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I have to admit that I take exception to your comment that business undergrad is a joke. I'm curious - what types of business classes did you specifically sit in on? I have taken a variety of optional classes as part of my business degree, and some areas of study are highly focused on...

Guess we'll eventually stop seeing all of these "Flip My House" type TV shows? :)

Might want to consider waiting a bit, Intel will likely be dropping prices on quite a few of their models shortly.

Certainly a good point. That said, I think it can often be possible at many points in your life to choose to avoid driving (public tansportation, cabs, etc.). And yes, cars can be huge, huge money sucks, I am going to avoid regularly driving my own vehicle for as long as possible.

I'm interested to see how "the market" views this data next week. My general impression is that it has typically been hoping for rate cuts, and has responded favorably to data points that provide support for rate cuts, and negatively to data points that make rate cuts less probable.

This isn't a very "trader" thing to say, but I find it interesting (puzzling?) that the Nikkei has been up, up, up at a time when the US may be facing a recession at some point in the near future.

Good point - private equity may be buying up quite a few companies right now, but eventually they will need/want to sell some of their investments.

A good portion of AMD's current issues stems from one key item - their desktop CPUs are generally speaking not as fast as their Intel counterparts. Intel's "Penryn" line of processors is looking to be good as well. I think that I have already mentioned this on another thread here on these...

Good points. I am starting to get more serious about my own trading (not daytrading yet), and I recently started trading index ETFs a bit (I really like all of the newish double beta & double beta inverse ETFs). The one thing that I've really noticed thus far is that trading index ETFs tends to...

I'm very happy to see that IB will be offering this to all clients. I am not currently an IB customer, but your firm is certainly one that I am interested in opening an account with in the future. I must admit that I am quite suprised by the quantity of complaints on this thread. I would...

Very good points. It is amazing how much sentiment can shift in the PC industry. A year or so ago AMD produced the desktop CPUs to buy (Athlon 64 X2s), now the Core Duo variants are generally mopping the floor with them. My suggestion to any would-be buyers of AMD shares would be to read a...

I'm curious - have you read the second edition of Irrational Exuberance? The new edition contains some additional material, specifically covering the US housing market. I personally found it to be an excellent read, and I am somewhat suprised that there would be some individuals on the forum...

Those pics reminded me of a recent trip to the investment section of a bookstore, huge quantity of "Real Estate Investment for Dimwits" type books. Heck, there was even one on Commodity Trading for Dimwits...

To the original poster - two elements for you to consider as well would be fear and greed. For example, 2-3 months ago the Canadian & US markets were largely driven by greed, due to a longish, steady increase in the market indexes. I would say that fear is now somewhat more dominant, due to...

You make some good points, but there are some things I would like to mention in addition to your comments: - higher risk means that higher returns on investment will be expected by investors in these pools, in order to compensate them for the risk. The question is - what levels of return...

My view is a bit different than yours - I think that this type of industry needs to get started sooner, rather than later. Future ethanol production methods sound much more promising, but the current focus on corn derived ethanol will mean that the required infrastructure will be established...

Guess we'll see how things pan out over the next few days... I'm short the Canadian TSX index right now, didn't want to take on any forex risk if markets go a bit wonky...a double inverse ETF was recently launched in Canada, few months after the double inverse ETFs were launched for US indexes.

Seems to be a recurring theme, i.e. "don't worry, everything is groovy, buy now!!" :D

I think that his "bat to the knees" analogy is excellent, I'm personally giving some thought to taking a position this week in double inverse ETFs for both the Dow and the TSX indexes, to be held for a few months.

I work in the Canadian finance industry, so I won't be immediately affected by the US sub-prime lending woes, but I suspect that we as a country will begin to experience similar lending issues in a year or two. My key concern regarding this sub-prime issue is American consumer spending, which...