The Following 4 Users Say Thank You to tzsm98 For This Useful Post: | ||
|
2011-02-04
, 01:26
|
Guest |
Posts: n/a |
Thanked: 0 times |
Joined on
|
#32
|
The Following User Says Thank You to For This Useful Post: | ||
![]() |
2011-02-04
, 03:38
|
|
Posts: 1,789 |
Thanked: 1,699 times |
Joined on Mar 2010
|
#33
|
![]() |
2011-02-04
, 04:10
|
Posts: 139 |
Thanked: 224 times |
Joined on Nov 2007
@ San Francisco, CA
|
#34
|
The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to cBeam For This Useful Post: | ||
![]() |
2011-02-04
, 04:37
|
|
Posts: 4,365 |
Thanked: 2,467 times |
Joined on Jan 2010
@ Australia Mate
|
#35
|
Nokia will have the last laugh when they see N9 triple boots Meego, Android and WP7
![]() |
2011-02-04
, 05:52
|
|
Posts: 1,436 |
Thanked: 3,144 times |
Joined on Jul 2005
|
#36
|
Once upon a time an analyst for an investment bank was looking to buy something extra special for his girl friend for Valentine's Day. He checked the vault and found - uh-oh! Almost empty from the meltdown from all the bad loans he had made prior to 2008!
So he sat and he thought and he thought and he sat. Then it came to him - I'll short a tech stock and refill the vault and baby-sugar-honey-cakes will be be able to have a nice Valentine's Day gift after all.
But then he sat and thought and sat some more. What's the best way to short a tech stock? He thought and he sat and he sat and he thought. I know, I'll trash some foreign company in a far away land that many people can not find on the map. I'll suggest that they are following a bad path and will be a major failure if they do not do what I suggest. Then I'll suggest something stoop-id but plausible. I'll get an information hungry blog to parrot my words and then I'll cash in when the stock falls a half a point based on all the negative buzz.
The ridiculous analysis written, he fires it off to various blogs and one, maybe two bite. The stock drops a fifth of a point and baby-sugar-honey-cakes gets to have her present. Not as nice of a present as it would have been had the stock fallen a full half point but more than enough to ensure there will be some rare physical affection in the late evening of 14 February for the banker. The banker pats himself on the back and wonders "Maybe next time I ought to clue in the blog so they can make a penny too. Nah."
A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy Forever