Stock Picking - Straight Gambling

[IAG]

I lost a half-gram of blow in a cab once, I assume it just slid out of my wallet. Worst feeling in the world.

I have never done cocaine so I have no idea what that is worth. Were you more upset about the money part or not having it to do?

 

[Blitty]

Prolly a bit of both...

 

[Boner_18]

Matty buys 100 TSLA jan 2015 275 strike calls for $3900 - 10% premium to todays trade.
Boner buys 100 TSLA jan 2015 225 strike calls for $6100 - 10% discount to todays trade.

TSLA Longs -$2550
TSLA Shorts +$1600

 

[Boner_18]

TSLA longs -$3215
TSLA shorts +$3750

 

[Matty]

 

[Boner_18]

Its been up and down. I only bump when its down...

 

[mcbaseball10]

You are among the first to know that DIRECTV has entered into a definitive agreement with AT&T to acquire our company. This transformational deal creates a world of possibilities for our customers, our company and your business.

Boner, thoughts.

 

[reno cool]

which company? McRoofballs McRoofing?

 

[mcbaseball10]

DirecTV bought by ATT

 

[Boner_18]

I assume that the deal will pass regulatory hurdles and it is just more consolation in the telecom space. I don't know much about.whether a price paid by one company for another is a "good" price but I have to believe that AT&T is adding serious value to their total offering. Id maybe be a buyer of AT&T on this news (assuming they are paying a neutral to good price for dtv).

 

[roguejuror]

Tracking corporate planes as to know when news is more and less likely to be released.

This paper shows connections between chief executive officers׳ (CEOs׳) absences from headquarters and corporate news disclosures. I identify CEO absences by merging records of corporate jet flights and CEOs׳ property ownership near leisure destinations. CEOs travel to their vacation homes just after companies report favorable news, and CEOs return to headquarters right before subsequent news releases. When CEOs are away, companies announce less news, mandatory disclosures occur later, and stock volatility falls sharply. Volatility increases when CEOs return to work. CEOs spend fewer days out of the office when ownership is high and when weather is bad at their vacation homes.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304405X14000920

 

[Matty]

That's some outstanding science right there.

 

[roguejuror]

Shit's probably not profitable but one more angle for straight gambling.

Here is the pdf btw http://lsr.nellco.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1298&context=nyu_lewp

[video=vimeo;44382964]http://vimeo.com/44382964[/video]

 

[Blitty]

Tesla Goes Open Source: Elon Musk Releases Patents To 'Good Faith' Use

http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2014/06/12/tesla-goes-open-source-elon-musk-releases-patents-to-good-faith-use/

Any stock movement?

 

[Boner_18]

Up 1.75 (.85%)

The longs (matty's air bet) are -3175
The shorts (my air bet) are +200

There is a very real scenario where we both lose due to wahts called "option decay" or "time decay"

 

[Blitty]

Priceline bought OpenTable for 2.6 B.

OP went up $30.

Yelp went up $8.

 

[Boner_18]

Great pop for GRUB on the news as well.

 

[Tron]

GAMBOL