Should I start planning my exit from gold mining for now? I'm already up almost 20% on avr and about 8% up on FVL

Interested in UUU myself, but I'm not sure how uranium trends are, but they look like they have been doing alright

i'm wondering the same thing...

or maybe i will at least reduce my holding in AVR...

Might see a pullback in UUU after its recent run up. I have my sell target at 5.60

Always smart to lock profits , especially a 20% profit!

worst investment advice in the world

lock in profits when you've gotten to where you estimate it will go... 20% means nothing if it goes up another 50% over the next 2 months...

I'd agree with booking profits; being in a situation where you're like "o damn, could've/should've/would've made more $$$" yet still profitable is better than "o damn, coud've/should've/would've booked profits when I had them". Also what's to say your estimate isn't an over expectation. Depends on the volatility and the type of stock you're in, in the end I guess.

just because you have some profits doesn't mean you should leave a stock, not all stocks have a benchmark amount to increase. if you're always after 20% return, many won't get there in a good timeframe, and others you've researched on have potential to go way higher than this

and if you're estimate is way off, its because you either suck at analyzing, have new data/info coming into play, or just had a bad play

taking arbitrary profits is not investing, its gambling, taking profits upon analysis is wise investing, that's my point

don't teach how people should play with their money sir. you might not take 20% return on the stocks you play, but he might. different stocks have different play. some people want to enjoy the ride up but don't want to be a part of it when it falls.

your advice is helpful but passing judgement on people's play style is wrong.

the general comment to 'take profits now!' is the stupidest thing around, i'm not trying to teach anyone anything, what the hell do i care if you win or lose... but when people say things that are blatently dangerous, i'll speak up

a % increase alone means nothing, a 20% increase within a stock analysis calling for 20-25% growth from acquisition means something, it means that its coming time to sell - there's a huge difference here, and i just wanted to point that out, which I think i did, not quite sure why everyone can't understand the logical words i'm writing

anyways, back to investment talk

i'm upping my stake in Vodaphone (ADR), 45% ownership of Verizon wireless (just got iphone on this network in US), and is 'cheaper' than Verizon & AT&T, also is a huge player in europe - i'm looking for 15% capital appreciation in the coming month(s)... this room will come from the sale of telefonica, a great spanish telecoms company, 7% div yield... but i want to take my risk out of holding spanish stocks - yes great upside, but i'm weary of the eurozone - will it collapse? likely not, but there may (or will) be some big wobbles in the coming months/years

i could see myself playing telefonica again in the future

also, i'm going to increase my stake in Citigroup (preferred over BofA), by taking my profits from bank of ireland - again, europe is hte main reason for this move, i see C as a much safer play, and it will have a great year, no doubt about it... Bank of Ireland has been very volatile, up 10-20% in the past 6 weeks... but not moving out of this range...

just thought i'd share the next 2 moves i have for tuesday

Don't know what's all the arguing about, but the question itself is a dumb one. No offense to the OP of the question.

When you invest, you should at least give yourself a price target or % gain for future exits.

To ask a forum, who you don't know personally or their intentions, is foolish. Even more foolish to execute the advice.

To the question: Should you exit?

Do you think those companies are getting overvalued?

Hows Gold?

Gold has fallen about 50 bucks since Jan/11, not to mention metals in general have been falling a bit. This has already dampened many of the precious metal stocks upward stock mov'ts.

If you think Gold is going to go back up, then I'd hold AVR and the other companies you have (Also hoping AVR,etc are sound companies).

Too many factors go in to generating an opinion for you to either sell or hold.

seems like a lot of you guys are buying big name companies and day-trading/short term holds on these guys. In the short term you're making money but unless you're deploying 50k at any given time for $9.95 trades, the transaction costs will eat away at you bit by bit.

For the gentlemen dabbling in junior mining companies and being happy with 20% gain/appreciation, come back to the board after you've cashed out your money at a 20% gain missing out on the big double or tripple bagger after the stock pops. You've not seen anything yet. We don't even recommend clients (unless you're a high net worth individual) consider cashing out unless their investment is at 100% gain. Trust me, $30k to $1mil in a span of 2 years with jr mining companies is do-able as I've seen it happen. Even the stock options of the management teams are easily into the millions, please look at companies that have been bought out.

Lets say for example you make 20% on 10k, wtf are you going to do with $2k? you might as well leave it in there as the company has positive drill results with a brighter future. You should stick with your winners and allow them to grow instead of 1. constantly trying to dabble in the current en-vogue metal and 2. trying to guess which metal will be the next darling of the stock market.

One runs through the recent postings in this thread and it's nothing by useless banter with those without the knowledge defending their poor decision making ability resulting in group think. Good job on the 20% gain? you have got to be kidding. The best part about all this, some of you guys are trading stocks with legions of analysts that follow it, go read their reports then come back and post on the board. What could you possibly know about the company that the analyst did not take into consideration when they did the report?

Is anyone looking into Tag Oil? TAO?

Some are saying it is one of those stock that can go from $2 to $100.

based on what?



CUU broke through $1 today, at .99 right now

How can it go from $2 to 100 when its at $7? I've read that its land sits on a large quantity of oil but who really knows...

MER is so low now...

I read on it's website
3,776,667 two year warrants at exercise price of 10c until January 2011; and at 15c until January 2012.

How can I tell if those warrants were exercised?

Looking for some input.

I think I might go with RBC's trading platform after some quick research. I'm a total utter n00b. Anyone have any input?

To attain the $9.95 per transaction, I must make a minimum of 30 trades for the quarter.

How easy/hard is it to achieve that limit (for nubs)?

OMG i fucking hate td waterhouse.. I just cancelled an order but my money is on hold and I can't put in a new order WTF. How long do I need to wait till they release my money?

I've been on hold for literally 30mins now and no one is picking up the god damn phone.

FUCK U TD :2finger:... THATS IT IM SWITCHING TO SCOTIA

Sorry for the rant..

30 trades seems a lot for a noobie...and I don't know much about RBC but I use QTrade (not Questrade) and its awesome...ranked #1 on globeandmail...don't know if they get paid to rank them #1 but I don't care...from my experience so far their damn awesome. Only complaint I'd see come up is comission but if you have $50,000+ in assets its damn cheap. Here's a link with other brokers.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe...rticle1790577/

Same thing happened to me in 2009 , I almost threw my monitor out the window

rbs SUCKS for trading....BMO is much better (plus getting an employee plan at $9.95 per trade is nice, and no i don't work for BMO or anyhting to do with banking)

RBC fees were BRUTAL

haven't tried anything else

I was reading it on SH the other day. GMP said that Tag Oil can hit up to $225 a share based on what it sits on.

I couldn't find the link I was on so I googled it.


I then tried googling more info about Tag Oil's potential. A lot of people are saying it can be a big hit etc. But I'm not sure if these are just pump and dump tactics these folks are doing and leading us to buy an overpriced stock.

So I wonder if anyone else have heard about it? Been keeping my eyes on SRU and AAA lately. Run up before I got into it. Damn!

30 trades per trailing 3 months then they start you on $10/trade. Until then $30*30 = $900 in fees! Yikes.

Better off if you move $50K of your parents money to RBC.. to count as household income.

If you're brave, you can try IB :fullofwin:

everyone who is interested in that stock is so offended that this idiot came out with the $225 target. don't listen to idiot analysts

don't get me wrong, could be huge potential - you could make a lot of money, but its not for me at this time