CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
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That begs the question; are there any investment wizards in the group who know how to "short" a stock and, thus" reap the reward for predicting SCOs (and soon enough M$s) swan dive ?
Shorting a stock is not difficult or require great financial wizardry.
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Finally, unless you do this for a living, the odds are against you that you will make money doing this. You should avoid speculating with money that you cannot afford to lose. In other words, if you feel confident that this is a winning strategy, and you have analyzed the risk/reward ratio and determined that it is acceptable to you, and you are doing this with money you can afford to lose, by all means, go for it. Otherwise, you are just another sheep waiting to be sheared by the pros in the business.
I believe it was Mark Twain who said; "There are two times when a man shouldn't speculate; when he can't afford to and when he can." djp -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml