Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1054583)

Before you blame me for not paying attention, please look at what this camera man misses:

Originally Posted by buzzpat (Post 1054663)

Lawn dart.

Originally Posted by forgot to bid (Post 1054578)

I don't use the Snider method.

I use the FTB Makeup Shotgun method. As with a makeup shotgun, you save time

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unless you miss and make a mess of the wall.

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What are we talking about again?

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Originally Posted by iaflyer (Post 1054608)

Huh. Well - the first step is to call scheduling and ask them. If you don't get the response you want, call ALPA. They are usually pretty good about figuring stuff out.

Originally Posted by Brocc15 (Post 1054686)

Need union scheduling rep, can someone please PM me a phone number or who to contact? I am having trouble locating the info. Thanks.

Originally Posted by orvil (Post 1054518)

Hanging on to DAL stock waiting for it to get to $X.XX is like the AA pilots negotiating strategy. It's all about opportunity cost. You can take that money the DAL stock sale generates and do something else with it right now that will have a greater probability of success sooner. Why wait six months, two years, or five years to get to some arbitrary target?

Why would you have your retirement eggs in the same basket as your paycheck? Get rid of it yesterday. It's never a gain until you sell it and put the money in your pocket. Most people can't stand to take gains. They end up riding a stock up and down a half a dozen times. They justify their inability to take gains by saying they are "long term investors." DAL is a bad long term investment. Airlines are bad long term investments. Airline stocks are trades. There's a difference.

You should never invest in the company who writes your paycheck. Never, never, never. Did I say never. Now trading options for fun in DAL is another matter entirely and it is not for the faint of heart. If you know what you are doing, it's okay. Still, I wouldn't do a lot of it. Only with money you can afford to lose.

So, bottom line is this: You should have sold a long time ago and moved on.

Originally Posted by PilotFrog (Post 1054664)

The Bone wins!

Originally Posted by scambo1 (Post 1054656)

Fair questions that when I wrote what I wrote, I knew would be coming. I dont want to really go down that road on this thread, but your annual target is closer to my bi-weekly target.

Your last paragraph is honestly something I am trying to get my own brain around. Guns and bunkers arent the answer. Owning large land tracts which will likely become nationalized (by raising property taxes- to pay for overbloated local services-to the point that even the rich cant afford to pay them) isnt the answer. Physical gold? some yes, but not enough to have the door knocked down over...gotta be federally licensed now to do it legally...thanks tarp2. I was going to buy a 65' live aboard catamaran a few years ago as an escape vessel, but figured if the place really melted down to that extent, I'd just hop on the nearest one I saw.

Like I said, still working on it.

Anyone got any ideas.

Got a question for you. How long til the market tanks due to the euro meltdown without a trans-national consensus bailout plan?

Originally Posted by DAL 88 Driver (Post 1054745)

I have no idea. I don't believe that anyone can predict that sort of thing with any great degree of accuracy. I also don't think it's a given that is going to even happen. I know "doom and gloom" is popular right now... and with some good reason. But crises come and go. Generally, the people who do well are the ones who do not panic. I just don't believe the likelihood of economic collapse is great enough to justify deviating from a plan that is working for me. Your mileage may vary. ;)

As for getting 12% bi-weekly... well aren't you taking a considerable amount of risk? Are you consistently getting that?? I have a lot of doubt that a strategy aiming for something like that will be successful long term, but I certainly wish you the best of luck with it! I'm trying something right now (my father in law found it and is using it). The track record on this one is 68% annualized return so far (as of yesterday). But it's a really short track record (since Feb 2010). Here's the blog where they show their results: TradeOnAUTO Lite. I wouldn't even think of doing something like this with my retirement. I just have a small amount in it that I could afford to lose.