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I don't know anyone who managed to hang on to anything long enough for that kind of return... consider buying MSFT or WMT a year out of their IPO. A handful of people may have done it who didn't work there, but I don't know any. To hold for that kind of return is to be willing to ride it up...

WHAT?! BSVN dropped 25% this morning! LOL! If the DOW dropped 10% people would be jumping out the windows. OMG! :D

Wow. I wish I had some '84 bonds. I didn't know anything at all about bonds or stocks back then. Nice. Bought my first house in 1982 in Arlington, Va, 3 min to DC via newly opened Rt 66 to Georgetown's Key Bridge. It was $135K and had a builder subsidized financing of 11.5% from the normal...

Actually... what works, but NOT during a protracted bear market, is when the market CRASHES, sell all your poop that doesn't move, and immediately buy the stocks that have dumped, but were super hot. No matter what, you will have a bounce a day or 2 out if things don't look so great, and you...

Sorry, didn't answer your question.... working on something else too, so a bit distracted here:). Why the knock on GROW? I think it's the bear action myself. If the markets go in the dumper, and we go into recession, people will be bailing from stocks period. The vast majority of people...

Well sort of... BEN's been around a while... and is over $100 a share. Growth has to be slower, and I don't see their bottom line doubling (GROW's did). They're not lean and mean and moving up, they're bogged down in administration now (compare GOOG to MSFT). Hmm... how to explain this...

I really hate investment advice threads, because unless you paint the WHOLE picture, which no investor in their right mind is going to do, you can only give part of the picture, which can be misleading. That said, a key to stock analysis is understanding sector rotation. There's no way to...

It's a fund company. The more money going into stocks, the more money a fund company is going to make. So if the market goes up, fund company will make money. The more people bailing from stocks, the less a fund company makes. However, since they make a % of the profit and it's the client's...

I seriously doubt it. We're all joined at the hip worldwide.

That 1966 parallel is only if you are playing indices, and IF at that. I do believe in history repeating itself sometimes, but we aren't going to tell when that will be til hindsight. Further, there's already a huge discrepancy in the map... you notice that in 1966 there was a 600 point...

What are you talking about? GE is doing great. GE was a great buy at $34, tho I have to say, it hasn't been another GROW, but the dividends are nice (not sure I'd buy now tho). GROW did almost $4 today. Geez. Why didn't I buy nothing but GROW last week? *smacks self* . I totally didn't...

My god what a day.... GROW, BIG, CVS, ADBE, QQQQ and I bought Ebay at the morning lows... holy chit, I don't know what to do with all this money! LMAO! I love bears! :D

:D :D :D :D Go Bears!!! :D

I agree sell the bounces... but buy the dips... otherwise what are you selling into the bounces :D ?

Hrm. Well, China bankrolled our real estate boom by buying up our bonds and other financial instruments... maybe now they'll start borrowing from us since our rates are better. :) Wonder what THAT would mean to our economy. Hrm.

Retail - I hate retail, for just the reasons you say. However, up and coming retail, like Walmart 15 years ago, like BIG right now, are good bets because they are niche. For that reason, Neiman and Tiffany are considerations, because they are niche. French women and armpits... my...

If I buy a theoretical stock for $10 and it splits, now I have 2 $5 stocks. Total cost = $10 Total value of stock = $10 If that $5 stock goes up $1, and I have 2 Total cost = $10 Total value of that stock = $12 If the stock never split, and it goes up $1 I have Total value of stock =...

Oh comon Bylo, you can't still be waiting for the big 10% correction? I think we'll chop around... but that's where the money's made. Back in 1999, I made a fortune buying and selling about 3 stocks, which like clockwork for MONTHS would rise $10 and drop $10 every other day. These were all...

As your tax accountant for a more definitive answer for your particular situation, but I pay the taxes in a JWROS and file the whole thing with my SS#. At least I think that's what my accountant does. Call the IRS and ask them directly, that's probably the easiest way to be sure.

Well we all know it's not going to go up forever. It's a matter of WHEN.... but we should all know that there's too much liquidity that needs to be sucked into the market before it can take it all away too. So like 1998-1999... if there are still people not all in, it's going to keep going...