Biggest short squeezes since 1990

Discussion in 'Trading' started by formal gold, Sep 19, 2012.

  1. going for the Honorable Mention if it was porn-related.
     
    #21     Sep 21, 2012
  2. Hey thanks zdreg--although the 2nd link is worthless.

    Unfortunately no it is not on that list of 10.

    What I remember is the web page not moving and the promise of bringing together buyers and sellers and saying "coming soon".

    If anyone remembers this page and what stock it was wins the 64000 question. Thanks.
     
    #22     Sep 21, 2012
  3. i swear .. we should have a vote or poll on here for the largest over priced stock out...
     
    #23     Sep 21, 2012

  4. Ahh... CMGI. You guys remember that stock?
     
    #24     Sep 22, 2012
  5. jem

    jem

    I did but could not remember the name.
    my nasdaq costs were far higher so I only traded small positions in nasdaq stocks.

    I remember people calling our office to see if they could daytrade... as they had just made hundreds of thousands holding cmgi, amazon, yahoo. Yahoo was the trader for a while.

    it was like nasdaq stocks were their to take money from wall street and give it to small investors for a year or two.

    which is why all the rules got changed.
     
    #25     Sep 24, 2012
  6. How about famous new one - FB

    on SecondMarket it was 22 dollars for a year then 3 months before the IPO SecondMarket sold it for 28-38 dollars per share. So the median price on FB should be between 21 and 30 dollars per share...
    I bought 19.00 september 14th calls when the price was 18.00 :D


    http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:FB
     
    #26     Sep 24, 2012
  7. Thanks to all who have replied.

    My apologies to zdreg--at first I couldn't open the link--now I can. What can I say? Maybe I was too dumb to click onto the link correctly.

    Anyway, i'm still hoping that someone will remember the one page website that turned into $500M before crashing. What I remember is a static web page and the promise of bringing together buyers and sellers and saying "coming soon".

    If anyone remembers this page and what stock it was wins the 64000 question.
     
    #27     Sep 26, 2012