bonnie
I play a nice person on twitter.
Maybe, just maybe, iamadramaflower LIKES to be dramatic and then watches how many people respond. I skip his posts now, too.
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You wouldn't have a leg to stand on. Your broker only advises. You make your own decisions. And you say (below) that your broker is advising against your margin trading. And holding 70% in any one stock is absurd. If your broker is really telling you to hold 70% in one stock, your broker is incompetent. Find another broker.
Nobody with half a brain says the markets are logical!
That's why you have to learn to laugh at it.
Interesting topic. Belongs in the off-topic forum.
I enjoy reading his or her rants. They remind me to expect the unexpected and to laugh at the absurdity of it all. (Not laughing at you, Cali. Laughing at the absurdity of the markets, rather than getting emotional over them.) They remind me never to put money I cannot afford to lose into just one basket, or into volatile investments.
Here's the thing about the stock market: If you invest for the long term, based on solid research, and are well diversified, you should be able to expect your money to grow at a modest rate. If you invest/speculate for the short term, hoping to make large gains in short time, you are gambling, and are as likely to lose as to win. And if you invest in a new start-up company whose vision you believe in, you are putting principle above personal gain, which is noble and I commend you for it, but you must be prepared to be wiped out, or to lose that portion of your investment.
If Tesla fails, I will cry for the loss of a company I believed in, but not for the loss of my money, which I'll consider well-spent for what might have been, and which is an amount I can afford to lose.
Please come up with a new question. We don't know. You really should look into getting a new financial advisor and start asking them these questions: 1) that is their job 2) Nothing we can tell you can make any market change up or down make sense to you. Thanks.
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Johann Koeber
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I agree with the content of your statement, dsm363,
But aren't you a bit harsh on the other board member.
After all
there is a whole industry living off explaining the movement of the markets and making predictions.
JRP3
Hyperactive Member
Have you read cauliflowers constant rants about stock movements? Every down day he comes here crying and complaining about the stock, I think most of us are rather tired of explaining things to him.
Yeah, sorry. Please read his over 120 prior posts. They're basically all 'oh no, the stock is down 3%. Why!!! Please explain it to me'. I really wish him the best and it does concern me that he seems to have all of his savings in two tech stocks. It's his right of course but was just trying to offer so advice that might help him out financially in the future.
dmckinstry
Model X 2019
And remember. If he's as young as he indicates, he has plenty of time to recover from any mistakes made now.
bonnie
I play a nice person on twitter.
I"m just done with his little temper tantrums. My son had better control of emotions at 5. The drama is ridiculous. Which is why you no longer see me replying to his posts. I can't see them anymore, unless one of you quotes him.
Guess I have more tolerance for people with mental problems. I worked for five years at a homeless shelter. There's a lot of mental illness among homeless men (our shelter only took in men; there was another shelter in town for women) and all your stereotypes kind of don't work anymore once you've spent time with these guys. I'm not a shrink and I don't know Cali, but he/she reminds me in some ways of some of these guys, and I see the anger management difficulty as more sad than annoying. I remember the guy who got so angry at his car, that he took it out to a deserted place and shot it with a shotgun. He also carried around plans for a home-built airplane. Two thick books that he had bought somewhere. The same guy got up early one morning to shovel out the shelter's driveway, without being asked, and shoveled out my car while he was at it, and would not take anything in return. Yet he suffered from explosive anger from time to time. So I don't judge Cali. I'm sorry that she/he has made such inappropriate investment decisions, but his/her posts don't annoy me. Some of these guys just needed someone to listen. Again, I'm not a shrink, but some of them appreciated someone who would just sit and listen. Often, what they said made no sense. But what mattered was that someone would listen.
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