Comments on: E-trade Offers Great Example of Extreme Price Volatility

By: E-Trade Woes Help Schwab Stock Hit Multi-Year Highs - Stock Trading To Go

E-Trade Woes Help Schwab Stock Hit Multi-Year Highs - Stock Trading To Go — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:23:14 +0000

[...] subprime problems have caused the stock to lose over half its market cap this week. The stock dropped nearly 60% on Monday and as of today the company is only worth a measly $2.36 Billion. As a result E-Trade’s [...]

By: Schwabb Breaks To Multi-Year Highs - Stock Charts To Go

Schwabb Breaks To Multi-Year Highs - Stock Charts To Go — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:52:43 +0000

[...] $23.96. It is apparent the company has not been affected by the market woes as of late and actually E-Trade’s subprime problems may have helped the broker [...]

By: Brandon

Brandon — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:55:30 +0000

absolute insanity for one of the big online retail investment companies. I’m sure the options market on these guys was absolutely crazy!

By: Jakob Dupont Knudsen

Jakob Dupont Knudsen — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:45:32 +0000

This is also a great example, to see why tecnical analysis shoud be combined with the fundamentals. You sure want to know when things like this is going down..Just like when Ericsson went down. It happens extremly fast.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:33:27 +0000

WMT also gave momentum traders the bird today. I agree with you Bubs, day trading almost seems safer at this point.

By: Bubs

Bubs — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:12:42 +0000

This is the reason I feel more comfortable daytrading

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:11:20 +0000

The trading action in ETFC has been quite amazing. In fact the action in other huge market cap stocks has amazed me. 10% gains or losses in huge companies like AAPL, FCX, RIMM, etc is becoming the norm.