HYPR Bankruptcy Play?

i am not recommending this play unless you're REALLY good with charts. HYPR just announced (nov. 9, 2006, abt 5pm) it's filing bankruptcy. this is not a quant thing right now- it's more of a t/a play with a 15-min chart. "Q's" often bounce and this one might too. since they haven't yet actually filed, i don't know if friday it'll be HYPR or HYPRQ.

Stick Around

yeah, stick around. i'm watching one. when it gets ripe i'll holler. check in over the weekend- it may be ripe by then.

now i want to go off topic a bit. here and there you may have noticed my links to my quant website whattolearn.com. well, last night i found out, to my great anger, that my so-called hosting service was screwing up again and my site was "site unavailable". the hosting service was vizaweb.com. i am now with another server. a word to the wise if you're putting up a website: never ever trust vizaweb.com. they lied to me about a "compensation plan" for their downtime but never came through. and now i can't even reach their site.

TD Ameritrade Haemorrhaging Customer Base

td ameritrade (AMTD) shares have slipped from an early october high near $20 to near $16 today, as traders express disgust over tda's recent policy of not allowing buys to go thru on certain stocks. it is widely believed that tda has heavy short positions in certain stocks (including SSSU and TDCP) and is attempting to manipulate prices downwards for their own benefit, to the disadvantage of their own customers. some flavour of the growing tempest can be seen here where traders are pulling out of tda en masse...

Quant Verified Again

DRGV. yup, HOD dropped from .064 thurs to .060 friday. i think dip would've been even bigger if i hadn't posted abt it here and on a forum. quant picks are easily messed with is why i rarely post them. please note that my post on this (just previous) was at 4:24 a.m. friday, 'way before mkt open.

i don't like sharing picks, especially quant picks because quant is like a rare orchid- very sensitive to light. it's a stalking tool, a sniper thing. that said, looks like this one going down some today (friday nov 3 2006). don't know if it's shortable (might be a pink) but if this quant picture is true then is good for short early or for long once it bottoms...

Quotetracker Picked Up By TD Ameritrade

here's a tidbit to munch on... on Sept 29 2006 td ameritrade through its subsidiary T2 API Technologies, LLC acquired the medved quotetracker program.

hmmm- too soon to read the tea leaves but if recent experience with tda is any guide we should all be expecting quotetracker to go from free to astronomical in no time. the qt site still looks the same except for the tda watermark stains here and there, and LOL the fact that they've disabled all links to other brokers.

for those who didn't know, qt is a free streaming quotes and L2 program that you hook up to your broker's feed.

Td Ameritrade Saga Continued

ROFL, i'm slowly piecing this together and in a way it gets funnier by the minute...
it now appears that i'm one of a select group (LOL) of ppl who had something to do with the recent TDA debacle over sssu, even though i don't hold any sssu. let me explain... someone who'd been away from the marketmillionaires tdcp thread for awhile sent me a pm asking what the heck was going on with tdcp. i wrote him back with this...
while you were gone something interesting came up: we were trying to figure out how to stop our brokers from using our own shares to short us and stop them from loaning our shares to mm's to short us. so LOL catfish says, "Hey, if you put a limit sell on your shares they can't do anything with 'em." so ppl did, with ridiculous limit sells like $75 etc. and then we forgot abt it. well, it looks like the news spread and it really killed td ameritrade's action. so td ameritrade decides to restrict buys based on supposedly "questionable practices" of tdcp- hahaha. so now you know the story. cracks me up!!
so okay, hehehe- what obviously happened was that this whole thing spread like wildfire all over the boards and folks started putting all their other stocks on limit sell because very soon after Scottrade, e-Trade and others started in with the same "buy restrictions- sell only" monkeybusiness as stupid Td Ameritrade. ain't the internet just wunnerful?!!