Blogs for TradeKing Communityhttp://community.tradeking.com/blogs2009-08-21T23:37:00ZTradeKing Trader Networkwell OF here's your presenttag:community.tradeking.com,2009-08-21:Blog/394382009-08-21T23:37:00Z2009-08-21T23:37:00Zspshapirothe sun will come up...tag:community.tradeking.com,2009-02-26:Blog/186102009-02-26T20:30:33Z2009-02-26T20:30:33Zspshapiro There is little that I know for sure, but in that small universe is this:- If this is not the end of the world, look at your portfolio. Is there anything there that you are...Now about the cowtag:community.tradeking.com,2009-02-24:Blog/184112009-02-24T12:51:13Z2009-02-24T12:51:13ZspshapiroSantelli reminds me of the guy, who stood by in the great fire, yelling “Not her house, it was her cow that started it.” In a conflagration, you put out the freeking fire first; there w...what day is ittag:community.tradeking.com,2009-01-30:Blog/168012009-01-30T13:40:39Z2009-01-30T13:40:39ZspshapiroIt's take a profit Friday. Do yourself a favor; you got one, take it.JPMtag:community.tradeking.com,2009-01-16:Blog/162112009-01-16T16:51:47Z2009-01-16T16:51:47ZspshapiroAny thoughts on why JPM should be sliding again today? Is this just the continued reaction to Dimon's comments about the future, or have I missed something? I realize that they merely b...This is not baseballtag:community.tradeking.com,2008-12-21:Blog/152992008-12-21T11:09:14Z2008-12-21T11:09:14Zspshapiro This is not baseball. In baseball, hit 300 and we call you a millionaire. In investing, a similar result, and we call you broke. It annoys me no end to come fro...my best investmenttag:community.tradeking.com,2008-11-14:Blog/139602008-11-14T05:12:03Z2008-11-14T05:12:03Zspshapiro Please don't say 'buy and hold' is dead. Witness:- In June 1989 I bought 300 shares of Phila. Suburban Water, because I figured that that number of shares would yield a quarterly... nobody loses all the timetag:community.tradeking.com,2008-11-13:Blog/139122008-11-13T08:02:53Z2008-11-13T08:02:53ZspshapiroBefore y'all jump off the cliff, I offer you this poem written in 1923nobody loses all the timei had an uncle namedSol who was a born failure andnearly everybody said he should have goneinto vaudev...TYCtag:community.tradeking.com,2008-11-11:Blog/138302008-11-11T06:43:36Z2008-11-11T06:43:36ZspshapiroDoes anyone know what happened with TYC this morning? Their earnings report appears to be good.picking your bottomtag:community.tradeking.com,2008-10-27:Blog/133062008-10-27T12:49:48Z2008-10-27T12:49:48Zspshapiro You would do as well to pick your nose as to picking a bottom. It is never the case that one can know that it is the bottom, until that point has past. For it is only...margintag:community.tradeking.com,2008-10-10:Blog/128112008-10-10T06:18:39Z2008-10-10T06:18:39Zspshapiro This is why you don’t buy on margin. This is why you ignore those silly numbers listed under buying power on the balance page. Leverage works even worse on the way do...Here comes Ka' Pitchtag:community.tradeking.com,2008-10-06:Blog/126982008-10-06T07:53:05Z2008-10-06T07:53:05ZspshapiroSmells like it. Doesn't it?thought for the daytag:community.tradeking.com,2008-09-26:Blog/124512008-09-26T06:14:47Z2008-09-26T06:14:47Zspshapiro I sit here this morning, like some mornings recently, watching a ‘world’ playing ‘chicken’. When I was young, I could stand by and watch others play...A modest proposal- apologies to Swifttag:community.tradeking.com,2008-09-21:Blog/123222008-09-21T12:31:40Z2008-09-21T12:31:40Zspshapiro. If you have listened to the news lately, you are aware that we are in the middle of an economic crisis. It is due in large part to the fact that we have become accustomed...a note to the sheep on the planktag:community.tradeking.com,2008-09-18:Blog/121342008-09-18T09:59:20Z2008-09-18T05:59:14Zspshapiro Although in my youth I was inclined to believe that there exists a group of individuals that move the market to their benefit and therefore to the detriment of the majority, I ha...investing v. gamblingtag:community.tradeking.com,2008-09-17:Blog/121012008-09-17T05:45:46Z2008-09-17T05:45:46Zspshapiro Short of those who use their wealth in order to inflict pain or misfortune on others, I recognize the right of each of us to chose how we wish to spend our money. So althou...