Anyone buy stocks?

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klingerrr said:
i would just hold it since it's down 40%.

did anybody here ever push the Sirius satelite affiliate program?
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I looked in to it, their support sucks and their program is with CJ so chances are the program probably sucks as well. I sent them numerous emails through CJ but no response.

Whichever Sat radio company figures out how to leverage the internet first will ultimately win the race, none of these guys are thinking outside the box when it comes to lowering their cost per customer.
 


I'm subscribed to both the Stock Advisor and Hidden Gems from Motley Fool - in 2006, I got about a 22% return using their picks. Some of the better picks:

GRMN - up 63%
DLB - up 51%
JBLU - up 49%

with the good, there is "bad"

OXPS - down 3.3%
SBUX - down 2.5%

Those are my only 2 that are down - the other 16 are up. I began using these services in September of 2005 - I've made MUCH MORE than what the service costs me, and I get about 4 picks / month to choose from as new investments.

My rules are:

1 - Don't invest if you don't understand what the company does
2 - Wait for the "fool" pick to go down, before you buy it. Worst case: it goes up and you miss the boat. Using this strategy, I've bought into positions 40% lower than when the fool originally recommended it.
 
I have marketed both Sirius and XM directly for each company. The payouts for dealers suck, no idea what CJ pays, but I am guessing that sucks to. I never was able to get a positive ROI so I moved onto things that I was getting ROI from.

The issue is that the service is fairly cheap meaning low revenue for company as compared to many subscription services, yet the overhead and licensing costs for these companies is fairly high. This leaves not much to share with marketers.

I also have had and canceled both services. My cancellation came soon after I discovered podcasting. I told a buddy I had canceled and was doing podcasts and 2 weeks later he canceled as well.

I did not have any issue with either service or with the programming, I just found something I enjoyed more that replaced the utility.
 
I own 100k+ goog and today alone I made 4000 since the stock is up 17 bucks. And in the past wek makde 6K Making mony in the stock market is easy. Dont listen to the guys who tell you its a random walk or a zero sum game. IT ISNT'T. You have to buy the stocks that go up and have a solid earnings and performance.

I also rec. MA, Rimm, grow, aapl, and bidu
 
chrislingle said:
wow, get 1 neg rep and go from being up 45000 or so positive reps to -42909167 point(s) total
oh, and if you are the one that gave me the neg rep without signing it you my friend are a punk ass gutless bitch!
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Wasn't me. But thanks anyway for the negative rep, funny how your dick was too small to sign my negative rep (at 1:37, less than a minute after the above post) after you called someone out for being too gutless to sign the rep they gave you.

Unlike you, I try to make contributions when I think I have something to say on a topic and say nothing when I don't.
 
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Stockpickr! Warren Buffett Portfolio

I read tons of economics books and articles, but don't really bother with individual stocks. When I have millions sitting around I might, but I don't know. Seems like I can make way more money doing my own stuff.
 
YEP, dipshit, i gave that neg and did not sign it cause I hit one of the drop downs and guess the one that applied to you did not have CL at the end! however, you are still an assclown and said nothing of use! If you spent 5 years working the floor and that was what you got out of it you are a fucktard and shouldn't say shit when it comes to investing
 
I have a lot of money in blue chip stocks, I'm not really interested in following the day to day market activity and the return is pretty good if you don't mind waiting. If I'm looking for a quick buck I will just do some arbitrage or affiliate marketing, better/faster/safer returns.
 
The whole thing the dumbass said made no sense, it is better to invest in yourself? wtf? Sounds like someone who has no money. Were would you put what you can't invest in you? Is there something else that averages 10% or better annually were you don't have to "work it" every day? What you said just makes no sense, sounds like a post made from a hood rat with enough info to be dangerous!
 
I've followed both XMSR and SIRI since they began trading. I was also an XM subscriber for over 2yrs until last year (it's a great service but I'm rarely in my car to use it) I had a ton of XMSR stock but got so frustrated with XM management that I sold it early last year.

XMSR was dominating in the beginning but over the last few years got into a bidding war with Sirius over different content (both paying way too much, Stern, NFL, MLB, etc). XM would be in a much better financial position today if it had stuck to it's original timeline of being cash flow positive instead of getting sucked into who could buy the biggest entertainment name.

These merger rumors are nothing new and have been brought up a lot over the last few years. It's the same damn regurgitated news everytime. Sirius's CEO Mel Karmazin has been recently promoting that a merger between the two would be a good thing but XM has stated in CC's that it isn't necessary. The market is plenty big it's just a matter if they can get enough consumers to subscribe.

The thing that most of these merger articles tend to leave out is that the FCC only granted 2 licenses for satellite radio programming. If they merge you have an instant monoploy that is going to have to be reviewed by anti-trust laws and is going to be heavily opposed by the music industry and any similiar competitors. So, I wouldn't hold your breath too long for this to happen. It's only Mel's wet dream for now.

These stocks have always been very volitale stocks. It's hard to say where they will end up at the end of this year. I do think they have finally bottomed out for now. XM still has a high short interest so any good news could spark another short-term rally.

I still think XM is the better run company and has the best OEM automotive deals all locked up already for future growth. The factory installation partnerships with GM, Honda, Hyundai, etc is the key growth factor. They need to ramp these up at a faster rate and in more car models.



 
Seocracy- that is terrible advice. The penny stocks are thinly traded and it's likely that you are the sucker buying the shares off the spammer. You may make money but you don't know if you are going to be the first or last to fall for the scam.
 
chrislingle said:
The whole thing the dumbass said made no sense, it is better to invest in yourself? wtf? Sounds like someone who has no money. Were would you put what you can't invest in you? Is there something else that averages 10% or better annually were you don't have to "work it" every day? What you said just makes no sense, sounds like a post made from a hood rat with enough info to be dangerous!
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Closest thing to an intelligent remark you have made in this thread. It brought up some things that I could have been better at clarifying.

I should have qualified my statement with something like "Unless you have a solid business working for yourself and no need for that cash flow to grow your business" then I think investing in yourself will provide a better return than investing in the stock market.

I ran a derivative hedge fund focused on Arbitrage after I left floor trading. I made a lot of money doing that until I closed the fund and returned investors capital, because a very good friend dropped dead in front of me and left 2 kids and a wife at age 33. I saw a lot of myself in him and it scared me since my first child was born the next day. Regardless, I felt qualified to state that Wall Street in general rips off its customers.

I can also pretty much state that if you are seeking 10% returns then you are either a lifetime employee hoping to retire or you don't have enough capital to know where to look for real returns. Angel Investing, Oil & Gas Wells, LBO firms, Foreign Exchange, Hedge Funds, Collectibles & Art, Precious Metals, Real Estate the list goes on.

As I am sure you are aware Markowitz proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that taking more risk does not necessarily mean the volatility of returns will increase, that in fact more risk means higher returns and lower volatility of those returns.

Regardless, my take was and continues to be that if someone was asking for trading advice on a forum on the internet that is about making money online then the best investment that person was likely to make (no idea who the OP is, he might not be in this category) was in his own business. The price for failure does not even begin to compare to the rewards for success, I think those who have both failed and succeeded would agree.

I respect your right to disagree with my assessment. A world where everyone agreed with me would be no fun at all, and pretty damn scary.

As much as I enjoy the conversation, this will have to be my last post of the day, we just put a major new project live and I need to get busy driving some traffic.
 
ah, delusions of grandeur(sp?) aint that grand! and yes I feel like I have really been put in my place. Someone writes a half ass post and then wonders why he gets flamed!
 
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