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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scumbria who wrote (107910)	4/26/2000 1:20:00 AM
From: 5dave22	Respond to of 1575028

<Anyone have a crystal ball (besides niceguy?)> When is he going to change his name to nicerichguy? Dave Go Sharks!

To: Scumbria who wrote (107910)	4/26/2000 6:33:00 AM
From: boris_a	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575028

Scumbria, of course your right as always. But (sorry) I think it's worthwhile to reflect that there are strategies trying to avoid losses (by paying the price of smaller possible gains). I think the idea of minimizing risk (and losses therefore) combined with steadily accumulating smaller gains can be of nice benefit to a portfolio, especially of those not filled with enough gambling chips. But of course, kudos to everyone capable of collecting mostly BIG gains wo. losses. About having a crystal ball: isn`t juggling with probability balls the name of the game? BTW, the other day I tried to explain what I learned about buying calls WITHOUT CASH and WITHOUT MARGIN and with LOW RISK. After having seen (on this board) a discussion of a strategy based on buying shares by credit card (maybe a joke I just didn't get?), I thought it could be of interest. I'm sorry nobody tried to contradict (wrong board?), so I'm still na‹vly believing those ratio-backspreads being an appropriate strategy for AMD. But being a rookie I'd never claim to have better insight than any other one here. IM very HO, Boris PS. Scumbria, let me thank for your heroic work one year ago when fighting pauL, Elmer and Yousef. Sitting on my quite small bunch of shares was much more comfortable (or less painful) these days reading your posts. I'll never forget.