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Will you be investing in the stock market?

  • 11-03-2011 12:23am
    #1
    tommy21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭


    All of a sudden there seems to be a bombardment of advertisements nationwide by companies willing to train you to "make your fortune" on the stock market, or companies simply providing a base to operate out of. You think people would learn, but I bet some fool will still lose Junior's already battered college fund on it, all the while dreaming of Wall Street and Boiler Room.

    Don't get me wrong, I know a minority kick ass at it but the majority will lose. Will you be embarking on trading from home?

    Oh and to make it more After Hoursish, feck drink arse ****!


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  • #2
    SoulTrader
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭SoulTrader


    tommy21 wrote: »

    Oh and to make it more After Hoursish, feck drink arse ****!

    You censored the word 'girls'?:confused:


  • #3
    tommy21
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,419 ✭✭✭tommy21


    SoulTrader wrote: »
    You censored the word 'girls'?:confused:

    No it was f uck actually! SoulTrader - I see you've gone beyond this realm of trading


  • #4
    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    yea they make all the plebs piss their money into the stock exchange so all the insiders can take it off you with their superior information, good show old boy!


  • #5
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    If you or I owned a fantastic system for trading that would make money do you think we'd sell it to other amateur investors? Of course not, you guard it with your life!

    I wouldn't do a single one of those courses

    The likes of deltaindex have dummy accounts though, you can set up competitions with your friends if you wish


  • #6
    Daegerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Daegerty


    Have half the shed filled with Knorr & Oxo cubes.
    Waiting for the price of them to balloon


    any day now...


    ...any day


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  • #7
    Unpossible
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭Unpossible


    No, not now because I know f**k all about stocks and shares.

    Maybe in a few years if I have some spare money for investing I might put it into some companies or bonds after I've done enough research or hired a good broker.


  • #8
    SoulTrader
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 850 ✭✭✭SoulTrader


    I wouldn't bother investing really, not for a lack of interest, but because I simply wouldn't have the time to understand all the risks involved. I would consider buying into a managed fund, but that's about it.

    It's interesting to see how a generation of Irish people will be wary of investing in shares now, following the bank crashes. Not a bad thing though.


  • #9
    Daegerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Daegerty


    SoulTrader wrote: »
    I wouldn't bother investing really, not for a lack of interest, but because I simply wouldn't have the time to understand all the risks involved. I would consider buying into a managed fund, but that's about it.

    You really need to know the market inside out and even then there are big risks so I'd recommend you stick to trading souls. What's the price on one of those nowadays?


  • #10
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    I have a really large portfolio.

    It's AO size.

    Had it since college.


  • #11
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    I spend all my cash on hookers and cocaine, so that's a no.


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  • #12
    Daegerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Daegerty


    Absurdum wrote: »
    I spend all my cash on hookers and cocaine, so that's a no.

    You never know when there is going to be an upsurge in demand for either of those


  • #13
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    I've watched the sequel to Wall Street recently and it appears to me that the hardest part about playing the market is to get enough LCD monitors together in one place. I currently have 3 but I think I'll need 6 before I dip my toe in.


  • #14
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    Daegerty wrote: »
    You never know when there is going to be an upsurge in demand for either of those

    Do you think I'm some kind of drug-dealing pimp? :rolleyes:


  • #15
    Daegerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Daegerty


    Absurdum wrote: »
    Do you think I'm some kind of drug-dealing pimp? :rolleyes:

    I have no clue


  • #16
    Absurdum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,445 ✭✭✭Absurdum


    I'm too busy enjoying life to care about the business side of the business!


  • #17
    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    Shares (in certain companies) are a safer bet than the banks atm and for the near to medium term future, so anyone with a wodge of cash would be wise to think about investing. The unfortunate side of that is that people with not quite a full wodge of cash but nonetheless believes themselves to be a smart, savvy, upwardly mobile individual will be interested in these ads and probably end up losing their money or making bad investments, then go crying for a bailout....


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