E-trade's up 25% today. Anyone get in when it got clobbered?

Nice little bump today. A little more and I can take a little profit.

Not bad. Yesterday's -2% schlog only effected me -0.5%. I'm fairly defensive when things behave as expected....which has been alarmimgly rare since July.......Nov 31, I'll get some nice phat dividends. So suddenly coasting to year end up 12% or so looks pretty good..........I just got hammered bad a few weeks ago.

P.S. DGS goes ex-divdend on 12/21 and pays it's annual dividend on 12/28. No idea how much per share.

Re: DGS. Talk about a lack of info... Have to watch it some.

Not for you. Too risky. Pure speculative play on small companies that throw dividends. http://www.wisdomtree.com/etfs/

Ha yes... Thanks P.

Start of another good day... Think I'll bump this thread a couple of times a day to keep it neat the top.

Neat And near the top!

See the market make the bull run, see the silly bear. We are still in a cyclical bull market....this could make my year.

neat/near.. I need to clean my glasses more often.

It's OK I forgot to post this:

http://www.federalreserve.gov/fomc/beigebook/2007/20071128/default.htm

You mentioned TMA recently. I Bought a bunch on Mon. & Tue. Average price 8.75 . Was going to sell it today but decided to wait another day.

Someone on CNBC said there is heavy short covering in financial.

"At an investment conference yesterday, Thornburg Mortgage (NYSE: TMA) COO Larry Goldstone told analysts that the company hopes to reinstate its dividend in December.

The company’s liquidity position has greatly improved since the August-September time frame according to Goldstone, and is currently sitting on about $725 million worth of assets it could sell immediately for cash if needed. Overall, Mr. Goldstone struck a very positive note, which seems to have reassured investors, leading to a pop in share prices"

It could be a great long term hold that would have an effective dividend yield of more than 20%. Why sell?

I'm a buyer of more that those prices, only thing is there are other things I want as well, and I want more diversification.

I've been trading TMA ever since it crashed this summer. On the initial dive and bounce, I made a big kill, then I day traded it for some time. Made a lot of money on it. I couldn't find any thing on when the dividend will be resumed. They did pay on the preferred, but the common could go a long time in the present environment before they resume dividends. If it goes over $10 I'm going to sell some.

CNBCs' Erin Burnett had a good interview with TMA COO Larry Goldstone at about 9:28 AM this morning. It should show up as a video on CNBC.com sooner or later.