So anyone here think Brandons article has NOTHING to do with not Holding .13 today?

[relmor2003]

Lets put it this way SL62. Hes bending over, and dropping his shorts. Only problem for him is....
SO AM I!!!!!!!!!!
You know that wont be good for Brandon!!!!!
OMG, that wouldnt be good for anyone

But I feel a simple spanking is not going to cut it unfortunately.


SSSSEEEEEEEEWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!
OINK OINK LITTLE PIGGY!!!!!!!!!!!

[FoolNHisMoney]

Your irresponsible journalism should be retorted immediately. Recinded. Write your apology and retraction, why are you here? Dont you have another article to write?
If your worried about your "followers" and you think Mel waits on you, you shouldnt be here, you should be writing your retraction. You also need to retract your bogus numbers on subs. Must I say your wrong again, and what happened last time you didnt listen to me? Well...
we all know how that worked out of you...

Relmor, you are directing this at Brandon, not me, right? RIGHT?!

[tucknroll]

Kinda. Although I feel a bit vindicated now that the Motley Idiots and Reuters have brought up the same concerns that I did regarding growth.

As for the article itself, I still feel putting it out there was the right thing to do. I would not have been able to live with myself had the opposite occurred and people who trusted in me lost their investments. Not for nothing, anyone that got out at .13 either got in around the same or at worse, a penny difference. In the long run, that won't matter and it was better to be safe than sorry, imho.

As for the topic of this thread, I think I may have had that effect this am with the article. I also think that Sirius releasing this news midday, which is absolutely against anything they had ever done, may have been motivated by the article as well. Usually they would have waited until the market closed.

i wondered about that myself......

[sl62]

I hear you are looking for Cos, he left you a comment at the other thread!

Gina...

Thanks. I went over there and replied...so how bout our news today huh?? Hope you will reap some decent rewards on your investment!!

[john]

Brandon, boy doesn't someone have a fat head, Lets see the stock tanks for the last 3 months nothing much from SIRIXM but the normal release. The bankruptcy news is reported by almost every new agency out. did we get anything out of SIRIXM no not a word for several days, come on get your ass back down to earth.


You know when I said to others that you dont have that much effect on the street to move the PPS, hell he doesn't even have that much pull hear. I actually said; no offense to you Brandon because I dont think you think you have that much pull. I RETRACT THAT "no offense".

[gina2009]

Gina...

Thanks. I went over there and replied...so how bout our news today huh?? Hope you will reap some decent rewards on your investment!!

Yeah, I can't wait but I have a question for you do you think we will see .13 again next week? I am hopping to get some more shares before the 17th. If not I may just get in at a higher price, it seems am good at that lol! Gina

[Brandon Matthews]

On another note...did you all see this...recognize any names in the list?

WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - Fourteen specialist firms have agreed to pay a total of $70 million in disgorgement and penalties to settle charges of improper proprietary trading, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Wednesday.

The SEC said it charged the specialist firms for violating their obligation to serve public customer orders over their own interests by "trading ahead" of customer orders, or "interpositioning" the firms' proprietary accounts between customer orders.

The firms who settled without admitting or denying the charges are: Botta Capital Management LLC; Equitec Proprietary Markets LLC; Group One Trading LP; Knight Financial Products LLC; Goldman Sachs Execution & Clearing LP; SLK-Hull Derivatives LLC; Susquehanna Investment Group; TD Options LLC; Automated Trading Desk Specialists LLC; E*Trade Capital Markets LLC; Melvin Securities LLC; Melvin & Co LLC; Sydan LP; and TradeLink LLC.

"These firms violated the public trust by abusing the privileged position they had as specialists on the various exchanges," said James Clarkson, acting director of the SEC's New York office, in a statement.

The SEC said its investigation into the improper trading began with a referral from the agency's compliance inspections and examinations office.

The agency said the firms caused millions of dollars of customer harm from 1999 through 2005 by putting their own proprietary interests ahead of their obligation to public customers.

The SEC said its investigation is continuing.

Lawyers for E*trade; Susquehanna; Spear, Leeds & Kellogg; and Group One had no comment. Calls to lawyers representing the other firms were not immediately returned. (Reporting by Karey Wutkowski and Rachelle Younglai)

http://www.reuters.com/article/gover...12707820090304

[sl62]

Lets put it this way SL62. Hes bending over, and dropping his shorts. Only problem for him is....
SO AM I!!!!!!!!!!
You know that wont be good for Brandon!!!!!
OMG, that wouldnt be good for anyone

But I feel a simple spanking is not going to cut it unfortunately.


SSSSEEEEEEEEWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!
OINK OINK LITTLE PIGGY!!!!!!!!!!!

Rel...

The overall news is my vindication today..plus Brandon took a huge beating for this here and on SA (and like shake n bake, we helped!). I can give him some quarter here... I'm signing off for now and like you said a coke and a smile this weekend. This is great news today and my god this is huge! It prolly won't even sink in til tomorrow. I'm going to wake up like Akroid in Trading Places when Jaime Lee rescued his ass. This is all going to be a bad dream. Tomorrow I get to wake up in a new reality....how 'bout it!!! Have a good weekend all

[Wirestripper]

Get ready folks...

Fast Money is reporting a possible move upcoming that will suspend Mark to Market temporarily. If that happens, tack on another 1500pts to the Dow...

Personally, I have no clue why we didn't do this sooner. I think it's just taken this long for them to realize it's the ONLY bullet that will take pressure of this capital requirement issue, which is just clogging up everything. It's either that or let everything else come down farther to adjust to real-time values. How stupid would that be since those values will then be going back up. Why should we have to bear further pain when it's unnecessary and an ephemeral state of being anyway. Then housing bottoms and when mark to market is put back in 2010, capital requirements are more in line with less pain. What else can stop the shorts?? A: nothing.

Just thought I would add a bit of factual color to Fast Money's reporting. They barely touched on it in their discussion, but this story is based on a meeting that will be happening in DC on the 12th. The meeting is NOT to make any decisions. It is another one of Obamma's governance by committee meetings and the subject of "marktomarket" is one of several slated for discussion.

I would not be buying on this news unless you plan to play a bump on the rumors and get out., However there is some possibility that M to M could be modified. As to when, I ain't gotta clue. If it happens, it won't be at this meeting. They are just jawboning.

There is some solid financial news next week. The clearing houses for the swaps are supposed to begin sometime next week. There are ten banks participating. This should be helpful to the bank stocks and all investment houses.

[john]

sl62, This is good news for people that were dumb enough to be pulled into this BK babble in the first place. For me it is just confirmation of the same crap ass deal that was there in the first place.

My next question is what happened to the 360 million of COH. I WANT TO KNOW WHERE THAT WENT. Once again if they still show it, which I believe they will. That means this whole bullshit deal was because of a satellite that was not needed, when considering the alternative. We will find out because I just cant believe that is the reason. I am just going to say this I still have not heard about them pushing that date back.


I also still contend that they would have been fine if Charles (DISH) did not make a BK or himself look like a better alternative to the banks and bond holders. Then to work with Mel on getting the financing and credit extended.