Supposedly looking to sell map business ... not sure where it was reported, maybe here first: 10:33AM Nokia Said to Weigh Sale of Maps Business to Focus on Networks at Bloomberg ... good play if you were a fast boy and not already tied up in GE.
Symantec Pop, 1 Minute View
Wouldn't have made any money on this, even if you were super quick. "Rumor" of Veritas sale what drove this ... lots of "rumors" these days, not sure how they get disseminated, but you can bet that wise guys are positioned in advance.
View from Nanex's non-$9.99 data feed ... came all the way back in to $24.50 from $25.20 in those tens seconds.
General Electric Pop, 2 Minute View
GE to Create Simpler, More Valuable Industrial Company by Selling Most GE Capital Assets
GE more active than even SPY ... fast boys got in below $26 pre-open, slowpokes under $27 ... paying $27.22 at the open wouldn't have been the end of the world either.
View from Nanex's non-$9.99 data feed:
Walgreens Boots Behaving Badly
Weird spike at 3 PM ... would have burned me if I had played it ... fortunately asleep on SwissAir at the time. Reported earnings in the morning and this is an all-time higher (all-timer high?), but this didn't treat the day traders kindly.
Movies Watched -- Nightcrawler
Really enjoyed this one even though it was a bit long at nearly two hours. Jake Gyllenhaal plays a great fast-talking petty thief / conman / "nightcrawler" (one who films late-night gore for local TV news) ... his high-speed weirdo Dale Carnegie patter is irresistible, and his winning amoral grin a thing of genius. Another New Normal movie, American standard of living (and morality) in permanent decline is sort of the backdrop. This is a movie I can recommend from 2014, along with "The Lunchbox."
If you liked Nightcrawler and can think of similar movies I'd also like, please send me your recommendations.
Mylan Pop, 1 Minute View
More consolidation in the drug sector ... didn't have the scanner running but assume it would have caught this ... two minutes before PR Newswire timestamp ... if you paid near top of bar $66.92 it would have been disappointing but assuming a sub-$64 entry the risk reward was ok.
Banshee -- Season Two
Really enjoy this show, ultra-violence combined with lots of soft-core sex and witty dialogue, what's not to like? Alan Ball really has his finger on the pulse, doesn't he? Target audience must skew young and white and very male.
Black Mirror -- Season One
Three one hour episodes, recommended by Twitter buddy @JasonReno3 ... disturbing stuff, episode one disgustingly absurd, episodes two and three both dystopian near-future visions. Can't really recommend them unless you like being troubled.
Prime Ministerial Performance Art
Seen her in something else, god, she's beautiful
Bad memories of rear penetration
Forbrydelsen (The Killing) -- Season One
I watched 20 one hour episodes of this only to be furious at the end. Spoilers: It doesn't make any sense. Was he a serial killer or not? Why would he kill Nanna? He had no motive, it made no sense. Was it an impulse killing? Then what about Mette twenty years earlier? What secret did he and Theis share? It was just maddening.
I like listening to the Danish language and looking at all these beautiful Scandinavian people with their great names (Theis, Vagn, Pernille, etc.). But it doesn't make up for a terrible, illogical story. What a disappointment. And twenty episodes! Count 'em, twenty hours I spent on this.
Twitter Pop, Two Minute View
Looking at the two minute chart here since Twitter active after-hours and my $9.99 data feed can only grab 500 bars ... didn't have the scanner running but assume it would have picked this one up. "Takeover target" rumor supposedly what drove it. Always interested to talk to the day traders who caught it (there are no day traders anymore).
StockTwits stream from the moment ... yes, once again, there's OpenOutcrier.