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Ail on 16 February 2012
spurgeonryan said:
Where is THQ at? That might be one to look into if you do not care about the risk.


THQ is a now a penny stock trying to hold back bankrupcy.

Like most penny stocks it experiences tremendous variations from one day to the other.

Very very risky investment



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

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Ail on 16 February 2012
sethnintendo said:
happydolphin said:

Lots of the trends are affected by video game industry factors, and some are affected by factors from other realms. It would seem like the dip since 2008 may be economy related. The recession of 2008 didn't help things on a global scale, and of course it didn't happen too close to gen start, so gen start couldn't offset it I'm thinking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late-2000s_recession

Hey Seth, do you have a source, I'm trying to maintain a list.

 

"Some laggard stocks rose. Nintendo, which shed
more than half of it value last year, jumped 2.9 percent. "

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/16/markets-japan-stocks-idUSL2E8DG0AN20120216

You can see the bump in their stock on Yahoo

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=NTDOY.PK+Interactive#symbol=ntdoy.pk;range=1d;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;

However, while looking for the link I found this link from another source only stating 1.3 percent increase.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/global-markets/nikkei-eases-from-6-month-high-sentiment-stays-upbeat/articleshow/11910381.cms

I believe Reuters is probably more right than indiatimes site.  Not sure if one site counted after hours trading or what.


Depends if they quote the variation on the Nikkei or the Dow ( Nintendo is quoted in the US too).

it closed up 2.02% today ( but the market was heavilly up).

 

This is Nintendo YTD. The stock underperformed in January ( the market was up 7% but has overperformed it in February so far)



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

sethnintendo on 16 February 2012
Ail said:


Depends if they quote the variation on the Nikkei or the Dow ( Nintendo is quoted in the US too).

 


I am still confused on this. When looking up Nintendo they have the Japan and USA quotes or whatever.  I was always confused about this setup.  Say I wanted to buy Nintendo stock from the USA.  I would buy it on the Nikkei right or is there another option?



Ail on 16 February 2012
sethnintendo said:
Ail said:


Depends if they quote the variation on the Nikkei or the Dow ( Nintendo is quoted in the US too).

 


I am still confused on this. When looking up Nintendo they have the Japan and USA quotes or whatever.  I was always confused about this setup.  Say I wanted to buy Nintendo stock from the USA.  I would buy it on the Nikkei right or is there another option?

The primary market is the Nikkei in Japan.

However they have what you call ADR in the US which are American deposit receipt.In practice they allow you to buy and sell japanese shares of Nintendo on the Dow without having to worry about change rate.

The only drawback is the lower volume.

Here are more explainations :

 

http://www.investopedia.com/university/adr/adr1.asp#axzz1maSEac4i



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

sethnintendo on 16 February 2012

During the 90s I used to check on a few stocks each day. I always wanted to invest in Microsoft. Hell their stock didn't even do that bad during the whole anti-trust suit. If you invested in Microsoft during the late 80s you'd be fucking rich with all those stock splits... I might not like Microsoft that much as a company but I wouldn't mind making money from them... Too bad I never have any capital to invest in companies. I would have invested in Microsoft, Google (day 1 then sold around the 500/600 barrier), Netflix and Nintendo.



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sethnintendo on 16 February 2012
Ail said:
sethnintendo said:
Ail said:


Depends if they quote the variation on the Nikkei or the Dow ( Nintendo is quoted in the US too).

 


I am still confused on this. When looking up Nintendo they have the Japan and USA quotes or whatever.  I was always confused about this setup.  Say I wanted to buy Nintendo stock from the USA.  I would buy it on the Nikkei right or is there another option?

The primary market is the Nikkei in Japan.

However they have what you call ADR in the US which are American deposit receipt.In practice they allow you to buy and sell japanese shares of Nintendo on the Dow without having to worry about change rate.

The only drawback is the lower volume.

Here are more explainations :

 

http://www.investopedia.com/university/adr/adr1.asp#axzz1maSEac4i

Ah okay I get it better now. It actually isn't that difficult to understand it is just a little weird to a newbie investor. 



Ail on 16 February 2012

Here is TTWO over the last 5 years for those interested ( the 2008 high is due to EA attempt to buy TTWO, EA made an offer to buy the stock at 25$ so it jumped to that price):



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

happydolphin on 16 February 2012

Good to know, I thought the 2008 spike was due to GTA IV.



Ail on 16 February 2012
sethnintendo said:

During the 90s I used to check on a few stocks each day. I always wanted to invest in Microsoft. Hell their stock didn't even do that bad during the whole anti-trust suit. If you invested in Microsoft during the late 80s you'd be fucking rich with all those stock splits... I might not like Microsoft that much as a company but I wouldn't mind making money from them... Too bad I never have any capital to invest in companies. I would have invested in Microsoft, Google (day 1 then sold around the 500/600 barrier), Netflix and Nintendo.


Mcrosoft did well in the 80s-90s, but took 10 years off in the 2000s.

The best investment of the last 20 years is still Apple for those lucky enough that got in.

Here are the last 5 years :

 

Keep in mind the stock was 14$ in 2003 so the growth has actually been consistent for the last 8 years.......



PS3-Xbox360 gap : 1.5 millions and going up in PS3 favor !

PS3-Wii gap : 20 millions and going down !

sethnintendo on 16 February 2012

I'm glad EA didn't buy Take Two. I would never own another GTA if they did then.