Addicted To Trading?

The ASX opens in the morning and closes late in the afternoon five days a week. However, many traders contemplate their positions and their strategies in the evenings, at weekends, or when they are supposed to be doing something else.

With other media, this kind of behaviour is known as compulsion which often leads to addiction.

Are you showing signs of addication to trading? Do you carry on when you should stop?

85% Gain In 1 Day Sometimes Happens

How did this occur? Quite a straightforward recipe. Get three companies, in this instance, Google(GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT).

If one of those companies makes a move, the others seem to follow suit. Here is a recent example with Online Advertising.

Google buys DoubleClick for US$3.1bn, Yahoo buys Right Media for US$680m. What did Microsoft do?

After missing out on DoubleClick & Youtube to Google and missing out on MySpace to News Corp (NWS), there had to be a move somewhere.

Microsoft finally pulled the trigger and bought Aquantive. And so they wouldn't be outdone they paid $6bn for them.

Investors in that stock saw that Aquantive (AQNT) was purchased at 85% above its traded price.

Aquantive investors, would have spent the entire day smiling...instead of waiting for Vista to load up.

Qantas - Everyone Has An Opinion

Airline Partners Australia have failed in their takeover bid for Qantas (QAN). Many big players were involved in a staring contest seeing who would blink first. What no party counted on was the complete lack of blinking so the takeover failed.

What many people forget is that Qantas is a mainstay of the Australian investor portfolio. Are there any stories out there on how Qantas has played in their portfolio over the last 3 months?