What a disaster. The market is down about 3% from where the futures were before this arrest news broke.

Now the buffoon has put himself in a box. Either he releases her to save the China negotiations and with it the stock market and avoiding it being red for the entire year, or he shows he's unwilling to enforce the Iran sanctions, which he put in place when he stupidly ripped up the existing Iran deal. How ironic btw, the difference in response from Trump to Khashoggi being murdered, and a woman allegedly defying a sanction.

I'm counting on ATVI having bottomed. It's been inching up on big volume last couple of days while the market tanked. I wonder if that's short covering. I like them the best out of the three including EA and TTWO. EA for reasons already discussed, and TTWO because the monetization for RDR2 looks unclear and that's surely a big anticipated earnings driver in the next year or two  while they take forever to release games.

Just started looking at pubs in greater detail recently and agree re: atvi. I bought 500 shares and will see what happens. I am hoping it is just a bounce trade.

RDR2 economy may not be *as* bad as originally thought. Appears fishing, catching alligators, etc. are easy ways to make money, although apparently a bit tedious too. For me though, I do not mind it. I havent had time to play as my semester nears its end, but I spend a great deal of time in single player hunting, etc. to build up the camp. So I won't mind fishing, etc. if I get good cash in return. It will be interesting to see what they do with RDR Online when beta is done though. they will probably need to tweak it  abit to make some things easier to obtain money.

One issue I read, if you are travelling with a nice buck you caught hunting, every player on the map will try to kill you and take it. Since I am usually the worst player on the map that will suck for me.  :)

Is there anything interesting to buy? Like I said earlier with GTAV, that lends itself to an endless variety of homes, vehicles and skins, which in turn means big spending by players.

"Anything interesting to buy?"

I don't know. I need to play online and check it out, but through next week I am busy.

Jester,

I believe I read that Wedbush took ATVI off it's 'conviction' list. Although the PT you named may be intact none the less. After you originally wrote about ATVI, I've vague thought about buying my first vg buy in years. Not a great day to to it being up about 3.50%. But maybe still a good idea. Another down day might make it irresistible.

Some days ago, I had said I read a mini-article in Bloomberg Business that was not terribly bullish on 5g deployment. Given that I'm looking at paper, I can't cut and paste. I'll write the latter part of the short story....

"A rapid 5g rollout is unlikely, particularly in Europe, where 4g adoption is still relatively low. Carriers such as Vodafone Group Plc will more gradually add 5g capacity over the next five years. The main motivation: cost reduction. Meeting data demands with 4G networks through 2025 would be about twice as expensive as with 5g, the Boston Consulting Group estimates. 

For all the technological promise, the real driver of 5G in the short term will be the bottom line, not growth."

Jamok,

I read that stocks are automatically removed from Wedbush' conviction list when they drop 25%.

Never a dull moment with this guy in Washington. 

Jester,

Just in case you weren't gloomy enough about Trump's capabilities, Tillerson breaks his silence:

nytimes.com/20...mepage

Jester, what are you currently thinking with ATVI? I am up around 7% in a short time frame, but wonder if I am better off risking it to settle in for a run much higher.