Carl,
Thanks for your answers. Your point is well taken. MSFT's growth eventually will converge to its moving average which tends to zero. I just hope MSFT can gain a few pounds after it finishes its last dinner of SUNW and ORCL. My long-term is about one year, even I want to stay longer. There is always something kick me of the market. So, my vision is about the same length.
The risks of trading ranging from 1-minute to maybe months are about the same, adjusted to time scale. The best underlying for short-term trading is futures such as currencies and bonds futures. I once bought cotton calls before it had limit-up for 4 days. There was no rules how to evaluate these options. You could bid any prices you wanted (where were these options equations? :-)). The most important lesson I learned is that you can only control how much you can lose (this might not be true for futures), not how much you can gain. The later I believe is everyone's wishful thinking once he gets involved.
Regarding the internuts stocks, here is what I think. When you buy a house, the key is location, location, location (everyone knows that), when you play options, it is volatility, volatility, volatility. When you buy internuts stocks, the key is .....@#$??: SIZE, SIZE, SIZE. My view only. |
