BansheeX,
You're absolutely right a graph comparing the relative prices of two GOODS doesn't have to be adjusted for inflation. But your not talking about two goods your talking about one good and an INDEX of INVESTMENTS. Take the S&P500 and the AVERAGE dividend and gold gets destroyed per...
LK you miss interpreted my post, I am agreeing with you 100%. I was just saying you need to add more to the picture; giving him a silhouette off a human isn't going to allow him to distinguish between a saint and a murderer. You need to add a few more clue's like a halo or a gun (well maybe less...
LK you need to go beyond spoon feeding you need to do the airplane noises / funny faces routine as well. Hedge funds do buy/sell stocks (among many other things), so it's an easy mistake for the layman to assume the SEC has much of a say in how they operate / report (as evidenced by OP and...
The customer is always right. Given that the American consumer is the most powerful economic force on the planet everyone is going to bend over backwards to please them (us).
As much as I hate to make the argument to clients everything is relative. If everyone is going down the tube good ole...
The best line in that article is: "If you wait for robins spring will already be gone" ~
The article unfortunately fell on deaf ears today, in another 12 months though we will probably hear a resounding DOH from everyone that stood on the sidelines.
If you want to make money and sleep at...
Shorting is evil? How about thinking that Enron is a crooked company and that they are cooking their books? That must be evil. What about thinking Oil at $140 a barrel when there is a possibility that there is going to be a slowdown in the US is damn crazy? Damn that must be a plan from the...
Just like buyers willing to pay more for an ownership stake in the co increases its stock price. Sellers willing to sell at lower and lower price drive a stock's price down. Shorts increase the amount of selling going on, thus drive prices just a little bit lower.
Whats going now is...
Shorts are fine. You can bet for (long) be unsure (not own) bet against (short). Plus short positions give vital information with regards to where people think the stock price is going. The pendulum always swings both ways, shorts just grease it to the down side.
Being leveraged 30:1 and your...
Something to ponder:
This year the best performing index has been Botswana and Ghana is not far behind. Think about how ridiculous that is.
*edit:
Media reports that the market is tanking 60% of the time and positive 30% of the time, when in reality its the other way around.
Note: $126k profit requires a $912k stock investment for a stock going between $114 - $135.
Lothar you actually have to know what all of the ratio's mean otherwise you're right they are worthless.
Heyheybooboo, you might want to know a little more about Buffet and how Berkshire work...
1- It's called AIG, you see what happened to them?
2- Opportunity cost, why would you buy something with a net negative yield? Or something that is supposed to pay a yield but doesn't?
3- It's not regulatory barriers that is stopping private capital from buying a pile of s**tty mortgages, its...
Some things for you to think about:
- Wall street is a meritocracy.
- The average lifespan of a Stock Broker is <1 year.
- GS is gangster period. Doubt? look at their earnings vs. everyone else.
#1 The CEO of the best firm on Wall street is probably qualified to be treasury secretary.
#2...
Why would you want to invest in foreign currencies? You might want to look at what the USD is doing vs everyone else.
Keep in mind in MF's you never own the underlying securities you own shares of the MF, big difference.
Skroob you're close enough.
MKT ended up 140, as for tomorrow...
Dissipate:
Read the article again, what I said holds true. There must always be money being added to the system for you to be able to realize that tax loss. What he's talking about is using the shares that you purchased just before the market went down to get a tax loss. That means constantly...
Dissipate:
You still have to declare the gains when you sell. Even if you have an infinite number of S&P trackers, if 3k losses are your only taxable events your are still loosing 3k a year until the S&P goes to 0. You have to take gains at some point for it to be profitable. For the "no...
As far as the investment tax thing goes you guys have it all wrong here's the cliffs:
- Short term gains (<1year) = income = normal taxes everyone else pays (day traders pay taxes just like you so no crying)
- Long term gains (1year+) & Dividends = 15% (capital gains on houses are exactly...
The Fed agreed to put up $200 B worth of credit that can be backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac CMO's, 28 day loans mind you. This is so that banks start lending to each other again. The problem has been even though fed rates have been coming down bank rates have not on top of banks simply...
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