options (finance)

[FakeKramer]

Wow there are a lot of uneducated, misinformed people in this thread pretending to be educated and informed.

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Easy. Say I have 100 dollars. I keep the dollars as currency in a standard savings account for the period of the bull market. I earn X amount interest but the dollar has lost Y value.

Alternatively I invest that 100 dollars in the DOW at the start of the five year bull period, I show much better returns than the above example even accounting for dollar devaluation. Thus by putting $ into the DOW I have shown much much better returns than had I left my $ as $. This would not be the case had the market been bear.

I cant actually believe I am having this conversation.If you think the last 5 years have been a bear market you are in for some very rude awakenings. The idea that the last 5 years have been a bear market are at best just uninformed but at worst totally retarded.

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