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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-29-2007, 09:40 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 234
Posted By hawk59
Re: Basic correlations

easiest examples would be commodity companies compared to the commodity, i.e. price of gold vs. stocks of gold mining companies
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-27-2007, 05:30 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 163
Posted By hawk59
Re: How dodgy is the Citibank-Abu Dhabi deal?

read this for one POV

http://seekingalpha.com/article/55467-citi-s-capital-infusion-and-that-pesky-11-interest-rate
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-27-2007, 04:06 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 811
Posted By hawk59
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.
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-27-2007, 10:55 AM
Replies: 52
Views: 652
Posted By hawk59
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...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-14-2007, 04:39 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 161
Posted By hawk59
Re: Google - i want to buy, but can market cap go higher???

the biggest companies at any one time almost always have lower than market returns. when you start to work out the numbers for a company like GOOG or anything else with a huge market cap you get to...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-01-2007, 09:24 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 268
Posted By hawk59
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...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 10-24-2007, 06:37 PM
Replies: 46
Views: 214
Posted By hawk59
Re: Deal values Facebook at at least 15 Billion Dollars

Also realize that MSFT desperately wanted a piece of Facebook for strategic reasons and that they were in a bidding war with Google. Even if MSFT doesn't think that Facebook as a whole is worth...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 09-24-2007, 04:37 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 105
Posted By hawk59
Re: thoughts on Merril Lynch notes/my meeting with financial advisor

ask him exactly how it works and post back here. i can tell you that from the way you described it you shouldn't believe him and that would put into doubt whether you should do business with him in...
Forum: Sporting Events 09-20-2007, 12:09 AM
Replies: 3,356
Views: 18,753
Posted By hawk59
Re: *official 2007 red sox thread*

don't forget the yanks hold the tie-break for the division, so you can almost consider them tied in the loss column
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 09-14-2007, 06:00 PM
Replies: 38
Views: 259
Posted By hawk59
Re: for long term investments, why not go 100% emerging markets?

Lebowski,

First, you really can't be sure that emerging markets will outperform. The chance of really bad things like currency devaluations, socialization of industry, civil war, etc etc is all...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 09-06-2007, 06:53 AM
Replies: 9
Views: 168
Posted By hawk59
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.
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 08-31-2007, 01:11 PM
Replies: 11
Views: 71
Posted By hawk59
Re: thoughts on Bush mortgage bailout?

Doesn't seem like too big a deal, if any money is given to bail anyone out I am moving to a bunker and refusing to pay taxes ever again.
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 08-10-2007, 08:58 AM
Replies: 23
Views: 117
Posted By hawk59
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...
Forum: Other Other Topics 08-09-2007, 07:23 PM
Replies: 220
Views: 1,051
Posted By hawk59
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.
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 08-09-2007, 07:15 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 117
Posted By hawk59
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...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 08-09-2007, 03:50 PM
Replies: 23
Views: 105
Posted By hawk59
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.
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 08-08-2007, 11:37 PM
Replies: 5
DFC
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Posted By hawk59
Re: DFC

DFC? Never heard of it.
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 08-08-2007, 12:04 PM
Replies: 27
Views: 204
Posted By hawk59
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...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 07-31-2007, 10:01 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 224
Posted By hawk59
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...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 07-31-2007, 04:13 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 224
Posted By hawk59
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...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 07-31-2007, 01:48 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 62
Posted By hawk59
Re: Stock Screening Software-Stock Investor Pro

Reuter's power screen is $30/month and I like it but just received notice that they are going to discontinue it. That's the only screener I've ever really liked.
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 07-31-2007, 01:46 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 224
Posted By hawk59
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...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 07-30-2007, 09:30 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 57
Posted By hawk59
Re: Lululemon IPO

page 5 of the prospectus
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 07-30-2007, 09:28 PM
Replies: 51
Views: 201
Posted By hawk59
Re: Shoeprint #1: Six Flags (SIX)

Why are any of your opinions right? At least give one real reason.
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 07-30-2007, 07:54 PM
Replies: 54
Views: 224
Posted By hawk59
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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