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D1gger

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Originally posted by: vi_edit
Originally posted by: D1gger
Aurelian Resources

Purchased June 1, 2006 at $7.10 Cdn
Sold October 25, 2006 at $35.00

Too bad I only had 3,000 shares.

That's cool 100g+ profit.

Well done.

I like your math better than mine. 35 - 7.1 = 27.9/share x 3,000 = $83,700 (before tax)
 

vi edit

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Originally posted by: D1gger
Originally posted by: vi_edit
Originally posted by: D1gger
Aurelian Resources

Purchased June 1, 2006 at $7.10 Cdn
Sold October 25, 2006 at $35.00

Too bad I only had 3,000 shares.

That's cool 100g+ profit.

Well done.

I like your math better than mine. 35 - 7.1 = 27.9/share x 3,000 = $83,700 (before tax)

Whoops. Yeh, my math was a bit off. It's been a long day. :frown:

Still a great run though!
 

JS80

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Oct 24, 2005
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I bought Boston Scientific options at $0.15 and sold it for $2.75 in 1 day. The following month I blew half of the profit buying Google options for ~$5 and it expired at $0.
 

apex32

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Originally posted by: BrokenVisage
What's the deal with BerkHa or whatever the F that stock is called, it goes up or down by double-digit's almost everyday.

Are you talking about Berkshire Hathaway? If so it was founded by Warren Buffet and the current trading price is around 108,000 per share. Its share price will fluxuate what seems to be crazy, but it really isnt anything unusual for the price of the shares.For example it went down $500 today. But if you had bought 100 shares when it launched back in the day you would be a billonaire. Cheers

I am refering to the A shares of course. And the ticker is BRK-A.
 

CalvinHobbes

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I'm considering AMD while it's sitting near the 52 week low. Seems like a bargain right now.

Last year I got 16.5% on SPWR. I had NVDA at 19.10 but so WAAAYY too early. That was a huge mistake.

I was about to pull the trigger on MDCI last night but decided to wait and see. Went up 16% today.
 

apex32

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Originally posted by: CalvinHobbes
I'm considering AMD while it's sitting near the 52 week low. Seems like a bargain right now.

Last year I got 16.5% on SPWR. I had NVDA at 19.10 but so WAAAYY too early. That was a huge mistake.

I was about to pull the trigger on MDCI last night but decided to wait and see. Went up 16% today.


AMD isnt that great of a buy right now, i wouldnt go for it if i were you, there are much better options out there.
 

redgtxdi

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Jun 23, 2004
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Hmmmm...........


Looking for some hardcore value & while it's not rated well, I'm curious what's gonna happen to Vonage??

VG
 

snoopdoug1

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Originally posted by: apex32
Originally posted by: CalvinHobbes
I'm considering AMD while it's sitting near the 52 week low. Seems like a bargain right now.

Last year I got 16.5% on SPWR. I had NVDA at 19.10 but so WAAAYY too early. That was a huge mistake.

I was about to pull the trigger on MDCI last night but decided to wait and see. Went up 16% today.


AMD isnt that great of a buy right now, i wouldnt go for it if i were you, there are much better options out there.

care to tell us which ones you think?
 

theeedude

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Feb 5, 2006
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I bought Inco before it was acquired, made about 80% profit on it.
Also made a lot of money on Inco calls too.
 

Rudee

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Most of my money is in real estate now, but when I was invested in the stock market I had the best gains in 2004 when I sold 1000 shares of ATI Technologies stock for a $24k profit. I also had sold some Nortel stock that year at a small profit of a few grand.
 

Adam8281

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I bought netflix at about 14.00 and sold it around January 1 2007 for 24.75 . Another good perfomer for me in 2006 was VIMSX - Vanguard Mic-Cap Index
 

PepePeru

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MTW - Manitowoc Co.

got in at 37 sold at 62

didnt buy enough shares to make more than a couple hundred on it, though
:(
 

vi edit

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MSFT was good to me last year. Bought in at 21. Sold at 30. Costco did well for me too. Bought in at 47 sold at 54. A little no-name I had (SYGR) went up over 28% in one day from a buyout bid. Too bad it was only a $4 share I was only sitting on several hundred shares.

Right now CAT is rolling for me. Bought in at 59 and it's at 72. I normally pick up solid companies so I don't expect to double my money. 10%-20% in a year is what I aim for.

AMD, AMTD, and SIRI are really holding back big gains for me this year. I don't have a very big part of my portfolio in them though so it's not hurting me *too* bad. AMD and SIRI were really big chances that I took. All three of these guys are potential buyout bids so that could work in my favor in the long haul.
 

MysticLlama

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I did pretty good on VG today, bought at $3.05 a couple weeks ago, sold out today with a stop-loss at $4.10 between the two halts.

Maybe good, maybe bad, but I'm pretty happy with the 30%+ after fees and everything for a couple weeks.
 

redgtxdi

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Originally posted by: MysticLlama
I did pretty good on VG today, bought at $3.05 a couple weeks ago, sold out today with a stop-loss at $4.10 between the two halts.

Maybe good, maybe bad, but I'm pretty happy with the 30%+ after fees and everything for a couple weeks.

Well done young Skywalker..........


But how many shares???

:D
 

MysticLlama

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Sep 19, 2000
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Not nearly enough, only made a couple hundred bucks, oh well.

But considering the talk last week was of bankruptcy, it had it's fair share of risk, so I didn't put in anything I wasn't willing to lose.

More on topic with the thread, I did really well last year on AZ. I bought throughout the year on dips, and with dividends included I think I made a net of about 20%.

I also did really well on SKS, caught the first $4 special dividend (on an $18 share price) which made it just balance out to the drop that it incurred because of that, but then I rode it back up to about $19 or $20 when the 2nd dividend was annouced and sold just before the date of record.

Also bought some BRK.B in the $3k range, but I'm just going to hold onto that one a while along with PEP and PG.
 

PELarson

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GLW - Corning I have owned and sold shares from near its low. Up about 100+ % before tomorrows earning announcement.

PIXR - Pixar or should I say Disney.

Now if you want to talk about the longgggg list of loser stocks!