Jia,
从盘面看,花街机构看来开始全面做多了,昨天聪明的机构应该全面covered空头。我全面1/2仓作多,并covered所有的空头,卖掉TZA,FAZ。我看好几个股票,我会给您发QQH。
谢谢您。
Fear, greed and hope always dominate day-to-day trading --- human nature! Yet, more often than not, speculators get the mix of fear, greed and hope wrongly placed! They let fear take control when they should really be greedy like today --- fear of losing paper profits. Have the courage to stay with your correct buys yesterdy, the day before, ...... On the other hand, they let hope take control when they should really be fearful like the day we broke down from 3 --- "Oh well, I don't sell so any loss is only on paper", they comfort themselves, in addition to the hope that the pps will one day rebound! For longs who have done their DD and made a commitment with conviction, paper losses should remain paper losses and paper profits should remain paper profits equally --- but your brokerage account balance shows a loss is a loss, paper or real. By the same token, a profit is a profit, paper or real. Why being hopeful for a loss recovery but fearful of a profit disappearing?If you did not buy yesterdy or the day before, how could you have a paper profit to be fearful of losing?
Taking some off the table is prudent, though. Profits always take care of themselves whereas losses never do. A bird in hand is better than two in the bush, as they say. A 10% loss takes 11% gain to just offset. Nobody becomes poorer by taking profits! For the course of my posting on this board, I shall remain a voice of reason and calm, regardless of the pps exploding upwards or breaking downwards. I have repeatedly stated that I remain a swing trader until Lorcaserin gains FDA approval.
Then, good luck to that. Also see my post about flip flop, no offense intended.
Then, good luck to that. Also see my post about flip flop, no offense intended.
Jia and nepean_01 are professional and therefore it is not good for amateurs to give them advice like "Beware of risks of the market etc ...". It is very generous for them to share a lot of great ideas and experiences.
Therefore, let's show respect.
This thread is about winning or losing hundreds of thousands of dollars. For mom and pop type of players, like earning $100 on $2000 etc, another thread shall be opened....
Jia and nepean_01 are professional and therefore it is not good for amateurs to give them advice like "Beware of risks of the market etc ...". It is very generous for them to share a lot of great ideas and experiences.
Therefore, let's show respect.
This thread is about winning or losing hundreds of thousands of dollars. For mom and pop type of players, like earning $100 on $2000 etc, another thread shall be opened....
Are you accusing me of being flip flop on ARNA? Let me say a few things to you then.
1) Telling from your post in YMB, we are co-owners of ARNA. I wish you the very best with ARNA, potentially one of the biotech stories of 2012.
2) You are wrong accusing me of selling 50%. No, I did sell 1/2. Did you read my "I 2X my stake today" post? I sold the added 3C --- I would kick myself not to take that 45% profits off the table on an addition position after having those calls in my account for three days. Granted, I am a lousy day trader, not managing to sell them at .95.
3) When I posted that I sold out at 3.37, the board went crazy after me, accusing me of all things. When I posted about my selling the 5C at .72 for a mispirce, the board went crazy after me. I reloaded around 2.8-2.9 and when I posted that I sold out around 2-7-2.8 for a loss, I was accused of all things again. But you know what, the YMB is largely for entertainment. There are indeed a few valuable posters from whom I learnt a great deal but the overwhelming majority of posters only want to hear what they want to hear. Trying to remain a voice of reason and calm, I combat pumpers and bashers alike despite my realization that YMB doesn't decide nor influence that price at which ARNA trades. Last weekend, I initiated a post discussing about options vs shares trading among serious posters and reading resposes to that post, these people bought over 2000 3C, 3.5C and 4C from Monday to Wednesday and they thanked me with sincerity. My Trade #3 position was built around the price range of 2.1-2.2. I plan to sell the position gradually at the incremental price of appreciation of .3-.5.
4) ARNA will not sit standstill. There are 8 trading days left before the AdComm halt on May 10. In these 8 days, I will not be surprised by a pps movement of 10-20%+ one way or the other on any given day. For this kind of volatility, trading can be much more profitable than simply buy-and-hold. I can assure you I will hold a position heading into the AdComm simply because I simply want a hand in this all important event but I have no idea what that position will look like today. All I am determined is that my position for the AdComm will be paid for by the house and I attempt to achieve that by trading! From where I sit, I see more than one good selling/buying opportunities between Monday and May 9.
5) You move in the way you see prudent and I act in the way I see prudent. I wish our brokerage accounts enjoying healthy gains by way of ARNA participation!
Jia,
从盘面看,花街机构看来开始全面做多了,昨天聪明的机构应该全面covered空头。我全面1/2仓作多,并covered所有的空头,卖掉TZA,FAZ。我看好几个股票,我会给您发QQH。
谢谢您。
Take easy for that. We all flip flop from time to time when we deem appropriate. I just want to say my personal opinon in the case of ARNA at this point of time: my timing would be to sell late next week (if I want to bank some profit) awaiting Adcom briefing document (the document will definitely contain some negativities; otherwise there would be no need for that meeting) an appropriate portion of my holding, and wait for Adcom outcome. The shorts would be most likely to spin out the negativity (so no one should not be surprise if a short attack happens). As for the outcome, I have the same feeling as yours: it will have the majority votes this time around, albeit not sure the margin of significance. Maybe hedgfunds will move their attention temporarily away from VVUS after the "manhood" pill approved last friday to ARNA (nobody knows but a possible senario).
FDA Comissioner's comment friday is also very interesting, that may be partly contributing to the rise of PPS in friday.
I have continually learnt something from your posts, although I usually don't log in this side often. Too many personally duties in life which seem more important than throwing tens of thousands hardearned dolllars to stock market each year.
Good luck.
We are ARNA co-players and I hope we both make healthy gains!
To a large extent, your plan of actions is in line with mine. I expect trading in the next 8 days to be extremely volatile. Shorts don't throw in towel that easily without a big fight --- hence the trading opportunities. I also expect a bear raid (stop loss order harvest) upon the BD release. I will establish my comfortable AdComm position before the BD release simply because a bear raid may or may not take place and I don't want to count on that to establish my position. I will be fully prepared for it, though, for added trading or holding exposure.
I no longer hold shares or in-the-money calls into any binary event. After selling some 3C late last Friday, I still hold an oversized combination of 3C, 3.5C and 4C.
Best of lucks!