Recent content by theboxer

As far as you're concerned, it's just buying/selling in reverse. There is no waiting period. When you short-sell, you're technically <i>borrowing</i> the shares first, and then selling them on the market. When you cover your short, you're buying the shares back to give back to the borrower...

Why were they elected, then? Mainly because the voters generally can't tell the difference between someone who understands the economy and someone who doesn't. Provided that elections are not outrightly stolen (now I'm not saying they aren't), the responsibility always comes back to the...

Just imagine all the money you'd be making right now if you were a perma-bear instead of a perma-bull. (perma-bullshit, that is)

Thank you!

That's kind of what I was thinking.

nysestocks, what you consider to be "the obvious", may not be what someone else considers it to be. Though both may be correct. I think you should clarify.

I'm not saying anything about whether or not it's a good idea, but I really don't see how it's like smoking opiates through a straw. Not even a little bit.

(* but get a shotgun)

You always claim to know what the "huge funds that move the market" are doing or thinking.

Oooh rah back to ya.

Anything is possible when you don't know someone, but why make assumptions about people without any base?

That's fine, I agree, unless the cops <i>become</i> the enemy. Then you can only rely on yourself and your good friends & allies. Not a likely scenario, I agree, but certainly a possible one; and I like to be prepared for the worst.

That's interesting; but you're right, I have no real knowledge of what Texas is like except from anecdotes here & there. So, for example, what are some of the awful gun laws there?

I have no experience buying guns; just wanting some advice, and maybe a discreet person-to-person sale. I'm no criminal, just a dude who wants to protect his shit.

Well, I'm not up to anything suspicious; I've disclosed pretty much everything. I want protection for myself & my girlfriend, primarily in case of a law-and-order breakdown in NYC or in the US in general.