Investment & Finance Thread Freepathon Special

Weekly investment & finance thread ^ | Oct. 11, 2014 | Freeper Investors

[expat_panama]

Money.  Investing.  Freerepublic.  Here are the top 10 reasons that us FR investors want to participate in the current FReepathon:

10.   Gold, silver, stock indexes, and bond values are all cr@pping out these days anyway...

 9.    The FReerepublic is a proven and solid force for (among other things) sound national fiscal policy; we need that force stronger now more than ever.

 8     We benefit from these threads personally.   Equity as a legal doctrine thus requires our compensatory donations.

 7.    Economic realism: there's no free lunch.

 6.    Market realism: you get what you pay for.

 5.    Donations are necessary for continued maintenance/loss reduction of desired FR services.

 4.    Donations are a guaranteed adjunct to an individual investor's game plan.  These threads will either pay for themselves through info leading to profits or reduced setbacks (in which case a monthly donation is reasonable overhead) or if by chance what you pick up here is dumb then having donated enables you to request a cheerful refund.  [Note: "request" ≠ "receive"]

 3.    Hey, this place is fun!

 2.    This thread's been going on a year now.  Those of us that found this thread useful for money making will be able to consider donations when they itemize in Schedule B next April.

--and here's my favorite:

 1.    On the internet, when you're getting something you're not paying for, then you're not a customer.  You're a product.

 

This is the thread where folks swap ideas on savings and investment --here's a list of popular investing links that freepers have posted here and tomorrow morning we'll go on with our--

Open invitation continues always for idea-input for the thread, this being a joint effort works well.   Keywords: financial, WallStreet, stockmarket, economy.

 

[PGalt]

Thanks for the ping/posts. This should be an interesting day in an interesting trend of late. Good luck to all.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Futures turned ugly.

[expat_panama]

Interesting is right!  Right now stock futures are plummeting BIG TIME!  This after yesterday's high volume drop into new lows:

[expat_panama]

Futures turned ugly.

Maybe it was the news:

Statistic	For	Actual	Briefing Forecast	Market Expects	Prior
MBA Mortgage Index	11-Oct	5.60%	NA	NA	3.80%
Retail Sales	Sep	-0.30%	0.20%	-0.20%	0.60%
Retail Sales ex-auto	Sep	-0.20%	0.60%	0.30%	0.30%
PPI	Sep	-0.10%	0.00%	0.10%	0.00%
Core PPI	Sep	0.00%	0.10%	0.10%	0.10%
Empire Manufacturing	Oct	6.2	20	20.4	27.5

--or maybe the news was just the latest excuse.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

BIG MISSES ACROSS ALL DATA: RETAIL SALES, PRODUCER PRICES, EMPIRE FED ALL WHIFF

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3215363/posts

[Wyatt's Torch]

Finally out from under water work wise (year end). You guys did a lousy job of propping the market up while I was away ;-)

[Wyatt's Torch]

So much for Gundlach's 2.20 floor...

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Welcome back. You may be the change we’ve been waiting for. LOL

[Wyatt's Torch]

Better long term view on the 10Y

[Wyatt's Torch]

I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue...

VIX +11%

[PGalt]

What did he know and when did he know it?

http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/george-soros-stock-market-S-P-500-bet/2014/08/16/id/589153/

[expat_panama]

a lousy job of propping the market up

oops!  Somehow I thot u were already short and wanted super bargains...

[Wyatt's Torch]

:-)

Buy The Dip!

[Wyatt's Torch]

Boing!

[expat_panama]

What did he know and when did he know it?

That tale's been around before and it's funny how Newsmax can push it even though it's been debunked so many times. 

This time they even when further tho w/ their Soros Bets $2 Billion on Stock Market Collapse story.  Thing is that if you read the piece you find out that what really happened is that Soros did not "bet $2B", he bet $0.01B that the S&P would drop $2B.  Then, what the Newsmax screed does not say is that the latest 13-F filing with the Securities and Exchange shows Soros also bet $1.4B that stock prices will soar.

Humph.

[PGalt]

Interesting. Thanks and thanks for all of your posts on these threads. I would suspect that most FReepers would be doing quite well with regards to the “market”.

Thank$

[expat_panama]

Boing!

Yeah, across the board it seems...

[PGalt]

“A community organization group with ties to labor unions and to George Soros is out with a dramatic get-out-the-vote ad featuring an African-American mother forcing her son to wear a bullet-proof vest in order to protect himself from being shot by police…”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3215394/posts

Sorry.

/hijacking thread

Thank$ again, expat_panama. Your work is much appreciated.

[expat_panama]

suspect that most FReepers would be doing quite well with regards to the “market”

Yeah, I know I sure as heck have.  This is exactly the kind of watering hole that I've wanted for years;  was just looking over posts back in Sept./early Oct. reading all the people that were selling: NormsRevenge, grania, BipolarBob, and others --I was glad I paid attention.

[Chgogal]

I was wondering where the heck you were! I was afraid you were missing all the fun.