Cosmic's MarketPlace Wrap - 5/10/2011

[cosmic]

Well I voted we'd go down today but whoopsie lol.

Bought a little SQNM but sold when it broke 8.40 on the downside. I'm not going to play it again right now just to see where it settles. The initial push is over to get us up here, and typically SQNM sells off a bit now.

No trades.

Hope everyone made some money today and will do so tomorrow. Members, please post your results along with your RDA of smileys!

[Clinton SPX]

1 trade. playing small ball
FEG in 23.86 out 24.42
account barely green today

[Rich]

I was right

I was right I was right

bwahahahahah

ahahhaha!

[demanuel2001]

Er I gues this is the wrapup? Nice day for all my dog stocks to sneak up. BYD and MPEL are still chugging. I doubled down on FSII and SIRI (both tiny investments). Lightened up on my LVS position slightly. BPZ was up nicely too. Between the lot of them I snuck back up 1% of portfolio value.

[ppppp3571113]

sold EOD, everything I bought yesterday:
TNA 6.5% gain
SPY 1.5% gain

Probably tomorrow is a bull.

[cosmic]

D-Man I had the Poll on the Brain but it was time to do the wrap. It's been fixed.

[davetherave]

My portfolio stopped bleeding last week and now this week it is healing and scabbing up if you will. I was up 4% today.

One trade...Added more WNR at 17.5

Remain long ERX, WNR, NGD, AAU, DAC

[jack]

Something's eating my tomato and peppers plants.

THIS means WAR!

[kbk3ck]

PESTS OF TOMATO
Tomatoes are subject to attack by a large number of insect pests from the time plants first emerge in the seed bed until harvest. Aphids, flea beetles, leafminers, and spider mites threaten young plant-bed tomatoes. In the field, flea beetles, aphids, leafminers, stink bugs, and fruitworms cause minimal damage to the foliage. However, severe damage may result either from their feeding on the fruit or by spreading certain diseases.
Greenhouse tomatoes have many of the same pests as field tomatoes. Tiny pests such as aphids, whiteflies, leafminers, and spider mites are more likely to infest greenhouse crops than beetles, grubs, or caterpillars. Occasionally moths enter through holes in screens or fans and lay eggs in the greenhouse. Even in screened greenhouses, armyworms, fruitworms, and loopers may be brought into the greenhouses on plants.


KEY TO TOMATO PESTS
A. Pests that feed on the upper plant

Pests that mine leaves or bore into fruits and/or buds

Tomato fruitworm - Early instars: cream colored or yellowish-green with few markings; later instars: green, reddish, or brown with pale stripes and scattered black spots; moderately hairy; up to 44 mm long; 3 pairs of legs, 5 pairs of prolegs (Fig. 228A); holes are chewed in fruits and buds

Tobacco budworm - This caterpillar is similar to the tomato fruitworm except mature worms are somewhat smaller and slightly more slender than tomato fruitworms (Fig. 228B); in addition, the microscopic spines on the skin of tobacco budworms are more slender, longer, and occur closer to the setae (hairs)

Tomato pinworm - Young yellowish-gray larva only a few millimeters long, making blotch mines in leaves; older yellow, green, or gray, purple-spotted larva up to 8 mm long (Fig. 229), folding leaves and webbing them together, or boring into stems, buds, and fruit; fruits with pinholes and discolored blotches

Vegetable leafminer - Colorless to bright yellow maggot, up to 3 mm long, with pointed head; makes serpentine mines in leaves; each mine slightly enlarged at one end (Fig. 230)

Chewing pests that make holes in leaves

Blister beetles - Several species of slender, elongate beetles up to 19 mm long; have prominent heads; bodies variously colored but usually black (Fig. 231A), black with yellow margins (Fig. 231B), or black and yellow striped (Fig. 231C); stringy black excrement on heavily infested plants; foliage ragged; plants sometimes stunted

Cabbage looper - Green caterpillar with longitudinal white stripes; body up to 30 mm long, tapers toward the head; 3 pairs of legs near head; 3 pairs of fleshy prolegs (Fig. 232); young larva on underside of leaf; consumes tender leaf tissue leaving most veins intact

Colorado potato beetle - Yellowish-brown, oval, convex beetle up to 14 mm long with 5 black longitudinal stripes on each wing cover and several black spots on the pronotum (area behind the head) (Fig. 233); feeds on leaves and terminal growth

Flea beetles - Various species of tiny, darkly colored beetles 2.5 to 4.5 mm long; have solid color body or black body with pale yellow stripe on each wing cover (Fig. 234); tiny round holes in foliage

Hornworms - Green to reddish-brown caterpillars up to 90 mm long with red or black anal horn; body with 7 diagonal or 8 V-shaped marks on each side; round black spiracles along side of body (Fig. 235); strips leaves from vines; infrequently feeds on fruit leaving large, open superficial scars

Sap-sucking pests which cause leaf discoloration, leaf or fruit deformation, or defoliation

Aphids - Soft-bodied, pear-shaped insects with a pair of dark cornicles and a cauda protruding from the abdomen; may be winged or wingless -- wingless forms most common; feed in colonies; cause discoloration or mottling of the foliage; excrete honeydew on which sooty mold grows

Green peach aphid- Pale yellow to green wingless adult up to 2.4 mm long (Fig. 236A); winged adult with dark dorsal blotch on yellowish-green body (Fig. 236B); nymph with 3 dark lines on abdomen (Fig. 236C)

Potato aphid - Adult and nymph both solid pink, green and pink mottled or light green with dark stripe; adult up to 3.5 mm long; long, slender cornicles about twice as long as cauda (Fig. 237)

Greenhouse whitefly - White moth-like insect about 1.5 mm long; found in conjunction with tiny yellow crawlers and/or green, oval, flattened, immobile nymphs and pupae (Fig. 238A to F); leaves yellow and drop from plant; some plants stunted and unreproductive; black sooty mold often present on leaves

Stink bug - Green or brown (nymph green with orange and black markings) shield-shaped insect; adult up to 19 mm long (Fig. 239); pierces buds and fruit causing buds to drop and fruit to be deformed

Silverleaf whitefly - Adult is slightly smaller (0.96 mm in the female and 0.82 mm in the male), slightly more yellow in color and holds its wings roof-like at about a 45-degree angle; nymphs appear glassy to opaque yellowish and have a flattened and scale-like body with the margin near the leaf surface; pupa is flattened, dome-shaped and lack setae; plants stunted and nonreproductive with black sooty mold present

Western flower thrips - Adult is about 1 mm long, varies from a pale yellow to dark brown and has a rounded, narrow abdomen; larvae are distinctly yellow; plants are distorted and have a silvery appearance; an important vector of spotted wilt virus

B. Pests that feed on roots or lower stems

Cutworm - Fat, basically gray, brown, or black caterpillar 40 to 50 mm long when fully grown; 3 pairs of legs near head; 5 pairs of fleshy prolegs (Fig. 240); active at night; young caterpillar climbs on leaves, older caterpillar severs seedling stems near the ground; hides during the day in soil burrows at the bases of plants

Southern potato wireworm - Slender, wire-like cylindrical larva with 3 pairs of short legs near the head and a pair of fleshy anal prolegs; white, cream, or yellow-gray body with red-orange head capsule; about 17 mm long when fully grown; closed notch in last abdominal segment (Fig. 241); ragged, irregular holes in roots

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[kbk3ck]

Love ya Bro. And your tomato plants too.
;D

[jack]

May 10, 2011 20:31:42 GMT -5 kbk3ck said:

Love ya Bro. And your tomato plants too.
;D

Thanks my brother from another Mother! lol!!!

I think things are now under control...put up chicken wire around the perimeter reinforced with stones where necessary...a PIDAS is now on order from my buds in DOE Physical Security (btw I wrote the book on Perimeter Intrusion Detection Alarm Systems quite awhile back). Snail and slug bait is down on the ground as well as a few saucers full of Bud Light beer (I didn't buy that shit somebody gave it to me) and an animal trap is out w/ peanuts laced with peanut butter on them. I hope the fukken critter(S) doesn't mind they are not the salted variety.

MFers...thought about staying up and wait for it with the shotgun but...residential neighborhood and all..."the MAN with da power" might not be amused...

[tajmahal9898]

I have kind off a weird position right now..

200 short May2 24 VXX puts for .83 cents -- down 6K
50 short May2 24 VXX calls for 1.49 - up $6325

kind of wash on overall position, but down 4K today. -- lost unrealized profits..

[kbk3ck]

May 10, 2011 20:41:51 GMT -5 jack said:

May 10, 2011 20:31:42 GMT -5 kbk3ck said:

Love ya Bro. And your tomato plants too.
;D

Thanks my brother from another Mother! lol!!!

I think things are now under control...put up chicken wire around the perimeter reinforced with stones where necessary...a PIDAS is now on order from my buds in DOE Physical Security (btw I wrote the book on Perimeter Intrusion Detection Alarm Systems quite awhile back). Snail and slug bait is down on the ground as well as a few saucers full of Bud Light beer (I didn't buy that shit somebody gave it to me) and an animal trap is out w/ peanuts laced with peanut butter on them. I hope the fukken critter(S) doesn't mind they are not the salted variety.

MFers...thought about staying up and wait for it with the shotgun but...residential neighborhood and all..."the MAN with da power" might not be amused...

One word.... CROSSBOW!!!!!

[puurfectten]

today played out nice..dumped my vxx 24puts..left some meat on the bone but up 65%....layered in on 25 calls...lookin for a usd short squeeze...spx maybe gap down past 1350 and run to 1335...

[timber]

wow did you watch tvix take a nose dive yesterday......both my big scam shorts made me a huge amount of money yesterday......tvix and tza were my best performers.....of course i rarely cover them so its unrealized