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I think it's more hype than truth
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It's time to unlevel the playing field and make the gap wider between the have-s & have-nots
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What do you think? With all of the talk about subprime foreclosures, credit debt, businesses folding...are we going into a depression? Recession dead ahead? - MSN Money
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Damn, RB! You're just a ray of sunshine today...
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Well it is raining and dark in my neck of the woods, other than that I am fine. I think!
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As I've said before, the media cannot tell you that we're in a recession. It has a very specific meaning in economics, relating to economic indicators being down over a certain percentage for more than two consecutive quarters.
Right now, most of the economic indicators are still up. So regardless of the hype out there, we are NOT in a recession.
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There will be a separating of the wheat from the chaff, but that is expected considering how few people bother to read legally binding agreements when they are blinded by their own personal greed.
Does that equal to a nationwide recession? Not necessarily. With some careful financial planning, the have-nots could become the haves.
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Originally Posted by centex  With some careful financial planning, the have-nots could become the haves. | Such as knowing when to fold?
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Most major markets are dramatically overbought and poised to come down another 20% or so.
That is not a bad thing.
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Nope. We've been here before people, but everyone seems to have memory loss each time it happens.
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I should add, barring any unexpected catastrophic events.
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Things are looking a little grim, I have been buying Gold, hopefully can sell it before it goes down lol
I was able to snatch some of the 2007 buffalo gold pieces. The stock market is messed up, I took a beating on apple today  Hoping that they do good on the show next week. I was kind of looking as long term investment, but cannot afford to keep if it continues to go down as it did today.
So my opinion is that we could be headed for recession, hoping that the Fed steps in before all hell breaks loose.
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You shouldn't try to do market timing. It almost never works. Buy and hold is the best strategy.
Right now I'm buying the hell out of good quality stocks. It's like buying at a sale.
Why do people want to get out when the market goes down and get in when it goes up? That's like going to the store, saying "oh, it's half price. Let me sell the one I bought at full price now for half price. But I'll wait until you put the price up to buy again."
If you're going to build wealth, buy Apple (or whatever you want) and hold it.
By the way, if you didn't sell it, you didn't lose anything.
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Originally Posted by Hedwig You shouldn't try to do market timing. It almost never works. Buy and hold is the best strategy.
Right now I'm buying the hell out of good quality stocks. It's like buying at a sale.
Why do people want to get out when the market goes down and get in when it goes up? That's like going to the store, saying "oh, it's half price. Let me sell the one I bought at full price now for half price. But I'll wait until you put the price up to buy again."
If you're going to build wealth, buy Apple (or whatever you want) and hold it.
By the way, if you didn't sell it, you didn't lose anything. | I did not sell it, I was thinking about giving it one year, it still hurts to see the paper loss | |
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Yea, but I took a $20K loss on paper not long ago.
Within six weeks I was back up $25K.
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No recession for now. But, the media will keep trying to get us into one.
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Exactly. That's the problem when people get all their news from the internet and TV cable news sources.
Economic news should come from reputable economic sources, not from some media mogul. When the economic and business sources start talking about recession, I might give it some consideration.
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Originally Posted by Hedwig You shouldn't try to do market timing. It almost never works. Buy and hold is the best strategy.
Right now I'm buying the hell out of good quality stocks. It's like buying at a sale. | That is exactly wrong and financial suicide....especially in the current environment.
There is no need to even try to market time. Just sell if it goes below the 50 day or 200 day moving average....easy.
If one had "bought and held" when the Nasdaq was at 5000.....it will take most of their lifetime to get back to break even.
Qtip AAPL could go back down to $70 over the next year or two. PM me if you want me to tell you why.
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Originally Posted by spinn That is exactly wrong and financial suicide....especially in the current environment.
There is no need to even try to market time. Just sell if it goes below the 50 day or 200 day moving average....easy.
If one had "bought and held" when the Nasdaq was at 5000.....it will take most of their lifetime to get back to break even.
Qtip AAPL could go back down to $70 over the next year or two. PM me if you want me to tell you why. | I sold apple today and lost on a 6 dollar run Why could apple go down so low?
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Let's get some stock talk going on, so I can learn a bit more.
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Originally Posted by roybean Let's get some stock talk going on, so I can learn a bit more. | Bought feeder calves last year and plan to sell next year for a marginal profit.
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Originally Posted by roybean Let's get some stock talk going on, so I can learn a bit more. | Stocks are an extremely inefficient investment and a lot riskier than people realize, especially given the current environment.
The market is still dramatically overbought and while I am not saying it will, it is very likely to go down considerably.
Why people dont trade markets themselves in the form of ETFs or financial futures contracts is completely beyond me....oh yeah...forgot, brokers make almost no commission on those.
There is a way to trade with only about a 2% risk no matter what happens but you need about $100k to do that.
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Originally Posted by hannah Bought feeder calves last year and plan to sell next year for a marginal profit. | Feeder calves??? And what is a marginal profit, pray tell?
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Originally Posted by roybean Feeder calves??? And what is a marginal profit, pray tell? | You said you wanted more stock talk. And marginal profit is the sale price per pound I will get after feeding them for two years over what I paid for them. I will, of course, slaughter one for the freezer.
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Originally Posted by hannah You said you wanted more stock talk. | and it doesn't get any more 'stock' than livestock...unless of course we were talking about music or racing, in which case it is still stock, but of a different nature 
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All of the financial institutions that gave sub-prime mortgages will have problems. Most of them will survive. The ones that don't didn't have a good business plan and didn't keep track of what was going on with the economy.
That's been my whole point. Especially if you're in business, you need to be aware of more than what you are doing.
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