Phooey. I shoulda bought EDIG first, then yapped. I had the right idea, but I was a little too slow and too cute. I moved my EDIG bid 1/8 above the ask twice at 16 3/4 and 17 1/4. On some other trades, I've given away some teenies by being too generous on the bid--apparantly the others were more liquid and/or slower moving, because I've noticed the sale to me sometimes would bump up to my bid then drop right back down again.
EDIG moved too fast though and blew by my mental check point beyond which a quickee gimmee turns into a maybe. I know, "no guts, no glory," but I seem to get into trouble when I lose discipline and get caught up in the chase.
Turns out the aftermarket thing on ELON was the right thing to do. Thanks Dale. I might not have pulled the plug otherwise, turning a nice profit into a not so nice loss. But for an engineer who prides himself on mental math, it turns out I can't subtract worth a hoot. Can't read my balance statement either. As I mentioned, I bought a bunch of shares of ELON yesterday. I sold about a third just before the close. Then I worked off the rest, or so I thought, in 4 chunks aftermarket. Turns out when I wrote my earlier message here this am, I was still the proud, and blissfully unaware, holder of 100 shares of ELON, down a bunch overnight. Pretty funny eh?
On a much smaller scale, kinda like the NASA guys working out the complicated trajectory-to-Mars problem, then not making the metric to English conversion. <<ggg>>
Jim |
