Comments on: Oh My God I Own Shares of ETrade (ETFC)

By: MoneyNing

MoneyNing — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:54:35 +0000

Jane: I still have some of it and you can see how it’s doing If you are looking for the future, it all depends on your time horizon + whether you believe the company will survive because it will inch back up eventually (assuming your time horizon is long) if the company doesn’t go into bankruptcy.

To answer that question, you need to look into the mortgage back securities that it owns and figure it out. Also, I suggest listening to the conference calls because investing in a company like this is riskier than a company like Mcdonalds for example.

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 23:41:35 +0000

Any news about your E*TRADE stock? Have you sold or held? I came across your blog a while ago when I was researching this stock!

By: bones

bones — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:59:47 +0000

question: apparently i have shares or stocks with EA which etrade want to manage. would anyone be able to assist me in finding them, have contacted ea and etrade, to no avail. i worked for an aussie company about 20 years ago, ea bought them out. never knew i had shares until etrade sent a letter to me 19 years after. luckily my parents live at the same address. etrade want to manage my shares or stocks but i dont even know as to what i have to manage. obviously there will be an adequate reward if anyone can help me in my search. cheers, bones

By: fiona

fiona — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:00:18 +0000

Too bad for you. Hope you recovered from that soon.

By: luz

luz — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:06:05 +0000

Congratulations ! How are you able to do that?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:43:04 +0000

This post and many of the comments are a great example of putting way too much faith in dollar cost averaging. The right move months ago and the right move today is abandon ship. Also, it is important to remember to not get attached to any particular investment. Since, you are down so much in ETFC, you want to hold out until it goes up. In reality, there are way better investments out there. Sure ETFC may go up… eventually, but get your money into something that works. Bottom line is there is more pain in financials coming and Etrade is a part of that sector.

Sell your stock for heaven’s sake.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:33:48 +0000

This is pretty cool…. check out http://www.supportetrade.com on the web. Looks like the common man is finally getting pissed enough to fight back.

By: Fishhead

Fishhead — Sat, 03 May 2008 04:12:49 +0000

Love Etrade……..no respect.

By: Stockwatchers

Stockwatchers — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:00:29 +0000

E*Trade is a good broker, however, Mr. Bhatia from Citi dragged the stock down for a long time. He might have personal reasons to put ETFC negative but the fact is: E*Trade made big mistakes and paid the responsable CEO 10 or 12 million Dollars.

That stock is only for highly speculative investors.

By: kate

kate — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:26:39 +0000

I love etrade and use it and bought shares NOT because of bad advertising ploys..but because i had ameritrade accounts first and the portfolios were SO confusing, when I tried etrade, i ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT and told everyone I knew NOT to open amtd accounts….darn it!!
I cant understand why amtd has such a stupid portfolio deal. I stil lhave some accounts with them and they have not improved as well as etrade.