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    • Why Do Bears Always Have the Best Arguments? [view article]
      I also am a futures trader (not investor, trader). The main difference is with Futures is that the arena is zero to negative sum. The stock market, through dividends, stock splits and buybacks represents wealth creation as _perceived_ by the general population. So to try to take just a 'just short it all' mentality to the stock market is damaging to public perception, and therefore - the economy.

      God, that's just basics. I swear, people should have to take a basic competency test for trading the markets. Too many get involved in what they do not understand.       Dec 14 07:59 PM
    • Buffett on the Dollar: 'Our Present Over-Consumption is Unsustainable' [view article]
      "How it will be shared"

      That is profound. It is up to us to be able to educate those without wealth, to accumulate it, while balancing growth and consumption. It is not in our best interests to keep that wealth to ourselves. It is only another red check mark against us, when considering our debt. While socialistic and communistic ideals are insane, and lead to ruin, it'd be nuts to not realize you can only keep wealth to yourself for so long - before it leads to class clashes. The smart road, and to my mind - what we need to focus in on, more than anything else, is that last statement. We have to learn how to educate others in the U.S. - so that they can partake in wealth as well.       Dec 14 07:30 PM
    • Why Do Bears Always Have the Best Arguments? [view article]
      Brilliant synopsis, and I would agree 100% Dec 14 07:23 PM
    • The Bear Market is Here [view article]
      Tremendously oversold? Bear market? Huh? What are you talking about. Here's a hint. A bear market means a DOWN trending market. Not a sideways channeling market. We're only in a sideways market since the Housing Crisis started around July 15th. Where are you getting this "tremendously oversold" stuff?

      Although personally, I wouldn't mind seeing 11500 - just to flush out and shake out excess trader volume out of the markets; who have no idea what they are doing and are only assisting the wild volatility that's going on . . .       Dec 14 07:19 PM
    • Why Dividend Paying Stocks Are a Mistake [view article]
      I'm not sure how much space this will allow me. But respectfully, as a dividend investor (I make my living this way) I must disagree on nearly every point.

      You stated: Total returns from stocks are defined by a simple equation: the total return on a stock equals the appreciation in the stock price plus the dividends you earn while holding the stock

      True. On the surface it's that simple when counting the base, gross income one receives from being a dividend investor.

      But you reached a conclusion after this based on an assumption. That assumption follows as such: That there is no guarantee that it will be paid, and that the taxes on said dividends make them pointless.

      So instead of just having the asset valuation increase, I have both. You don't. You also assume that there is no way to legally avoid those taxes. Which there is. But you didn't address that point. You seem to base your half of your argument stating that it's speculative to become a dividend investor, since dividends aren't guaranteed, without admitting that this same risk (speculation) applies to buybacks. Your arguments against looking for good companies that pay regular, consistent dividends (I have stocks that have been paying dividends since 1903), could be applied equally against your method.

      Of course dividends are never guaranteed. Neither are they, by themselves, an indication of a companies health. You are perfectly correct there. But to paint the wide brush with such a fact, is well . . . just that. Using a very wide brush to come to some rather hasty conclusions.

      I'm sorry, but your entire article is a bit misleading, and seems to only cover one side of the issue.       Oct 29 04:02 PM
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