tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-111461062026-07-24T02:03:21.313-04:00General stock market notes. js184http://www.blogger.com/profile/16057765987426993442noreply@blogger.comBlogger347125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11146106.post-37838318633757014982017-09-19T02:09:00.002-04:002017-09-19T02:09:38.539-04:00

In the last three months, Snapchat released disappointing earnings in their second quarter as a public company. The stock cratered to 11. Surprising, it rallied to $15 without significant financial news. NBC News signed a deal to broadcast on the app but their $500 million investment has been known since March 2017. 29 million viewers watched the NBC channel on Snap (1). CNN, ESPN, and E! News

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Pinch out from to see the location of nearby friends. Your location will be displayed as long as you have Snapchat open. There is an option to opt out of location sharing when you open the map feature. The map also shows public snaps around your location. Another update was the ability to make stories with an option to add friends and limit to a certain location.

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Sold the April 28, 2017 20 put for 0.80 and bought it for $0.30 about a week later. Significant risk with the underlying stock. Snap Inc develops the Snap Chat App. It's projected to have $1 billion dollars in revenue this year. However, it is expected to report losses this quarter. Also, their product is built on top of the cloud services of of other companies. They will have to pay Google $2

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Sold BRK/B April 7 2016 puts at $1 then bought them back at 0.20 from 3/27 to 4/04. 80% return in a few days. Berkshire is a conglomerate of multiple companies that has outperformed the Standard and Poor's 500 over the past 40 years. It's driven mostly by it's insurance companies. Warren Buffet's annual letter to Berskshire Hathaway stock owners is a good read this year and every year. The

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NASA receives $18 billion per year. The Defense Department receives $540 billion. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52450 Federal debt held by the public is at 77% of GDP, the highest since after World War II. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52480 The US federal deficit for 2016 was $587 billion. https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/114th-congress-2015-2016/reports/52142-breakout-chapter1.pdf

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Raspberry Pi has made it relatively simple to make a computer for $50. Here is a step by step guide to making this computer. After you make it, attach an HDTV, keyboard, and mouse. Buy your items: Raspberry Pi 3 Model B with wifi and bluetooth, a case, micro-USB power charger, HDMI cable, keyboard, mouse. Several items may not need to be purchased such as the micro-USB power charger which comes

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Snapchat became public but it disclosed it doesn't make money. There's a significant amount of money it pays for its servers to outside organizations. It may turn around and make money or it could become like many other high profile money losers with high valuations. The bubbles in these stocks are interesting and provides an interesting market theory. Most investors don't touch these stocks

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Sold a LVS 2/10/17 put at $0.40 on 1/31/17 and then bought on 2/8/17 for $0.10. 75% return in 8 days.

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Sold Google (GOOGL) put expiring January 27, 2017 on December 30, 2016 for $9.60. Bought put to close position on 1/23/17 for $1. 80% return in about 24 days.

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Download the app to figure out why this is a highly anticipated IPO. Frequent ad placements between a few seconds of time and snaps. More posts due to their limited time span.

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Sold a Las Vegas Sands covered put at 53.50 at 0.75 and sold out at 0.25 in the next week for a 66% return. Sold a Google Put for January 27 at 757.50 for $9.70. Stock went down up to 10 points the next day to $792, the price of the put has gone up to $12.33. Should lose value as it gets closer to expiration.

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http://us.allianzgi.com/Products/pages/12.aspx Assets for NCV, a convertible bond fund yielding over  10%.

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Google puts at 767.50 are selling at $10 per share currently and the stock is trading at $809.93. Fourth quarter earnings will be announced on 1/26/17.

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Las Vegas Sands (LVS) dropped precipitously last week on news the Chinese government would limit cash withdrawals from ATMs in Macau to around $600. The stock dropped about eight points last week. Sold puts at $54. The stock has rebounded in a few days and was able to but to close the put positions. Returned around 80% in a few days.

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Here's a page with places to see in Las Vegas. Also highlights some of the food and entertainment available. It's formatted for mobile phones and has Google map links for each destination. To get to a destination, click the link and the Google maps application and navigation can be started on an Android phone.  Vegas Map Based Tour GuideTo share places quickly without logging in or

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GPS Location and Map Uses the phone's GPS or wireless network location services to find your coordinates. Also creates a quick map of your area. Use it to load a map of the surrounding area without launching using the Maps application. Preserves phone battery by using GPS for a short time and also by not loading the Maps application.

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GPS Web App Keep notes on locations based on GPS coordinates from a smart phone or laptop. Also creates links to google maps.

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Zero Coupon Bond Calculator Zero coupon bonds offer an opportunity to invest a small amount of money initially then get a large payment in a few years. Enter the final payout amount, the interest rate, and this calculator will determe the principal amount needed at the beginning.

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Bond Income Calculator Bonds offer a safer form of income than stocks. It is a debt obligation given by companies and governments available to investors. Bond prices are usually in denominations of one thousand dollars. The yield to maturity is the current yield of the stock based on its price. The initial rate is the coupon rate and that yield is available to initial investors. Subsequent

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Bought shares of RIMM after the Goldman Sachs upgrade at 19.50. Sold covered call at 20 for 1.78. Stock trickled down to 16 or so, bought back the call at 0.52. Sold the 15 call for 2. Stock went up to mid 17 then came down to 16. Bought back the 15 call for 1, then sold the 16 call with less than a week remaining for 0.56. Then the stock plummeted after disappointing earnings prior to options

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The Motorola Triumph is a great Android smart phone with a large 4 inch screen. Also the Virgin Mobile smart phone plans are the best deals available in the country, much better than any contract service. Motorola Triumph Review

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Bought shares of nokia for 5.79, sold October covered call at 6 in September for 60 cents each. Watched stock go to low 5 area, and the coverd call drop to nearly 17 cents. Could have bought back the covered calls and locked in that profit. Instead Nokia reports better than expected results and the stock goes up to 6.6 the day before the options expire. Instead of nearly doubling profits, I have

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With Apple TV, Airplay and an Iphone, video games can be played on large tv screens in the same manner as console games. As the controls for the games get better on the iPhone and iPod touch, this could be some serious competition for Sony and Nintendo. The motion sensors on the iPhone and iPod touch are excellent for game play. The only remaining factor is developing software that will provide

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http://www.apple.com/apple-events/october-2011/ Watching the Apple October 2011 Event. Looks like Apple is doing the same thing Microsoft did with Windows. Integrating independent application developments into their iOS 5. iCloud has taken a lot of features from popular services like Dropbox. That seems to be the most obvious one so far. The location services are similar to Loopt.  I'm just

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The Reader option in iOS5 allows mobile browsers to strip away extraneous content and only show text for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. I'm a bit disappointed with this development. About 10% of the visitors to my website are iOs device visitors. It's actually the second most popular operating system after Windows. Now with this development,  people can strip away the advertising revenue

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