F900

I must be nuts.. I can't go into the details why but its a feeling that is not going away. Yes i have stocks and bonds.. Pre ipo shares bla bla... but there all managed by the Bank I Fly for.

For the record i've never done anything like this before and after this i will never do anything like this again.... On Monday morning it all goes on 1 stock, all it has to do is go up $1 and i'm out. Stock goes up $1 = $7000 - $7 for the cost of trading.

Any of my co-workers, friends find out i've done this even though is MY $$$$, i will be killed......

I've love to tell you about the Stock, but i have a feeling people here will invest in it and IF it goes down.... I will be the one to blame, so DO NOT ask me, sorry.

Wish me luck.....

I just wired the $$ into a new brokeage account opened today.

BigPimp

Depends on what % 25k represents of your worth. If you are worth millions, 25k aint much. If you are worth 25k, this is not the best solution.

I hope it's a worthy stock so even if it goes down, you can wait to see it recover.


What if it only goes up 30 cents? Would you sell?

What if it goes down 50 cents are you out as well?

iTimmy

Its better to regret something you have done then something you haven't done.

I am a gambler with the stockmarket and so far its paid off, and most importantly its fun.

Good luck! It shouldn't be hard to pull $7k off $25k things are super hot right now, just a few months ago I had roughly $7k into a stock and a few short weeks later sold it and walked away with $14k and change. Another one of my picks us up a little over 100% this week alone

Just be warned this is addicting!

NSXNEXT

iTrader: (2)

Congrats....you win the....

Useless Post of the Day

SpeedyV6

He could at least tell us what he was buying and why he thought it would work out. :shakehead

importtuner

hmm isn't that like insider info???

rise

good luck.

kind of a bummer to tell us that you will be investing that much money in a stock but not tell us WHICH ONE.



in-before-someone-makes-a-thread-about-investing-1-million-dollars-into-one-stock-but-not-disclosing-which-stock

Silver™

Good luck man, it take money and balls to make it big

Reebok AMG

I'm just going to take a wild guess and say he invested in Rite Aid (RAD).

F900

Thanks Silver........

Guys i'd be more than happy to share the about the company.... As long as Soopa or some Higher Mod gives the OK .... My belief is that I could be liablel for someone looking at the stock putting there Xmas $$$ into it...the stock falls and Acurazine and I get into a law suit againest some kid who had no idea what he/she was getting themselfs involved in..... There Daddy calling me up and asking why i "told" there son to invest there savings into a stock.

I hate to say it but there as some people on this board to just don't listen

I can afford to lose 25K where as some people can't .... Everybody wants to make a quick $$$ or two... but playing stocks is not one of them. its a 50/50 sometimes you win sometimes you lose......

I Don't have any insider info.... like i said its based on my own personal feels about this stock... nothing more nothing less.....

Like i said i'd be more than happy to tell you about the company and you can follow it and see how much i made or lost..... But its up to Soopa.

And no its not RAD.....


I have not bought the stock yet, i want to see where it opens on Monday morning, as it might go down a bit and gain through that day.....

Again i'm selling after the stock goes up by $1.... might take a week or a 1 year. But i'm staying in until it does......

iamhomin

If you could afford to lose, then why not? GL.

Silver™

I don't think it is an issue, this forum is full of people talking about their current investments.

Invesments are a risk, and everyone should know that. That being said, feel free to post the stock you are investing in.

F900

With been given the go ahead here is the company.....

QUIDEL CP (NasdaqNM:QDEL)


IF YOU INVEST IN IT.... DON'T COME BACK TO ME CRYING IF IT GOES DOWN

IF YOU INVEST $$$$, YOUR RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN ACTIONS

DO NOT INVEST $$$ YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE

SpeedyV6

Good luck F900.

Silver™

Am I missing something? It is a $15.50 stock. So an investment of $25K would buy you about 1600 shares.

So if it goes up $1 you would only make $1,600, not $7,000.

NSXNEXT

iTrader: (2)

It's that new math Silver.

Due Diligence....

AS HEALTH AUTHORITIES step up warnings about the potential spread of avian flu to humans, investors decided that influenza-test maker Quidel (QDEL: 15.51, +0.71, +4.8%) is nothing to sneeze at. Shares of the San Diego company shot up 14.6% to close at $13.65 Monday on the heels of sobering words about an inevitable global epidemic from the head of the World Health Organization. Quidel's stock has quadrupled from its 52-week low of $3.45 set on April 26.
"It is only a matter of time before an avian flu virus — most likely H5N1 — acquires the ability to be transmitted from human to human, sparking the outbreak of human pandemic influenza," says Lee Jong-wook, director-general of WHO. "We don't know when this will happen. But we do know that it will happen. This is the time to build global consensus. This is the time for every country to prepare their national action plan — and act on it."

Quidel commands about 48% of the flu-testing market with its Quick Vue test, which detects the presence of the more common influenza A and B viruses in patients' nasal swabs. While the diagnostic test isn't specifically designed to identify bird flu, some researchers have reported success in using Quick Vue to detect the H5N1 strain of the influenza virus as well.

Enthusiasm for the shares expressed Friday by Jim Cramer on his investing advice television show, "Mad Money," might've added to the interest in Quidel on Monday. The often voluble commentator said the stock's primary appeal is its "buzz," which will continue to affect price action "as we keep talking about the flu," according to a summary of his remarks on the web site TheStreet.com, which Cramer founded.

That's a risky stock-buying proposition, even if Quick Vue is acknowledged as the best diagnostic test on the market. Steve Brozak, a biotechnology analyst with San Diego-based brokerage WBB Securities, warns that flu-related products go through seasonal cycles and are increasingly driven by news of global bird flu worries.

"Lots of smaller-cap companies go out there and get into the information dissemination business, and this is a situation where there are simply no easy answers," Brozak says. "That means there are no easy investments." (Brozak doesn't own shares of Quidel; WBB Securities doesn't have an investment-banking relationship with the company.)

Quidel, whose sales are projected to climb 19% this year to an estimated $91 million, sold $27.2 million worth of Quick Vue tests in 2004, according to Zarak Khurshid, an analyst at Pacific Growth Equities in San Francisco. The tests account for one-third of the company's revenues. Quidel's earnings are on track to reach 25 cents a share for 2005, up from a penny in 2004. (Khurshid doesn't own shares of Quidel; Pacific Growth doesn't have an investment-banking relationship with the company.)

Quidel's share price has experienced a few sharp spikes this year. The stock climbed nearly 22% in a four-day stretch from April 26 to April 29, and it's seen other big leaps throughout the summer and fall. However, many of the jumps have been accompanied by quick selloffs, indicating that Quidel might be a favorite of short-term traders. Short interest on the stock, an indication of how many traders think it's headed for a tumble, has been on the rise since July.
Khurshid says Chief Executive Caren Mason has exited underperforming operations and tightened distributor relationships in the U.S. and abroad, which has strengthened fundamentals. The company also settled a patent dispute in May with competitor Inverness Medical Innovations (IMA: 25.05, -0.20, -0.8%), and reported successes in Australian clinical trials. But the improvements in Quidel's business don't match the heady stock gains.

"We would expect the company to benefit if the 'test-and-treat' paradigm was more widely adopted by physicians in the event of antiviral therapy shortages," Khurshid writes in an email response to questions. "We expect the stock to continue to trade up in-line with its typical seasonal pattern." (Quidel's shares generally perform better as flu season approaches and taper off during nonflu months).

The big question for long-term Quidel holders is how global concern over the bird flu hitting human populations on a large scale will sustain investor interest. WHO statistics show 63 people have died of bird flu since December 2003 out of 124 who were infected with the disease. Lee Jong-wook, the WHO chief, on Monday opened a special meeting on curbing the spread of a possible pandemic. He notes that the 1918 pandemic, which killed as many as 40 million people world-wide, resulted from an altered avian flu virus. Lesser outbreaks of flu in 1958 and 1968 left a total of three million dead and were considered to be "mild" pandemics, he says.

WHO's urgency mirrors the comments last week by President Bush, in which he outlined a $7.1 billion response plan to combat a potential pandemic if human-to-human transmission becomes widespread. "It is vital that our nation discuss and address the threat of pandemic flu now," Bush said in an Oct. 31 address at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., adding that "if we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare."

The level of concern over avian flu nationally and globally only amplifies the potential volatility in these types of stocks, says Brozak.

"This is an area of investing that cannot be divorced from government leadership and policy," he says. ""But it really becomes a kind of casino-type mentality, and that's unfortunate."

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"There's no company that we have uncovered so far that we believe we can advocate the purchase of based on its diagnostic treatment, or even relating to future potential paradigm shifts on the evolution of their technology for treatment," says Brozak of WBB Securities.

F900

WTFF...lol..totaly my fault for not paying attention with closing on my Condo and buying another jet for lease and other things too.., Now i see where how i would of made 7K, last week it was at $13 (when i was supposed to buy the stock) then i was told to sell it when it reached $17... I can't believe it has jumped that much in one week... Well there goes that. I would invest the full 50K i have available but its not worth the risk Vs the reward....

But then again the money is there....let me see where it opens in monday, if i still feel good about it i'll invest the 25K into the stock and see where its going by the end of the week...

Silver™

Well good luck what ever you do, but with all the bird flu hysteria, there might still be some decent upside on this stock as people try to jump on the bandwagon.

Slinks

if you got a sure thing, you gotta be willing to go all in for the lifestyle-changing trade. if you got a high probability play, you gotta be willing to oversize your position.
if all you gots is a feeling, may as well go to the roullette table at ceasers.

M TYPE X

Exactly. There's nothing that you can say if you don't know the stock or the means of the investor. The only thing I can say is "Good Luck," but I don't believe in such nonsense.

Hope it was Toyota stock. It just keeps going up.
Or, maybe you invested in Google. I don't pay for Gmail, so someone has to (read: sucker investors giving money to Google hippies)

BigPimp

^
This might be the useless post of the day. What did you just say????

M TYPE X

It wasn't a long post, but if I need to retry it with three bullet points:

If someone says that they threw a bunch in money into one basket, you need to know which basket. Toyota is a better stock than GM, generally speaking.

Also, as someone else pointed out, means are important. If you are Donald Trump, then $25K is change. But if it's your entire net worth, I wouldn't put $25K on one stock.

I also made the comment that I wouldn't invest in Google. I think it's overpriced. No, I won't provide a model to back that it. It's called:

BigPimp

jeesuz, you should've made your previous post the last one.

Read the thread, all the answers are there.

M TYPE X

Wow, someone is actually investing given a "push" by Jim Cramer? I wouldn't do that.

WDP-Acura TL

well your stock dropped so far by $1.40

yunginTL

and do you have a reason behind your pick or just a random instinct?

F900

More Random instinct than anything else...

I bought it @ $13.35 today....

moonraker

interesting.. this is merely a pump and dump by cramer for sure.. as almost all of his picks haha.

but seriously do you seriously see long term growth for this company? i dont really understand why youre just NOW investing... you missed the boat on the run up for sure. if youre waitin for it to climb at least a dollar, strap in you'll prob be waiting a long while

have you set a stop loss? and if so at what price are you cutting your losses 7% or so? cuz it will prob go down before it goes up in the short term to cover back its recent gains.

fdl

Its called day trading. Not a novel concept, but a very risky one. Bet big, and get out quickly. Just make sure you have a stop limit. If you hang on you will lose your shirt.

F900

Well considering I bought it at $13.35 and it closed @ $14.45 today, i've already made my Dollar or just little over $1600

My stop limit is $14, anything below that i've sold it. Takes to much of my time up for only $1600 profit..... but i can say it was kinda exciting to watch.

rise

I'm happy for you! Good job!

I put in a limit order for SNDK over the weekend and wouldnt you know it...it opened higher than my limit order

NSXNEXT

iTrader: (2)

And after you sell and pay capital gains, you'll have made $4.97 Happy hunting.

Fibonacci

Usually don't gloat about my equity holdings, but I can't resist... Bought 8000 shares of FBR in my IRA recently at $8.91 per share.

Can I hear a...

F900

Geezz there is nothing pleasing you.... lol

I got some free trades (3) but even still its $7 a trade, not including a investment banker discount,,, If i was to bow out now i'd be well over $1400 profit ....but its not over yet, tomorrow is another day and from what i'm hearing it looks promising

Mike 350Z

Do you use Ameritrade? I was thinking of getting an account there or with another internet broker.

CrockPot

i'm guessing he's using scottrade @ $7

depending on your funds and how active you are, you may want to look into Ameritrade's IZONE. you'll need to qualify for it though, both in experience and in minimum fund requirement. tough to beat $5 a trade, though...www.izone.com

rise

Mike, I use Ameritrade, let me know if you want a referral or something

Mike 350Z

o0o0o0o0o0o What does a referral do for you and/or do I need one to signup? I haven't really thought about it much, just brushing around some ideas.

Adam_Schwartz

I just liquidated my entire 401k fund and dropped it on this strock. Hope my wife is OK with that.

CrockPot

i'm okay with it, why wouldn't she?