Hello, compadres! Welcome to the TradeKing Community Friday Shout-out. We battled through yet another bumpy week: digesting the election results, earnings and bad economic numbers; watching oil prices plummet; and renewed troubles rearing their ugly heads at AIG, Fannie and Freddie. In fact, this week’s star pic comes from our own Corbinb2 to reflect this super-prickly market. (Thanks, buddy!)
Even though the fun (!) never seems to stop, we keep seeing new heroes emerging on the TK Leaderboard. This week’s newcomers include avengers, Gazza, James MacK, Street Sweep, and supersaiyan77 – stellar work, folks!
Quite a few zingers passing to and fro about AIG’s freshly revealed troubles. Will Profit sums up the frustrations in his post: “AIG: Americas Inventive Gangsters” – as Will puts it, “rated "R" for raw Texas rage and language”. Idid is hazarding a contrarian position.
Meanwhile, Lamp’s bug-eyed (as a lot of us are these days) at plunging prices at the pump – lot of insightful explanations attached to that one. (BTW, Lamp, glad to see you like my motto, “Be Good”!)
And last but not least, recent Leaderboard newcomer Uranium_Pinto_Beans takes my vote for this week’s most enviable quote: “I have now, in two plus weeks, turned $190 and change into $20,729.24.” Clearly not a guaranteed, or at all common, occurrence – but it’s certainly encouraging that anyone can manage that. Nice work, UPB!
And with that folks, I bid you sayonara and wish you a great weekend!
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