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Some humor for a Friday:

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Stock Market Dictionary for the past year's investor:

Momentum Investing:
  The fine art of buying high and selling low.

Value Investing:
  The fine art of buying low and selling lower.

Broker:
  Poorer than you were in 1999.

P/E ratio:
  The percentage of investors wetting their pants as this market
  keeps crashing.

Standard & Poor:
  Your life in a nut shell.

Stock Analyst:
  Idiot who just downgraded your stock.

Bull Market:
  A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself
  for a financial genius.

Bear Market:
  A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife
  gets no jewelry and the husband gets no sex.

Stock split:
  When your ex-wife and her lawyer divide all your assets equally
  between themselves.

Financial Planner:
  A guy who actually remembers his wallet when he runs to the
  7-11 for toilet paper and cigarettes.

Market Correction:
  The day after you buy stocks.

Cash Flow:
  The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.

Call Option:
  Something people used to do with a telephone in ancient times
  before e-mail.

Cisco:
  Side kick of Poncho.

Yahoo:
  What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $540
  per share.

Windows 2000:
  What you jump out of when you're the sucker who bought Yahoo
  for $540 per share.

Institutional Investor:
  Past year investor who's now locked up in a nut house.

Profit:
  Religious guy who talks to God.

Bill Gates:
  Where God goes for a loan.

Alan Greenspan:
  God.


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