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Technology Stocks : The New QUALCOMM - Coming Into Buy Range
QCOM 157.97-0.7%10:43 AM EDT

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To: Elroy who wrote (9099)6/19/2024 8:20:33 AM
From: Lance Bredvold  Read Replies (2) of 9123
 
I appreciate the discussion. I had think or swim at TDAmeritrade, tried it a few times and decided it was just too messy to be worth learning for a septogenarian. who was entirely familiar with the old trading platform. Now an octogenarian who was converted to Schwab just last month I really don't think I will be able to get comfortable with all the functions offered on think or swim--I don't even like the black format. I did a few trades with it and found it interesting and quite useable but since I had no intention of getting into gamma and beta and all those various complications, could see no advantage.

The new Schwab layout seems to me to be very easily understood though I'm still looking for an easy cost basis summary for all my stocks. I'm sure it's there someplace and don't need it until year end. Since I think what you suggest, Elroy, is wonderful, it's way more complex to me than just doing it myself mechanically. And as WWW has suggested, I might even try to time my sale and purchase though with just 2 more days to do it I'd probably be better off sticking to a later strike. No, maybe I'll try it today as a good project though it will involve buying those calls back at a large loss and my experience has usually been regret for trying to rethink my original idea that Walmart was not growing it's earnings fast enough to justify the price of it's stock.

The change has been two excellent earnings reports and also some promising competitive breakthroughs. And then the whole market seems pretty frothy to me but these are the lowest strike calls on WMT I've sold and are the most unprofitable.

Thank you both for your thoughts on my question.
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