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It can be difficult to tell the difference between luck and skill in investing."
The modest investor will tell you it was luck. The braggadocio will say it was skill. ( my statement is not pertaining to anyone here)
Anyone who develops a Skill (ie …
SEC:"If you purchase a stock on its ex-dividend date or after, you will not receive the next dividend payment. Instead, the seller gets the dividend. If you purchase before the ex-dividend date, you get the dividend."
Pretty cut and dry.....simple.…
What ? just had a Gallon of Wine(?) with the best Red Snapper Diner I ever had, now have to go to a Xmas cocktail Party (7pm).....your lucky I know what Year it is....but it was a Good one....year and wine
1) Payments&Bills,2) Food, clothes house,cars ect 3)savings/investing, 4)fun for our family....
Soon be NONE of#1, little of #2/3 and as much as #4 as I can stand
It will sit in my wife's, safe deposit box (as jewelry), collecting no interest, dividends or capital gains but lots of dust...Oh Well... peace and harmony to ME comes with a price
HC returns will ebb and flow with Stock market prices....
BUT if their is ONE industry in the US most likely to Grow and Flourish in the US....This is it...tb
" as Americans require and will demand only the best treatments, and will pay up for the …
You heard it first on MFO:
Tampabay
December 22 edited December 22 in Off-Topic Flag
I know better than Saying/thinking this (in this stock market game) BUT we still have time for 18,000 Dow in 2014 (17,895 11:00 am)...who would have thunk it…
I didn't read past the headline, my time is valuable, Don't worry about investing in Healthcare and you will be ok in the future...... no 'trading event" news necessary
I hate Controversy....So I'm going to use the "take it when I need it Plan" made popular by nobody I know or have read...so maybe I'll invent it...I mean I worked for it....so...why not
"Market Timing" (no meaning yet) has nothing to do Day trading. Any more than owning a produce stand has to do with Selling Apples. One is planned buying/selling for profit one is selling a product for spending money.
I'm getting you close see if …
Just What is "Market Timing" ? Anyone know? Is it buying and selling of Securities on a Price advantaged schedule? or just exactly what is it? Inquiring minds what to know....
If Columbus landed at St. Augustine Fl.(as reported) I'll bet he missed the Lazy
Sands bar, corner of A1A and the beach.....but I didn't...many Sunday afternoons, Party Time in my late 20s&30s
When I was 8yo and got my first paper route my Mother told me I HAD TO put half my profits in a savings account..She said " I may need it some day" So I did....
Know any mothers like that today or any Kids that listen?
Oh MARK I didn't realize VYM was a "fund", you will probably find it under ETFs, a different animal:
but some figures you can look over, I think the yield for S&P is around 2% or less, so pick you poison
VYM (Price)
0.32 3.39 0.16 3.05 14.13 …
Here mull this over about pricing and Investing(Decision making): tb
"Accurately knowing yourself as an investor is the foundation of everything—avoiding selling low is the critical ingredient to long-term stock market success, and you should only…
I used to have a customer who wore a button, that said "sounds like Bull sh-- to me"
Seems appropriate for the 77 reasons....Investing is common sense decision making
You bought with TWO good reasons, Prices down, Staple item (chicken not going away)
If you know anything about the skills of the people (management) that run the company ....then...three strikes...YOU WIN
"Looking back, there have been times when I've been lucky enough to not be scared out of good stocks, funds, and the market. And, other times, unlucky (or dumb) enough to scared out at precisely the wrong time."
Sounds like the guy who said " I bou…
Who said increase? In cooperation with the Fed, Jimmy agreed/Planned (not to increase inflation) but to Stop so called 10% inflation, He and Fed almost ruined the economy with 18% interest rates, and that affected my business greatly, Only inflat…
Day Trader love this kind of stuff (volatility) but they take a lot of money out of the market and make losers out of a lot of small investors & and big boys(mutual Funds) too, who buy and sell at wrong times...
Your defense: sell when up, buy w…
Repeat story(if you didn't read before) years ago I went into a Radio Shack Store and asked for a small AM FM radio for my Desk, the clerk said "we don't carry them". I went to WAL Mart and bought one for under $20....enough said
Problem: 24/7 financial news cycle, Solution: you must learn to filter garbage, take ONLY what YOU can use (to make money), file the rest into useless, then make your OWN decisions
Predictions: are for entertainment purposes only, have fun with them…
If a consumer (Dad) was spending $100 a week in gas and now only spending $50...
where is the extra $50 going? to lottery tickets, up his nose, new shoes for the kids?
I think I know...
Jafink, I traveled the state of Florida and the US for 40 years, and live in Dunedin/Countryside for 30 yrs, but better hurry, your choices: are old houses and $400,000- + condos/townhomes.....good luck but you can find a good place in paradise
Investment wise I'm going to start worrying/working on 2015 on January 2nd, until then I'm going to enjoy our successful/profitable year of 2014, drink & party and watch some College Football...Go FSU
