Stock Market Terms for 2008 and Beyond

tangomonster

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This is going around online (don't know who the original author was). Funny in a black humor way:

CEO --Chief Embezzlement Officer.

CFO-- Corporate Fraud Officer.

BULL MARKET -- A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.

BEAR MARKET -- A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex.

VALUE INVESTING -- The art of buying low and selling lower.

P/E RATIO -- The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.

BROKER -- What my broker has made me.

STANDARD & POOR -- Your life in a nutshell.

STOCK ANALYST -- Idiot who just downgraded your stock.

STOCK SPLIT -- When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.

FINANCIAL PLANNER -- A guy whose phone has been disconnected.

MARKET CORRECTION -- The day after you buy stocks.

CASH FLOW-- The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.

YAHOO -- What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.

WINDOWS -- What you jump out of when you're the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share.

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR -- Past year investor who's now locked up in a nuthouse.

PROFIT -- An archaic word no longer in use.
 
Those other threads seem to be leaving out one definition.

LIQUIDITY: When you pee in your pants after seeing your latest brokerage statement.
 
Are you telling me I should put on a Depend diaper prior to opening my brokerage statement? :D

Nah... I go paperless with all my brokers. Besides, I have a live stock screen in front of me right now, updating in real time.

It's better to take it a little at a time, down a bit everyday rather than all at once at the end of the month or the quarter. YMMV.
 
YES! To each his own... :D
 
RATIONAL MARKET -- An oxymoron

HEDGE FUND MANAGER --A professional you pay to lose your money when you can't do it fast enough on your own
 
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