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Originally Posted by wawaweewa
No. Didn't mean to come off like an ++$ but I still can't see how you would lose any of your skill or acumen for trading even after 6 years if you were making substantial returns.Originally Posted by belle155
nah back then i was just guessing based on what cnbc was saying, i didnt know what i was doing then and i really still dont know. back then anyone could make money on wall street til that bubble burst. ps wawa college for me took 6 years (to get my doctorate) and ive been out for 1 so thats around 7 years since my last stock trade (besides company stock i get now automatically). times have changed from ~ Y2K to now 2009. im just sayin if i do any more investing i gotta do more research. all the trades i ever did were just market orders, i never shorted a stock and still dont know how to. i have over 6 figures in straight cash and i want to make it work more than my ~4% money market account is getting me now. i know i can do better than that by myself. the company matches $2 : 1 up to a certain amount and i have that maxed out. thats a good return but its only so much. i want to make cash with the rest of it like i said and beat that 4% im getting from the banks now.
i use ameritrade and fidelity
do you need to see my high school diploma and college degreeS for proof/dates or paystub/w2/bank statement?? i know how NT is
That's all I was commenting on.
You can prob. do better than 4% year over year.
nah its ok. i said before tho it wasnt skill, i was just watching cnbc all the time after high school.. once i was in school full time in college with 18credit hour semester after semester i couldnt do it anymore and havent got into it since. i was just looking at some sites and blogs and that and it got meinterested again and thinking i should at least try to get back into the market. the returns werent substantial man i just used that as one day an example. that was a good day but i also lost a lot for being stupid and hanging on too long. i remember specifically making a ton off of 4Kids Entertainment, thecompany that made the pokemon tv show and movies. that should give you a clue as to how long its been. those were good days tho i remember kids in theneighborhood talking about pokemon and i was caking off the stock. i remember it peaked and go down little by little and i hung on thinking it would go backup but i rode that one down into the ground. (so actually i made nothing off this at all, i lost a lot with that stock) but i just looked for trends i knew ofand what was popular at the time and made some cash, lost some too
this second time around ill try to stick to my guns. i hung on to too many stocks and lost a lot that way.