. chiefton15

    good spot for a bounce on NQ. Long 4800

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  30. chiefton15

    Out 1/2 +11. Slow going , not a good sign

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  31. greenlander1

    small GLD for very short term

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