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Strategies & Market Trends : ahhaha's ahs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ahhaha who wrote (5196)	8/12/2002 3:17:31 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 24758

I do find it amazing how much you presume to know about people who you cannot know anything but the most trivial tidbits about. But if I am gambling, you are clearly throwing your money down the sewer when you pursue a POS stock like JDSU. Even if we can assume that JDSU is going to be worth $50 in ten years or so, it doesn't justify buying it when it is in a clear downtrend. And that is just talking about the stock. In my experiences with the company and their products it isn't hard to understand why the stock is essentially a drillbit. Tell me why I would want to buy JDSU at $5 when it is clear that it is going sell at a fraction of that in the not too distant future? Let's do some math. JXM and Ahhaha both have $500. Ahhaha buys 100 shares of JDSU at $5/share when he rings the bell. JXM waits a couple of months and picks twice as many shares at half the price that Ahhaha does. Fast forward 20 years when JDSU hits $20/share. Ahhaha has a 15pt gain on his stock and a peachy profit of $1500. JXM only has a 17.50pt gain, but it is on 200 shares and therefore is a whooping $3500 profit. Now, you are probably saying to yourself "yes, JXM, that is great looking in hindsight. But meaningless if you are trying to prove that you knew something that I didn't in that timeframe". If that is what you are thinking, just let me know if you want me to dig up some posts right around that timeframe where I discuss the direction of JDSU. You do seem to be an expert at something though. Something that I call "intellectual intimidation". You know how to appear that you know more than everyone around you on the surface, but when you are called to share that expertise, you go into a mode where you belittle the people who you are talking with. And somehow you never seem to back up the claims of expertise with actual insights into the subject. Time to pull yourself off your pedestal, you are just another slob pretending to be a god.