Market Talk / Dec. 17 - 23

However, I think most of my so called audience views are not from members of the board.

How do you draw these conclusions? Is this how you convince yourself that there are people out there interested in your opinion?

My intention is not to be conspicuous or relevent - but to provide investing information.

You are definitely not relevant to the discussions occurring on this board.

Being a bull does lend my interpretations a certain bias - that's just a shame if you don't agree.

They are either (1) not your interpretations, you have taken them from an expert or (2) they are garbage. I can sit down and read any professional article with no difficulty, but the stuff you write is meaningless. You might as well just say “the market always trends up over time” rather then the convoluted, circular logic you apply to the obvious.

If I need to dumb down my verbiage (you regard my investing utterances as garbage anyway) I'll work on it but I don't think my credibility will let me get too far.

No need to dumb it down, there is no amount of high powered verbiage you can use that will convince anyone with more then a rookie's experience that you are anything other then clueless. You have already hit rock bottom, feel free to start digging.

If I break any rules then I'll own the consequences.

Please start doing that, in fact, if your going to start posting links to articles, do in your talk thread, because that is where it is relevant.

mine is 6, 12, 18 months - it's basically that simple when you drill down to the hidden agenda. A lot of board members are actually chasing momentum and I could care less - it's not my money, all I'm doing is demonstrating that there is an alternate strategy and you should have tolerance and respect for that. You can blow all the false accusations out your sphincter - but the fact remains it still comes out as flatulence. Snort

Your approach is only relevant on any time scales other then the ones in which this board operates. Your agenda is not hidden, your an egomaniac looking for attention.

People who make it to this board - already know your strategy - they have been doing it for years. They are here because they are interested in starting down a path to examine the alternatives to the Buy and Hold strategy....THIS IS WHY THIS BOARD EXISTS, THE ASSUMPTION IS THAT IF YOU ARE HERE YOU ARE INTERESTED IN THE ALTERNATIVES TO BUY AND HOLD.

I have said numerous times, that someone should not get into this if they are not willing to devote the time. Tom clearly states theses risks. Nobody is trying to decieve people into timing. If a person is here and they don't understand the concept that greater reward comes with greater risk, then they absolutely do not have the knowledge base to understand anything your posting. Again consider your supposed audience - the young twenty something investor - when was the last time you heard a twenty year old use the word mendacious? You are totally out of touch with your audience....because that is not you audience, your here to get attention from anyone that will give it to you.

Now I'm not sure who is more sad and pathetic, you or me (for talking to you).

Not one thing I have said is false. Please note the title of the forum you spend most of your time in is called “DAY TO DAY MARKET TALK” not MONTH TO MONTH or YEAR TO YEAR. You want proof that your intention is absolutely intended to be conspicuous – you post almost nothing in the long term section because it is not popular.
 
Let me answer the first question and then I'll read your pedantic response. Just the other day there were 780 views and there are not that many people signed on to the board during the whole day. They must be members of the 25th Infantry Division is all I can surmise. That 780 views were completed in an approximate 8 hour period. Heck, yesterday it was 681 views. You tell me, possibly friends of yours watching for you to get bent.
 
Dell - a little over $10,000. It's my insurance policy. I plan to add another 1% in the not to distant future. Got my price range - just waiting.
 
Griffin,

I've just seen the light. I have to get that book written by Ann Coulter called "How To Talk To A Liberal". That's the answer. Then I'm sure we can have a civil discourse - I just have to condescend to the level of the fear driven timer. The biggest fear a timer has is the inherent risk of choking under pressure (not making a trade). When your balance improves you'll know what I mean. Until then trade with impunity and I'll continue to accumulate my asset base. And for a minute there I didn't think you knew what conspicuous meant - and now 1,000 other folks will also know. You see there is a silver linning - we're educating the youngsters. Now go earn that CIB and you'll have my full admiration.
 
In fairness to members and lurkers that may be interested allow me to present some information that may be relevent for tomorrow-OK?

The NYSE Composite is only 7,76 points away from another new all-time high.

The Wilshire 5000 is only 45.13 points away from another new all-time high.

The SPX is only 1.54 points away from another 6 year high reading.

The R2K is only 15.32 points away from another new all-time high.

And I'm assuming that most are aware that the DJIA placed a new all-time high today. Cool.
 
The biggest fear a timer has is the inherent risk of choking under pressure (not making a trade).

But that's what timers do, they make trades. I think your qoute more discribes BAHolders than timers. BAHolders have a fear of getting out and missing a big run up?
 
Wrong. Buy and holders are bi-modal we like it both ways - and most are acquainted with the rigors of pain and therefore don't fear it. A loss is part of doing business - most of the time it's only temporary. The secret is being on the right side - bull market, preferably a secular bull market and one that is a mega bull market as opposed to cyclical. For example, my last C fund buy was at $15.58 and I wouldn't mind buying more at that price. That means the market must correct before Friday or I'll pay a higher price and collect fewer shares. The added $500 to next years ceiling won't help me much. The sacrifice is to get lower prices - but I am building an insurance policy. I notice that erichschuette is set perfectly for a correction - with a 10% insurance policy.
 
Who cares about the eff'n drama, lets make some money. C bounced off and held support at 1415, that's good. I fund stayed above 73.70 all day, also good for support. Gamblers choice on S, looks like a house bet to me.
 
Will be a Santa Claus Rally ?


My allocation are in G for the rest of the Year
If there a santa rally I will miss it.
looking forward for january to be in the game.
New Money will be in and I hope to see the green
color starting NewYear .
I'm back in the bus January .
 
Please elaborate on the importance of the I-fund (EFA) remaining above the 73.70 price level all day? Thanks.

Who cares about the eff'n drama, lets make some money. C bounced off and held support at 1415, that's good. I fund stayed above 73.70 all day, also good for support. Gamblers choice on S, looks like a house bet to me.
 
Let me answer the first question and then I'll read your pedantic response. Just the other day there were 780 views and there are not that many people signed on to the board during the whole day. They must be members of the 25th Infantry Division is all I can surmise. That 780 views were completed in an approximate 8 hour period. Heck, yesterday it was 681 views. You tell me, possibly friends of yours watching for you to get bent.

How do you equate views to agreement or interest. Your thread is rubber necking at wreck. Notice how when you post, the response are rarely if ever an exchange of information? The vast majority of responses to your posts are "polite whatevers". When you post, that thread will often go dead for hours. That should tell you about the real interest in what you have to say, consider it a test group.

This exchange is what is attracting the attention. If you watch the views of other accounts, those accounts that are on the top of Rokid's list get the most views. That waxes and wanes with ones performance. Just like your views waxes and wanes depending on who is talking to you. It's not a function of you, it's a function of who's talking to you. Every post gets a certain number of hits, and if a thread gets 10 posts it will get 10 times the number of hits. This is monkey math, apparantly, all you are capable of.

... When your balance improves you'll know what I mean. Until then trade with impunity and I'll continue to accumulate my asset base. And for a minute there I didn't think you knew what conspicuous meant - and now 1,000 other folks will also know.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=conspicuous

the 1st definition - 1. easily seen or noticed; readily visible or observable:

Did you mean it any other way?

Again, you are out of touch with your intended audience: we don't discuss balances here because we can not have apples to apples to discussions and it is not our intention to intimidate the young investor. Do you have any clue as to why we do that?

Oprah had a school teacher on who never made more the 30K a year, she retired a millionaire by investing heavily her whole career. I applaud your long term dedication to investing, and I believe this site promotes that ideal (BAH or timer), but what you have done is not difficult and it certainly does not require you spending hours a day promoting it.

Your line of reasoning assumes that you are not lying. however, we are seeing a pattern of lies emerge through the course of this discussion - I now suspect that your whole balance is a lie.

My 23% is still beating the hell out of your return and the C fund, in fact I'm beating a 50C/50I BAH return and a 33C/33S/34I BAH return, with an approach that is less risky and more suited to an older investor.

Last thing - does my ability to think outside of the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld box make me a liberal? Give me a YES or NO on that one.
 
I'm impressed that you discovered the definition of mendacious - let me welcome you back DMA. You've changed your stripes but you're still a weasel underneath the new varnish. Secondly, it matters not to me what you think - you're still driven buy jealousy and envy, that was the give away. Your admonisments are not credible - just like your honesty and integrity. Your assiduous behavior was another clue. And when you call someone mendacious look in the mirror first. I will not assuage my thoughts or strategies to please a Medusa.
 
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