Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-29-2007, 09:40 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,006
Re: Basic correlations
easiest examples would be commodity companies compared to the commodity, i.e. price of gold vs. stocks of gold mining companies
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-27-2007, 05:30 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 775
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-27-2007, 04:06 PM
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,534
Re: Really noob sounding question guys...
Did you use a market order or limit order. Market order means you buy at the current price, with a limit order you enter your limit price and the order will not go through if the price is above that.
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-27-2007, 10:55 AM
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Replies: 52
Views: 3,270
Re: Anyone Else At The Panic Point On The Dollar?
Agreed, we have finally reached the point where everyone and their mother is talking about the weak dollar. It's declined significantly over the last few years, my bet is the easy money has been...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-14-2007, 04:39 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 275
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
11-01-2007, 09:24 AM
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Replies: 34
Views: 680
Re: Market Model Thingy
When you have a lot of data and you try to do things with it you will find lots of relationships, most of which have no predictive ability. It's called data mining. I think a lot of the time you...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
10-24-2007, 06:37 PM
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Replies: 46
Views: 683
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
09-24-2007, 04:37 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 328
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Forum: Sporting Events
09-20-2007, 12:09 AM
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Replies: 3,356
Views: 26,976
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
09-14-2007, 06:00 PM
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Replies: 38
Views: 554
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
09-06-2007, 06:53 AM
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Replies: 9
Views: 340
Re: new house/apt vs used
Some of the developers are going bankrupt/getting in financial trouble so there are going to be forced sellers of new units too.
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
08-31-2007, 01:11 PM
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Replies: 11
Views: 144
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
08-10-2007, 08:58 AM
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Replies: 23
Views: 228
Re: Pump-and-dump scheme
Yeah it was Lebed, looks like my numbers may have been off. He was a frosh when I was a senior, but he was always thought to be the most likely to do some columbine style attack. He got picked on...
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Forum: Other Other Topics
08-09-2007, 07:23 PM
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Replies: 220
Views: 1,827
Re: Who will win: Dog or Football team?
I think a full grown golden retriever gets tackled, they are big enough to make a decent target and aren't that fast relative to other dogs. If you pick a smaller, faster dog then I pick the dog.
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
08-09-2007, 07:15 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 228
Re: Pump-and-dump scheme
I went to high school with a kid who made at least a few million bucks through pump and dumps(he made it all while he was still in HS). I think he was doing this during 1999-2000, he made a bunch of...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
08-09-2007, 03:50 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 223
Re: Why do banks give loans?
Banks are leveraged, their return on equity is much higher than their return on assets. Most banks are earning a mid teen return on their capital.
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
08-08-2007, 11:37 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 509
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
08-08-2007, 12:04 PM
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Replies: 27
Views: 1,172
Re: Too Much Information
I'll give an example of one of my investments, I'm going to try to keep it as short as I can so just assume the things I say are true, you can look them up if you want.
Cavalier Homes(CAV) makes...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
07-31-2007, 10:01 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 512
Re: Ask a Technical Analyst
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Do you remember how bad things were in 2002-2003? Everybody was afraid of everything, credit worthy companies couldn't get financing at reasonable terms, credit protection on...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
07-31-2007, 04:13 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 512
Re: Ask a Technical Analyst
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Where junk spreads are at historically low levels
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You havnt been keeping your finger on the pulse.
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Where junk spreads are at historically...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
07-31-2007, 01:48 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 95
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
07-31-2007, 01:46 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 512
Re: Ask a Technical Analyst
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The market for the last 5 years has been relatively "easy" to predict/fluke compared to historical precedent
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What has been so easy about the last...
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
07-30-2007, 09:30 PM
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Replies: 7
Views: 104
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
07-30-2007, 09:28 PM
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Replies: 51
Views: 419
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing
07-30-2007, 07:54 PM
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Replies: 54
Views: 512
Re: Ask a Technical Analyst
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The market for the last 5 years has been relatively "easy" to predict/fluke compared to historical precedent
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What has been so easy about the last 5 years...
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