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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-30-2007, 09:41 PM
Replies: 137
Views: 2,284
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Re: How to build credit

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Get it through your thick skull that good credit doesn't rely on how many credit cards you have. Why don't you learn a subject before arguing out of your ass?
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Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-30-2007, 06:21 PM
Replies: 137
Views: 2,284
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Re: How to build credit

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Get it through your thick skull that good credit doesn't rely on how many credit cards you have. Why don't you learn a subject before arguing out of your ass?

Business people care about...
Forum: Poker Theory 11-29-2007, 03:27 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 334
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Re: Reraising Preflop with Previous Callers in NL

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I'd like to hear opinions on this topic...

Situation:

5/10 NL ring game
Average strenght opponents, no rocks, no kamikazes
Everyone is evenly stacked
You are just before the cutoff
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-28-2007, 04:21 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 242
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Re: who\'s buying Citigroup

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Too good to be true? The company takes out what amounts to a subprime mortgage, and pays 11% interest. That sure sounds like desparation. Too good to be true, lol.

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It's...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-28-2007, 04:16 PM
Replies: 52
Views: 584
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Re: Anyone Else At The Panic Point On The Dollar?

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I always find it interesting when everyone is short the dollar. I have been short for nearly a year now and I am not looking to build my position or anything. Very seldomly has every bit...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-27-2007, 12:44 PM
Replies: 48
Views: 902
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Re: Is This Insider Trading?

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What about cases where you buy ahead of forming a relationship? And how can anyone actually prove that you traded on the insider information, if that information happens to...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-27-2007, 12:04 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 323
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Re: simple question regarding how to view a lease as a debt

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And your "feel" would be right in a sense. If you're going to consider the lease as debt in calculating net worth, you'd also have to consider the ability to use the car for...
Forum: Brick and Mortar 11-26-2007, 11:48 PM
Replies: 71
Views: 928
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Re: Is there anything more ridonkulous than the mid-limits in AC?

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your amazing this is like the sports betting thread except even wrose.
look at it this way all these people who play well, maybe even better than you, are saying "dude, it is...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-26-2007, 11:44 PM
Replies: 48
Views: 902
Posted By Phone Booth
Re: Is This Insider Trading?

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What if "my" company was a proprietorship? What if this "insider" information is thoughts in your head? Say you own a large private corporation and you're the single largest...
Forum: Psychology 11-26-2007, 11:30 PM
Replies: 21
Views: 843
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Re: How come whenever I go to a live casino it\'s the LAGs who win?

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Every book I have and virtually every strategy post here advocates a particular style of play, roughly tight aggressive.

And tight aggressive may well be correct playing 400,000 hands...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-26-2007, 04:06 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 237
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Re: thinking of buying some foreclosed properties

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After reading every post in this thread that basically is negative on your idea I can say you can probably do some buying. Although sentiment on this forum hardly...
Forum: Psychology 11-25-2007, 10:22 PM
Replies: 50
Views: 575
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Re: fish commenting on my tight play

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You raise a good point, I don't want to encourage people to play well. However, when they make loud comments out of ignorance about my play, it annoys me. Maybe I should just ignore it....
Forum: Psychology 11-25-2007, 10:14 PM
Replies: 39
Views: 332
Posted By Phone Booth
Re: Is it possible to just be an unlucky person?

To answer your question, no, luck has no memory by definition. To say that there are such things as an unlucky person would imply that luck is not based on random chance, but some sort of quality...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-25-2007, 03:43 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 323
Posted By Phone Booth
Re: simple question regarding how to view a lease as a debt

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clark,

36months, xxx amount per month, option to buy which i will most likely decline.

on one hand its a debt, since i am legally obliged to make payments otoh it doesn't 'feel'...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-25-2007, 03:23 PM
Replies: 48
Views: 902
Posted By Phone Booth
Re: Is This Insider Trading?

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As others have pointed out, 2 & 3 are not insider trading, but I think there is a strong case that situation 1 violates Rule 10b-5. You have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders of your...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-21-2007, 02:47 PM
Replies: 85
Views: 887
Posted By Phone Booth
Re: Improving On Buffett And Desert Cat

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You're correct in that the way I explained my response was bad, and probably flat out wrong.

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If $50 in cash can buy $80IV and $80IV is more valuable than...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-21-2007, 12:26 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 141
Posted By Phone Booth
Re: Shouldn\'t all stocks trade at discount to company value?

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I'm not sure that having a minority interest provides you with less value. When you buy a stock, you are buying a part of the abilities of the management to direct the activities of the...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-20-2007, 02:16 PM
Replies: 85
Views: 887
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Re: Improving On Buffett And Desert Cat

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What some arguing against David are missing, however, is the following. If Stock X is trading at $50 and you estimate its "value" to be $70. But say, your threshold for...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-19-2007, 06:14 PM
Replies: 26
Views: 237
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Re: thinking of buying some foreclosed properties

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After reading every post in this thread that basically is negative on your idea I can say you can probably do some buying. Although sentiment on this forum hardly has any scientific...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-19-2007, 05:53 PM
Replies: 85
Views: 887
Posted By Phone Booth
Re: Improving On Buffett And Desert Cat

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...What he's saying essentially is that the market price is a pretty good unbiased estimator of future prices. ....

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No he's saying that the current market...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-19-2007, 04:12 PM
Replies: 85
Views: 887
Posted By Phone Booth
Re: Improving On Buffett And Desert Cat

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But it is not moronic to say that the market is one of the best experts in telling you what a stock should BE.

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Can you please elaborate on this...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-13-2007, 11:46 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 81
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Re: According to Dow Theory - Bear Market

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For some stocks in indices to outperform, others must underperform.

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Not true at all, as has been proven it is not a zero sum market. All the stocks in an...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-12-2007, 01:50 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 81
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Re: According to Dow Theory - Bear Market

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Ok then I supposed I should have said such comparisons are useless when you specifically tailor your investment vehicles to those that best reflect your preconceived notion. Better? You do...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-08-2007, 12:51 AM
Replies: 93
Views: 354
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Re: Why will the dollar rally?

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The financial stocks are getting slaughtered. CFC is going bankrupt and WM to single digits, maybe even extinction. These financial institutions are marking to myth and hiding their...
Forum: Business, Finance, and Investing 11-07-2007, 11:36 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 106
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Re: Iowa farmland value up 21% for year ending September 1st!

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this is not even close to comparable. the power of real estate is in the #s. a 21% increase in land value can be a massive return.

lets say it is $5k/acre (made up #s) and you own 100...
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