Playing & Trading Strategy

When does the award options payout? {nm} Mdowd66 Feb 27, 10:35

See the answer "2" posts lower down from yours. ツ {nm} Flash Feb 27, 10:42

For you newer players...if you're wondering.. a $2B port still won't even get you into the Top 400 LTD... Flash Feb 27, 10:29

congrats on hitting $2B! {nm} tealfan Feb 27, 12:32

I'm sure you'll crack the top 400 in a flash. :P {nm} DTravel Feb 27, 13:28

Mazel tov! :) {nm} accountant_4_Jesus Feb 27, 13:37

WHOA!!! Awesomw! Congrats! {nm} PRodQuanta Feb 27, 14:36

pfft. and I'm barely cracking 60M Grats! {nm} perply1 Feb 27, 15:08

Congratulations {nm} PVL Admin Feb 27, 21:49

Cash sentrymed Feb 27, 06:39

Cashing out what? Nominoptions don't cash out till 10am, moviestocks till 4pm Pacific time. {nm} DTravel Feb 27, 09:10

Wow, peeps with the Meryl Streep award option did well!! {nm} AdherentMeme Feb 26, 23:07

The safe hedging strategy of both Meryl Streep & Viola Davis Long worked fine. RotoHockeyYTD2012 Feb 27, 05:00

How much does domestic box office figure into a stock's price? The-EFNP Feb 26, 22:55

A MovieStock that opens wide delists after 4 weekends. So JCNTR did 72m in 4 weeks, then an additional 30m after it was delisted. {nm} eyescovered Feb 27, 04:01

A wide release movie will delist after 4 weekends UnifexBee Feb 27, 04:02

sorry - too slow! {nm} UnifexBee Feb 27, 04:02

Delist is after 4 weekends of being wide released (12 for limited), but films keep earning after that window srrichardson Feb 27, 04:07

Shorting AwardOptions? PatrickBateman1 Feb 23, 13:43

Bingo. {nm} stevie1der328 Feb 23, 13:56

Word. However, this is something that serves best when the options IPO. Though, there is still money to be made there. {nm} PRodQuanta Feb 23, 15:18

Any stock, derivative, IPO, etc., that you short, and it delists at zero... you double your money (less commissions) {nm} Flash Feb 24, 08:58

Yes the difference between the short price (i.e. 5.00 and zero) {nm} laura1818 Feb 26, 12:11

AFRAM Fund Update #1 (2/23/12) - The HSX Dude AFRAMFund Feb 23, 09:58

What happened to fund week?? {nm} slappydavid Feb 23, 19:42

Strategy Question EthanHunt Feb 23, 00:36

For a port your size I'd suggest... eyescovered Feb 23, 03:46

Here's some "general" tips I usually give out to newer players.... Flash Feb 23, 08:18

Pgame2 status update and link to next month's Pgame3 Lobby inside PRodQuanta Feb 22, 19:38

Place blame as much as you like - I've decided to forget February ever happened! {nm} srrichardson Feb 23, 04:39

:) {nm} PRodQuanta Feb 23, 07:17

How is a recently IPO'd stock, heavily shorted gaining value? dtshakes Feb 21, 11:44

Price movements are caused by trades today, not positions held. {nm} Antibody Feb 21, 11:56

So, if you believe an IPO-ing stock is overvalued, should you wait to short it? (nm) dtshakes Feb 21, 12:07

IPOs do hard-to-predict things for the first 1 to 3 weeks. Up to you whether you 'wait and see' or lock in your decision early. Austinmh Feb 21, 19:49

it just looks like one of those lunatic fluctuations that happen so regularly here {nm} blaze223 Feb 21, 12:34

For those in the 250m-600m range shorting some slow bleeders how often do you reshort and take profits? Austinmh Feb 18, 14:22

Reshorting is a port management discussion and does not apply only to bleeders. Advice inside... PVL Admin Feb 18, 15:41

well written and concise. thanks! {nm} nomadic Feb 18, 17:03

I think that's pretty good advice. Jane_Citizen Feb 18, 21:29

That's very true. Intuitive though sometimes easily forgotten. {nm} Austinmh Feb 19, 17:26

Very helpful breakdown, thank you. Austinmh Feb 19, 17:24

Good advice, i LOVE reshorting to free up that cash that is just sitting there being wasted, if up 200k on a short thats 400k you can get... MarkDinse Feb 19, 19:09

Pgame2 status update inside. Traders with ports of $50M+ who want to play in next month's Pgame3, join in the Pgame3 Lobby (link inside). PRodQuanta Feb 15, 09:57

Apparently, winning is harder than you thoguht, Paul2K does have something on you, and reset traders are to blame again... Yay us though {nm} PVL Admin Feb 15, 21:04

Haha. That made me chuckle. {nm} PRodQuanta Feb 15, 21:16

should i hold on to transformers 4 or take my 2 mil and move along? {nm} CactusLand Feb 14, 23:06

If I knew the answer I'd have more H$ than I do ;-) {nm} srrichardson Feb 14, 23:22

when my port was your size, I'd take the money and reinvest it into some sure thing Jane_Citizen Feb 15, 01:56

Well...only YOU can decide when to move on, but Flash Feb 15, 07:36

thanks. good tips. I need them. Been playing for over a year, and still a NOOB for all intents and purposes. {nm} CactusLand Feb 15, 08:49

Profit potential in Transformers 4 FreshJive Feb 15, 12:50

Milestone 600m in less than 1 year {nm} oneman Feb 14, 15:45

WHOA!!! Awesome! Congrats! {nm} PRodQuanta Feb 14, 16:07

Well done! {nm} slappydavid Feb 14, 16:33

way to go! {nm} tealfan Feb 14, 19:50

Mazel tov! :) {nm} accountant_4_Jesus Feb 15, 01:23

What's the strategy after a starbond adjust? Dump everything or keep what you think will continue to move? {nm} Ryan_Stewart Feb 14, 12:47

depends onthe bond, if you are a long on a bond that is going to go higher than continue to hold {nm} nomadic Feb 14, 13:10

if you are short and bond is going to go lower than re-short. take the profit and short @ the new price {nm} nomadic Feb 14, 13:13

I waited until my port hit 100 million b4 I played the starbonds. since my port is up about 30%. it is guaranteed h$ {nm} nomadic Feb 14, 13:15

Also depends on the price of the bond. $10 bond I'm more likely to play around with because commission is nothing but I'll hold a $100 bond {nm} JDolphin Feb 14, 14:12

Read RazorHawk's Post-Adjust Bond Show, and you're all good {nm} OriginalFund Feb 15, 20:03

Depends on the size of your port. 10 mil? Sell and move into next week...then 2 weeks out, then 3, etc. until you have enough $ to l PVL Admin Feb 15, 20:56

IPO Thoughts: The African-American Fund [AFRAM] - The HSX Dude RazorHawk Feb 14, 08:29

AFRAM Fund Update (2/14/12) - The HSX Dude RazorHawk Feb 14, 11:32

can you clarify what you or HSX consider "african american"???? are you using rule of hypodescent or hyperdescent? {nm} nomadic Feb 14, 12:05

great idea on fund, but maybe change name/description slightly because some of the SBOs are not "American," such as CEJIO & TNEWT daveart Feb 14, 12:15

CEJIO and TNEWT RazorHawk Feb 14, 18:48

oh I see the fund says if you are "mixed race," then the role is important {nm} daveart Feb 15, 10:00

Thanks for all the great advise I have read on the boards! Up $19.373 million in last 7 days! From $125 million port! Thanks All! {nm} nomadic Feb 13, 16:40

COMIC fund is now under new management. {nm} Antibody Feb 13, 10:46

Yay! Go Maxxor! {nm} accountant_4_Jesus Feb 13, 13:42

Good luck! {nm} eyescovered Feb 14, 06:15

congratulations Maxxor {nm} daveart Feb 14, 09:56

So within an hour I went from 1.5 mil up to 300K down. Missed the bounce and now I'm screwed... Argh! slappydavid Feb 13, 07:56

To be fair, there were multiple very fast bounces...I missed it too. Bounces have been pretty unpredictable of late. {nm} Paul2k Feb 13, 08:12

The same happened to me too, that's crazy... {nm} petz Feb 13, 08:20

Haha. I've given up today. I'm gonna take a HUGE hit at OW cash out anyways... {nm} PRodQuanta Feb 13, 09:09

I'm sticking to these guns now. I'm hoping to break even with the derivs, too busy to do the math. But the day can go any way now... {nm} slappydavid Feb 13, 09:33

3 hours ago 1.8 mil up then down to 380k now heading back up 800k now.......... {nm} nomadic Feb 13, 09:20

steadily been up today, with my new strategy. thanks to this board for the change in strat! {nm} ndmaster Feb 13, 09:52

Yes, thank you board. {nm} PVL Admin Feb 13, 11:59

YUP!...the board went bi-polar this morning! {nm} GLAMMGUY Feb 13, 11:38

What was that? Buy POLAR? But that stock's been delisted for yeeeeears! ;) {nm} Paul2k Feb 13, 11:47

Yeah, that killed me too. Funny thing, it doesn't seem to hurt so bad when I'm busy screwing up my fund. {nm} stevie1der328 Feb 13, 12:01

Slow bleeder strategy report for Big Ports - a very profitable experiment PVL Admin Feb 12, 02:24

I have too many reds in my port.. maybe just one commission free day.. DMac ;-) {nm} karspov Feb 12, 04:29

Those of us with small ports can read forums (aka billionaire advice column) and gain wisdom {nm} Ryan_Stewart Feb 12, 13:34

I posted it for all, not just big ports. But I entitled it the way I did so that no-one misunderstood the level of play. {nm} PVL Admin Feb 12, 13:47

Hey! Giving away trade secrets here! ;) Paul2k Feb 12, 07:07

As i gain money, i will be extending this strategy to $10. I am already looking at the $7 range because i have all the $2-$5... PVL Admin Feb 12, 11:46

Just trying to decrease your lead by increasing your competition. :) You=Frankenstein, Us=the mob. {nm} PVL Admin Feb 12, 13:24

Do I hear "Puttin' on the Ritz" playing? *gets my tophat and tails* {nm} Paul2k Feb 12, 13:39

More like "Hello my baby, hello my darling, hello my night-time gal", *drops to floor*, "Ribit" {nm} PVL Admin Feb 12, 13:46

Check Please! :) {nm} JDolphin Feb 13, 01:25

Wow, very insightful information from an HSX master. {nm} PRodQuanta Feb 12, 09:01

Thanks! {nm} PRodQuanta Feb 12, 09:02

HSX Green or Blue belt at best. Certainly not a master. {nm} PVL Admin Feb 12, 13:22

...or is each Billion a degree of black belt? Hmm....maybe I became a first degree HSX black belt with the confidence of a blue belt.. {nm} PVL Admin Feb 12, 13:45

I would say this is more accurate. {nm} PRodQuanta Feb 12, 14:28