X-Received: by 10.224.57.142 with SMTP id c14mr907498qah.7.1402278359093; Sun, 08 Jun 2014 18:45:59 -0700 (PDT) Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!peer03.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!j5no2615239qaq.1!news-out.google.com!q9ni1456qaj.0!nntp.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 20:45:58 -0500 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.30.0.110427 Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 20:45:54 -0500 Subject: Re: Chicken Little From: George Kerby Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.mobile.ipad,comp.sys.mac.system Message-ID: Thread-Topic: Chicken Little Thread-Index: Ac+DhIzo/ee8VyBPd0mu/UT77vNoEA== References: <020620141212394785%michelle@michelle.org> <6ig2p9ht5l290li6p0qh98t8na4slhp01k@4ax.com> <050620142212226272%michelle@michelle.org> <060620141023432719%timstreater@greenbee.net> <5394a7d5$0$51459$c3e8da3$eb767761@news.astraweb.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Lines: 32 X-Trace: sv3-ofU0YsYWLX+DGLBpB3MVvL5U5mKUhEYME7dAbBf+ZjIq0GWgHaV8Lxw710QtRuw6+GZW8zrCiHnhPNv!EWevkyrhe4P6ZlwAf18lX6Nh7qjGvCZXvJWmbaKIY6KGvG5pnVzXsvBEVsCQANZKinCRnDCcjdCF!xw== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2658 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Received-Bytes: 2958 X-Received-Body-CRC: 239877778 Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.ipad:36592 comp.sys.mac.system:60564 On 6/8/14 1:13 PM, in article 5394a7d5$0$51459$c3e8da3$eb767761@news.astraweb.com, "JF Mezei" wrote: > On 14-06-07 21:46, Rod Speed wrote: > >>> Are there any long-term investors these days? >> >> Corse there are. > > A few years ago, the Wall Street Casino analysts were making self > serving predictions of AAPL going over $1000, the sky is the limit etc > etc. This attracted a lot of speculators for a quick buck. > > Then, once the casino analysts reduced their exposure, having cashed in > on the speculation, they started to issue bad news about AAPL, and the > stock tanked from over $700 down to below $400. The speculators left. > And that left longer term investors. > > So AAPL is much more of a blue chip stock these days than a speculative > one. However, it is still very affected by the news cycle. Wall Street > Casino Analysts could drive the price down with some bad news about > Apple so they could buy in at a low price, and then let it rise again. > You seem to have an extreme confusion between Investments and Gambling. You REALLY need to GET OVER that BULLSHIT approach to putting yor $$$ into something.