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If anyone sends me a prepaid postage box in the mail they can have it for free, or if you live in Houston you can come by my office and I will personally hand it to you.

I haven't read a decent TA book in about 5 years. I received my copy of Evidence Based Technical Analysis yesterday and I still have not read a decent TA book in 5 years. No offense to the author whom I know has posted in this thread, but what a waste of time and money. Market Surfer, you...

After all of this discussion, that was absolutely the best way to describe zero-sum.

Opportunity costs can never be fully substantiated, and should not be included in the mix of this discussion IMO. If I purchase a stock for 20 dollars and sell it for 30 dollars on it's way up to 45.00 I did not lose 15 dollars in opportunity because you don't know what I did with my profits...

The smart money guys don't let the markets get too low? You can't be for real. Where was your so called "smart money" when the nasdaq dropped from 5100 to 1116?

Diebold has a strong footing in the voting machine market. Even with problems I doubt very seriously if you would see a strong move in the stock should some of the machines fail. Sure you may get panic selling by some retail investors but institutions know this is a minor software securiity...

Money management is the only thing you can CONTROL in the markets. If you don't have solid money management you will not be successful over the long run.

This is why I brought up my story in my previous post. When you are going up against a giant you really don't stand a chance by using conventional means. YouTube has done nothing wrong in choosing its domain name. Southwestern Bell did nothing wrong in choosing it's toll free number. In both...

It doesn't matter because there are always new ones to take the place of the bankrupt ones or they get bought out by private equity firms, or bought out by other public companies. As long as a company's stock has underlying value it is not zero-sum game. That was the whole point of this...

That was the whole point. The company has to go bankrupt for it to be a zero-sum game. If it doesn't it is not zero-sum.

Let me put it a different way. What were computer sales in the year 1800? Since there were none sold did that market take away demand from some other product? I don't think so. Wealth is created by new inventions and business ideas. Wealth is not zero-sum nor is the stock market since it...

Growth of wealth comes from business and investing. Capitalism is a great thing. Start your own business and become successful. I don't think you will believe there is no such thing as new wealth.

That would be correct if and only if there was a finite amount of wealth. As long as there is growth in wealth it cannot be zero sum. I think many of the zero sum people on this board have watched and taken the movie "Wall Street" a little too literally. Repeat after me. It's only a...

Anything that has value cannot be zero sum until it no longer has value. By that time it is zero sum, but until then, someone has made a profit on it.

Unless the companies listed on the NYSE and Nasdaq go to Zero, there can be no way the stockmarket is a zero sum game. If that day comes then the zero-summers will be correct. Until then, YOU'RE WRONG!!!!

When you are dealing with businesses in commodities, no company is really a long term winner. These type of companies will just swing to extreme levels in both directions. It's just the nature of the commodities. As far as investigating options pricing to determine the future direction of...

This reminds me of something that happened to my company. I was never so pissed in my life. I had an 800 number since I started my business in 1994. Well in 2000 Southwestern bell decided they would use the exact same number with an 866 as the exchange instead of 800. I called them and...

That's a tough one to answer. The stock is both long and intermediate term BEARISH. It is short term BULLISH. The overall market is long and intermediate term bullish, and short term bearish. This would lead me to believe that the stock won't have much upward movement because it is fighting...

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Yep you are correct on both counts.