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Of course the stock market, even the new economy NASDAQ is nothing more than old-fashioned gambling.

That is horribly misinformed.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link

It's not gambling. But as the nostrum has it, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Thursday, 24 June 2004 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link

hstencil, HTE is priced at £2.355 - it only went up one and a quarter pennies today.

Hmm, it's up from 210 already - I'll give it to 250 before it stabilises, but who knows.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link

okay I don't understand the LSE or the FTSE at all.

Today was a bad day to own AT&T.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Most of the big companies on the LSE have (arbitrary) stock values of between £1 and £10. That's just how it seems to be - in the states it seems to be roughly 10 times that, though of course this makes no difference to the actual worth of the stock.

A company I have shares in did a 1 for 15 stock split, i.e. your number of stocks was divided by 15, and the price went from 16p to £2.40. This was primarily a PR exercise to make the stock not look like penny shares.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:04 (nineteen years ago) link

so are the volumes super-heavy or what?

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link

It seems almost unbelievable now that AT&T was once the most widely held stock in the U.S. (right now I think it's either Home Depot or General Electric).

― rasheed wallace (rasheed wallace), Thursday, 24 June 2004 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link

four years pass...

How did Stencil post the current New Yorker cover four years ago?

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 10 July 2008 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link

i think you can figure that out

― gabbneb, Thursday, 10 July 2008 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link

I just bought a book about the Australian Stock Exchange today. It's surprisingly interesting so far, I'm feeling enthusiastic about it.

― gem, Thursday, 10 July 2008 15:01 (fifteen years ago) link

There should be an ILX portfolio of 10 stocks, and we can see how much play money we make in a year.

― Eazy, Thursday, 10 July 2008 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link

Everything seems like a bargain until it's worth even less the next day.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link

see how ~~much~~ little play money we ~~make~~ lose in a year.

for this year, anyway

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link

Can we short small/mid cap US banks?

― Ed, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 19:29 (fifteen years ago) link

How did Stencil post the current New Yorker cover four years ago?
-- Hurting 2, Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:48 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Link
i think you can figure that out
-- gabbneb, Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:48 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Link

Actually I can't

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link

oh wait 190 REFERS to the image size not issue #

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 20:12 (fifteen years ago) link

Yeah, I figured it out.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link

190 reefers: invest!

― Abbott, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 20:14 (fifteen years ago) link

bet on black lol

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 20:24 (fifteen years ago) link

Can we short small/mid cap US banks?

bandwagon jumper

― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 20:46 (fifteen years ago) link

twelve years pass...

Not really a stock, but for some reason predictit still has Trump winning election at 12c.

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 9 November 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link

Doesn't that make Biden at 88c easy money?

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 9 November 2020 18:55 (three years ago) link

(or whatever he's at)

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 9 November 2020 18:56 (three years ago) link

Yes, basically a 12% return (- 5% redemption - 0.1% fee) = roughly 7% return in one month = 225% compounded APR or 84% simple APR

Unless... constitutional crisis or something.

― Philip Nunez, Monday, 9 November 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link

now up to 15-16c
money is getting easier or chance of coup getting hotter.

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 21:33 (three years ago) link

the plungers have arrived

― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link

told me I couldn't buy any, too many people already had

― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 03:59 (three years ago) link

there are proxy markets you can use like
"which party wins the presidency"
"TX Dem primary winner elected president"
"woman VP in 2020"
etc...

I shouldn't be flabbergasted by anything in 2020 but my flabber is gasted.

― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 11 November 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link

I got fills at 82c today...
that means people still think there's an 18% chance trump will take the white house.
what is going on...?

― Philip Nunez, Friday, 20 November 2020 00:38 (three years ago) link

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