My how it changes your perspecitive . . .

Post #218,738 by Andrew Grygus 8/11/05 1:18:11 AM Reply	My how it changes your perspecitive . . . . . when you own Microsoft stock (not my fault). When it goes down I think "Arrrgggggg!" When it goes up I think "Yaaaaay!". Fortunately it's a very small part of my portfolio and Inez (my stock broker) agrees it's going nowhere and is first up for being sold, but it's still a bit disconcerting. [link\|http://www.aaxnet.com\|AAx]
Post #218,747 by a6l6e6x 8/11/05 2:40:02 AM Reply	Well, as of today, I'm in the same boat. My wife gets [link\|http://www.thestreet.com/\|Jim Cramer's] "Action Alerts Plus" and he says based on PC sales, XBox, Vista, etc. MSFT stock has awakened and is going to move 20-25% in the next couple quarters. Despite my objections, she bought some MSFT. What can I say? You learn by doing and so she's doing. NOTE: the link is to a related site. The Action Alerts Plus site itself is a pay site. Alex The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
Post #218,755 by boxley 8/11/05 6:59:06 AM Reply	buying or selling of stock is concience neutral much different than buying and selling the companies product. thanx, bill "the reason people dont buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfy, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep questions, help? [link\|mailto:pappas@catholic.org\|email pappas at catholic.org]
Post #218,844 by a6l6e6x 8/11/05 3:43:57 PM Reply	My wife used that argument as well. Companies and their stock can live amazingly independent lives. Take the example of [link\|http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=BIDU&d=t\|Baidu], a Chinese Google-like internet stock that went public recently at $27/share. It shot up like a rocket (to as much as 153.98.share) on wild expectation of its future. It's down to $99.19 as I write this. It's the internet bubble all over again. David Farber on CNBC called the company Baidu-doo. :) Well, maybe that's because he's not allowed to own stocks. But, it's clear that Baidu got shafted on the IPO. It could have raised much more cash. Alex The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell

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