Touchless said:
Question while it's out of hours and slower. If I were to buy a 2021 option today and then exercise that option in 6 months, what is my acquisition date for tax purposes? The date I buy the option or the date I exercise it and buy the shares?
Talon2DSO said:
I'm waiting for it to get below $10 again...at least that's my hope in the next week or so
Careful with these COVID testing names - there's a ton of them. I traded a few this week and had some mixed results. AYTU apparently has a 2 minute test. OPK is trash. CODX moved on news this past week.McInnis 03 said:
ABT gets approval on new 20 min CV19 test. Starting manufacture at 50k/day
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/abbott-labs-receives-fda-approval-for-rapid-covid-19-test-2020-03-27
george1992 said:Touchless said:
Question while it's out of hours and slower. If I were to buy a 2021 option today and then exercise that option in 6 months, what is my acquisition date for tax purposes? The date I buy the option or the date I exercise it and buy the shares?
Your acquisition date for the option is the day you purchase it and the date you acquired the stock it the date you acquire it, the exercise date.
Can you get Saudi to attack Iran to get the price of oil up too?gougler08 said:
So let's get a run up to that 280 point this week and then go retest that 230 gap by mid April for re-entry points for most of us. Then we can just go ahead and move steadily up over the next few months as America realizes we all need to sack up and get back to work
Everyone ok with that plan?
Prognightmare said:Can you get Saudi to attack Iran to get the price of oil up too?gougler08 said:
So let's get a run up to that 280 point this week and then go retest that 230 gap by mid April for re-entry points for most of us. Then we can just go ahead and move steadily up over the next few months as America realizes we all need to sack up and get back to work
Everyone ok with that plan?
id rather let the market balance out and not need geopolitical conflict to artificially create market demand.Prognightmare said:Can you get Saudi to attack Iran to get the price of oil up too?gougler08 said:
So let's get a run up to that 280 point this week and then go retest that 230 gap by mid April for re-entry points for most of us. Then we can just go ahead and move steadily up over the next few months as America realizes we all need to sack up and get back to work
Everyone ok with that plan?
Ragoo said:id rather let the market balance out and not need geopolitical conflict to artificially create market demand.Prognightmare said:Can you get Saudi to attack Iran to get the price of oil up too?gougler08 said:
So let's get a run up to that 280 point this week and then go retest that 230 gap by mid April for re-entry points for most of us. Then we can just go ahead and move steadily up over the next few months as America realizes we all need to sack up and get back to work
Everyone ok with that plan?
jj9000 said:
I read the British epidimiologist paper.
Several assumptions were made in the model which may suggest GIGO.
Encouraging if valid, however, the lethality of a virus doesn't just tick up in the 3-4 month timeframe, with massive amounts of people needing ventilators to live. The world would have been where we are now months ago.
McInnis 03 said:
Early on I was far too weighted to bullish action. Was losing my arse. Since that sore time I've been balancing bullish positions with bearish ones to create a more neutral stance that allows for profit on movements both ways.
I'm still trying to get the hang of it but this past week was far better for me than any other
Prognightmare said:
I was being facetious.
Prognightmare said:
Herd immunity stories are becoming more prevalent. If this is true, we're at the latter stages and economy will roar when we finally open, but it needs to be sooner than later.
Doesn't this line up with all the social distancing efforts? All the early models suggested if we stop those efforts we'll have a resurgence of infections therefore deaths. Seems to fall perfectly in line with that theory.WoMD said:jj9000 said:
I read the British epidimiologist paper.
Several assumptions were made in the model which may suggest GIGO.
Encouraging if valid, however, the lethality of a virus doesn't just tick up in the 3-4 month timeframe, with massive amounts of people needing ventilators to live. The world would have been where we are now months ago.
Exactly. If this has been a slow build then we wouldn't see such a dramatic swarm of critical patients. And that growth of critical patients is following the trend of a new infection to the population, not one that's been spreading for a long timeframe.
Don't beat yourself up. Nobody will ever make the right call 100% of the time. Nor be positioned perfectly for the markets reaction on an hourly or daily basis.Bob Knights Liver said:McInnis 03 said:
Early on I was far too weighted to bullish action. Was losing my arse. Since that sore time I've been balancing bullish positions with bearish ones to create a more neutral stance that allows for profit on movements both ways.
I'm still trying to get the hang of it but this past week was far better for me than any other
It's a balance. This week I've found myself more bearish than I probably should have been. Accounts still went up but I'm losing ground (or losing buying power) versus if I had shoved everything in an index on Monday. I'm still learning as well. There has 5o be some way for me to create a formula based guide for myself to evaluate that. Still thinking through that.
This is where I probably need to reach out more to investment professionals.