With the results their stock have delivered lately they are going to found my game purchases for the next 2 years ;)

TTWO up 22% since I purchase stocks

EA up 7.8% today !

Fucking assholes. Ail already has enough trophies!

Congrats on your selections, I personally believe that EA is a trap stock, their costs seem way out of line to me (+700 in new employees YOY mostly due to the popcaps acquistion) and their SWTOR sub number seem suspect also but the gain today is nice.

Take two is a awesome stock to make money, you can cycle your buy and sells around game annoucements cycles lol.

I recently took off my Nokia short as the company seems to have fallen as much as possible, rode it down from 40 to 4.50,  Should have picked up shorting both Nintendo and Sony, the strong yen  and mania most certainly spelled doom for both.

Ea isn't a long term pick in my view, I will sell once it gets around 20-21.00$.( edit , thinking more like 22.00 actually, looking at the last year chart)

But when the stock dropped so much around mid January with analyst lowering their prediction on SWTOR I took a position and I am glad I did.

I've had my TTWO position for now 1 year and I added to it last August( The August lot is actually up 32%). I'm probably going to get out of TTWO when the stock gets around 17.00$ ( which it should once we get an official release date for GTA5).

My others positions are all long terms ( AAPL, GOOG, NVDA) and all up between 9 to 15%...

The only sad thing is that the EA and the TTWO were the smallest positions...

I actually need to find some new stuff to get in as I exercised the last of my stock-options at work and I have some cash coming in next week..

I have been following Sony for a while and I think it is close to hitting bottom soon and I might actually move in, just not sure at which price...

The only issue with Sony stock is like NVDA it is a very volatile stock and can experience huge upwards and downwards swings in short periods of time..

My biggest idea for 2012 is Sprint, at $2.21 it screams buy me but Ive been burned so bad on this stock (although Ive been increasing shares as they drop) but I think once they build out their lte network and move away from wiMAX someone will come and get them.

Sony value proposition is looking up more and more, even with a horrible earnings report its still above its November low and has bounced off that low three times since 2009.  Its in a tight range of between 16 and 18 1/2 so the closer it gets to 16, that would be the opportutune time to get in.  I am personally going to wait one quarter, if their next earnings reports shows any signs of stablization then ill jump in.

The issue with Sony is I need to find something that can convince me that the company has a shot at recovering in the medium term, and that has yet to happen...

They are dead in the e-readers market. The South Korean are killing them in TV market, the console market has potential ( digital distribution should increase their profit) but the handheld market isn't looking good and I think PSVita will flop massively...( and even if it doesn't the earnings in that market are never going to contribute much to the company bottom-line).

My biggest idea for 2012 was actually bank stocks but the market took up before my cash became available and I think they are too pricy for me now..

You need to work with a broker in the country you reside....

Typically buying stocks on a foreign market will cost you more fees than buying on a domestic market and you will be exposed to change variations...

But citizenship has nothing to do with it, what is important is the country you reside in ( you can actually buy stocks on any markets from any country but the fees and change risks are going to be huge and not worth it ( I'm guessing you're not planning on spending millions of $ ;))).

PS : I'm not a US citizen, I reside in the US, I have a green card but I am not a citizen. 

PS2 : Buying stock is not something I would recommand to do on a whim, basically if you are going to need in the next few years the money you plan to invest in stocks, buying stocks is probably not such a  good idea as you won't be able to withstand a bad market swing...

Personally the money i am investing is money I won't need before I retire ( in 20 years or so) so I can withstand pretty much any huge swing..

Time to buy Nintendo stock, it's undebatable. :P

I woudn't touch Nintendo's stock with a 10 foot pole..

I just have no trust whatsoever in the capacity of the management to improve the situation.

3DS has some potentials but I think the WiiU will flop and Nintendo has been way too slow in embracing digital distribution...

The only reason I look at Sony in a different light is that if you look at Sony in Japan, it is basically too big too fail, Nintendo isn't............

@bold. Nintendo is going all out Online and digital. The 3DS already now has online demos for download in the eShop, and a new branding and infrastructure for Nintendo's online has been announced as the Nintendo Network.

Your loss, Ail. :P Hey, but it's your money, you do what you want with it, I'm just here to discuss.

@italics. Mmmm... wouldn't be so sure there bud. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. On the contrary, I would be less confident. Sure the Japanese government could salvage them, but why would they, there is much more need in companies like Honda or Toyota to start salvaging computer electronics suppliers. This isn't world war II you know.