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Post by sedelen on Nov 2, 2018 10:39:17 GMT -5
i thought I read where you sold it sometime back. The real estate market has slowed over the last couple of months. no that was a condo, last year, just sold the house last month. the house has only drooped $ 5000 in the last three months, which is nothing for a $ 535,000 house that has gone up $ 150,000 in the last 6 years or so. Congratulations! Sometimes timing is everything, when you taking us all out to dinner?
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Post by caliconnection on Nov 2, 2018 17:02:16 GMT -5
but I do believe in the saying, "time in the market verses timing the market." Bingo.
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Post by mudd on Nov 2, 2018 18:14:03 GMT -5
no that was a condo, last year, just sold the house last month. the house has only drooped $ 5000 in the last three months, which is nothing for a $ 535,000 house that has gone up $ 150,000 in the last 6 years or so. Congratulations! Sometimes timing is everything, when you taking us all out to dinner? in real estate, its all about timing, same as the stock market, buy low, sell high, wait for it to tank, then buy again.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2018 10:11:54 GMT -5
APPLE sub 200, gap fill at 197.31 see if it holds
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Post by caliorbust on Nov 5, 2018 19:40:04 GMT -5
When Robbie recommended Apple, I think it was early in summer, it was at $167. Which I had listen to him and bought some.
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Post by scumbuster on Nov 5, 2018 20:41:51 GMT -5
I am slightly leery of apple now only because how many Chinese companies have invaded the smart phone space offering high quality products. IPhone market share is slowly being reduced by competition. I thought overpriced anyway and now with more options I would be hard pressed to buy a IPhone or Samsung phone. I have had both in the past and liked both but now many more options. Im out of Google and Amazon at much higher price than currently selling and want to get back into each at some point. Would like to see each go down $100 more to buy. Also looking at Ford as its come down a lot and pays a good dividend. I missed the low a couple weeks ago and would buy at $9.00 again.
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Post by billyb on Nov 5, 2018 21:57:29 GMT -5
I agree, and that's diminishing "Apple's premium". Soon they will, as will all smart phones, be commodities like the PC and laptops. They need a new "killer app" and/or a must have new product, but they don't have Jobs anymore.
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Post by caliorbust on Nov 6, 2018 7:39:12 GMT -5
As one of my numerous hobbies I've been repairing cell phones, for family mostly and collect damaged phones for practice and found touch screens on earlier model Samsung Galaxy's to be very fragile and very expensive to replace, up to 800 mil depending on exact model for a new display screen. I got our 16 year old 'adopted daughter' a used Huawei Ascend P7 the other day for 260 mil because her phone was stolen when she let her little sisters take birthday pictures outside, and it's all the phone a kid really needs. Has a nice 13 mp camera too, 8 mp up front for selfies and 16 GB internal memory, which is about the minimum for a useful phone because the operating system and apps take up lots of memory. The Huawei Ascent P8 is awesome in performance but costs quite a bit more. Both have Corning gorilla glass screens that don't break anywhere near as easy as the Galaxy display and a replacement only costs 70 mil. Screens in Colombia break easier because of tile floors in comparison to wall to wall carpet back home.
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Post by scumbuster on Nov 6, 2018 8:18:59 GMT -5
I have been looking for a mid range phone. No way I will pay $1000 or more for a phone. It was nice when I had all the newest toys provided for me for work. But on my dime I am looking @ maybe $500 tops. Huawei seems to have some decent phones in that range. Anyone have a good recommendation for a good value in that price range?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2018 8:47:09 GMT -5
Isn't Huawei the chinese phone with a secret imbedded chip designed to steal all your information so the Chinese can take over the world?
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Post by elexpatriado on Nov 6, 2018 13:09:44 GMT -5
Isn't Huawei the chinese phone with a secret imbedded chip designed to steal all your information so the Chinese can take over the world? Nahh..didnt you know? George Soros is the guy who put the chip n the phone..
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Post by caliorbust on Nov 6, 2018 15:33:37 GMT -5
I have been looking for a mid range phone. No way I will pay $1000 or more for a phone. It was nice when I had all the newest toys provided for me for work. But on my dime I am looking @ maybe $500 tops. Huawei seems to have some decent phones in that range. Anyone have a good recommendation for a good value in that price range?
A powerful phone with the best camera money can buy.
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Post by wildstubby on Nov 6, 2018 18:44:31 GMT -5
I have Gorilla glass on my LG tablet but had ZAGG installed onto my MOTO. If it breaks, you get a new one, (glass that is) for the cost of shipping, which was about $6 USD. So far so good. I am finished with Moto though. Too many times it resets arbitrarily, it is a Z2 Play and the 'play' part is not smooth transiting screens. My son has a Galaxy and I thing that is next on my hit parade!
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Post by scumbuster on Nov 6, 2018 18:57:07 GMT -5
This thread has gone off the rails.. Exchange Rate.. LOL
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Post by scumbuster on Nov 7, 2018 9:21:22 GMT -5
The dollar has been dropping slowly the last week or so, but still not a bad level. 3142 this morning.. down 7
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Post by sedelen on Nov 7, 2018 10:22:08 GMT -5
When Robbie recommended Apple, I think it was early in summer, it was at $167. Which I had listen to him and bought some. Apple hasn't been that low since April 23, 2018.
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Post by sedelen on Nov 7, 2018 10:53:21 GMT -5
I have been looking for a mid range phone. No way I will pay $1000 or more for a phone. It was nice when I had all the newest toys provided for me for work. But on my dime I am looking @ maybe $500 tops. Huawei seems to have some decent phones in that range. Anyone have a good recommendation for a good value in that price range?
A powerful phone with the best camera money can buy.
I've been looking for a good international GSM phone. Every time I think I find one I read something that kills it, like Huawei, and the supposed spyware in it. Then OnePlus, and all the credit card info being stolen in addition to be easily accessed by hackers. I want a dual sim unlocked GSM model that can fit in my front pocket. I can find them on Amazon, but without a warranty. I think I'm just going to get a Moto or Samsung model at TIGO and say the hell with it. Maybe a Moto S6 Plus, or Samsung equivalent. Market is strong today, must've liked the election results and distancing itself from a normally weak October. Looks like all that buying has put a little pressure on the dollar. AAPL is even up at 206 and change.
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Post by caliorbust on Nov 7, 2018 13:15:50 GMT -5
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Post by robbierobnj on Nov 7, 2018 15:28:27 GMT -5
Been pushing AAPL for a long long time probably 5 chat rooms ago and I still say buy all you can it will be 350 in 24 months or sooner. I was pushing it long before the 7 for 1 split I have been big in and on aapl since 2005 as well as AMZN GOOG HON I recently started big in MSFT. I pretty much only trade tech or Financials I do own HON IF I had to own 5 Looking ahead AAPL HON MSFT AMZN GOOG would probably be my 5 however I am leaving out quite a few good stocks
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Post by caliconnection on Nov 7, 2018 18:06:09 GMT -5
MSFT has been my number one stock for a while. It's all about the cloud.
The big tech companies make up close to 50% of the Nasdaq, so purchasing the Nasdaq index ETF QQQ also makes sense.
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Post by wildstubby on Nov 7, 2018 19:15:56 GMT -5
caliconnection said: You got that right!!!!! I am not a big fan of the 'cloud' but I can tell you this. When I fly to Colombia, I fly in and out of Dulles IAD, because my brother-in-law lives about 10 minutes away. I park my truck at his place and save a lot of money. Anyway, I notice all this construction going on in and around the airport. These building about 5~7 stories high, all square, and all look the same. When I asked him about it, he told me that is the 'cloud'. Each one of those buildings holds thousands of memory banks. All non-descript! He should know, he is VP of a software company there.
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Post by caliconnection on Nov 8, 2018 0:11:56 GMT -5
caliconnection said:You got that right!!!!! I am not a big fan of the 'cloud' but I can tell you this. When I fly to Colombia, I fly in and out of Dulles IAD, because my brother-in-law lives about 10 minutes away. I park my truck at his place and save a lot of money. Anyway, I notice all this construction going on in and around the airport. These building about 5~7 stories high, all square, and all look the same. When I asked him about it, he told me that is the 'cloud'. Each one of those buildings holds thousands of memory banks. All non-descript! He should know, he is VP of a software company there. Very interesting. Always good to get "on the ground" info about "the cloud".
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2018 13:43:57 GMT -5
Market may be in for a continued rough ride as the democrats have started another Trump Investigation-apparently it is rumoured that Trumps' underwear was made in North Korea and Stormy and creepy porn lawyer says the underwear smelled of Russion Vodka.
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Post by scumbuster on Nov 12, 2018 14:56:09 GMT -5
Looks like the dollar is making another push toward 3200.
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Post by sedelen on Nov 12, 2018 16:27:44 GMT -5
The dollar didn't budge today against the Peso, holiday in Colombia, Dollar at 3,180, had it traded today I believe it would've traded above 3,200, maybe tomorrow.
For those who loved Apple at 232, they should really love it now at 194 and change, down over 5% today alone, and it's one of the tech stocks that has lost the least.
Had this been a normal correction' I feel it would've been over by now, but it keeps dragging on.
James J Cramer says the market is in a very serious correction (really?), and there's no place to hide, comforting!
To the positive side, it's a Monday, normally the weakest day of the week, but I'm beginning to believe there might be something more going on, maybe even the birth
of a new bear market, after all we've been in this longest ever economic expansion for close to 10 years now.
Awaiting the dead cat bounce tomorrow.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 13, 2018 8:49:22 GMT -5
The dollar didn't budge today against the Peso, holiday in Colombia, Dollar at 3,180, had it traded today I believe it would've traded above 3,200, maybe tomorrow. For those who loved Apple at 232, they should really love it now at 194 and change, down over 5% today alone, and it's one of the tech stocks that has lost the least. Had this been a normal correction' I feel it would've been over by now, but it keeps dragging on. James J Cramer says the market is in a very serious correction (really?), and there's no place to hide, comforting! To the positive side, it's a Monday, normally the weakest day of the week, but I'm beginning to believe there might be something more going on, maybe even the birth of a new bear market, after all we've been in this longest ever economic expansion for close to 10 years now. Awaiting the dead cat bounce tomorrow. Apple below its 200 day SMA in premarket.
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Post by scumbuster on Nov 13, 2018 9:26:50 GMT -5
3197. see what happens through the day. AAPL closed yesterday @ 194.14 and opened today @ 192.07
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Post by Deleted on Nov 14, 2018 8:17:34 GMT -5
3197. see what happens through the day. AAPL closed yesterday @ 194.14 and opened today @ 192.07 AAPL 2 more downgrades today.
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Post by sedelen on Nov 14, 2018 13:38:03 GMT -5
Yeah! Dollar breaks the 3,200 peso exchange rate at 3,202.
Apple down another 2.63% at 187.27, and the rest of the market, well, it's heading south.
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Post by caliorbust on Nov 16, 2018 5:46:20 GMT -5
Lets see how currency traders react. Maybe Morgan-Stanley is trying to manipulate the exchange market?
It seems investment firms don't like it when folks prefer to seek safety in the dollar and selling their stocks.
But oil is down $20 just recently, the Colombian economy is hurting and the Euro and British pound is really low too.
Isn't it obvious that the political turmoil with the Democrat takeover of the House and new threats and uncertainties against the president coming from Pelosi as speaker of the House and Schumer as minority leader is affecting the stock market?
Average Americans are usually pocketbook voters but there is a powerful, not doing so well leftist movement in the States not to be ignored as the midterm elections have shown.
What y'all think about my ranting?
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