Date: July 29th, 2005 11:40 AM Author: crusty walnut yarmulke
I knew the very moment I bought this stock that it was dumb. I am just so greedy, though.
I only have a few thousand dollars. If I do the long-term strategy, okay great, in like 20 years I'll have a good chunk of change.
I want a lot of money NOW though. I want to work my way up to at least $100K, *THEN* I will invest for the long term. You have to have a lot of $$ to make a lot of $$, is the bottom line.
Date: July 29th, 2005 11:32 AM Author: blathering appetizing half-breed mexican
Short sell it. It's like Yahoo circa 1998. It's techonology is pretty neat, but the minute it's not top dog for searching it's going to take a huge nosedive.
you have no idea what you're talking about. google has spent the last five years hiring the best engineering minds of this generation. yahoo was a couple guys and an idea. google is a factory for the best and brightest, and they keep innovating (see e.g., google maps). their stock might be overpriced, but the company has human capital far beyond just about anything else out there today.
People with "get rich quick" mentalities tend to have problems simply maintaining current assets. Google's past success has resulted in very high future earnings expectations, and people like you who chase yesterday's winners have elevated this stock's forward PE to 55 times these high expectations. Any quarterly results that are short of spectacular will result in a selloff.
Date: November 30th, 2005 9:00 AM Author: rambunctious den incel
Its still 100 points higher than it was when Joires said dump it. Thank goodness he is going to make his vast fortune in the utopian meritocracy of trading.
Date: November 30th, 2005 3:29 AM Author: odious crotch private investor
let the revaluation...begin! this thing is worth 200 tops. although it might recover as buyers step in tomorrow and later, it's gonna take the big dive sooner or later. maybe not to 200, but down significantly.
that would put the market cap at like 600 billion dollars, which would be 3 times as much as wal-mart. give me a break. it's just a stupid search engine. it's not that big of a deal.
Date: January 6th, 2006 7:32 PM Author: passionate startled senate people who are hurt
It's not just a website, though -- it's poentially the primary portal to the entire fucking internet, which is the future of most commerce and communications.
yeah. same thing happened in the late 90's. then people got burned big time. i shall stay out.
plus the US market is largely stagnant. this is almost the only big, very high performing stock in the US. so all bullish sentiments get channeled into it, apparently.
Date: January 6th, 2006 3:45 PM Author: histrionic institution
I wish I had the balls to short this thing....Big risk, with huge reward! But shorting is so retarded....the most you can make is 100% which is almost impossible, and you can lose 5000%, its so f-in risky
Date: January 6th, 2006 3:51 PM Author: histrionic institution
I dontr get it.... live next to this place which is like an Island of richness. Im friends with some families over there. Everyone I know there is worth over 100M and many of them tell me they made a killing shorting the market. how can you make so much money when the best you can do is 100% profit? it dosent make sense that they would make more money this way than by buying.
i just think it is easier to identify stocks likely to fall than those likely to rise.
and this 100% distinction matters only when a long position (normal buying) goes up more than 100%, which is uncommon, unless were talking about like over 10 yrs or something holding the same stock.
Date: January 6th, 2006 4:00 PM Author: histrionic institution
if you buy the right small-cap and mid-cap stock, you can expect like a 20% return...I think you would be hard pressed to identify a stock that will fall by 20%. I agree that shorting would work for a small period of time, but themn you would have to invest massive amounts of money to see a return, probably on margin, and I dontr think I can pull that trigger. I didnt buy google after much deliberation, doesnt look good fro my trading career
in 2005, i identified a number that dropped by that much or more. Worldspace, Travelzoo, Foxhollow (although it has since gone up some), Focus Media, etc. it can be done.
Date: January 6th, 2006 6:30 PM Author: slippery theater
Google just wired the entire city of San Fransisco for free wifi. People are betting that these guys have gotten in on the ground floor of an entirely new and untapped industry. No one is buying google cause they have a good search enging function. I have no idea whether it is a good or bad bet, but i dont think it is irrational. I dont think the 90's bubble was irrational, per se, either. It just turned out that people couldnt roll out technologies fast enough to take advantage of all the fiber optic cable that got layed down. People bet and lost, but i dont think it was a crazy bet.
Date: July 23rd, 2006 5:28 AM Author: house-broken hall love of her life Subject: googlezon
GOOG is the shit. People aren't investing in its search engine functions but the value it yields, not the value for individuals using google but the value for google in having all of that information. In the information age, GOOG reigns supreme. Microsoft makes software and sells it. GOOG makes software and gives it away and collects the information. Googlezon.
Date: July 23rd, 2006 6:09 AM Author: orange legal warrant
You probably think you sound smart, but no one really knows when it peaks idiot-- thats what its all about! Its a fucking gamble to see if u can hitch a ride on it's way up.
Date: July 23rd, 2006 6:25 AM Author: Ruddy police squad
you call me an idiot and yet you don't know when and when not to use apostrophes. oh, and i've never had to sell a stock for less than what i bought it for.
Date: July 23rd, 2006 6:09 AM
Author: Lex Lothario (I've bagged Smallville's Lana Lang)
You probably think you sound smart, but no one really knows when it peaks idiot-- thats what its all about! Its a fucking gamble to see if u can hitch a ride on it's way up.
Date: July 23rd, 2006 6:31 AM Author: orange legal warrant
shit, u, dissed, me, i'm, really, upset, u,wankstain. who cares whether or not u sold your stock above value or at a profit u idiot!! i take issue with your statement where you state, something to the effect that only an idiot would sell stock at its peak. Moron-- noone knows! go back to teahing english to people that care to listen.