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As long as we’re back on the subject of bimbos, I should have added above that I give kudos to the New York Times in this area: a few years ago, they decided to stop sending their people to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, for the reasons I stated above.
Here I am, praising President Obama and the NYT in the same week. What’s come over me?
Jessi, futures work. The exchanges do a good job. They are just extremely highly leveraged and you can lose much more than you put up for collateral (margin). ETFs are securities and you can lose money but leverage is low.
etson,
lol
I was going for a less malevolent effect on the phone call so I went with the slow HA HA HA
instead of a deep MUHAHAHAHAHA.
Must have worked, that guy never called back.
donatella,
Yes, I’ve gotten calls that seemed straight out of the movie Boiler Room.
I know the type you’re talking about. 😉
Thanks, Denton/Dona – so the EFTs are cool, you get what you pay for, but it’s the people trying to do futures.
Oh, and hence Dona’s earlier praise of her exchange (or was that yesterday) – if you get too far out over your skis, they make you open your kimono.
“Denton, you told us once how to recover a post that gets wiped out that way…. How do you get it back?”
Using Firefox, I just hit the back button once or twice after signing in, and the text is almost always still there.
I did not own Enron, but I owned a bunch in the company I worked for. 15+% off though the Employee Stock Purchase program seemed like too good of a deal to pass up, until the stock went down 90%.
I learned a good but very expensive lesson there.
As long as we’re back on the subject of bimbos, I should have added above that I give kudos to the New York Times in this area: a few years ago, they decided to stop sending their people to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, for the reasons I stated above.
Here I am, praising President Obama and the NYT in the same week. What’s come over me?
Jessi, futures work. The exchanges do a good job. They are just extremely highly leveraged and you can lose much more than you put up for collateral (margin). ETFs are securities and you can lose money but leverage is low.
etson,
lol
I was going for a less malevolent effect on the phone call so I went with the slow HA HA HA
instead of a deep MUHAHAHAHAHA.
Must have worked, that guy never called back.
donatella,
Yes, I’ve gotten calls that seemed straight out of the movie Boiler Room.
I know the type you’re talking about. 😉
“they make you open your kimono.”
Are we going back to the subject of bimbos again?
Thanks, Denton/Dona – so the EFTs are cool, you get what you pay for, but it’s the people trying to do futures.
Oh, and hence Dona’s earlier praise of her exchange (or was that yesterday) – if you get too far out over your skis, they make you open your kimono.
oooh, sorry Legion, misread your post, thought you were
talking about one of those sleazy brokers selling gold
or silver bars by phone.
For some reason I imagine you wearing a white linen suit in that conversation, legion.
Like a James Bond baddie or something.
“Denton, you told us once how to recover a post that gets wiped out that way…. How do you get it back?”
Using Firefox, I just hit the back button once or twice after signing in, and the text is almost always still there.
I did not own Enron, but I owned a bunch in the company I worked for. 15+% off though the Employee Stock Purchase program seemed like too good of a deal to pass up, until the stock went down 90%.
I learned a good but very expensive lesson there.
Legion, you are right to never buy from those people but an ETF is a different story.