Purron
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This is the 6th anniversary of my retirement.
Happy anniversary REWahoo!
This is the 6th anniversary of my retirement.
norisk said:curious where are you going? I am also in Maryland.
THIS is the scariest post so far. It seems like only yesterday you were changing your handle from REWannabe. If six years goes by that quickly...
I was happy for the pullback, I have been convinced we will pull back about 1000 points from the YTD high by the end of the year.........which means buying opps when the dips occur, as I did a lot of buying today for clients and myself.......
Nothing personal, W2R, but I'd much rather read this type of analysis from Brewer than to hear you going "Wheeee!!"I think we are seeing the effects of a one-two punch of the Japanese disaster and a commodity price spike. Both are likely to prove transitory, IMO, so I think we go through a softer patch and then keep chugging along.
Nothing personal, W2R, but I'd much rather read this type of analysis from Brewer than to hear you going "Wheeee!!"
Gak! Confirmation bias! Everyone grab a stick and help me kill it!
I don't have as much cash set aside to buy low this time if there is a crash, but maybe I could come up with a little.
Eh, you'll make a mess or fizzle out soon.I'm just going to sit in the basement and bang these shiny, shiny hemispheres of really heavy metal together. Everybody needs a hobby...
I bought 400 more shares of Microsoft...
What Nords said...
Oy. Maybe for a swing trading stock. I dunno if I'd buy it hoping the punditverse is right and MSFT will break up/get a new CEO/announce a crazy high dividend, though.
I sure that must be a typo but why would you want to pay more than the market price?Yeah, I trade ranges sometimes and its at the lower end of the range. I sold Intel on the upside last week and thought this may be a "safer" bet on the downside of the range...we'll see. $24.25 is my buy price, fyi.
If it were only that simple.I dunno if I'd buy it hoping the punditverse is right and MSFT will break up/get a new CEO/announce a crazy high dividend, though.
I sure that must be a typo but why would you want to pay more than the market price?
Ballmer doesn't need help, he needs to be replaced. Jobs would be an ideal candidate.If it were only that simple.
I wonder if Steve Jobs took medical leave hoping to get a call for help from Ballmer...
What Nords said...
Oy. Maybe for a swing trading stock. I dunno if I'd buy it hoping the punditverse is right and MSFT will break up/get a new CEO/announce a crazy high dividend, though.
You will be a very rich person.I may end up being the only shareholder of Microsoft and Cisco by the end
Don't we all. I'm not sure what gives hope in any of those areas.I continue to buy MSFT hoping nothing major changes about the business. I want them to ignore Wallstreet as much as possible and just avoid throwing too much money away on bad ideas.
Link provided by The Big Picture I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Masters Tournament - Cringely on technology“What I can’t figure out is why he (Steve Jobs) is even trying (to be the CEO of Apple)? ” wondered Bill. “He knows he can’t win.”
Don't we all. I'm not sure what gives hope in any of those areas.
A year ago ClifP and I had lunch with a Microsoft employee vacationing in Waikiki.
He told us of the time when his division shipped their project and had no further work in the pipeline. (I think he's an arcane cell-phone communications firmware or wireless network design engineer.) MSFT essentially kept him on the payroll for six months, with weekly musters, until they had something for him.
We couldn't tell if that was because MSFT was too bloated & ossified to cut payroll, or afraid he'd end up working at Apple, or just didn't care about any dollar amount under seven figures.
He's early-retiring soon.