Akeena Solar - AKNS (nasdaq)

well the market opens Wednesday and already I am PISSED at missing this solar play. was going to buy 1k monday @ 8 but thought "no, better wait to see what happens to the market the first of the year" and the freeking stock is UP 3+ on a licensing deal for their solar panel tech.

 

 

NOW I don't know whether to go ahead and BUY, CRY or WIND my WATCH (as Mike Lange would say)

 

freeking stock has ONLY just under 28 million shares out and something that thin can SCREAM (in both directions)

bot 1k @ 10.85. will see what happens

about 5 mins after I made the buy it dipped down to 10.60 but now back up over 11. like that it's fighting this selloff along with FRPT (you were correct, should have held)

Good luck, Rink.

 

People do want to buy solars and alternative energy right now, and if the economy were decent, you'd have another dotcom thing going on.

 

All this crap is scary, and even more potentially horrific in an economy that is horrendous, and that's being positive.

 

Unless I get inside info on something, I'm not getting long on anything at the moment......just too dicey when the economy is about to enter the eye of the hurricane.

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"Should've, would've, could've........"

 

I agree, man, I "should've" bought INTC at 1 back in the 70s, also "should've" bought MSFT at 1.

 

Am still kicking myself for not buying GOOG back in early 2000s.  While I'm at it, I "should've" sold the Nas short when it was 5600 back in Mar 2000 and covered the day it hit 1100 2 years later, basically.

 

And to top it all off, what the hell was I thinking this football year?  Why in the hell didn't I buy futures on Patriots to go 16-0??????  And everyone knew that LSU and OSU would play for national title in a week?

 

No offense, man (am laughing as I type this crap), you're one of the smart ones....just trying to add some humor to a dismal beginning of the new year.

 

The bottom line is this, though.....post facto, we all have perfect vision.  Realistically, we "should have" done what we already did.  Why?  'Cause at the time, it was our decision.

 

Again, man, not trying to be an icehole.....just trying to be funny.

 

Back in late 1980s, man, a lady whom I knew from the gym was telling me about something called "the internet," and how it would "change the way we communicated and got info."  I scoffed and said something dumb like, "no way in hell are people going to type messages to each other on a fucking computer.....they'll use the phone."

 

Should've, would've, could've.................

hell guys, talk about "ifta, wishda, shoulda" how about BIDU two years ago @ $50? or last spring @ $100, or the the dec calls in mid november?

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I know.  I actually "bought" FSLR at 28.56 over a year ago, and I thought that I got a "sucker price" cause I knew lucky richboy peeps got the IPO below 20.  I figured I was getting clowned taking it around 30, buying shares off the richboys.  I got called at 75 off the Julys.  Then bought another "sucker price" around 112....then bailed out at 148 when you told me not to.

 

I am a dumb ass.  Now it's 270ish, and if I sit here and watch it, it'll go to 500ish.  And if I buy it, then it'll go caput, and I can say "I should've sold it short."

 

Bottom line is this......post facto, we're all a bunch of geniuses.

Any price for one of these ticker symbols could be called a "sucker price" unless you are literally getting if for less than the cash-debt/shares outstanding.

 

And then if you got it that low, you'd feel you were getting clowned by taking something so hated and then would only "dip your toe in the water" or "nibble."

 

So easy to know it all after the fact.  Can't be done.  Just got to take risks and gamble.

 

 

Jeez!!! this thing is jumping around like Yosemite Sam last 15 mins going into the close.

must have picked up some trading shorts with the big jump. 15 mins to go and it's back to $15 with the overall market completely trashed.

taking somewhat of a two day beat down friday and monday. 12.40 - 1.64 monday @ 3 pm edt with an intraday low of 11.91. down from a spike high of just under 17 friday.

 

will see what happens BUT it could retrace under 10 with the crappy market conditions

just hit 9.85 intraday low @ 8:40 edt. down another 2.30 today. back to mid 8 next?