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Re: housing , pollution, crime , stock scams, Big business ripoffs

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From: Karen Y Byrd
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:22
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:05:58 GMT, dfte <steknospam@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>"Karen Y Byrd" <kybyrd@pobox.upenn.edu> wrote in message 
>news:slrnfq0qsk.22d.kybyrd@pobox.upenn.edu...
>> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:19:01 GMT, dfte <steknospam@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>look I might be wrong with stocks but the others things are true , I 
>>>assume
>>>sometimes stocks and people win.
>>
>> The only reason you are talking about the stock market is because
>> it's in the major news right now.
>>
>> Did you care about it before that?
>comon
>how can I possibly talk about it so much if I had not lost
>what 3 times, as soon as I put some decent money the things took a dive like 

Ever heard of diversification??? You do not put too much of your money in stocks
alone. Ever.

> I 
>know allot of things Karen from experience,

Not about investing. I haven't lost any money, overall, yet.
I didn't during the dotcom crash. I didn't during the '87 crash.

> Are all stocks trash? No way.

Well, that we can agree on.

> but like I said , 
>you use to be able to buy at mid point and expect growth good and bad times. 
>Now you have to buy at the very bottom and now they go down as far as it 
>needs to go to get you to leave . Day traders are just as suicidal as anyone 
>who puts allot of money on a race.

The problem with day trading is it's no longer the purview of financial
perfessionals. Any idiot can day trade now. The internet has made that
possible.

>But much more problematic is our air quality

Well, gee, I was almost hoping you could actually get through
a post(one that has some interest for me) without bringing
this up.

> which might and I say might 
>gingerly reach good for the first time in what 20 days?

Funny thing is, I feel fine...exactly as I did 20
days ago.

> The air has been 
>absolutely horrific and I am very serious. .

You know if you actually have enough money to invest
why haven't figured out how to make enough to get
away from all the horrific air.
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Subject: Re: housing , pollution, crime , stock scams, Big business ripoffs
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