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 New Stock Market Terms:
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CEO -- Chief Embezzlement Officer.
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BULL MARKET -- A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.
5 G3 m P; L3 M# Z: mBEAR MARKET -- A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex. $ E! _- S1 G V. i5 J& t3 X
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VALUE INVESTING -- The art of buying low and selling lower.
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5 H1 h" u3 r4 P1 S! H# GP/E RATIO -- The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing. 5 X- _+ V+ n8 v, R" }# W
. @; ~$ x& Q/ E' r7 NBROKER -- What my broker has made me.
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4 t* V/ S5 i& v) B9 ^! |7 ]0 Z! MSTANDARD & POOR -- Your life in a nutshell.
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8 Y' }4 A/ r3 e; V+ jSTOCK ANALYST -- Idiot who just downgraded your stock.
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; E J _; Y6 Z7 J: I/ tSTOCK SPLIT -- When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves. : y# T6 j. Z5 y
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FINANCIAL PLANNER -- A guy whose phone has been disconnected. " t, ^/ ?: V! ~( i p
1 D4 Z: g. g4 O+ }MARKET CORRECTION -- The day after you buy stocks. 5 v9 e( G0 ?) j' @, K( f+ e1 o: ?
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CASH FLOW -- The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.
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) o3 L4 U, U" U+ Z7 fYAHOO -- What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.
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2 Y0 O# s& I* \9 c: b9 `, VWINDOWS 2000 -- What you jump out of when you're the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share.6 U+ [0 S5 w) `) V; w6 w6 B
@+ E+ c3 E0 F3 HINSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR -- Past year investor who's now locked up in a nuthouse. - }8 S" N$ s4 c
/ c) m8 P& n9 rPROFIT -- an archaic word no longer in use.
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If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago, you would have $49 left.: `" L% N- W+ h& g+ L) J
With Fannie Mae, you would have $2.50 left of the original $1,000.
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But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drunk all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have $214 cash. 4 B* A* f6 q- D; D0 ?
Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.7 x4 |! v4 f4 r+ ~0 R
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7 m: M4 L- D3 N. J1 |What is the difference between a Wall Street Stockbroker and a pigeon?
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% \# ]( |, |9 G' V: b* c) F A pigeon can still make a deposit on a Mercedes.0 ~& m1 u7 A9 v/ \
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Politicians and diapers have one thing in common...
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...they should both be changed regularly and for the same reason. |
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