Official Short-term Investments Thread

[AudiPWR]

Good day to buy CSIQ.

[Red@8]

Originally posted by bmeier


I have a huge holding already but the price is right. Good dividend and company is very consistent

Agreed - thats what enticed me to purchase. I think a few beyonders have a position in this.

Bought some TGL today - perhaps a little early (in hindsight).

Thought about purchasing some LXV early this am for a quick flip, didnt,

[CompletelyNumb]

Originally posted by oogaboogie


VPER took off... got in at 0.0029 and out at 0.004!

Thanks for the tip!

Ive been playing around in pink markets for a couple weeks. Solid profit to be made if your timing is right. Vper was a fantastic buy. I'll post up some more recommendations in a few days.

[sabad66]

^ i finally got around to opening a cash/margin account so that i can trade in the OTC/pink sheet markets. mostly interested in pot stocks (PHOT, NVLX), but would be interested to hear your picks.

[Red@8]

Originally posted by sabad66
^ i finally got around to opening a cash/margin account so that i can trade in the OTC/pink sheet markets. mostly interested in pot stocks (PHOT, NVLX), but would be interested to hear your picks.

One of my attendings has cleaned up on HEMP the last few days.

[bmeier]

What online brokers so you guys use? Do you pay for real time quotes? Do you have a good stock alert system?

Right now I am with questrade but I don't think its that great for me anymore. Also looking for realtime quotes and alerts that is free or cheap.

Ideas?

[woodywoodford]

Realtime quotes will almost always cost a fortune, except when it's free (ie NYSE). TMX you're outta luck.

I'm having some doubts on QT too though. Nice service and all that, but I can put limit orders in and watch the bids & asks bounce around well inside my buy/sell zone for half an hour but not fill the order. Makes no sense, maybe this is what they mean when talking about soft dollars buying "best execution".

[bmeier]

Thinking of switching to virtual brokers they have great reviews and are low cost. Where can you get free real time quotes for NYSE?
Questrade has been OK for me but I like to try different companies from time to time.

[Rat Fink]

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[bmeier]

Do you get your level 2 quotes through your brokers or a different source? O cheap so I don't like paying for stuff if I don't have to...

[CompletelyNumb]

I pay Questrade for the full monty. L2, real time, etc... Buying and selling OTC stocks multiple times per day makes it worthwhile.

Plus they had a 3 months of free trades promotion on so I started a new account to take advantage of that.

[bmeier]

Ya if you trade that much it makes sense. I don't trade that much so its more just for my own interests... I might see if they will give free l2 if you have a certain amount of equity.

[sabad66]

L2 / realtime with Questrade was 89.95 a month last time I checked. A bit too much for me.

With RBC you get L2 if you have >50k. They also recently reduced commissions to 9.95 flat

[woodywoodford]

Anybody have any thoughts on BXE? Considering adding a position today after the small recent pullback.

[woodywoodford]

Originally posted by sabad66
L2 / realtime with Questrade was 89.95 a month last time I checked. A bit too much for me.

With RBC you get L2 if you have >50k. They also recently reduced commissions to 9.95 flat

I just stumbled across thisthis , sounds like if you trade more than 30 times/quarter you can get level 2 and realtime for free. Anybody know more about this? Min balance, etc etc.? Hell, I've traded probably 30 times this month alone.

[ercchry]

Originally posted by bmeier
Thinking of switching to virtual brokers they have great reviews and are low cost. Where can you get free real time quotes for NYSE?
Questrade has been OK for me but I like to try different companies from time to time.

google finance has real time NYSE

[CompletelyNumb]

Originally posted by sabad66
^ i finally got around to opening a cash/margin account so that i can trade in the OTC/pink sheet markets. mostly interested in pot stocks (PHOT, NVLX), but would be interested to hear your picks.

pot stocks are pretty hot right now.

Bought and sold a bunch of CLNP today for an overall profit of 90%.

Grabbed a healthy load of DEWM, it's up 220%

Also grabbed DBMM, BGNN, BYSD, XNRG, and PRPM. Not much activity on those yet.

[quick_scar]

UBNT profit call today. Stock already up 2.5% before the news. Could be some meat still on the bone if they beat expectations again.

Bunch of the stock rating places have $50 ratings on them while they are trading around $40 right now.

[AudiPWR]

Pot stocks scare the shit out of me..

But some people have made some insane gains from them..

Debating loading some PHOT for fun...

[woodywoodford]

Yeah, debated getting into CLNP yesterday but figured it's gotta be tapped out. Guess I was wrong.