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Re: stocks: Oracle vs. SAP

From	Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>
Newsgroups	alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: stocks: Oracle vs. SAP
Date	2015-10-21 16:07 -0500
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On 21-Oct-15 14:45, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> I've earlier described a stock tip from a friend that was public
> knowledge, yet the investment community seemed oblivious to it.  I
> bought the stock, albeit a modest amount of it, and it did even
> better than my friend predicted.  I never could understand why the
> investment community--who is supposed to have specialists who
> research that very thing--would be so blind.

You seem to assume that analysts' goal is for _you_ to make money.

Numerous studies show that analysts commonly advise selling while their
own firm is buying and vice versa.  The firms all claim this is simply
traders taking advantage of their own analysts' incompetence, but it
smells a lot more like deliberate collusion to defraud customers.

S

-- 
Stephen Sprunk         "God does not play dice."  --Albert Einstein
CCIE #3723         "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the
K5SSS        dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking

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stocks:  Oracle vs. SAP hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-10-21 10:16 -0700
  Re: stocks:  Oracle vs. SAP Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-21 13:37 -0400
    Re: stocks: Oracle vs. SAP Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-10-21 12:53 -0500
      Re: stocks: Oracle vs. SAP Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-21 14:30 -0400
        Re: stocks: Oracle vs. SAP Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-10-21 13:54 -0500
          Re: stocks: Oracle vs. SAP hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-10-21 12:48 -0700
            Re: stocks: Oracle vs. SAP Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-10-21 20:09 +0000
              Re: stocks: Oracle vs. SAP Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2015-11-20 21:41 -0500
            Re: stocks: Oracle vs. SAP Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-10-21 16:38 -0500
      Re: stocks: Oracle vs. SAP hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-10-21 12:45 -0700
        Re: stocks: Oracle vs. SAP Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2015-10-21 16:07 -0500
        Re: stocks: Oracle vs. SAP Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-21 17:56 -0400
      Re: stocks: Oracle vs. SAP Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-21 17:56 -0400
    Re: stocks:  Oracle vs. SAP scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-21 18:05 +0000

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