Pointing Out the Obvious wrote:
Pay attention wrote:
Pointing Out the Obvious wrote:
Once in the market one cannot separate managing potential losses from managing potential rewards.
That is exactly what I'm talking about. Stops are a key tool in managing both.
Stops are an emotional crutch that come with an opportunity cost firmly attached.
K5 wrote:
Pointing Out the Obvious wrote:
Pay attention wrote:
Pointing Out the Obvious wrote:
Once in the market one cannot separate managing potential losses from managing potential rewards.
That is exactly what I'm talking about. Stops are a key tool in managing both.
Stops are an emotional crutch that come with an opportunity cost firmly attached.
I have this amazingly simple way to employ stops.
I sell the investment.
i have a cold wrote:
Flagpole wrote:I'm an EXPERT investor and know how the markets work.
Cough...cough...b.s...cough...cough.
lagpole's rother wrote:
It's quite scientific. What Flagpole does is use his couple of friends as a barometer. Like he does about the non-issue of unemployment. He doesn't know ANYONE who is unemployed who doesn't want to be. Therefore, the unemployment numbers are not a true indication of the job market.
When all his friends are in the market (and their brothers) then he KNOWS everyone is in the market.
K5 wrote:
I have this amazingly simple way to employ stops.
I sell the investment.
agip wrote:
oh yeah, and the Dow set another all time record today
Pointer out of the obvious wrote:
K5 wrote:
I have this amazingly simple way to employ stops.
I sell the investment.
Thereby identifying yourself as a simpleton.
Yannix wrote:
agip wrote:
oh yeah, and the Dow set another all time record today
Also the S&P. And a 52-week high for the NASDAQ. Buy-and-holders are doing quite well.
Pointing Out the Obvious wrote:
K5 wrote:
I have this amazingly simple way to employ stops.
I sell the investment.
Thereby identifying yourself as an intelligent individual.
K5 wrote:
Yannix wrote:
agip wrote:
oh yeah, and the Dow set another all time record today
Also the S&P. And a 52-week high for the NASDAQ. Buy-and-holders are doing quite well.
Depends when you bought and how long you have held.
If you bought in early 2000 and have held since then you haven't kept up with inflation.
Ditto for mid 2008.
K5 wrote:
Maybe it is time you actually tried to give an explanation of your ad hominems? I know you won't because you just don't know how. Prove me wrong.
Flagpole wrote:
lagpole's rother wrote:
It's quite scientific. What Flagpole does is use his couple of friends as a barometer. Like he does about the non-issue of unemployment. He doesn't know ANYONE who is unemployed who doesn't want to be. Therefore, the unemployment numbers are not a true indication of the job market.
When all his friends are in the market (and their brothers) then he KNOWS everyone is in the market.
It is apparent that people who criticize me here do not come even close to reading as much about market trends as I do, because if you did, you would know when it is that "everyone and their brother" is pumping money into stocks. Investor involvement is a HUGE topic pretty much all the time, and when investors flock to stocks, that information is readily available...but, you gotta be reading and listening to know when. The market is a BIG passion of mine, and so it would be VERY difficult for someone who does not have the same passion to know as much as I do about it.
klondike5: here is a fault in your reasoning:
You claim that investment advisors add no value.
And you claim that large cap US stocks haven't much after tax return since 2000.
Here's the problem:
A good advisor will make sure that a portfolio is truly diversified, so you get those 15% per year returns from emerging markets, and 10% per year returns from mid cap, and the massive return from gold during the 2000-2013 period.
your dour description of the 'market' is proof of the value of a good advisor.
K5 wrote:
Pointing Out the Obvious wrote:
K5 wrote:
I have this amazingly simple way to employ stops.
I sell the investment.
Thereby identifying yourself as an intelligent individual.
Maybe it is time you actually tried to give an explanation of your ad hominems? I know you won't because you just don't know how. Prove me wrong.
Ad hominems are illogical, not necessarily negative. Your assertion was illogical given my stated jgnorance of stops and buy-and-hold, not to mention my June sell off
K5 wrote:
Ad hominems are illogical, not necessarily negative. Your assertion was illogical given my stated jgnorance of stops and buy-and-hold, not to mention my June sell off
agip wrote:
A good advisor will make sure that a portfolio is truly diversified, so you get those 15% per year returns from emerging markets, and 10% per year returns from mid cap, and the massive return from gold during the 2000-2013 period.
your dour description of the 'market' is proof of the value of a good advisor.
So close to 16,000
Pointing Out the Obvious wrote:
K5 wrote:
Ad hominems are illogical, not necessarily negative. Your assertion was illogical given my stated jgnorance of stops and buy-and-hold, not to mention my June sell off
Ok, you're officially an idiot. Happy now?
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So close to 16,000
